The Springdale news., 1888-12-14

THh British garrison at Suakim, in the Soudan, has asked to be supplied with reinfoI~ 3ments.
 ON the 10th the Monroe County (N 1) branch of the Irish National League sent S1 GOO to the Parnell defense fund
 IT is stated that the officers attached to the Woolwich (England) garrison a short time ago invited Mir. Charles Marvin, the famous war correspondent, traveller and author of the work "Russia at the Gates of Herat" to deliver a lecture on the pos sibility and means of cutting off Russia's road to India. The invitation was &C., cepted and the arrangements for the lecture made, but upon learning of the projected discourse the British War Office put upon it peremptory veto.
 ON the 9th Andrew Welch, president of the American Refining Company of San Francisco said that owing to the seizure of cargo of Java sugar consigned to the company, the refinery would have to close on the 10th, as there was no stock to work on. He says he knows nothing of any attempt at fraud The sugar was lm- ported in the regular way. He estimates that the employees of the refinery will lose thirty thousand dollars ill wages.
 THE Secretary of the Interior, on the 10th in response to a resolution adopted by the Senate, sent to the Senate a con- implication concerning the alleged out rages against the people of Alaska. in which he said that he possessed no infor- nation on the subject other than that con- tained in newspaper reports of uncertain value, :" and that the department possesses no authority to redress these grievances, even if they do exist.
 ON the 10th, ill response to the request of the English garrison in Suakim for re- Inducements, the British Government or dered that troops from the Mediterranean stations be sent to that city. Troops will be sent from England to replace the forces taken from the Mediterranean gar risons.
 ON the 9th the steamship Alemeda, with the American baseball teams on board, arrived at Auckland, New Zealand. Every one on board was in good health.
 Nor long ago Salvadorian internal debt bonds We're selling ct thirty per cent. of their face value, but they can not be pur- chased now at seventy per eeat.
 THE Bank of Ecuador, it k reported, has been ordered by the goyernmentt To call i'll and destroy all the eighty-cent notes it has in circulation.
 QN tHe ltlH IIle MdfNIQnd central f3lt- road was sold for s600,0l9 The purchas- CTS were John K. Cowen, general counsel for the Baltimore X Ohio Railroad Con- pany, Geo. $. Brown and Wm. Gilmore.
 IT is reported that the President of Venezuela has issued q decree declaring general amnesty for all political of lenses.
 OK the 9ta q large meeting was con- vened at Amsterdam. te favor the pro- jeet of erecting statue of the Pope in the Dutch capital About six hundred Socialists gained admission to the hall, and by creating all uproar prevented the speakers from completing their ad- dresses.
 ONE of the leading matters of discussion in Peru is the rice question: owing. It appears. to the failure or loss of portion of the crop.
 Two BATTALIoNs os the line have been ordered to GaIonverie, the center of the Belgian strikes and attempted dynamite outrages, and a large number lx the strikers have been arrested.