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Dunstan Times, Issue 947, 11 June 1880, Page 3

ITEMS BY THE FRISCO MAIL.

Two thousand Swedes have emigrated during the last few months to America, and many more are about to follow.

The Turkish government owe its army contractors LIOO.OOO for rations. They threaten to stop supplies unless they are paid, but there is no money in the treasury. The situation in China is threatening. All business is unsettled, owing to the uneasiness caused by affairs at Pekin, and the probability of a war with Russia. Bug lishnien are advised from Pekin to look after themselves and prepare for any emergency. An extensive fire recently occurred in the petroleum district of Pensylvania. The tobacco crop of Virginia will fail on account of the ravages of a fly. Forty-six thousand immigrants arrived at New York in the month of May. Exeter Hall, London, has been purchased by the Young Men’s Christian Association for L 5,000.

A ship employed transporting fresh moat from South America to France has been sold to an English company for L 4,500. Fourteen persona are supposed to have been burnt at a fire which took place recently in Gray’s Inn road, London. The Princess of Wales visited and congratulated Mr Gladstone on his appointment as Premier, which caused much surprise. The London World says the Queen’s health is very unsatisfactory. She suffers from constant headache.

English crop reports generally are satisfactory. John Bright says ho enters the Ministry because he has work to perform with reference to the Irish land question. Jacob Bright, recently elected to Parliament in the Liberal interest, fell dead at a meeting at Birmingham.

The land conference at Dublin was a failure.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin states in a recent address that the distress in Ireland is as great as ever, and it is feared that many will die if food is not supplied.

Poisoned feed has been found on the Czar’s dining-table. Plague and famine are ravaging parts of Russia. All the granaries are empty, and there is no money. All Jews of foreign birth have been ordered away from St Petersburg. The fooling against this class is daily becoming more bitter.

In spite of public opinion, the Mormons have founded and opened a church in Chicago. As yet they are silent on the subject of polygamy. Six of Brigham Young’s daughters have been excommunicated from the Mormon faith, for trying to recover 1,000,000 dollars stolen from them by the executors of their father’s estate, the Apostles Carafon and Young.

The Chinese in New York are besieging

the Courts for letters of naturalisation. On the Pacific slope the privilege has been refused.

The Grant powder works at Berkley, California, exploded on April 17th. blowing to atoms twelve white men and twelve Chinamen.

James Cook, a clown well known in Europe and America, died in New York on the 28th April. His real name was Pat Kay, and he was Irish by birth. He refused the last rites of the Catholic Church, saying Masonry was a good enough religion for him, and as he had lived in the Order, he would die in it.

In the list of of distinguished visitors at New York from London, recently, was Marwood, successor to the hangman Calcraft. The Press seemed disposed to make a “ lion” of him. All the bars in New Brunswick have been closed by tbe Temperance Act. Wheat has declined so much in price that American speculators are in peril.

Emigration from the British Isles is enormously increasing, but principally to tbe United States Twenty-three thousand emigrants have sailed during tbejlast three months, and have nearly all gone to tbe United States.