Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-15
CABLE SPARKS.
The cholera has abated in Persia.
Influenza is r0vaging Eastern Syrl

Influenza is ravaging Eastern Syria.
AIR. Henry NJ. Stanley writes that he hopes
Ito reach London April 10.
N. Gladstone has shaken Off the catarrhal
trouble that threatened him and is rapidly
Intending.
Tho condition of Lord Tennyson, who is
Suffering from bronchial catarrh, is much
improved.
The Portuguese government has reduced
the duty on foreign wheat to 10 rels per
! kilogramme.
1t is officially announced at Madrid that
the report that the King Of Spain has suffered
relapse is unfounded
Prince Bismarck has declined permit the
German West Africa Company to sell part
of its possessions to on Anglo-Dutch syndi-
clte
Prince Ferdinand's birthday was honored
at Sophia by tho display of flags, services III
the churches, reviews of troops and recap
ton.
The French Chamber of Deputies has made
q new rule giving the President power to OK.
cude members who defy the authority oil
the chair.
Abraham Lincoln, son of Mr. Robert Lin.
coin, the United States minister, IS slightly
batter, but the doctors still consider his case
dangerous.
The crews Of the steamships Claymore and
Cariolanus, sunk in n collision at sea, were
rescued by the steamer Queensmore, from
Baltimore for Liverpool.
Francis Darbyshre was granted divorce
in London from his wife, who was an actress
known as Agnes Hewitt, and the widow OF
Lytton Sothern, the actor.
Two thousand men employed on the North
docks in Liverpool have struck III conse-
ouencs of their demand for higher wages
Tor unloading grain being refused.
The Paris Steele, semi-oflicial paper, says
that q treaty. exists between England and
Italy provided for conserted action by those
powers on the west coast of the Red sea.
Baron de- Strive, tho Russian minister at
Washington, has been instructed to present.
the views OF his government p>ndipg TIL,
Behring sea negotiation at Washington.
The Freborg miners have refused to allow
themselves to be represented in the negotia-
lions an the questions OF wages and hours
of labor by tho joint committee IRON the
ZwicSau mine owners NINE
Tie North German Glzzette, Prince Bis
merck'S organ, confirms the report that
Pr;cs Bismarck intended to resign the chan
cellorship, u: says that tho result OF the re-
cent elections caused him to decide to remain
in offica.
The Right Hon. Sir James ferguson,
British under secretary of state for foreign
fairs, denied in the House Of Commons
that tue Behring sea quest;o had been Set
tied, and aided that negotiations are still
proceeding.
A committee has been formed in London,
with branches at New Castle aud other places
for the purpose Of endeavoring to secure
mitigation of the severe treatment accorded
to political prisoners in Siberia.
The Armenian Patriarch has delivered to
the Porte special note demanding the i'm
mediate and complete restoration OF the
priv eyes of the Armenian church and the
execution of the reforms promised by the
Berlin treaty.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, speaking at
Bath, referred to the Parnell investigation
and the report of the commission and said:
'"Tne Times is branded with eternal infamy,
aud is monument of lasting disgrace to
English journalism.