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Day
28
Month
March
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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A dispatch from Pesth on Wednesday saya one hundred and twenty thousand people are left homelesB by the recent ftood in Hungary. In the city of Szegedin eight thousand two hundred out of ten thousand houses have fallen and nineteen hundred persons drowned. The waters are subsiding and the adjacent towns are out of danger. Pinto, the Portuguese exploror, who has crossed África, telegraphs: "I struggled with hunger. thirst, natives, floods and drought. I have saved all my papers, twenty geographical charts, many topographical maps, three volumes of notes, meteorological studies, drawings, and a diary of the complete explorations of the Upper Zambesi, with 72 cataracts." The Spanish government has resolved to establish a state of siege in the Basque provinces during the elections. A grand banquet of the supporters of the abolition of slavery will take place in Madrid Saturday. The London Times criticises severely the new Canadian tariff, and says. in concluding a long editorial on the subject, "The tariff that has been produced in obed;ence to the cali of the general election is as unwise as can be. There is no b, anch of industry which will not be crippled by it." Patrick O'Shea. a well-known Catholic book publisher bas suspended and asked an extensión. Liabilities, f 100.C 'Oí nominallv 8200000. The Old Catholic clergyman, Dr. Huber, of Munich, is dead. Prof. Anderssen, the celebrated chess player, dicd at Breslau, Thursday. The Swiss State Council, by a vote of 27 to 15, resolved to restore capital punishment in Switzerland. The conference of representativea of the Germán shipping trade unammously agreed that the shipping business was more depre". cd in 1878 than for a generation. The absolute deficiency is eitimated at $ 1,000,000. A large number of owners of wooden sailing verséis have announced their intention to allow their ships to remaim in port this season. Gen. Melikofï has returned to Wetlianka, where it hn been decided to burn 67 housen, of the value of 45,216 roubles. The Minister of the Interior has ordered the governors of the various provincei to cc oyerate vigilantly against the Bpread of the epidemie during the spring. Thcre were shocks of earthquake in NoH' - ern Persia during Saturday and Sunday. Minaeh was much damaged, and the edjacent village: of Tark and Mannan totally destroyed. Out of eleven hundred inhabitants only a few escaped death. A sub-marine cable is to be laid to South África, connect:ng with the whole eastern system of telegraphs, extending to India, China and Australia. Twenty-nine thousand spinners and weaverB send a deputation to Paris to represent to the government the destitution in consequence of the reduction of wages, and in some cases the complete stoppage of works. On Monday, Gen. Tytler defeatcd 3,000 of the enemy near Heshbolak in Afghanistan. The enemy lost 200 men ; the British loss is trifling.

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Michigan Argus