MAIL ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1065, 22 September 1882, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

By the San Francisco Mail. \ swimming contest for 1000 dollars a ide and the championship of the world, between, Captain Webb of British Channel fame, and Thomas Will, champion short distance swimmer, took place in Boston H rbour.■ Webb.won easily. Wdliara G. Kilpatrick, residing at Milwaukee, claiming to be heir to the throne of Ireland (and who the the papers gravely say is not cranky), has been writing to Gladstone to urge on “ his Koval s ; ster Victoria” that she renounce her title to his country. The privilege of landing at Baltimore was recently refused to 5000 Chinese for Cuba The decision was made under the AntiChinese Immigration Act. By a similar ruling the Chinese employees on Australian and San Francisco steamers were refused permission to come on shore at Uavenpo-t. ■ The Bri'ish ship Cyphromcne arrived at San Francisco on August 9 from Newcastle, N.S.W. She had an exceptionally rough passage. She passed through gales, electrical storms, and calms, with elec rio d disturbances, during which halls of tire flew around the ship The cargo shifted badly. To stay the turbulence of the sea, the captain utilised 15 barrels of oil with satisfac'ory results. Canadian whiskey recently got the better of Slade, the Spiritualist, and gave a humorous seance in which he unwi tingly exposed a good many of his own tri.'ks—slate-wri-mg and others. Some young men, it is said, plied him with this object in view. The Czir of Bussia has grown bold enmudi to dispense with an escort in riding or walking. About 4000 Bonapartisis met in Paris on the the 15, and passed a resolution favouring the plaeiug of Prince Victor Napoleon on the Throne of Franco l)e Cassagnac made a speech, in which he said the Imperialists were ready for power, and meant to take i>. The effect of the Egyptian trouble has again been to throw large sums of money in the Am rican securities market The rush ■o get out of the Turkish and Egyptian stocks shows no-abatement, although largo purchases were made by Continental sptculalnrs to prevent a panic and even seiious Failure in prices. At a meeting of the Cork Constabulary he following resolution, npprrvod by delegates from Dublin and Belfast, was passed;— “ Having seen with surpijse and disgust the calumny cast upon onr locality by the insinuation that wo rfkeSTf'fc'iltuaion with Fenians. wgiibsire to sh-wwrr sense of its falsity bylwithdrawir.o from-further agitation and relying on a speedy redress of grievances,” A farmer named Leahy was shot by the mob near Kilkenny. The affair was moie like a military execution 'ban an assassination. The hj a ler of the party called on No. 1 to (ire : ho did so, and badly wounded i Leahy The leader then ordered No. 10 to fire; this shot also took eff-ct, and No. 14 | was then summoned to give the coup de grace. Leahy remained alive an hour after being shot. Five young men, sens of farmers, have I een arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murder. Fickle') Town, in Texas, was swept away by a flood on the 26th, and 40 lives were lost. General Sherman has announced his intention of resigning the command of the Unite I States army and retiring into pri«

vato lif«. Charles J. Kirkham, Fenian leader, dyin; in Dahlia of paralysis. The Canada Fishery Irtspsctor has s'opped Am rici-s from Hshm.-in Camdim waters unless th -V lure a iioens*. The Corporation of Limerick has vote-1 the freedom of the city to Sheriff Gray, at present in Dublin Gaol. The police have searched the house o Captain Dugin -re, a prominent Land Leaguer in t'-e King’s County, Ireland, and found a number of arms and daoumonts. Over 100 women are on trial at Gross Beokeeecidy. Hungary,charged with poisoning their husbands. The guilt of 35 of the accused has been proved. Baron De I caseps waited upon the D iko of Edinburgh and assured him that he (Do Lesseps) feels friendly towards the British Government. Judge Lawson,of the Dublin Commission Court, who sentenced Sh riff Gray, complimented the jury at the close of the session for the manner in which they had discharged their duties. E. W. Dyer Grey, member of Parliament and proprietor of the Dublin Freemann’s Journal, was on the 16th August sentenced to three months imprisonment and £SOO fine for contempt of Court in publishing the letter of O’Brian, editor of United Ireland, accusing th° j try which convict 1 Francis Haynes of t'-e murder of John Doughty of being drunk on the night previous to the day the verdict was given, and an a ticle commenting thereon. O’Brian and Davitt were put out of Court for creating a disturbance. Gray, after being sentenced was handed over to the coroner(?), who evinced some reluctance to take charge of him, 1 n the Judge called upon him to do his du'v, and he conveyed the prisoner to Richmond Prison. At the expiration of the term, Gray must find sureties for himself for £SOO and two others for £2OO each. The decision of the Court caused a great sensation. Gray was Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1880, and was nominated a second time. A company lias been organised in New York under the name of the Great American an-1 European Short-line Railway Company, with a view to shortening the sea trip between the Unite 1 States and Europe The plan is to convey passengers by rail to a point on the extreme coast of Ireland, a distance of only 1640 miles. It is th ught three or four days will bo saved by this route. 51 r Richard Kelly proprietor of the Tuam Herald, was comini ted for trial at Tuam for publishing an article written by Mr Janos Redpa'h, which is alleged to l ave been an incitement to the murder of .Mr B >;uko. Bail was accepted. Ex-governor Sprague, of Rhode T-ian-I, whose mansion was recently sold to Frank Moulton (of Beecher trial fame), refuses to transfer the property, hut has armed Inin self with Gatlin j guns an 1 mitrailleu e rifles at his hack. The State has been called upon to put the purchaser in posse-siou.