The Forrest City times., 1888-09-08
THE NEWS SUMMARY.
Condensed Telegrnph!o Reports of the Current Events of the Week at
 Home and Abroad.
FOREIGN.

ENGLkND.-The Standard, in sav- age leader on the fisheries question, says: Tt will be well for the Prt sitlent and government of the United states to remember that Canada is depend ency of Great Britain and that If the necessity should unfortunately arise she has behind her the guns of English 1 ironclads. If our American cousins fail to understand this allusion. if, in deference to the tone of coarse brutal ity which seems to be the distinguish ing feature of their domestic politics. they invite us to reply to their insults in strain they will comprehend. per haps we may be allowed to remind them of the Trent affair.' The Stand. ard further says: '.If we have to deal with n nation of filihusters let us at least know it. We will tell our Ameri- can cousins frankly that we have not advanced so far toward ideal Christian ity that We are prepared to turn our cheek to tho Transatlantic smiter.n The Parnell defence fund has been very poorly supported in most parts of England, though it is receiving numer- ous contributions in Iceland. 1t is now observable, however, that the re- ceipts in London are becoming letter and the managers of the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England have refused the application of the Liver pol custodians of the fund to open an account with them.
 FRANCE.-The Temps explains that France refuses to sign the sugar bounty convention Becluse it would enable the United States to shut her up from the south American markets The Temps further says that other ooun- tries besides the United States will probably withdraw from the conven- tlon. \ man named Garnier. who claimed that the Franco German war had caused his ruin. called at the Ger man embassy Wednesday morning and iired a shot from a revolver at the DOT ter, eXclaiming as he did 90: At least l have killed one of them.n The DOT ter was not hurt. Garner is supposed to be insane. Garnier was brought up for examination and was remanded. His actions show that he is ex ivlently a lunatic, and he will probably be sent to lunatlc asylum. The weapon wish which he tried to shoot the porter was an oil pistol and it was loaded with a bullet Of PrusSian manufacture. La France says that it be furnished With copies of papers which Garnier read in court. The porter whom Gar nler fired at is a Frenehman.
 MEXIoo.-A dispatch from Oaxaca says the merchants there refuse to re- celye money which had heen worn by use, and thus provoked a riot, which was quelled by the military. The Gov ernment has ordered the banks to re- deem worn coin. Advices received from Chiapa state that heavy rains and floods have occurred in that State. San Luis Potosi adyices state that Gen. Carlos Gutierrez has been unanimously reelected Governor of the State. AdvioeS from Lerdo state that the heavy rains continue. and fears are entertained that the cotton crop will prove total failure. Ysidro. Pastor X Co. have already started an opera company for the northern frontier, which will give it's initial per formance in San Francisco, and will then make complete tour of the United states.
 MIsCELLANE0Us.- A dispatcll from Russia says that many Niliilsts have teen arrested at Odessa and Kharkoff. It is reported that Count Herbert Bismarck has gone to London.-The Empress of Germany, with her five sons, will visit her mother at Schoss Primkenau in Silesia. on the 10th inst
 -Empress Frederick has iSited the Prince of Wales at Honburg. Her Reschauera, well-known Vienna journalist and member of the Reichs- rath, is dead.--The Catholic bishops of Germany, ass mbled at Fulda. have signed an address to the Pope, in which they severely attack the clause in the new Italian penal code regard ing abuses b. tine clergy. The Arch bishops of Cologne and Posen are among the signers s.--Archbishop logue, coadjutor to the primate, will be invested with the pallium by Cardinal Moran in Armagh Cathedral on the gth inst.--A dispatch from Auckland says that an earthquake has done serious damage in New Zealand. Five shocks were felt during half an hour. The spire of the cathedral in the town af Christ Church was destroyed and many other buildings were damaged.