Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-04
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
lrEuAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-UMoN.l
' The Fourth " on tho Ehine-New York
Ri4emeu.

IS The Fourth e" on the Rhine-New York
Ri9emen.
BINGEN- -rHE-IsHINE. July 3d-This
town will be resplendent with bunting to-
! morrow, in honor Of the American indie
pendence anniversary.
| A deputation from the Independent New
| York Ritlemen will 90 to Coblentz on Mon
day to present to the Empress a superb
| bouquet of flowers. The Rhine steamers
! will fire salutes as q compliment TO the YiS-
itOr5
The Cholera Scourge.
MADRID, July 3d.-During the past twelve
! hours there were so new cases of cholera in
! Valencia, l05 new casas in Arariuez, and
. new cases and l death in Madrid.
Throughout Spain yesterday there were
| !, ,254 new cases and 6o4 deaths.
STATISTICS FROM THE INFECTED DISTRICTS.
| MADRID, July d.-Yesterdays reports
from the cholera districts are as follows ::
AranjueZ, 50 new cases and 60 deaths
Valencia, city, 159 new cases and 109
deaths; Valencia, province, 494 new cases
and PSI deaths.
Devastation by Storm and Flood in Aus
tria and Hungary.
| VIENNA, July 3d-Terrible reports of
devastation by storm and flood continue to
be received from many parts of Austria
and Hungary. The town of Horodenka
! has been almost destroyed by a confagra-
| ton caused by lightning. Many houses
were set on fire simultaneously, and 600
buildings consumed. Many persons were
burned to death, and over 500 persons are
homeless. The town of Zechovitz, in Bo-
hernia, has been destroyed by food. At
| Visnitz, in Galicia eight persons have been
killed by lightning, and thousands of
trees have been blasted and uprootcd In
| Hungary, the corn crop on thousands of
acres has been ruined. at Croko, a church
filed with worshipers was struck by
| lightning, two OF the congregation killed
and thirtytwo injured.
| The French Government and the English
Evacuation of Egypt.
LONDON, July 3d.-The French Govern
ment has withdrawn its demand for fixed
date upon which the English troops shall
evacuate Egypt and offers to leave the
period to the discretion of the English
Government, if Lord Salisbury will admit
the principle of evacuation. NJ. Wadding-
ton, the French ambassador at London,
has also made conCiliatory overtures re-
garding the question of the control of the
Suez Canal. This change of attitude on
the part of the French Government is at
tributed to the entente cordiale between
Lord Salisbury and Prince Bismarck.
Protesting Cigarnakers.
HAVANA July 3d.-Four thousand cigar
makers met in Convention here to-day, and
adopted resolutions protesting against the
cigar contract with Spain. Owing to the
low price agreed upon, contractors here
are using q bad quality of leaf, and are
stamping boxes with the labels of accred-
tied brands. a committee appointed by
the Convention waited upon the Governor
General, and asked him to annul the con-
tract, as detrimental to the cigar interests
at large. The Governor General promised
to look into the matter
The Revolution In Colombia.
PANAMA, July 3d.-News comes from the
Atlantic coast that the ports of Barran-
quilla and Savinalla are again in the hands
of the Government forces, the revolution
lists having gone, bag and baggage, up the
river, to some point in the interior which
cannot be OWNED with accuracy. This
movement, some assert, is to intercept
General Quintero's column, who is
on. his way with 1000 men to
join the loyal forces in the neighbor-
hood of Carthagena. Camargo's forces are
sufficiently strong to destroy that of his
adversary. Others aver that Camargo is on
his way to Bogota itself, and that he will
pass La Gloria, where Quintero's forces are
supposed to be, without giving battle, in
order that no loss of men may occur before
arriving at the capital. There is said TO be
no force of any moment in the neighbor
hood of Bogota, and the capital would fall
an easy capture to bold and energetic at
tack.
LESSON IN ETYMoLoGy.-The word
pamphlet is derived from the name of a
Greek autho -ess, Pamphylia, who compiled
a history of the world into thirty five little
books. Punch and Judy is a contrac-
ton from Pontius and Judas, and is relic
of an old miracle play" in which the
actors were Pontius Plate and Judas Is
CARROT. Bigot" is from Fisigotha, in
which the fierce and intolerant Arianism of
the Visigoth conqueror of Spain is handed
down to infamy. Humbug" is from
Hamburg a piece of Hamburg news"
was IN Germany proverbial expression for
false political ru;nors-TSeiecteC,