MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1109, 3 August 1883, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Charles Mitchell, au English champion pugilist, is to shortly arrive in California, ami issues challenges in advance to any man in the States to stand up against him for four rounds for 500 dollars. Queen Victoria has invited the painter Angelo to Enjand to take a life sized por trait, which sue will present to the Emperor William on tue 2-tth anniversary 01 his as« sumption of the regency of Prussia. Mr Mackay, one of the Nevada bonanza princes, is now in London. He recently paid half a million dollars for Sir Phillip Miles’s tine collection of pictures at Leigh Court, and is in negotiation with Lord Landsdovne for a senes of well accredited Italian masters in his possession. Mr Mackay is also credited with being in treaty for a ducal mansion in Belgravia, into which he will move his pictorial treasures. The racing at Stockbridge began on June 21st. The Cup, valued at 300 sovs., was won by Lorillard’s Iroquois, nominated by the Pi nice of Wales. The Prince of Wales congratulated Mr Lorillard on his success on winning the cup. Cannon, the jockey, purchased Lorillard’s Batchet. The rest of the horses return to America, where Iroquois will go into stud. Sporting society (says a London despatch, dated June 27th) has been greatly scandalised ever since Peck won the Grand Ascot. It is said that Peck felt so sorry to learn that the Prince of Wales had lost money by betting against the winner that he tried to make amends for his own good luck by compensating His Royal Highness for his heavy losses in preMUtitig «hj» Pnnoewith tin my reins Wa

cup as a gift. To make matters worse it was alleged that the Prince of Wales accepted the cup and had it sent home. The story became the talk of the town, and it became a necessity for the Prince’s friends to make an 'explanation. The facts came out on the day that the lespatch was sent, and u has been stated tha although H s Koyal Highness ones a' present possess he eup won on ih • turf 1-y another man lie <in I not attain it as a gift, but paid £6od for it in hard. cash. This explanation has made matters much worse,*«ud there is some talk of having both Peck and the Prince disciplined according to turf ethics for dealing in prizes. An affray occurred atArmagh on the evening of June 24th, between a party of North Mayo and Dunlin military men. It originated in a gambling dispute, during which the Mayo men called the Dublin men “Careys" and “ Inviioihles.” The tight laste i over an hour, each side using stones and firearms. The conflict was only quelled by the officers threatening to fire on the men. During the melee rive men were killed (one a sergeant) and seventeen wounded. The Philadelphia police found mi the 20th in, the cellar of a house in North Fifth street A perfect Golgotna.’ Some twenty-one skulls or portions’of skulls, of infan's weio un earthed, besides a large number of boues belonging to adults. The house was recently occupied by a Dr Hathaway, who had been arrested frequently as an abortionist The Rev, Benjamin Jenkins, of Drans field, Louisiana, having reason to believe the Rev. J. Lane Boarder, President of tha Mansfield College, had seduced a young lady friend of his, shot. Boarder on the Bth June, putting six bullets into his body. Both were ministers of the Methodist ilpiscopal ian Church. The South “ Star Routines” after a month of patient trial, w re acquitted on June 14, a result that astonished the public while it delighted the friends of the indicted parties They were on trial for promoting angularities m the mail routes and contracts, whereby the public was defrauded of a million of dollars. The orgie that followed the rendering of the -verdict ,is described as unparalleled in Washington. Drunken ruffians openly insulted counsel for the prosecution in the corridors of hotels anil on the streets, until it w a deemed unsafe for the latter to appear in public for a time. D’Orsay, the principal party on trial, now threatens in his turn to make it wa m for the members of the Adminis ration, present and past, who did not stand by him and promises to expose such a picture of political chicanery as will appal the world. General Sir Wm. Nollys, on the retired list, died on the 24th June. He was born in 1787. The Horae Secretary has given orders to reduce the guards protecting public buildings, believing that the recent hangings and the decided expression of public opinion will prevent any further action by the dynamiters. The trial of the staff of the Berlin news paper—-the Independent— for black mail caused a great sensation in that city. Four members of the staff have been sentenced to imprisonment—one for six years. They obtained great sums of money through their schemes. The chief of the gang,named Von Schlenitz, was formerly a member of the Imperial Guards. He has fled. The Prince of Wales on the 19th June read a paper written by the Duke of Edinburgh before th* Fisheries Conference, which con ained the statement that in view of the diminution of the fish supply in Europe the example of the American Government, which donated a sum annually for the breeding of sea rish, was wellwortuy of imitation by European Powers. A hatch "f'immigrants from the Swainpford Union, 109 in number, went to Queenstown for shipment to the United States on June 26. It is said that moat of them have been in the workhouse. Thu Irishmen in the House of Commons had a little flare up amongst themselves, resulting in Mr M'Coan seceding from the Parue.lite party. Suliman, the man who was proved responsible for the burning of Alexandria, was hanged on June 10th. He died a thorough coward, though it came out in evidence that he looked on smoking his pipe while the city was in flames. The interest taken in the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sitter Bill led to a general expectation that the final passage would be followed by the announcement of the betrothal of Princess Beatrice to her brother-in« .law, the Prince of Hesse. At the last meeting of the Colonial Institute the following Hew Zealand Fellows were elected :—Mr James Allan, the Hon. George M'Leau, and Mr John Read. John Kelly and Thomas Toole (of Cincinnati) had some trouble about exchanging notes. Toole said he was only in fun, but Kelly shot at and killed him at once, to prevent, he said further fooling. A sanguinary affair occurred m the Court room ot Littleton, Washington County (Oregon). Baker and Ben Thomas, father and son-in-law, were parties in a trifling suit involving 2 lols., and during the evidence Baker called his soivin-law a liar. Pistols were resorted to, and both men were killed in less than five minutes. An organisation called the Irish Total Separation Society held a mooting in Chicago on June 25ih. The object of the society is to enlist the sympathy of the United States, France, and Russia,to make Ireland a nation, free, indepea lent,, and separate from England.- : i—i •-'■ ;

lu au address at Bingley Hall, Birming, him, before au audience of 20.0U0 peopleJune 13th, John Bright, referring 10 America, said: “ I believe the next election for President will be fought on the Preetrade line. The great people of the United States will declare it to be the valuable right of every American citizen to spend his money in the world’s cheapest markets.” Madrid is rife with rumors of a great Court scandal to the effect that, having ascertained the relations of the King wi.h a lady of the Uoyal Court, and being unwilling to take the view of such matters usually indulged in by Eoyal persons, the Queen has sailed with her children from Spain, and will never return. Moms Greenwali, of Melbourne; has concluded arrangements with Mrs Langtry for a sixteen W'eeks’ engagement there. The Brooklyn police cominisaioneis voted the Salvation Army a nuisance, amt summarily suppressed their street business on June 29. Prince Bismarck’s health is reported as gradually growing worse. He is suffering from violent pains in bis stomach.