Carthage will probably take the Rome's next voyage
ship of the London County Council.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.
October 16th, Active negotions are being carried on in Lon- Sir John Lubbock has resigned the chairmandon on the Pamirs question. Sis Robert Morlez the British Ambassador at St. Petersborg, is here' on leave, and is being consulted by the Govern ment. It is expected that both England and China will protest against the Russian adrance in the Pamira.
The Pope has blessed sixty thousand pilgrims in the Church of St. Peter. The ceremony was an imposing one, and there were great manifesta
tions of enthusiasm.
A serious revolt is reported from Guatemala In South America. The affair began on September 15th, Five hundred were killed in the revolt, which was suppressed after after three days fighting, General Manuel Barlitan who was elected President in 1887 for the con; stitutional term of six years, has proclaimed Aimself dictator,
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The quarantine recently Imposed at Suerupop urtivals from Bombay has been raised,
The question of adopting the Salonica instead of the Brindial route for the conveyance the Indian and Australian mails is still in the enquiry stags.
There are fully á million more sheep in Great Britnin just now than there were a year ago.
transferred 100 miles from the falls of the Power for the Franklori Electrical Exhibition
River Weekar.
is
The Dake of Hamilton is said to draw $150,000 per annum from his tenantry in the
Island of Artan.
Bags for epstributions of food scraps to the famine districts of Russia have been placed in Kazan Cathedral.
M. Renan Is now at work on the fourth volume of his history, of Israel, which will be finished the winter.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is cross because the Kaiser would not recognize her at the inte
Alderman Evans has been chosen to succeed "JOCK" BELL-IRVING AT HOME. review of the Bavarian troops. Sir Joseph Savory as Lord Mayor of London.
A Canadian 'agent is shipping sixty wagon Jonds of eggs to Liverpool,
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THE DUMFRIESSHIRE OTTER HOUNDS.
The Teutonic a steamer of the White Star On Friday morning, September, 18th, the cosy Line, has broken the record for the passage to and romnatically situated little town of Langholm New York, her time being five days seventeen
was the scene of unusual excitement, as Mr Bell bours,
Irving, the Master of the Dumfriesshire, Otter- "A resolution has been adopted by the Cana-hounds, made the bills and woods of Eskdale
dian House of Commons, formally expelling Thomas McGreevy, who was found guilty by the Committee of Enquiry on the charge of corruption.
October IFt. The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued after a long and stormy session, remarkable for the dificuties caused by the charges of corruption Mr. Childers, the member for South Edinburgh intended to resign his seat, but yielding to pressure, he has consented to retain it until the general elections.
against members.
The drama "Idler," the author of which is Mr. Haddon Chambers, an Australian, and which was produced at St. James's Theatre a few months ago, has been saged for another season and His Bitccess is phenomenal,
Owing to the famine in Russia five million inhabitant are unable to pay their taxes.
It has been ascertained that in 1817 party of seven Americans were murdered by seventy four Chinese engaged in gold mining at Snake and Walla rivers, Oregon. The murderers weized gold dust to the value of sixty thousand dollars. One of the men who committed the
echo with the abrill notes of his bunting horn at an early hour. There was a good muster, both on the bridge which spans the Esk, and on the river side. What a splendid sight? There Is the huntsman in correct attire, in the midst of
the hounds, whose wiry hair bristics with exclie ment, and the terriers, too, yelping and barking ladies, bent on following the hunt on foot, assist in their eagerness for the tray," while several in forming a picture seldom seen, even in that picturesque district. At the junction of the Exle and Ewes, a little above Laugholm Bridge, the bunt commenced, amid a grand burst of music. Almost immediately a lively drag took the bounds off at full cry up to the Duchess Bridge, when the otter made for the steep bank, and ran half-way up, hotly pursued by the entire pack, and in view of the whole field. It was a false move, apparent to all, and not the least to to the party most interested, as the armint quickly retraced his steps, and reached the river again in safety. The melody now swelled late a copious volume, as the cther steered towards Potholm, and reached Potholm Pool, where some grand swimming took place. As seen from both banks, the spectacle was crime has confessed.
