This page is referenced by:

• 1 media/Thumb 146.png 2024-11-26T14:56:17-05:00 "News & Rumours" 22 News in brief: Reception for Mexican independence day – Change in the theatre program – Edgar La Selve given new role – Canadian bishop left Paris – Lavigerie arrived in Paris – Tension between Portugal and Great Britain in Lisbon – Cholera – Smallpox –Execution by electrocution in the United States – Crisis in Argentina – Freemasons against Boulangism – American swimmer in the Thames – The Prime Meridian – Religion in Alsace – Dahomey inquiry – European market proposal – New book by General Légitime plain 2024-12-03T17:30:22-05:00 09-16-1890 Translation:A brilliant reception took place last night at the Mexican Legation, where Mr. Gonzalo Baz held "a tea" for the notables of the diplomatic corps and the elites of Parisian society, in celebration of the anniversary of the proclamation of Mexican independence, which coincides with that of the birth of General Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico.
  
  ===
  
  The select day, at the Comédie française will soon be changed, it seems. Saturday will be adopted instead of Tuesday. This resolution was taken at the instigation of the princess of Sagan, for whom the direction of the Français saw itself forced to pull down the proscenium that she occupied on the Tuesday, this space having be reclaimed for this date by the president of the Republic.
  
  ===
  
  Our fellow, Mr. Edgar La Selve of "the Society of Men of Letters, study traveller, director of the Revue Exotique Illustré, officer of the Academy since 1880," has just been promoted, by the decree of 28 July last, as Officer of Public Instruction.
  
  Mr. Edgar La Selve, who is well known in Haiti, is the author or Exotic Novels, such as Fleurs des Tropiques and... General Cocoyo.
  
  ===
  
  Mgr. Labelle, the likeable bishop of Canada, left Paris on the 3rd of September, after a stay of ten months in France, to return directly to Quebec where he has been recalled for reasons of service.
  
  ===

  Cardinal Lavigerie in Paris

  His Eminence the Cardinal Lavigerie arrived last night in Paris, coming from Algiers via Bordeaux where he spent the day on Sunday.
  
  The prelate has come to preside over the Antislavery Congress, which will open, as we have said, on the 22nd of this month.
  
  ===
  
  A dispatch from Lisbon says the population is uneasy at the presence of an English ship in the waters of the Tagus. Some soldiers and sailors of the crew went ashore when they had to quickly reembark, pursued by cries and insults against England.
  
  ===
  
  Cholera is still striking Spain. On the 12th, 61 cases and 30 deaths were reported in the provinces of Albacete, Alicante, Badajoz, Tarragona, Toledo and Valencia.
  
  ===
  
  Smallpox is spreading through all of the quarters of Madrid. Since the 1st of September... the number of cases varies between 22 and 40 per day; the average number of deaths is 6. The sickness mainly hits children and adults of the poor classes.
  
  ===
  
  A second execution with electricity has been in announced in the United States. Kemmler's successor is a Japanese named Shubuna-Jugiros, who was condemned to death for murder. His lawyer, invoking the dismal precedent of this mode of execution, demanded the writ of habeas corpus, but his request was rejected because of a decision that the Supreme Court that had declared electrocution legal.
  
  ===
  
  Buenos Aires, 13 September. A ministerial crisis broke out in La Plata.
  
  ===

  Excommunication

  The Council of the Paris order of Freemasons voted, in its last session, an agenda that calls for the expulsion of the Brethren who cooperated in the direction of the Boulangist movement, particularly Brother Laguerre and all the others, deputies and senators, who gave their support to the Boulangist committees.
  
  ===
  
  The famous American swimmer Dalton, in the presence of a large crowd of curious onlookers and fans, swam down the Thames, from Blackwall to Gravesend, doing the backstroke. The trip was accomplished in six hours and a few minutes. On coming out of the water, Dalton did not seem tired in the least.
  
  ===

  Unique Prime Meridian

  An international scientific congress will soon take place in Rome, for the adoption of a unique prime meridian and a universal time. On the advice of the Academy of Bologna, which has considered the question at length, the meridian of Jerusalem will be proposed.
  
  ===
  
  In a relative large number of villages in Alsace, the similtaneum is practiced, which is to say Catholicism and Protestantism are celebrated in the same building. This custom will cease.
  
  ===
  
  Mr. Siciliano, whose important declarations we read above, was called to Paris by the government, which wants to know more details about the revelations he made about Dahomey.
  
  ===
  
  Many Jewish communities in the United States, to show their broadmindedness and to put themselves into social harmony with their compatriots, transferred their weekly day of rest from Saturday to Sunday.
  
  ===
  
  Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, is gravely ill. We fear it might be the end.
  
  ===
  
  Rome, 12 September – The Pope approved the idea of organizing, in the Vatican in 1893, on the occasion of his episcopal jubilee, a Universal Exposition of works done by Catholic workers throughout the world.
  
  ===

  Economic War

  In a Congress held in Vienna, a proposition of a European customs union has just been made to respond, in an energetic and effective matter, to the protectionist measures taken by the United States. An economic war is beginning between the old and the new continent.
  
  ===
  
  We would like to announce the publication of a book that General Légitime is in the process of correcting the final proofs, and which is entitled History of the Government of General Légitime, President of the Republic of Haiti. Interviewed on this subject, General Légitime declared that he ha no intention of entering into militant politics, but that he only wanted to provide a document for history.
  
  ---
  Related articles: