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Dunstan Times, Issue 1129, 21 December 1883, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Sir Henry Herbort, M.P., the owner nt Muekroaa Abbey, was about to marry Mist Rebecca Williams, a Baltimore heiress, on Novembor llth, when her father discovered that the baronet's estate was so heavily mortgaged taut he was next door to a pauper. Tne wedding proceedings were summarily stopped. Mrs Laugtry started on her second professional tour iu America on October 25th. Slw opens in Montreal, then goes to Chicago and San Francisio, and will probably continue her journey to Australia. She gave groat offence to- the people of Ottawa by rehearsing her plays on Sunday. The iron mills of Pittsburg.Pennsylvania are generally closing down owing to the depression of trade. a cablegram states that the health of the Princsßß of Wales is not good. She has increased the cold caught in Denmark, and her deafness has so increased that her companions talking to her in the theatre are heard over the hou»e. Captain F. W. Dawson, an Englishman, and editor of the Charleston News and Mercury, has been created a Knight of the Order of St. George by the Pope for the opposition he has made to duelling, and which has gradually led to the suppression of the practice in South Carolina. Edward Hanlan, tho Canadian oarsman, arrived in San Francisco on November 22, en route to Australia. He will probably leave by the mail steamer of December. Mrs Langtiy was playing in Louisville (Ky.) oh November 6. She is still accompanied .by Fred. Gebhard*. o'Donovan Rossa, a son of the New York dynamiter, was arrested in New York on the 24th, at the instance of an insurance company, for the larceny of a premium on a policy, aud held for examination. .Wra. J. Ramsay, the proprietor ot the London Freethinker, convicted on tho 6 hj of March last of publishing blasphemous libels, and sontenced to nine months' im prisonment, was released on November 24. He was escorted from aaol liy Bradlaugb and a large crowd of sympathisers, whe cheered him, and he was given a public breakfast at the Hall o£ Science. Geo. W. Foot", editor of tho same paper, convicted of the same offence, has yet to serve three months. Wolff, a member of the Advanced Socialist Club of London, was arrested on the 23rd in his house, where were found twe infernal machines, placed there by a Frenchman named Bolkerane. It turned out on investigation to be a put-up job to obtain the reward expected to be paid to the informer, the Frenchman undertaking the rote, and that no real conspiracy existed, as was stated, to destroy „the German Embassy, Ambassador, and attache.. Hanlon, the Toronto rower, who leaves for the, polonies by the steamer, City oi Sydney at date, carries with bini a new shell boat and a pair of Donoghuo sculls for the Australian races. A son of Jay Gould, tho American millionaire, is about to wed Miss Carrie Astor, of the famous Astor family, a union of wealth that is stirring New York society circles profoundly. It is stated in San Francisco paper that a delegation of business men from the Australian Colonies, headed by U.S. Consul Calho, of Sydney, will visit America next spring, with the view of making themselves more thoroughly acquainted with the country. Aylward, who gained fame as a leader on tho Boer side in the recent Transvaal War, was arrested in Chicago for being drunk

aud disorderly. Captain Hulaton, who was with Hicks Pasha's forces, and escaped in the disguise of a dervish, says on toe way from the battlefield he counted 950 wounded survivors of the engagement, and among them a Euiopean artist named Power. Hicks Pasha had divided his army, sending half to El Obed to demand the surrender of that place. He waited the arrival of El Mahdi, who was advancing from the south east. El Mahdi, however, met half of Hicks Pasha's army advancing to E! Obed, an I attacked it. Hearing firing, Hicks Pasha came up with his whole force aud formed a hollow square. El Mahdi brought up fresh regulars, who, it is supposed, were soldiers captured when El Obed fell,and who agreed to take service under El Mahdi, these nam bered 3000. The square of Hicks Pasha's men was then broken, aud his army annihilated. The English officers with the Egyptian army fought gallantly. An Englishman who escaped is thought to bo O'Donovan or Frank Vizetelly, of the London Graphic Hicks Pasha had 1(100 soldiers and 1000 camp followers, and his Arabs numbered 10,000. London, November 23. The Times has a Khartoum dispatch, I dated Novembar 20, which says one of the most trustworthy sheiks in the service of 1 the Government, who arrived at Daiveri

yesterday, reports that 1100 men, including Hiolis Pasha a*id Ms entire st'iff, were an« | .nilated in a defila at Kashagar, whither they were led by a trcaeharima auide on the morning of November Ist. Hicks Pasha and his er.tiro arm" marched fiom jMalhaa. The guide led them to a rocky wooded defile, which was without water, and where an ambusca ie bad been prepared by the rebels, who were armed with rifles" ami artillery. Hicks Pasha was unable to use his gnus for three days, while the army defended itself, bus on the fourth day it was annihuV'ed to a man. yizestelv, artist, and 50 soldiers who were outside came in, and "'Oie taken prisoner;. They were oa.ried =" El Obed. The rebels captured 36 Kropp, Nordenfeldt, and mountain p"' lS . all tho flags, munitions of war, and eatnols.