animated in the extrame, and the excitement The visible supply of wheat in the Unfted was redoubled when the game again took the States is 34,900,000 bushels.
bank in the hope of reaching the woods. Once his app and that Boulangeret ay, drove to the was quickly drawn back to the water. Steadily
It appears
accompanied by more be was doomed to disappointment, as he cemetery at Brussels, where the remains of his the hounds worked in the deep pool until the mistress, Madame Bonnemain, were Interred. game was sighted making down stream. The Leaving his companions outside the gates, the hounds were now close, up and the varmint General went to the tomb and scattered flowers was chased into a dyke that leads up to apon the remains, medlining gloomily. Sud. Potha. Finding no refuge he toned, and denly he fired a ballet
revolver lato bla reniled up the bank towards the river, where right temple and died (astantly, Since the death he was met by the veteran hound, Chorus, of Madame Bonnemain, with whom he lived who resolutely seized the animal, and a battle at Jersey, the General has been inconsolable royal took place on the green award. Soon a and has suffered terribly from Insomnia. tenter Joined Issue, and the whole pack swoop- Madame Bonneronin left him a large fortune. Aing down on the devoted otter, the unequal The otter. telegram was found on the body; also papers conflict was quickly at an end. addressed to his wife and daughter. In these which proved to be a fine dog of alb, was he states that he desired to dle owing to the loss presented to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch of his mistress. In a political will that he left
at Langholm Lodge. The hunt was continued he urges his adherents, the. Rerlikonists, to
up the water towards Billholm, once the persevere with their programme. After Madame residence of John Wilson, son of Professor Bonnemain's death, the General often remarked Wilson, where the field was considerably that life was a burden and that he would soon augmented, among others being the Mizzes die. He tried once commit suicide at his Borthwick, who joined the hunt and crossed and hoted but was prevented. Before his death be recrossed the river several times. Mr. J. W. J. came emaciated and haggard, Bosnemale's Paterson; master of the Eskdale Hounds, and blood-sinined photograph was found on the other well-known gentlemen, now appeard on deceased, lying next his heart.
the scene, but, although another drag was lifted, the oiter holed and could not be unearthed; con- acquently the bounds were called off, and most of the party proceeded to Langholm, delighted with the day's sport.
October 2nd. The British revenue returns for the past quarter reached a total of twenty milion pounds
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON, October zath. The Treasury purchased to-day $50,000 GUNTES of silver at 9740 to 97 50 dollars...
LONDON, October rath. * The Pall Mall Gazette publishes without comment a reply of Mr. Caine's Madras infor mant to the charges of exaggeration made against him in representing the distress in the Madras Presidency. Hasays that Lord Wenlock visited the suffering districts under newspaper pressure, and quotes a statement of the Governor of Madras that four persons died of starvation, as an important admission, because so many dié of disease due to starvation.
A manifesto has been issued by the Parnellite members to the Irish people, announcing their determination to ‘uphold satíonal freedom, and to continue the struggle antil unity is re-esta blished, and an independent Parliamentary party is restored. A convention of representative Irishmen will be called to devise means to achiave the programme of their late leader. The manifestó also says that the Parnellites can have no fellowship with the raceders who have disrupted the Irish party, and losded with calumny and hounded to death the foremost man of their race.
The name of Mr. Caine's informant does not appear in the letter, published by the Pall Mall Gazette.
The guard of the mall train was the only persons Injured in the colision near Brindisi.
ST. PETERSBURG, October 13th,
M. de Glers, Minister of Foreign Affairi, who
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Insanity is increasing in Erin. Paris now uses steel water-pipes. Drunkenness is alarming in France. Beet roots promise a great crop in Europe. Barthold's statue of Gambetta has been finished,
"A London Ides is to insure bouses 'agalast burglary.
