The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-08
FOREIGN PARAGRAPHS.
Uruguay to Raise Her Customs
Duties Ten Per Cent.
Potato Blight In Sweden-IndIa Tea Said
to be Taking the Place of the
Chinese Article.
Cholera is epidemic at Mecca.

Cholera is epidemic at Mecca.
The Cathedral at strasbure is to be
thdpnghly restored.
Smallpox IL decimating the population
of villages in Egypt.
Russia opposes the appointment of
Bnlgafian Bishops by the Porte.
Belgium is recruiting hundreds OF sor-
danese natives for the Congo state.
The Crown Princess OF Greece IL criti-
eally i'll from premature confinement
II il reported that Emperor William
will hereafter revise Bismarck's inter
views.
Violent religious animosities have been
excited at Vienna by case Of abduc-
ton by nuns.
Mrs. Mackay is reported from London
as saying that she will hire house at
Washington next season.
A hurricane al Suakim has demolished
the water conductor causing great scare
ity. Natives are dying from famine.
The slave trade between Madras and
Rangoon still continues. The coolies
are sold In the latter place at % rupees
each.
The next Ssengerbund festival will be
held in Vienna from the 14th TO the 18th
of August, and will bring together about
1900 singers.
A dispatch from Cairo SAYS: Ravages
of the cotton worm in Egypt continue,
and prospects for full crop are consid-
erably impaired.
A Hungarian East Indian Steamship
Company, with a capital of ,UQ0. 900
francs, has been formed at Fiume under
the sanction of the government.
The French Chamber has adopted the
bill for the renewal of the sur tax on
sugar. The bill extends to August. 1892.
The sur tax is francs on raw sugar.
The Russian Minister of Finance will
shortly visit Central Asia 10 examine the
measures to be taken for the develop
ment of the Transcaspian provinces.
II has been calculated that there are
about 200,000 families living in London
on about El week, and they are in a
large measure the people OF one room.
/ According to European merchants tea
from India is rapidly taking the place of
the Chinse article. the result being that
many persons in China are without work.
The President of the British Board of
Agriculture says that within a short time
animals suffering from pleuro-pneunonia
have arrived at Liverpool from New
York.
The English Government has sum-
noned the Duke of Hamilton 10 pay
$50, 600 revenue duty on the $1,000, 600
realized by the recent sale of his art col
lection.
Deserters from the German army pass
into France nearly every week They
take service in the foreign legion. and
are sent to Algeria and and other parts
of Africa.
The potato blight has made its appear
ance in Sweden, and the outlook for the
crop is very diseouraging. In certain
parishes the priests report that famine
is expected.
The English Royal Niger Company
has prohibited the importation or sale OF
intoxicating liquors i'm its African terri
tory north of the seventh parallel of
north latitude,
The Government of Uruguay will prob
ably raise the custom duties 10 per cent
making them payable in gold, and will
devote the fund thus raised to the re-
, demption of paper money.
, An American named Skinner and a
Russian named Kriegsk have started
from London on a wager to ride on horse
back from Moscow to the Crimea and re-
turn.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria refuses
to ennoble Miss Wheeler of Philadelphia,
7 who married Count Pappenheim. The
: Count must recognize the marriage as
[ morganatic or lose his titles.
. 1t is reported in Limerick, Ireland,
3 that Bishop 0'Dwyer has received a let
: ter from the Pope approving the Bishops
= recent letter of censure to Dillon in con-
, nection with the Persico mission.
q A plan is now under the consideration
! of the Russian Senate to restrict the
rights of the Jews participating i'm vari-
: Gus branches of trade and commerce and
to limit the privileges of Jewish me-
D chanics.
I The London Daily Telegraph states
Y that England and France will appoint
1 commissioners to find the limits of the
, French share of influence in Central Af
! rica, as modified by the Anglo-Germar
agreement.
Amilcare Cipriani of Rome has beer
condemned to six months imprisonment
: and to pay fine of 900 francs because
his recently published memoirs contained
certain offensive remarks about the roya
family of Italy.
. A ladies' committe has been formed in
!, connection with the International Con.
gress to be held in Berlin, to provide fol-
the comfort and amusement of the wives
|. of foreign practitioners during their stay
8 in the German capital.
p Several ladies of Lemberg have Offered
their services as Amazons to the En-
a peror of Austria in case of war. They
!, offer to furnish their own uniforms, arm!
! : and horses, and ask only that military
instructor be provided for them.
As soon as the horse cars from CairC
: to the pyramids are completed. and the
work is nearly done, an elevator will b'
J made to the tops of the venerable piles
j 80 that ascent may be made quickly anC
!, comfortably to the modern traveller.
q A ukase is impending in Russia for tn,
q expulsion of Hebrews numbering 4, 900,
(: 000 from that country. This is believed
: to be the only means to prevent conten
!. ton of the poorer classes, growing out o
l money transactions and race hatred
An English company under royal pro
lection has been granted control of tn
Straits of Ormuz, which connect the Per
sian gulf with the Arabian sea. Thi
virtually gives England control of tn
n gulf, and is a menace to the forward move
Z ments of Russia.
e The London Daily News Vienna spe
: cial says that Premier Stambouloff o
!, Bulgaria has summoned the Colonels O
all the regiments and the Deputies of al
: the leading towns to assemble at Sofia Oh
/ August 3, when Bulgaria win be pro
4 claimed indenendent with Eerf inand a