MAIL ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1069, 20 October 1882, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

By the San Francisco Mail.

Overdank, a Nihilist, and 20 others, drew lots to throw bombs at the Emperor of Austria during the recent reception at Trieste. A Russian at Kia prepared the bombs. Overdank and the others were arrested, and the former attempted suicide A meeting was convened by Democrats at London on the 21st to discuss the proposed introduction of Chinese labour into Great Britain. A motion was carried calling on the Government to prevent it. A delegate from San Francisco said that if the Chinese came to Great Britain British workmen might as well go and die. Mr Stanley', the African explorer, penetrated 300 miles beyond Kiv, an the Congo, and established fifteen trading stations between Kiv and Rotso. Damage was done by the floods in Italy and Austria to the extent of two million florins. The English hop crop is seriously affected by unpropitious weather. American tourists are detained in England on account of the Atlantic steamers not being able to accommodate the rush. Twenty-seven persons were wounded in Dublin on the 2nd and 3rd by bayonetthrusts, batons, and blows. The Times has denounced the nationalisation of the land theory, enunciated by Davitt and others, as only Socialism in disguise. Notwithstanding the attempted enforcements of the Edmunds law against polygrainy, Mormon proselytes by thousands are flocking into Utah. Mr Tilden, formerly a candidate for the Presidency of America, has been attached with softening of the brain. The Mormon missionaries proselytising in South Carolina were warned out of the State, and threatened with hanging. Refugee Jews are returning to Russia from America in large numbers, Alonzo Fowlet, a Wall street broker, disappeared from New York on the 23rd, He had an heritage of a million dollars. The failure of Geo. Reid and Co , Dublin Distilleries, is reported. The liabilities are stated at £400,000. Six thousand Staffordshire miners threaten to strike unless wages are raised 10 per cent. Troops are being sent to Utah to provide against contingencies at coming election under the Edmunds anti-polygamy law. The great mining firm, James G Sands and Co., of New York, have failed. The members have disappeared, and large amounts have to be accounted for. A serious railway accident happened in the Fourth Avenue Tunnel, BGth street, New York, on the morning of the 22ud. A Newhaven train telescoped a Haarlem local train. Five passengers were killed and 16 injured severely. The engineer of the Haarlem was arrested for criminal carelessness. The passengers of the latter train were mostly schoolgirls on their way to the Normal College. The prohibition liquor law is generally accepted in the State of Ohio, and publicans are turning to other pursuits. Mdle, G. Bertha De Rothschild, daughter of the head of the Frankfort branch of the family, was married on the 7th to Prince Alexander de Wagratn. The bride received Christian baptism, and formally adjured the Hebrew faith. A hailstorm in Pesth on August 28 destroyed vineyards, maize fields, and fifty houses. Many workmen were killed. A woman living near Chenties, County Donegal, was shot by a process-server on September 13, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle. The Arizona Apaches are again on the . war path, and are c mmitiing fearful depredations aud outrages. A demented girl, allowed to be at large in Nashville, Tennessee, recently poisoned a whole family of six by putting strychnine in their coffee. A cablegram from Yokomhama states that cholera is raging in Japan. There were 775 cases in two days, of which 572 proved i fatal. At Tokio there were fifty deaths \ daily. I A horrible death took place at San Francisco on September 3, by means of dyna- ( mite. A chemist, named Lewis Kompt, placed a number of cartridges in his mouth, lighted the fuse, and was immediately blown to pieces. The leading sporting papers comment in severe and unmeasured terms on the petty trifling of Hanlan and Ross, the oarsmen. It is their opinion that the parties desire only public notoriety, and do not mean business. Courtney, Ten Eyck, and Dempsy rowed for lOOOdol a-sideon the 18th in Polar Bay St Lawrence River. Courtney won, with Ten Eyck second. Additional particulars of the burning of the mails on board the Alaska state that ten sacks of newspapers and ten of letters were destroyed. As a gold watch and two or three sovereigns were found among the ashes, it is believed that a portion of the registered mail was consumed. As the mail ro"m is in the centre of the vessel, lined with iron, and was, moreover, properly secured, it is believed the fire was caused by combustible matter enclosed in the mail. The sacks from Australia for Great Brita n are not opened in transit thiough the United States, and the presence of dangerous articles cannot be detected. The most of the injured mail matter was made up at Sydney The purser of the Alaska informed the offi - cers of the New York Post Office that a full report of the facts would be made to the British postal authorities on the arrival of the vessel at Queenstown