The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-22
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Notes Of Interest by Wire and Mall From
Beyond the Sea.

The Mexican consul in Antwerp has
committed suicide owing to financial
troubles
The rumor Of the betrothal of Pr nee
OF Prussia IS confirmed.
Mr.. Parnell will make q number of
poliii' al speeches In Wales before tho close
OF the present recess Of Parliament.
London and Paris railroad street-cars
aud omnibuses are allowed 10y law 10 carry
only certain number Of passengers.
A Moscow foundry fuses metals by
electricity. The glare is greater thin the
sun, ana employees work two hours per day.
London has fixed the cost Of its cleo
tic light at sixteen cents FOX one tcn-candle
lamp thirty hours. or twenty sixteen-candle
lamps ten hours.
Belgium bakers, mil5men, and buck
siers make dogs draw tueir carts. The AMI
nal works under the cart between the
wheels. some sell for $40.
Queen Victoria, London gossiper
hears, weighs now 1913 pounds. Besides be-
Ing a colonel. the queen may be properly
considered heavy Dragon.
Lyons, France, is completing Il c
worlds biggest dam, began century ago. /
is 1000 feet long. 10 feet hign and he
Foundations are 100 feet deep.
y fearful tragedy Is reported at Sal
mar, Hungary. 4 Jewish family OF SIX per-.
sons Were killed with hatcheis and terribly
mutilated "y unknown persons The motive
of The crime was robbery.
The Car has a new train OF cars 70
travel in. The cars are connected with each
other by vestibulcs 50 that he can pass IN
one TO another without being seen from the
outside, and they are covered with iron and
cork.
The declaration Of the independence
Of Burg ria This week may be the "opcuii G
Il The ball. ifno incident occurs during tie
celebration TO set austria ana Russia by the
ears Europe Will be both surprised and
pleased
In the Netherlands the average con
sumption Of tobacco in year for each in
haDiiant is seven pounds. rurope'- aver
ago is ? pounds. ana that of tue United
states is q pounds per inhabiant.
Ia Turkey the house in winch man
lives cannot Doe seized for debt. ahd suici, NJ
land must Doe lcit to serve for his support,
The homestead is inyiOable. lie creditors
mus pfovi0o the debtor with some humble
dwelling If the nni forfeit 10 them has
none sufficient for bis needs.
The English and Italian government,
have signed q more stringent auti-slavefy
convention Than las hitherto existed. The
new convention declare the slave a. flis 10
be- an act oi piracy. and enables cruisers To-
deal more promptly with captured slaves.
The Mediterranean is excluded from the
operations OF the treaty.
The French public considers Edison
as lhe Sole inventor of the telegraph. tell
phone electric light. ana ever electricity
itself. 10 not o. the solar system as well. and
when Figaro gmvels announced last week
that he had just completed an adjustment
for the phonogrsgh whereby conversation in
English was translated into French. half Of
llAir DF4lfN f TO anu iilN fAeilA 4ho
Increased hunlred-foid since.
Speaking of London. Cardinal Man
ming says; There are iAOn.OOO Of living
and dying and dead souls AOd II every
church or chapel OF place Of worship Of every
soltand kind were flied three times 10 the
mll on every Lords doy they could not cone
tain more than l.5DO.OOv. There must be-.
therefore. 100000 who never can physi-
caliy I their feet in any place Of divine
worship or any place where the name and
existence OF God are recognized"
\ London financial paper says that
commercially and politically Russia is again
taking o bacls scat. The revenues are disap-
pointing the crops are bad and all branches
Of trade are depressed. Persecution Of the
Germans IN The Baltic provinces has excited
a. cry feelings in Berlin, and the abolition
OF Trial hy iuy. just announced has struck
fresh blow 20 russian credit, as 10 shows
hat her government is going backward in-
stead Of forward.
General Legitime, eXPresident of
Ha,ti. has arrived in Paris lie predicts that
the acceptance by Hyppollte Of the econo-
mic pi0tect0fate OF The United >tates Will
make his successor unpopular among tic
Hnytians. and Will result i'm his deposition
from power The General declares that
while hc held The Office OF president he drm-
ly refused 10 c1ncedc 10 either France or The
United states any portion Of the Haytian
territory. or allow them TO establish stations
on The coast
b. Z Hutchinson. better known as
'uld Hutch" the great grain Speculation =
hicago. was The victim of footpads early
Monday. He had just Left ms Onlce, wncrc lie
.pent the night. and WAS quietly saunicring
home. when hc VS. suddenly accosted by
two men, who demanded his money or ms
life. Mr.. Hutchinson threw up bis hands
without q murmur. while the highwaymen
scarchod his pockets. They found nothing
and escaped.
Maracaib1 Is infested with yellow
icver. and warning has been sent 10 New
York. about receiving shipping from that port.
Two tarqnss are lying there loaded. unable
90 sail because their crews have an died. and
they are waiting for wen men, who ara not
% De- found. TWO American clectr cal ergi- /
I||lN NANN Nl l.I ifffi ar AiA| I'fit AAt| ia
August. A sailor died OF yellow fever lu =
bafque beiow quarantine iu sew York Lay 4
Two or three days ago.
Some very interesting mau@avring /
has been seen 30 Alder,hot through the az !
tempt % Practice iAeeyoiu.ions uccessar, n /
"sayaec warfare" a train OF eighty-six /
wagon. with a small force Of tho three arms
omcd larger. ana then marched through .
the country 10 the ince,stnt attacks OF
lnpi, or war parties Of Zuius. Tie repeat
Ing rifles were adiulsei TO be altogether TOO
much for ihe Xulu>
English churchmen are very much
chagrined over the nci that their own pre-
lates d!d nothing u settle the great London
strife and, indeed, appeared 10 be indifer-
cnt 10 it. while Cardinal Manning took such
a prominent part ln u. The Anglican Bishop
OF London is p -sonally a very unpopular
man. owing Z, his brusque manner. while
CardiLai Manning is ar an times ch1rmingly
courteous.
The rulers Of China are az last get