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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

September

September.

2. Fearful suffering at Memphis, U S. from ravages of Yellow fever. Quebec Government place troops along line of M. O. & O. Railway and take possession of rolling stock.

3. Terrible disaster on the Thames from collision of two steamers, the Princess Alice and the Bywell Castle; over 600 lives lost.

4. France and Italy notify Porte bombardment of Greek coast will not be permitted. 28,000 Russians leave Turkey for home, No diminution of Yellow fever. Legislature of British Columbia prorogued, after passing Chinese Tax Bill and secession Memorial. United States returns for year 1878 show receipts exceed expenditure by $20,800,000.

5. Hurricane in Cuba. Delegates of Ontario Municipalities present parting address to Lord Dufferin.

6. President Hayes visits St. Paul, Minnesota, and in his speech says indications are of a general revival of prosperity.

7. Cholera In Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. Russians take possession of Batoum peaceably. Turkish commander sent to the Albanians, massacred because he would not act against Austrians. Rinderpest spreading through Roumania.

9. Opening of German Reichstag. Emperor asks for extraordinary measures for suppression of Socialism. Increase of Fever at Cyprus. No abatement of Yellow fever.

11. Great depression in Lancashire Cotton trade Fearful explosion in a coal mine in Wales, nearly 300 lives lost.

12. 46,000 Russian troops leave Turkey. Constantinople threatened with famine from high price of wheat and depreciation of currency. Trouble in Albania increasing. Sudden decline of temperature.

13. Incessant rain for 72 hours in Western Ontario, New York and Pennsylvania; many bridges washed away and railroad traffic suspended Tornado in North Carolina does great damage, and many lives lost.

14. Canadians awarded 225 prizes at Paris Exhibition. Yellow fever decreasing in New Orleans, Cairo and Grenada, but increasing at Memphis and Vicksburg. New crater opened in Vesuvius. 5 steamers fully laden leave New York for foreign ports. Difficulties between Northern Pacific and St. Maul and Pacific Railway settled, and traffic from Duluth to Winnipeg resumed. Condon and Melody the Fenian prisoners released from Portland and put on board steamer for New York. Disastrous floods in Punjaub, India.

17. Dominion elections result in great victory for Conservatives. Chinese tax enforced in British Columbia.

18. Sugar cane grown in Western Canada equal to best southern cane. Through rates established to New York for shipment of Manitoba wheat.

19. Further complications in the East, Christians rising in Croatia. Chinese Ambassador reaches Washington. General improvement at the South

20. Typhoid fever prevalent in Montreal. Abundant harvest in China removes apprehensions of further distress. Pacification of Herzegovina completed and administration organized. Gambetta strongly denounces Ultramontanism as dangerous to society and the State.

21. Fever epidemic at South subsiding, but great mortality among children. British Mission to Cabul refused admission by Khyber Pass.

23. Affghan war deemed imminent. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Orange leaders in Montreal committed for trial.

24. Pope writes Emperor William congratulations on his restoration to health. Revolution in Hayti. Eruption of Volcano Cotopaxi.

25. Governor General of India preparing for active operations in Afghanistan. Russian headquarters removed to Adrianople. Marquis of Lome bids farewell to his constituents in Inverary.

27. Captain Tyson the Polar explorer reaches Newfoundland on his return voyage Agricultural Department at Washington makes satisfactory experiments at making sugar from corn stalks. British fleet go to Constantinople to salute the Sultan before withdrawing from Bosphorus.

30. Active military preparations against Afghanistan. Yellow fever appearing in other Southern cities. Herring fishery on Labrador coast a failure.