FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1014, 23 September 1881, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

EUROPEAN NEWS. A new company is shortly to be formed (with a capital of £4,000,000) to toolaimthe waste lands in Ireland. The dynamite scare in England is increasing. One rumor is to the effect that the Duke of Edinburgh has been spec-aliy marked out for assassination. No general amnesty for Irish prisoners has been declared. The Supreme Council of the Fenians has split on the dynamite question, some favoring, others opposing it. Colclough, who distributed stamps for the Irish Law Court, and who defrauded the Government of £IO,OOO by forging stamps, has been sentenced to 10 years penal servitude. Mr Stanley, the explorer, is lying dangerously ill in Central Africa, and is not expected to recover. The landlords in the south of Ireland have permanently reduced rents 25 per cent. The Universal Jewish Society of New York are bringing oppressed Jews from Russia, and settling them in the United States. Harvest prospects grow more desperate in Britain. The grain cut is turning black or sprouting, and standing wheat is being threshed out by the heavy rain. The rape crops in some parts of Ireland are under water, and are seriously damaged. Farmers everywhere are disheartened. It is the opinion in the best-informed quarters that if the American gold drain continues, there can be but little doubt of a further rise in the rates of money. Monsieur Clemenceau has left Paris for Marseilles to fight a duel with an editor who insulted him. Miss Braddon’s proposition to publish a penny edition of Scott’s novels has raised a howl of indignation. The heat in Athens is excessive. The deaths from typhoid are ten a day. Mr Parnell is agitating for the protection of Irish manufactures An extensive landslip has occurred at Elm, a small town in the mountainous canton of Olarus in Switzerland. The catastrophe was so sudden that 200 of the inhabitants, nearly one-fifth of the whole population, were over-whelmed with the mass of falling earth and killed. A Chinese telegram from Shanghai states that great preparations have been initiated at Japan for the reception of the princes and the detached squadron. At the weekly meeting of the Land League at Dublin on August 9, subscriptions reaching £2750 were announced, the whole sum having been subscribed in New Zealand and America The health of Emperor William is very bad The Chief Executive of Germany- has declined to purchase the north-eastern coast of Borneo for colonisation. In Tunis the heat is excessive, and the French hospital at Galatea and Manouha are crowded with sick soldiers AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE. Lately President Garfield exhibited all signs of blood-poisoning. He was unable to take nourishment, and the physicians notified Mrs Garfield that nothing but a miracle could save her husband. She replied, “Then, that miracle will occur! My husband will recover ! He must! ” The assassin, Ginteau, is in a state of abject terror, and sleepless. It is reported that an organisation has been formed to kill him; the authorities are taking precautions for the assassin’s safety. The American Press is agitating for the annexation of the Sandwich Islands. The Nicaragua canal scheme is revived, and application has been made to Congress for a charter. The mortality from heat in New York is excessive. In a fire at San Domingo lately 25d lives were lost. The Frenchmen employed on the Panama Canal are dying rapidly from yellow fever. The accounts are deplorable, but the works are still pushed on. The Josephine Branch of the Mormon Church has held a convention, at which they repudiated as slanderous the report that the Mormons generally rejoiced in the misfortune of President Garfield. They passed a resolution of sympathy and condolence with him.

Crow, of Pearia, the infernal machine maker, intends going to Ireland as aaent for an American dynamite firm in the city of Limerick.

General Leslie Coombes, the great horseman of Kentucky, is dead. He was the most celebrated trainer and turfman in the United States.

A Jules Bevant, who has turned up in Buffalo, verifies the story of the Californian Tichborne claimant, and says he will give corroborative testimony. He knows all the marks Sir Roger had on his body, and can identify him at once. He says he had good reasons for keeping quiet during A. Orton’s trial.

The prohibition of intoxicating drinks has been defeated in Alabama by an overwhelming vote of the people. It is now openly charged that Shinkel, the member of the Cornell crew who fainted at Vienna—the race was alleged to have been so lost—was in collusion with the betting ring in America. A New York paper says that there is documentary evidence of treachery.

The Canadians defeated eleven teams of British Artillery Volunteers Orville Grant, brother of General Grant, is dead. He had been hopelessly insane for some time.

Captain Lowgate of the United States, at one time prominent in his efforts to promote Arctic exploration, has been arrested for embezzling 40,000d015. The village of St. Jean Baptist, near Montreal, has bee royed by fire.