MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1170, 1 August 1884, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

A tremendous riot occurred at a recent election at Capede Verde Islands, in which several persons were, killed and wounded. The Government candidate won.

General G A. Sheridan, an American orator and a leading member of the grand Army of the American Republic, who is niakinu a tour of the world, is < n his way to the Colonies by the Zealandia.

The amended Chinese Restriction Bill passe ! the United States Senate on July 3 by a vote of -in to 12. Two days, July 4 anil 5, were devoted to the celebration of the American national anniversary this year. The procession in San Francisco, specially in its military fea tures, was a grand affair. By way of fun on the 4th gf July, tome miners of Swan City, Colorado, put giant gunpowder under the Post Office and blew it out of sight. Fortunately no one was hurt. yVMr Amos T. Learner, of New York, is appointed United States C. nsul at Sydney.

A new Cunarder has been launched, of 12,000 horse power. This means trips across the Atlantic in loss than six days to iNew York.

Mor-si-hore Capel is making many converts for the Catho io Church amongst leading Americans. Colonel Bliss, of New Yoik, a prominent, man ia politics, is the latest one received into the fold.

A movement is on fool: by the Republicans in several States to .boycott Harper’s I Inst rated Weekly because the paper supports B-ainefor the Presidency. Butler has accepted the anti monopoly greenback nomiiia ion for President. His letter of acceptance, however, is looked upon as a marvel of ambiguity. The Spanish Cortes passed hy a unanimous vote mi my 2 a motion proposed by Seuor Riv. ra, to the effect that ihe Senate has listened with feelings ot pain to the reading by Senator Cuoll of ao article from a New York paper announcing that the Spanish Government was negotiating fur the sale of Cuba, and protects with indignation against any project having in view the separation of Cuba from Spain. Tho Government wdi make any sacrifice rather than give up the i laud. Tho spread of cholera in France is causing great alai in on the Continent, Labouoheiv, the editor of London Trulh, ia sued hy Bishop, the mind-reader, for libel. Tiuth asserted that Bishop was a common swindler, and had rohbtd the Vic toria Hospital of L3<>o, the proceeds of one of his entertainmen-s ostensibly for the benefit of tho hospital The report says many members of the aristocracy are assisting , ishop with money and advice. Princess Louise went to Germany on the 27th for her health. She is still suffering from the consequences of her fall in Canada.

The demand lor the Queen’s book has almost ceased. The librarians are offering it for -It. Two hundred and six miles of the Bennett- Mackay cable was laid from the English shore on July 5. when the Durady returned to Queenstown to coal. At, a conference of the members of the Horses of f.orda and Common*, held in London on July 4, it was unanimously resolved that the introduction of the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill in the House of Lords should be made at once. Lord Edmond Filzmaurica announced in the House of Commons on July 4 that the whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman captured by outlaws in Kansas and held for ransom, had not been discovered.

The Irish Catholic bi hops have asked the British Government to intervene f r the preservation of rights of British subjects, which they claim are threatened by the proposed spoliation of the property of the Propaganda.

The Court of Appeal in London rendered a decision in the Park Club baccarat case. The proprietor and members of the governing committee had been fined LSOO, ami players LIOO, and an appeal was made The Court of Appeal affirms the judgment a ains: ihe proprietors and committee, but quashes that against the players. The Philadelphia Cricks ers won a game with a team of gentlemen from Leicester in London on Juno 24. The Leicester team scored 152 in two innings to 269 by the Philadelphians in one innings. The smallpox epidemic was reported on June 23 as spreading in London. The cases daily reported showed a rate of 73 per week.

Patrick Joyce was arrested on the steamship Illinois, at London, on June 21, having in his possession an infernal machine of a new and ingenious pattern. It resembled a wooden log, but was found to be hollow-, a kole having been pierced through it leading into a chamber containing a liquid supposed to be explosive. Thera was an outer wooden casing 16 inches long and; 4 inches thick, within which a brass tube was insetted. On the removal of the metal cap the liquid was fonnd. Except by careful examination, it was impossible to suppose the article anything hut a log of wood. Moody, the revivalist, took his farewell of England at Exeter Hall on June 25. 4000 converts wore present. A proposition to form an open-air volunteer male oh ir for evangelistic pur-oses as a memorial of Moody’s work was responded to by hundreds of converts. They will be.known as the “Exeter Flail Male Choir.”

An Irishman, hailing from Brooklyn, applied at tbo'police station. Plymouth, on June 26 for protection from the luvinoibles, by whom he asserted he was tracked. He

was held for examination. A young man was arrested at Rm< with a dagger ami a . nifo in his possession. It is. believed be bad designs on tbe Emperor s life. J. J. Bleesdale, D.D., formerly of the diocese of Melb urne, died in San Francisco at the German Hospital’ after much suffering. He was compelled to eke out a meagre subsistence by newspaper work, ■ which ho did chiefly on Marriott’s News-letter. He was 72 years of ago at his death. Some scientific friends paid ail his expenses in a reserved room at the Hospital, and gave his remains a respectable interment. Bathildo’s statue of Liberty has been handed over by the Franco-Aniencau Committee in Paris to tbe United States Minister, Marton, and will he shipped to Now York late in July, where it will bo erected on Bedloes Island in the harbour.