Nearly 50 per cent of the property of England is insured.
Egypt's cotton crop for this year is the largest
ever known.
Berlin is to have an elevated rallroad with electric motors,
The next British Trades Union Congress will sit at Glasgow,
in a mile of English railway'there are about 112 Gran Social Democracy has sixty-eight
sleepers..
political organs.
The
There are ninety-nine different banking com- panies in London..
Siberis has forty-five compasitors who worked on Nihiilet papers.
Londoners write $7,511 letterú a day, requiring 'thirty gallons of ink.
Switzerland yearly receipes about $25,000,000 from foreign tourists.
Russian corn merchants fear the permanent loss of German trade.
Many telegraph lines are now being extended into the heart of Africa.
Mme. Patil bes postponed her visit to, thọ
is staying in Italy, will pay a vialt to King Hum-Volted States till December.
bert at the town of Mouxa to-day in company With the Marquis de Radini. The Czar has authorised the visit, which is regarded as evidence of his Majesty's peaceful resolutions. October 14th.
It is said that nearly 40,000 men desert from the German Army every year.
Berlin is the only city in Germany that has an excess of 1,000,000 population.
One-third of the crime committed in London is Mr. Eleet (query Ellot of the British embassy | perpetrated on Saturday nights, has returned here from Central Asia,
During the year 1890, 182,836 men were Mr. Chamberlain speaking at Cardigan last | recruited for the German Army. night denounced Mr. Gladstone's Newcastle pro It is thought the Pope will shortly make gramme as absurd and dishonest ; and suld that | mixed maniiges more difficult, fils suggestion of scuttling from Egypt was cowardly.
LONDON, October 14th. Lord Salisbury, replying to a Note from the Parte, notifying the British Government that Turkey has entered into an agreement with Russla relative to the passage of the Dardanelles, says he assumes that any privilego in this | direction granted to another Fower, equally belongs to Great Britain.
The British Commlitee of the Indian Congress has decided to recommend that the next Congress be held in London in the spring of 1893, and that no Congress take place next year.
WASHINGTON, October 14th.
The Treasury to-day purchased 1,010,000 ounces of silver at 9710 to 9725;
LONDON, October 15th, A telegram received from St. John's states that a large steamer carrylog cattle from Montreal to Dundea has been wrecked in Saint Mary's Bay, on the Newfoundland coast, › Wilb; one exception, all hands aboard, to the number of 41, were drowned. The survivor alleges that: at the time of the disaster the captain and crew weis all drunk. The struggles of the men in the water among the calls, are described as being most pitiful,
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A later despatch from St. John's says that the seported wreck of a cattle steamer on the New:
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riwho was“ |- lately wrecked.
Two new Parnelllto. papers, to be named the Irish Independent and the Evening Herald being established in Dabila, nament
Droughts and frosts have nearly destroyed the Rhine wine harvest this reason,
Cassumption is more prevalent in Ireland than in either England or Wales,
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Berlin's suicide op'demic shows a sign of sh'tement. No fewer than 250 persons died there by their own bands in July,
The statue of Joan of Arc was unveiled in
Dommy Church the other day in the presence of three bishops and 3,000 people,
It appears that 3.700 tons of rails have been ordered in Germany for a new line which is about to be commenced in China.
The national debt of Germany, which is much smaller than that of aby other great country in the world, is, in round figures, £39,000,000,
The idea of establishing an observatory on Mont Blanc has been abandoned. The ice was tunnelled 100 feet without reaching the rock. railroad station at Pavfokini, sixty-seven kilome Briganda attacked and captured recently the ters east of Adrianople, kliling two gendarmes.
The report of the Registrar General of Ireland. shows that upward of fcc,000 acres of land in Ireland have gone out of cultivation since 1890,
A recent traveler in Persia was told that the patterns on carpels in that country were made intricate so that the evil eye might be bewildered.
