FRISCO MAIL ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1011, 2 September 1881, Page 2

FRISCO MAIL ITEMS.

The Orango anniversary passed off quietly in Ireland. The American team won all the jewels at Wimbledon. Franco and Italy arc negotiating a treaty of commerce. George Borrow, author of “The Bible in Spain,” is dead. Canada shows a population increase in 10 years of 080,498. An alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria is spoken of. Just now there is a mania for killing officials in the United States.

Griscorao, an imitator of Dr Tanner, has completed a 46 days’ fast at Chicago. It is reported from London that Victoria Vauxhallis about to marry a rich banker. Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the peerage for his services in the Transvaal.

It is said Vanderbilt will soon run a lino of railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The Chinese Ministers have been recalled from the United States, much against their wishes.

Midhat Pasha attempted to commit suicide by opening his veins with a pair of scissors.

The death of the Rev. Daniel M‘Carthy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, is announced.

Maude S. Vanderbilt, mare, trotted a mile in two minutes eleven seconds on the Chicago track. Hartmann, the Nihilist, now in New York,proposes to lecture on “Russiaand her Prospects.” Mormon converts are arriving by thousands at New York from Europe, en route to Salt Lake City. A vast amount of property was destroyed in England by storms. In Lancashire 50 mills were stopped. Eight hundred inhabitants of Northampton petition that Mr Bradlaugh bo not admitted to Parliament. The two treaties between the United States and China have been formally ratified and exchanged. Another comet has appeared in the west, and is labelled by astronomers “ Comet C,” being the third this year. Sixty-three persons perished in fishingboats off the coast of England in the heavy gale of the 21st of July. The race for the July Cup, six furlongs, was won by Charibert, with Peter second, and Lorrillard’s Barrett third.

An anti-slave decree has been issued by the Khedive of Egypt. Actual slaves remain so, but no addition is to be made. The Cork farmers and agricultural laborers came to terms. The potato crop throughout the country promises to be plentiful. Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America and sent for education to France, England, and Germany.

An immense aerolite fell at ’Frisco on the 30th inst. It struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of the gaol and of Goat Island.

The editor of the “Times,” at Little Eock, Arkansas, was assassinated because the politics of his paper did not suit certain outlaws.

The Duke of Argyle will marry the widow of the late Hon. Augustus Anson. The lady is the daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans.

A daughter of an English gentleman fell into the sea at Hyers, France. His wife and two daughters attempted to roscao her, and all four perished.

■ The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no British subjects captured by brigands will be ransomed by the Government.

The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow. As precautionary measures, troops have been stationed all along the line, and 400 policemen act as an escort. The British claims for damages during the bombardment of Sfax amounts to about 60,000,000fr5, and the claims of other nations amount to 20,000,000fr5.

King Katana, of the Sandwich Islands, has been the lion of the month in London. He behaved himself very well, excepting that he drank too much at dinner.

The Nihilists held a congress in Berlin under the very nose of the Government, which, although warned of the fact, were unable to discover the place of meeting. “ A railroad train was recently boarded by 19 desperadoes in New Mexico, and was thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, also a passenger, who tried to defend him.

Brush, the electric light inventor, has announced the solution of the problem of storing electricity so that it can he carried from place to place, and delivered like coal, oil, and gasoline. _ An Abyssinia Catholic missionaries’ station has been captured by the natives, who buruad a church and the mission-house, and robbed 10 prisoners of their clothes aud sent them into the interior.

The United States has declined to join in the proposed general representation on the subject of the treatment of Jews in Russia on the ground that it has already instructed its Minister in Russia on the subject. The Sultan is still sending a contingent of troops to Tunis, in spite of his promise to the contrary given to France. Late accountssay that the relations between Franco and Turkey are now considered good. The Jew-baiters at New Helling, angered at the denunciation of the “Zeitung,” the local paper, assaulted the editor, sacked some of the shops, and demolished the ‘ ‘ Zeitung ” office; 30 rioters were arrested by the police.

The Cassagnac-Luiller duel was a sanguinary one. It was fought with swords, and was continued until the last drop of blood was drawn. The body of the vanquished combatant was placed at the absolute disposal of the victor.

The Kihilists hold a great and solemn meeting of executive committee in Paris, Several exiles came from Genka. The meeting resolved to warn the Czar once more, and then, if ho and his advisers do not heed it, ho will perish. It is estimated that 10 million to 40 million francs in false gold has been shipped from Geneva to Egypt within a few years, and disposed of by organised bank swindlers, comprising men of prominence in Genova, Marseilles, and Alexandria. They are now in prison. In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as tho O’Hagan Act. In some cases tho jury announced before the charge was delivered that they had made up their minds to a verdict of not guilty. The evidence of crime is disregarded, and if the prisoner’s guilt is apparent, tho jury invariably manage to disagree.

The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare hero, and almost excitement in the United States. Tho Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a communication to tho collectors of New Vork and Boston, with instructions to use every means to find out the name of the consignor of tho deadly packages. Tho representatives of steamship companies are especially agitated over tho affair, and have deprived O’Donovan Rossa of the agency he hold in the Allan line. The city editor of tho National Democrat, Peoria, Illinois, states that the infernal machines were made in that city, and gives the name of tho street besides. A reporter of tho paper has been _ invited to an exhibition of tho machine’s destructive power.