Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-18

Foreign Notes.
Bishop Cornthwaite, of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Leeds, is dead.
M. Jametel, Republican, has been elected
senator for the department of So me,
France.
Forty-eight workingmen's dwellings
were destroyed by fire at Steinbach, Prus-
sia, Monday.
The Lafayette, with Michael Eyraud,
the French stranger, on board, sailed
from Havana.
Prince Albert Victor of Wales will
take his seat in the house of lords as the
Duke of Clarence, next week,
Already the amount subscribed to the
Egyptian conversion loan is twenty times
in excess of the amount of the loan.
Six German Catholic brothers and nine
Sisters OF Charity have taken their de
parture for Africa to engage in missionary
work
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild has
been presented by the queen with bust
of herself, the work of the sculptor,
Boehm.
A report is in circulation at Cairo to the
effect that all the Europeans who were
captured by the mahdi have been released
by him.
Prince Dondukof Korsakoff has retired
from the governorship of the Caucasus,
and Gen. Cheremetietf has been appointed
to succeed him.
Admiral Lang, the English commander
of the Chinese north coast squadron, has
resigned. He gives as his reason that the
Chinese officials are insubordinate.
The Duke of Orleans will enter the Rus.
sian army as soon as the gayeties of the
London season are over. just now the
young man is being regarded, rs a hero
The Prince and Princess of Wales will
open the new branch of the hospital OF
the Seamens' Hospital society at the Royal
Albert and Victoria docks, ON Tuesday,
June "A.
The miners of Westphalia have, by an
almost unanimous vote, resolved to adopt
a system Of discipline similar to that III
vogue with the miners unions OF
England.
The butchers of Hamburg are ON a
strike to maintain their membership in
the Butchers union the masters having
notified them to withdraw under penalty
of dismissal.
The announcement is made that Lord
Salisbury intends to purchase the Chateau
de'Eu, near lie Treport, on the English
channel, in France, now the property OF
the Comte de Paris.
Mr.. John Dillon, Mr.. William O'Brien
and Mr.. John Redmund have been ap.
pointed delegates to make a tour of Amer
lea in the autumn in the interest OF the
Irish Nationalist movement.
Quillimane advices are that the COVER
nor and committee of the inhabitants
have decided to boycott the English. The
British vice consul was compelled to take
refuge at the Italian consulate.
The reduction of the rates of fare ON the
state railways of Austria has had the
effect to increase the number of passen.
gers threefold, and the facilities of the
various lines are greatly overtaxed
The Caledonian railroad station at
Edenburg, caught fire Monday and de-
spite the strenuous efforts made to save
the structure it was totally burned, to
gether with large number of carriages
and other property.
The Spanish government has ordered
troops to proceed to the province of Val.
encia and establish there military cor
don about the districts in which the chol-
era has made its appearance. Seven more
cases of the disease are reported as having
developed in Puebla de Rugat.
The German dentist, Arnemann, who, on
Nov. II, shot and dangerously wounded
Judge Bristowe, of the Nottingham
county court, and who has since been in |
prison, committed suicide in his cell. An
adverse decision against Armenian by
Judge Bristowe was the cause of the
shooting I
In the presence of the emperor, the
courtiers, Count Kalnokay and the arch.
bishop of Vienna, the Archduchess |
Valerie has abdicated all her claims to the |
throne of Austria. Her action is taken in |
order that she may be enabled TO marry |
whomsoever she pleases, free from ali con,
siderations of state policy.
A proposition has been made by the
viceroy of the province of Ouang g-fung. |
China, to double the duty on cotton yard
and piece goods, and to increase the |
opium duty by 20 per cent. The proposal
provides that syndicates shall be charged |
with the duty of collecting the revenue
accruing. The British traders are strenu. /
ously opposing the new plan.
The London Times, in commenting on
African affairs says that Lord Salisbury |
has chosen the lesser evil in permitting |
the Germans to advance their African
possessions 20 the Congo and southwest
Uganda. The Times adds: I'VE shall
have to compensate Germany in some
other quarter Of the world for the cession
of With land. On the whole, we may be
fairly satisfied with the German conces
sions.p
A curious struggle between the people
and land monopolies is in progress at
Swaffham, Norfolk, England. A large |
heath, which from time immemorial had
been common, has been enclosed, with /
government sanction and adjoining land |
owners, after the method that has been
going or "a England for centuries. The
people have banded together and make
practice of marching in organized process
sion across the heath. The matter will /
probably be taken 70 the courts.