The Socialists In the Berlin Common Council have introduced a bill to establish a court of arbitration with jurisdiction in trade and labor disputes.
Germany expects to manufacture a large quantity of beet-sugar this autumn, which it will sell to the United States in exchange for Ame- rican pork.
The new Chilean TarifTiaw, which repeals the Customs law of May 5th, provides for the gradual substitution of paper currency by speele dollars for duties;
Italy shows no disposition as a nation to xeform has no regular diplomatic relations with the her behaviour toward the United States. She Great Republic.
The South African gold field shows great | steadiness of production, the average for the part year fluctuating between 50,000 and $6,000 ounces per month
Two hundred children are ill with measles at Tuchel, Prussia, and owing to the alarming spread of the disease the authorities have ordered the schools closed.
The women In Prussia, according to statistical reports, far outnumber the men. The latest estimates show a difference of almost 600,000 in
favor of the women.
There is a rush of religious missionaries to Africa from Germany, the Catholics leading Ninety per cent of those sent out die from the effects of the climate.
Sophie Guosberg, the Nihilist, whose death bas just been reported from St. Petersburg, is believed to have been privately execated in prison several months ago,
Mount Nimred in Armenia bas proved itself volcano. It Is scading out fl-mes and lava, and the villages at its base have been destroyed. Many lives are reported lost.
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Britain in the last quarter of a century. In 1864 Lym. He declines to permit the publication of his institutions. In 1890 there were but 719. Slace vouched for by Mr. J. II. Byans, the chemist above there were 2,800 convicts in the various penal name, but the perfect truth of what is here folated e 1882 eight prisons have been converted to other named.
Uses.
The case was an aggravated one of indigestion and Although the boy King, Alexander of Serving system thad hoon poisoned and disordered by the ad de and its The whole planned. Frincess Xenin et Montenegro, sixth engendored by the fermentation in the stomach, and, daughter of Prince Nicholas, is the belde in pro bad nat Saigol's Syrup coms to the, rescue fast as 16 aspect, and should the negotiations succeed the did a fatal result must have followed in a brief time.
Princess will go to Belgrade to be betrothed to the King on his fifteenth birthday.
According to statistical accounts, the astounding number of 547,659 pilgrims passed in front of the Holy Coat at Trèves between August 20th and September zd.
The Russian Four Hundred do not approve of flirting, and have therefore established the rule that no man must waltz around the room more than once with his partner.
A railway is to be built across England that will enable a passenger to make a direct trip from the Mersey to the thores of the North Sea 'It will be about 150 miles in length.
Official statistics show that the provincial debts of Italy amount to $2,90 500,000 in addition to the national debt, which is $5,000,000,000, making a total of nearly $8,000,000,000.
Mr. Stead, whore artiàmetic is as original and amusing as anything he has ever done, calculates that over eight hundred million official prayers are annually offered for the Prince of Wales, agreed upon a pattition of Barnea. The Dutch have been allotted the largest share of the Island, but John Bull gets the most valuable portion. progress in London. There are now upward of Electrical Illumination has made great 325 000 lamps in use in use, and the capital invested In the various plants amounts to $15,000,000
The British and Dutch Governments, have.
Lord Salisbury calls the grip "a beneficent disease, because it kept the talking members of the House of Commons away from their seats and allowed the working members to transact some business.
There is only one female doctor in Sweden, but several other women and studying medicine, though the time necessary to quality seems ap palling. It takes nine years from the date of the first examination.
Queen Victoria proposes to confer upon Pres sident Carnot the highest grade of the Order of the Bath, The conferring of this order on the President of a republic is said to be an unpie cedented distinction.
Thirteen years ago a student in Berila was mobbed in the streets for appearing on a bicycle Now the German Union of Bicyclists, which has just beld its eighth annual conference at
"Brailao, has 14 000 members,
The imperial yacht of Napoleon, L'Afgis in which Euporis made her voyage to Egypt, was lately up for sale at Cherbourg as the Rapide but, as the highest bid was only go,ooof, she was withdrawn and will be broken up.
