Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-04
Fnreien Notes.

Foreign Notes.
The government of Germany has decided
to propose in the reichstag at an early day
bill imposing tax on matches
Araucania, Chilli, is infested with hordes
of bandits, and atrocious crimes are sue
ceeding each other with alarming rapid
ity.
1t is announced that the Prince and
Princess of Wales will attend the we'd
ding of Henry M, Stanley and Miss Ten
nan.
Sir George Burns, one of the promoters
o6 the Cunard lines ofsteamships, died at
his residence on the Clyde Monday. He
was 50 years of age.
The customs committee of the French
chamber of deputies has rejected a pro-
posal to exempt from duty corn and rice
which are to be used for seed.
The import and export revenues of Co
lombia last year reached $40, 900, 900 to $780,
100000, which more than balanced the $5,
100000 deficit of the previous year
The sentence of Kalobkoff who was
found guilty in the Panitza conspiracy
trial and condemned to nine years. impris-
onment, has been commuted to exile.
A slave who robbed the house of the
Italian charge daffaires at Tangier, which
almost caused Italy to declare war on
Morocco, has been arrested, and confessed.
Another large Polish baronial estate sit
uated in the district of Zuin has been pur-
chased by the German Home Colonization
company. The estate comprises 1880
acres.
The pope has issued circular letter to
the German bishops urging them to keep
the Catholic movement in Germany alive,
and spareno pains to ensure its advance
ment.
Many of the Freisinnige associations
have adopted resolutions declaring that
the German military bill should be de-
feated unless the term of service be re-
duced.
Mr.. Gladstone, in reply to questions sent
to him by Liberals in Glasgow, denies that
he ever stated that the shooting affair at
Mitchellstown, Ireland, and the Siberian
atrocities were parallel outrages.
The Independence Beige, thinking that
America opposes protection in the Congo
state because it's article ON the subject is
considered official, explains that the
opinion expressed in its articles is its
own.
The fishmongers' company, of London,
gave banquet to Henry M. Stanley.
Mr.. Stanley suggested that duputation
from the city of London wait upon Lord
Salisbury and insist that British rights in
Africa be maintained.
Dutch colonial and commercial circles
are considerably excited over a report that
the Dutch government is treating with
England and Germany with view to the
partition of Dutch New Guinea between
the two mentioned powers.
The court at Madgeburg, Germany, has
sentenced four strikers to terms of impris-
onment varying from six to eighteen
months for intimidating workmen who
refused to abandon their employment and
take part in the general strike.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, defending
Prince Bismarck from the reproach that,
in his interviews with Russian and French
journalists, he has confded in the enemies
of the empire, declares that only those
who desire war can object to the inter
views in question.
Michael Davitt, in speech in opposi-
tion to the government land purchase BILL
at Liverpool, said that the amount asked
by the government for the purchase of
Irish land was, very curiously and he
might say suspiciously, equal to the
value of the unsaleable property in Ire
land.
Great preparations are being made for
the reception and entertainment of the
American rife team which is expected in
Berlin the second week in June After
the rifle meeting is over it is proposed to
take the team on a pleasure excursion
down the Rhine and to other beautiful
and attractive spots in Germany.
The Right Rev Edward Il. O'Dwyer,
Catholic bishop of Limerick, has issued a
pastoral letter withdrawing from the
priests in his diocese the power to grant
absolution to persons guilty of boycotting
or advocating and practicing the plan of
campaign The action of the bishop has
created much surprise and indignation.