The southern argus., 1891-08-20

A RECENT London dispatch said that
the large emigration to America was
causing a shortage of labor and rise of
wages in some parts of southern Italy.
IT is announced that salaries must be
cut and a number of employees dropped
| if the national worlds fair commission
is to avoid big deficit at the close of
| the fiscal year ending June so. 1892.
| The estimates already prepared show
an apparent deficiency of S23, 240.
| Mr. HARRINGTON, presiding at meet
ing of the league at Dublin, announced
that he was obliged for the present to
discontinue grants to evicted tenants.
He said that an appeal would be made
forthwith to start daily paper in Mr..
Parnell's interest
ENORMOUS forest fires are raging in
the vicinity of Toulon, France, and a
great quantity of valuable tim Der has
| already been destroyed. Troops of sol
diers and many sailors are employed in
digging a trench around the burning
section
THE latest London advices from
southeastern Africa tell of appalling
barbarities by the Portuguese with
view of bringing the natives TO sub
lection.
TIMELY rains have changed the pros
poets in the Madras presidency for the
better
TERRIBLE stories of distress continue
to come from Russia and Germany,
in consequence of the dearth of grain.
Russia has prohibited the expectation
of rye.
DISPATCH from Pckin says that the
representatives of the several powers
there addressed a fresh joint note to
the Chinese government in relation to
the outrages upon the missions in the
Yang Use Kiang valley, demanding that
China take immediate steps to protect
the lives and property of foreigners
The fires in the vicinity of Toulon,
France, have been extinguished.
TIE Novosti, of St Petersburg, in an
article on European politics, takes oc-
casion to review the course followed
by the Salisbury government and says
that if it is the policy of Great Britain
to continue her present attitude toward
France and Russia the peace of Europe
d
come.
PORTUGAL has prohibited the impor-
tation of wheat until the native crop
has been consumed.
THE senaputty of Manipur and the
Tongale general were hanged at Mani
dur, India, on the 18th for the murder
of the British commissioners a few
months ago. An immense crowd of ma
tives was present at the execution.
SECRET orders have been received by
the police, which will have the effect |
of expelling every Jew from the Mos
COW district within two months.
Mrs. THOMAS b. CARRUTHERs has |
been arrested at Rat Portage, Man,
with having killed her hus-
band.
The rise of the price of grain prom
ises splendid returns to Austrian grain
and especially as the Balkan
harvests promise to be excellent and
sufficient for the Austrian home con-
HIPPoLYTE GONZALES, Fermin Perez
and Bonafacio Valdez, who were con-
victed of kidnapping, have been exc
cuted at Havana, Cuba
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended August IS num-
bered 227, compared with 231 the pre-
vious week and 1917 the corresponding
week of last year.
NEARLY all the salmon fishermen
near Kodiak, Alaska, have struck be-
cause the canning factory owners re-
fused to take all the fish they could
capture.
AMONG those besmirched by the Can
adam scandals is Premier Mercier nf
Quebec.