A large proportion of the traders and mecha-
A one-legged bicyclist in London recently rudenics in the Brazilian cliles are Germans, and the
100 miles to less than nine hours,
There are ninety-five people in England whose facomes are over $150,000 a year.
Even the African colonies are out-distancing Canada in the growth of population.
The London Times calls on Canada to check public corruption, whatever the cost.
A ship capable of crossing the Ailantic in four days must have 155,000 horsepower.
The order of the Sultan excluding Jews from the Holy Land is being rigidly enforced.
The Hassian Government is discharging all Germans from Government employment,
It is estimated that 11,000 Mohammedan pilgrims have died of cholers this season.
Princess Clementine, daughter of the King of of the Belgians, is about to become a dua.
New Zealand is surpassing the Argenting Repubile in the exportation of dressed meat.
∙Mme. de Lesseps has the reputation of being | the most plous and most décolletée lady in Fariz, Emperor William has devised a new order, the Kalserwerth, or * Exteemed of the Emperor.
J. J. Coyle and F.C. Johnson have started for Khartoum in the hope of finding General Gordon, Thrift is imbued in almost every living soulin Paris, and Sarel Save I Says † is the universal South Africa is shipping oranges to London, and the business promises to become as exten-
alve one,
¡¡The race for the Middle Park Plate run at New A street tallroad, to be operated by motors market to-day resulted as follows-Orsa first, | and run by fuel all, will soon be in operation El Diablo second, Gandlet third,
near Prague,
number of them there is steadily increasing. Within the present year Brazil has, received about 10,000 German immigrantK,
A vaat "banyan" tree, covering between six sub seven neres, has been discovered on the tiny Lord Howe Island, 300 miles from Part Macquaire la Australis. "It is surpassed in size only by the greatest of those in India.
Six families living at Thano, Alsace, have heen ordered by the German authorities to become naturalized citizens or leave the province,
In Vaaten, in the Congo State, the first news- paper has recently made its appearance under the name of St Kriklangs (the Daily Light Its object is to enlighten the souls of the black skinned." It is printed in the popular dialect of issue of the paper was edited by two educated the country in the Latin alphabet. The first
negro women, who did their own type-setting.
Balto's new opera, Nero, will have no over- ture. When the curtain rises there will be beard from behind the scenes a chorus consisting of citizens cursing Ners and working up a revolt. Presently the voices draw near, the stage being totally dark and the orchestra' silent. Suddenly the crowd is revealed on the stage, with Nero in the middle, and the fall orchestra bursts forts with a tremendous fortissimo.
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THEY ROLLED ON THE FLOOR.
Or Monday, November 24th, 1890, the American paper published the following news, item --
Hundred-and-Thirty-fourth Street, New York, shot #Mro, Barah 8. Hensler, No. 879, East One-
and a member of the Ber. Dr. Ramiay's Presbyterian and killed herself yesterday morning. She was a lady of excelent character and high social position, Church. She was well-to-do and very active t various public and private charities, Since last July ahabad fared fearfully from indigestion, and dyspepsia, which brought on, melancholls and them kind of Insanity, under the influence of which she took her own He
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Hard another story, not so tragies, but with the same moral. The narrator tells it of himself. "Mostly," he says, "we dread and fear death, yet once I prayed te ile, and the reason was in this wiss Up to Ohristmas, 1888, I had been a healthy man, but at that time (s period of rejoleing with so many) I felt depressed, languid, and tired. Afy appetite left ms, and was much distressed after eating them.
