Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-13
PoKING FUN ATPARNkLL

P0KING FUN AT PARNELL.
 | The Irish Leader Makes Food for the Paragraphers-Serv1a Declines to Disarm-SaIisbury Will Use Fur key to do Ensland's Fighting 1n the Soudan.
 LONDON, Jan. 12.-The Boston Globes i representative has cabied tonight as fol lows:
 MT. Parnells somewhat clumsy stratagem of missing train to avoid attending the Dublin meeting of the Irish members of Parliament furnishes the paragraphers with material for endless quips at the statesman's expense. When the meeting was planned Parnell favored it. but the complications | arising out of the Callan- Nolan incident and the evidences that there was to be an organ
 ized effort to weaken Parnell's influence caused him, it is believed, to change his
 mind, and, by what the Daily Tele-
 graph cynically calls a stlucky ac cident," he avoided personal contact with
 a1s of rsDellous ths an.nn f sq9j cts on the spared the necessity of explanations or de
 fense of his programme. The opening of Parliament was dull affair compared with most of such occasions. The popular interest centers in what will be the real beginning of the session next week, when the Queen will appear in person before her Lords and Com mons with all the pomp of royalty.
 Attention was recalled to the dormant Balkans question by dispatches announcing that the smaller States had been ordered to disarm, the powers assuring them that Turkey would follow suit. Such mandates have been so often disregarded that the solution of the eastern problem is not regarded having been in any way hastened by this action of the powers. Belgrade dis patches tonight indicate that nothing but final delimitation of the Servo-Bulgarian frontier by the approaching conference of aTpb has at will he " Servia as 8 sufficient reason for disarmament, and so long as King Milan's forces are in the field Bulgaria will of course decline to withdraw hers.
 more important piece of political news l is Cairo dispatch announcing that the Khe- dive has recognized the Sultan's suzerainty in practical way by asking his aid to restore the Egyptian governments authority in the Sou- dan. This gives fresh proof of the com plete ascendaney of England in the admins tration of Egyptian affairs. It really means, according to the current interpretation of it here this evening, that Lord Sal isbury intends to use Turkey to do Englands fighting in the Soudan. The Sultan will gladly send his troops to the Soudan, proving thereby to the whole Mo hammedan world the reality of his suzerainty over his domains. Lord Salisbury thus pro- tects the interests of the British holders of Egyptian securities in an inexpensive way by appealing to the Sultan's vanity. The British troops at present in lower Egypt under Gen. eral Stephenson will be sufficient to guard the frontier and it is probable that the order to send forward achievements from Eng land will be countermanded.
 A dispatch to the St. James Gazette from Madrid states that the Queen regent has per sonally: thanked General Lopez Dominguez for promptly, offering his services to the gov ernment if needed to repress the revolt of Zorillas threatened at Carthagena. Christina is said to have assured Dominguez that any doubts she may have entertained as to the genuineness of his declarations of loyalty have been dispelled by this practical proof of his intention to support the established government.
 FORCE OF THE ARCTIC WAVE. The Mercury Runs Many Degrees Below Zero At Various Points Great Suffering Caused By the Ia- tense Gold.
 SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 12.-The situation on the Oswego river at Fulton is practically unchanged The water has receded a trife, but the gorge remains firm and is constantly strengthening. The thermomer is twenty ! degrees below zero and heavy ice is forming over the flooded district. The business of the town is at a standstill and fully fifteen hundred employees of mills and factories are | idle. Should the gorge go out suddenly immense amount of damage would be done, as many houses and some of the mills would | be swept away. The overfowed district | comprises two miles long and half mile wide and the water is from five to ten feet deep. It is claimed that the damage has
 been caused by the State authorities raising the dam at Battle Island. It is probable that the State will have to defsnd several suits for damages. | Engineer Whitford of the State engineers 1 office looked the situation over today and gave as his opinion that nothing could be | done until the ice went out of it's own accord. The damage will be very heavy, but it is i'm possible to even estimate it at present, as the manufactories and mills cannot be entered. | The town authorities caring for the falni- 1 lies driven out by the flood.
 HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 12.-Two inches Of snow fell this morning. The storm seems to | be general in Southern Texas. The present cold snap is almost unprecedented and it
 was great loss to the cattle and sheep rais- l ing interests of this part of Texas. The
 prail ies are strewn with cattle and sheep | that have died from exposure.
 l SARATOGA. Jan. 12.-A cold wave prevails
 I in this section. Below zero figures are as follows: Saratoga, 34; Schuylerville, 90; North Greek, 23; Hadley, 21 Riverside, 20; l Port Henry, 32; Thurman, 30; Weavertown;
 1 33; Jessup's Landing, 20; Stony Creek, 24,
 ] Glen's Falls, 25; Chestertown, 25