Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-08

l the Immediate formation Of a camp Of exercise and instruction. The conviction is generally entertained that the king, who has recently returned from Vienna, would not have done this had he not acquired there tho knowledge that grave 1 events are imminent in tho southeast of Europe.
 A sentence of divorce has just been pronounced at Munich against tho em- press of Austria s niece, Countess George Lariseh, who played so prominent and so questionable role in the scandal that culminated in the tragic death of Grown Prince Rudolph at Meyerling. The trial took place "in camera, but it is generally understood that the grounds upon which the count based his 1 demand for dissolution of the mar riage rested on the behavior of the countess in connection with the affair, which, 1t may be remembered, resulted in her punishment from Austria
 The agitation which has recently taken place in France regarding ex- Gap 1 tain Dreyfus, condemned to imprison- ment for life for betrayal of military state secrets, has had the effect of caus- l ing the government to institute addi- tional measures for the prevention of any escape of the captive. According to circular just issued by the minister of the colonies at Paris, the governor of Guiana ts ordered to change every three months the guards charged with the duty of keeping watch on Dreyfus on 1 the He du Diable, where he is confined.
 The report of the Russie1 prisons de- partment has just appeared in St. Pe- 1 tersburg and contains some remarkable statistics 1t appears that there are 870 prisons in Asiatie and European Rns- sia, with the total number of 100, 01B prisoners. The maintenance of this vast army of criminals, many of whom are merely political offenders, involves all enormous cost, for which adequate pro- vision Is not made by the state. The consequence is that in the majority of cases the inmates of the prison have to endure the worst conceivable sanitary conditions. and the official figures, which are invariably optimistic, show that no less than 30 per cent of the pris- on population suffer during the year from typhoid fever and kindred epidem- l ics
 A statue of the late Count Ferdinand de Lesseps is about to be erected at Port Said, at point overlooking the harbor and the entrance to the Suez canal.
 The commercial treaty between Aus tria and Bulgaria which was on the point of being negotiated ut the time when Prince Ferdinand made his hum. ble submission to the ozar, and which has hung fire ever since, is finally about to receive signature and ratification. Bulgaria has only obtained this by means of sacrificing number of de- mands which Austria had formerly con- sented to eoncede, but which she now l refuses to grant Inasmuoh, however, aE most other countries had declined to ratify their new treaties of commerce with Bulgaria until that with Austria had been arranged, there was practical ly no other course open to Prince Ferdi-
 
 for general Bulgarian duty of IA per cent ad valorem. while 26 specified ar- ticles are excepted. These include tim. Der and agricultural machines. which pay per cent; glassware, 12 per cent, and sugar, 8 per cent.
 It is reported at Brussels that Baron Dhanis, in command of the Kongo Free State troops in the Nile valley, has been killed by the Mahdists to the north of Lado.
 Ex-Cabinet Minister Baihaut, recent- ly liberated at the conclusion of the term of imprisonment for which he was sentenced for fraud and corruption, of which he had while minister of public works rendered himself guilty in con. neetion with the defunct Panama com pany, has, to the astonishment of every body, just been rearrested. 1t appears that he is still liable to the government to the extent of 891, GOO francs for fines, costs and legal expenses. The courts re- oently decided that the unfortunate man, who is completely ruined, should either pay this sum at once or be inn prisoned for another year. Naturally he chose the latter, and has now the con- solation of knowing that every minute spent In the penitentiary is wiping off. roughly speaking, about 3 cents of his debt to the state.
 The English government has just es- tablished 0 sanctuary for the African elephant in the coast area of Somaliland. Within the reserve shooting of elephants is strictly forbidden, and the observance of this rule will be all essential condi- tion to shoot other animals within the prescribed area. The reserve in question extends from the Sheik pass on the east to the Abyssinian frontier on the west. while the northern boundary is the edge of the Haud Altogether the reserve is about 200 miles long by 50 wide. At present elephant herds abound within yfJ-s