“All claims against the Steamer must be pre- Ughtest food My skin and eyes became tinged with dark yellow colour, and the kidney secretion was unbearable and often Isated from 13 to 14 hours Uke blood. The
pain in
in my stomach was almost without intermission. Sometimes. I was in pain night with me through the night. I was constantly and day, and was so bad that my wife had to alt .PP and troubled with a stomach congs, and expectomated a quantity of greens phlegm
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was always chilled, the cold airers running through *In spite of warm clothing and every comfort, I me as if my blood wore thin and poor. I could take ne olid food I lived on soups, trik puddinge, &, and after each meal I had emply, gnawing, windy pains at the stomach, which nothing reloved. spread all over me, saif my blood were poisoned. Our
"After a time an intolerable Itohing of the skin BUNGALOW with 5 Rooms, & large family upon his advice I went to Harrogate, where I me for about a year. Acting physician attended m consulted another doctor,
oatar, and drank the waters, bat fooling worse I returned home. The bath attendant at Harrogate and others told me I was puffering from blood poisoning, but this the doctors never mentioned. The fist doctor said it was the passing of gallstones. that gave me such dreadful palo..
*I now consulted an eminent specialist at Mama
shorter, who donfirmed what the ether doctor had told me, but none of the afforded me any relief
It la feared that this means the inauguration of “In this mulacrable way I dragged on for siz an extensive movement to expel all families of months mors, and became so much reduced I could French connection,
soarcely put one foot before the other, and so that the
A terrible fight has occured in Heligoland | rings fall of on fingers and rolled on the floor, I among a party of German marines. The men was in such pain that I prayed to die, and one of the gat to quarrelling and at length to blows and in
doctors told a friend of mine I could not recover, the milde eight of them were wounded, sema serious. The marines are now forbidden to go ashore on the faland.
| The cost increases,
In August of last your (1890), whilst my sufforings were at the worst, a book was sent to me by post telling of a medicina called Mother Balgal's Curative rap. I determined to try it, and sent to Mr.
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shooting at the 200 yards range i after 4 pm from the goo yards also ; and after 4.30 p.m. PRICE............TEN CENTS.
altogether. Members are reminded that the Coples ordered from the Office will be charged || outer port match will soon be shot off: the usual sate-25 cents.
ED. ROBINSON, Acting Hon, Secretary, Hongkong, 28th October, 1891.
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ed my appetite Hongkong, 14th October, 1891.
The cost of crime in the United Kingdom is very heavy. The annual cost of the police force amounts to nearly $30,000,000; the annual cost with the remedy I recoveredter and by of prisons $5,000,000, and the annual cost of th reformat steadily increases schools $3,000,000, and I feel as well as I ever did in my 115, la fact, as
gained strength. My natural colour is now A Kaffranian church choir is captivating without inconvenience,
well as I did when and have gained 80 pounds In Londoners with the welid melody and sweet tone weight, during the past shree months. I may add of lis singing. They are deveting the proceeds that previous of their concerts to the establishment of schools stared that sty friends, and wren my pupils, Sosroely this medisine I was so much in which their fellow Kaffes may learn handi recognised ma, I tall every one what Balgola Syrup crafts, household work and the like.
did for me."
can bet any kind of food
The returns show that there has been an in-
The gentleman who makes the foregoing statement mpayo apparent decrease in crime in Grost | is a person et pedilen and known to all kis people
NOTICE
are indebted to the Estate of the late LL persons having claims against, or who wr, he requested to furnish the Undersigned WILFRED CHRISTY, formerly of Amor with particulars thereof without delay.
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FRANCIS CASS.
Amoy, soth October, 1892.
YUNG CHUNG & CO. (MME)
from Shanghal, are prepared to undertake" CONTRACTS and JOBS for PAINTING, POLISHING, DECORATING and all descrip tons of ORNAMENTAL WORK 'in HousCE, also for making' CABINETS and FRENCH kind patronage of the Public, All Orders will be POLISHING FURNITURE, and solicit the Ben Materials and Superior Firstclass Work promptly, faithfully and satisfactorily executed manship in neat and best style guaranteed.
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