MAIL NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3214, 18 October 1881, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

VIA 'FRISCO. CONTINENTAL. Count Jourdeville, one of the oldest families of the French Legitimist nobility, has been arrested for stealing a carriage and horses at Spa in Belgium, and selling them and leaving the country. A new Russian paper, the Free World, published in Germany, has made its appearance. It advocates constitutional government, and is equally opposed to revolution and reaction. The Nihilist organ, the Will of the People, has reappeared at St. Petersburg. The numbers issued contain various notices warning spies of their fate, a list of donations to the revolutionary fund amounting to 500 roubles, a list of 400 Nihilists arrested since November, and an article condemning the Czar's policy, and threatening to deal the enemy a final blow. Baron Baronoff, the Prefect of Police, waited on the Czar on September sth to warn him that a great movement waa to be made by the Nihilists in two or three months. He was snubbed, " Your succe3- i sor, Kasloff," replied the Czar, •' has energy and wit enough to triumph over them." He then turned his back on Baronoff. One hundred Jews have escaped from Russia, and arrived in America. Five hundred and fifty-four Jewish work-people at the Kieff tobacco factory have been ordered to quit the town immediately. The attention of the Government has been called to the possibility of a famine in Algeria. The military occupation of the city of Tunis and some other points become a necessity, and M. Roustan recommends that the force in Regency be raised to 120,000. Sixty-one persons were burned to death recently by Algerian forest fires, and many wounded. Six hundred and eightytwo dwellings were burned. Count Herbert Bismarck has been appointed German Minister at Washington, personal and family affairs making his employment beyond the sea expedient. The much talked of meeting of the Kaiser and the Czar at Dantzic appears to have brought about an entente cordiale between the two sovereigns and their Premiers, and the usual oracular reports are promulgated, but as no papers were signed it it evident the importance of the meeting was magnified. A comprehensive conspiracy was recently disclosed at the French island it. Pierre, situated at the entrance of Fortune Bay, near St. John's, Newfoundland. The colony is used as a penal settlement by the French Government, and has a population of 5,200 persone. Social and State offenders are known as disciplinaires, and the batch at present undergoing purgation are of unparalleled turpitude. Among them are several representatives of the aristocracy order in France. Their purpose was to burn the city, murder the officers and every one in their way, seize two vessels in port and escape. The plan was well arranged, and might have been successful had it not been discovered before full maturity. AMERICA. A large part of the State of Michigan has been visited by forest fires of such extent that the destruction is terrible. In the northern and north-western part of the State the ruin is especially widespread. The villages of Anderson, Richmondville, and Charleston, in Santillac County, have been, wiped out, and Port Hope Tyre and Verond Mills and Badax in Huron County, wholly or partially shared the same fate. Many lives were lost and much stock. Relief is asked for the destitute communities; they are made up principally of recently arrived Canadians. The country from Saginaw and St. Clair is a desert. It is believed that nearly 1900 persons perished in the flames. On the sth instant the fires were checked by welcome rains. An American paper says Dr Tanner is not dead. He has not been to Amsterdam, where he is circumsiantially reported to have met his death under curious dramatic circumstances. The doctor has never been out of the United States, and is said to be in training for another starvation feat which he promises shall last over ninety days. The Presbyterians of San Francisco have found Mrs Cooper, a sister of Colonel Robert Engersoll, guilty of heresy. "The trial and its termination created some excitement in religious circles, and contempt amongst the unorthodox. A bush fire in Marin County, California, burned over twenty-five square miles. William Pixley, who started it to burn out a poison oak thicket, lost his life. A Mexican boy was scourged to death in Huachuea on the complaint of a white girl to her father that he had insulted ber. Atterwards the girl confessed that she had only told the story " for tun," and now the white men justly fear Mexican retaliation. A tragedy occurred in Arizona at the White Mountains on the Ist September, which caused much excitement. It appears that General Eugene Carr, in command of Fort Apache, left that place with seven officers and 110 men to punish the savages for depredations committed in that region. When the command arrived at Obion, the Apache scouts treacherously turned on the command with well directed volleys, and other Indians lurking in the vicinity joined with them, and massacred Captain Hentig and ten of the soldiers, and General Carr and the remainder of the force retreated to Fort Apache. One account says a " medicine man" had promised the Apaches that at the gathering of the corn harvest he would resurrect all their dead chiefs, and by their aid the white men would be driven from the country. The Apaches were afraid he could not carry out his purpose if he were arrested. There ie great dread of ia general war, and all the troops in the forts around San Francisco are being hurried to the ecene of hostilities. It is estimated that the Indians can muster 7000 fighting men.