The British sloop-of-war Pegasus was ordered to proceed from Singapore toAoheen with provisions and clothes for the crew of the Dutch steamer Nisero, wrecked in December last off the Achcen coast, and still neld in, captivity by the Rajah. Hostile measures will soon be used by England and Holland to compel the release of these men. The German Colonisation Budget Committee cont nued on June 24 the discussion on the State subsidy for a direct mail ser vice between Germany, Australia, and Eastern Asia. ' Prince Bismark was present for the first time in twelve years. He <teclared the Government had formed no plana for the establishment of colonies. “If German subjects,” he said, “ founded colonies on unclaimed territory it would devolve on the Government to protect such from England.” Bismark said he feared no opposition, but strong measures of protection w, uld 1 ei ecessary against English colon! os. The sessions were stormy, and on the. 26 b t was resolved to indefinately postpone - on sideratipn of the question of subvention iur this session.

It ia officially stated from Bordeaux that the prospects of the French wine crop now indicate that the season’s yield will be abun daut and of excellent quality. The vines look better than at any time before daring the past 10 years. It is stated that 17,000 acres in Girondehave beenplanted in American vines.

The great Sullivan Mitchell boxing match, ! fixed to take place at Madison square Gardens. New York, on June 30, did not com:off, for the reason that Sullivan was too drunk to fight, and Mitchell was ill with Malaria. The latter, however, offered to come to the scratch if Sullivan was ieady. There was great|indignation felt by the 5000 spectators present, and the general shout was, “ Sullivan, you’ve lost your leputatien.” John \V. llennie, ex-amateur champion boxer of Scotland, issued a challenge inNew York on Juno 27, to box any man in the United States. He farther offered to take Mitchell, the Englishman’s place, and meet John L. Sullivan, the American champion, upon whatever terms may be agreed. Rennie stands sft 10£ in high, weighs22olb, and seems impatient to measure his strength with some fitting adversary. The cholera was reported to be raging in Toulon, France, on June 23, at which date 30 deaths had occurred. The city was in a panic, and SOOO inhabitants had left. Camps were formed for the occupation of the navy crews. The pupils of the public schools were dismissed. The corpses of the victims were not allowed to he taken to the churches but were buried as soon as possible after death in a deep trench, with plenty of chloride of lime. Troops and dock labourers were chiefly attacked, and quarantine was established everywhers. It is said the first. death occured on June 4,but was kept secret. The Minister of Commerc* issued a noti-o on ihe 23rd that the cholera was sporadic and Asiatic, and that was due to local infection, and therefore confined to the place of its origin. The Spanish Government quarantined against- French shipoiug and land communication on the 24th, anti was followed by Italy, Austria, and Egypt. A chateau in Marseilles, formerly belonging to the Empress Envonie, was prepared for the accommodation of 500 cholera patients. There was a difference of opinion as to the true character of tho disease. While the Government physicians of Toulon joined with the Minister of Commerce m pronouncing it sporadic, physicians generally were of opinion that it was cholera of a true Asiatic type. The exodus of frightened citizens from Toulon continued on the 26 th, on which day eight deaths took place in the hospital. Fires were lighted in the streets for publication. business both in Toulon and Marseilles had come to a standstill, and the I4th of July fete had been abandoned. The mountain,passes i>< France were narrowly guarded toprevent the pas-age of infected persons, amt a military cordon was established along th Spanish frontier. Ten deaths were recorded at Toulon on June 17, and six on the afternoon preceding at Marseilles.

The Italian Government notified to tl o postal authorities oh 27 'O enclose ill inai s intended for Italy in tarred sucks as they were passed through Fiance. Special reports with regard to cholera give a greater number of deaths than the offi ini returns. M. Roohard, chief of the nava health department, reported the number of deaths at Toulon as from 8 to 10 daily,- an I that the aggregate number of death* n p to I ho date mentioned was 14in the navy a id 31 in town,with 62 patients in the naval hospitals. Rumours weio cum nt that the commander of the castle atTonlon committed suicide on the 3 )th from remorse at having introduced cholera into France.

Tiie mosquito plague at Marseilles has increased, an i there is a gloomy prospect. A thousand bonfires were kindled in various parts of the city to disperse the pests. A dispatch from Marseilles dated June 30 says that Captain Hillet, of the navy, whose wife was seized with cholera, committed suicide.

Holloway’s Pills —Weakening weather.— ihe sultry summer days strain the nerves of the feeble and decrepil, and disease may eventuate unless some restorative, snob as these purifying Pills, be found to correct the disordciing tendency. Holloway’s medicine gives potency to the nervous system, which ia the source of all vital movements, and presides over every action which maintains the growth and well-being of the body. No one can over estimate the neces ity of keeping tbo nerves well sti ung, or the ease with which those Pills accomplish that end. They arc the most unfailing antidotes to indigestion, irregnlar circulation, palpitation, sick-head-ache, costiveness, and have therefore attained the largest sale and highest reputation.

Florilinb !—For the ierth and Breath.— Afew drops of the liquid “Floreline ” sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which thoroughly cleanses the teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes all unpleasanodour arising from decayed teeth or tobacco smoko. “ The Fragrant Floriline,” being composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, s delicious to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovety of the age. Price 2s 6d of all Chemists and Perfumers. Wholesale dopdfc removed to 33, Farringdon Road, London.