FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1198, 13 February 1885, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

G p orge Augustus Sals lecture 1 in Boston on “Sketches from all Countries'’ on January 7 and 9. He is engaued to lecture in New South Wa'es, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania an! New Zealand.

\V ight Lovoi, a 'awyer, was hanged in San Francisco on January 16 for the murder of Nicholas Sk Tret, a capita'ist. He strangled his victim to death. Congress has refused a pension of 3010 l a month to the widow of Commander He Long, of Jeanlnotte fame. Schnlger Calfsx, Vice-president of the United Spates with General Grant during his first term of the Presidency, has died suddenly

Qiptain Phelan, a dynamiter, and one of O’Douovan Eossa’s gang, was stabbed in the latter’s office in New York on January !) by Eichard Stuart. Phelan was Severely but not fa'a'ly hurt. He believes lie was delib 'lately entrapped into the office to be murderer! because it was thought ho blabbed bo much to newspaper reporters in this country. Phelan was in Hull in 1883, and the police there were notified by those of Newcastle of his arrival. He was carefully watched. Ho there met Carey and other Irishmen of thesamo dynamite type as himself. The espionage, however, was so close that he had to leave without accomplishing anything. He had the audacity to visit the chief constable of Hull, and complain of the surveillance, and threatened to complain to Sir Vernon Harcourt unless it was removed. Papers in his possession would show Phelan to have been an officer in the United States Volunteer force, and also a New York police officer. A New York despatch of the 17th savs : “ Although Phelan is improved he is not out of danger. His wife and daughter are at either side of his cot to minister to his wants. He is very weak and not permitted to talk anv length of time. Mrs Phelan says he will make a statement to the public as soon as he is well which

will at ike terror to the hearts of Ilo.sa and his constituents.”

Lnr' Ga-moy'e, d fondant in the F i toecue breach ol prom »•-, armed in San F an-. O.BCO on January (j from Oliiua. He rr j with an accident on the trip, and was tem porarily crippled, A few of the Sin Fr<m cisco papers have been exceedingly dis-, courteous in their allusions to Gannayle. An improbable story was set afloat by a dispatch of January ?- to the effect that the E iglish have obtained evidence that a powerful society of dynamitards exists within the boundaries of Westmoreland Conn y, Pennsylvania, and that this society is directly responsible for the recent explosions and assassinations in Great Britain. While the Irish-Americans scoff at the idea, a Gre»nsburg correspondent says it is certain there has been something in the wind in this country for some time past of an unusually exciting nature. Mrs Herman Alder, better known as Leonora Simonse", the piima donna, died in San Francisco nn December 27, of peritonitis. Her father, M. Simonson, arrived in San Francisco a day before his daughter’s death. He is quite wild with grief. A scheme has been matured by certain Irish-Americans whereby 20.000 responsible persons in the United States will agree to nay sJol. per anamil each towards a fund for the payment of , Irish members of Parliament so long as constitutional methods as conducted by Parnell are maintained. The organisation will be completed at a meeting in Cincinnati on the 24th January. Lord Randolph Churchill will return to England from India via San Francisco. The papers are full of General Giant’s affairs, owing to his trouble through borrowing 15l),000dol from Vanderbilt. Grace Harding Hammond, daughter of Bslle Boyd, known dming the Confederate war as a rebel spy, was married in Texas to Ray Chat teris, a young Englishman, who claims to be the Earl of Linwood. British business men aie complaining about the Aust r alian-American mail service. During December seven steamers were slow, while the steamers taking mails to New York were beaten by other vessels sailing on the same day. Lengthy depositions are being taken in the li el case Sarah Alth-a Hill v. the San Francisco Alta, growing out of the divorce case The announcement that the British re presentative at the Berlin Congress has been instructed to accept the French proposal re freedom of trade on the Congo causes great excitement in L in lou mercantile circles. The Duke of Edinburgh will publish a collection of poems dedicated to the Duchess of Edinburgh entitled “ Love Songs of a Violinist.” Amass meeting of unemployed number ing fully 10,000 was held iu sront of the Royal Helen, Tailor and o her well known Radicals were speakers. Radical pamphlets were sold in large num erg. Some were headed in red type, 8100 i, bullets, ami bayonets,” and made appeals to the “ Half starved, herring-gutted, pov.-rty striek- n parish inhabitants of a disunited km doin ” Edmund Yates, editor of the London World, will rank, during his imprisonment, as a first class mis ieine m oit. After the C -urt pronounced the deiv-tion, Yates surrendered to the officers, and was removed from the Court ami place' in custody. He refused to fun her appeal his case to the House of Lords. The Queen and Princess Beatrice go to Germany in March, and remain on the ■Continent for three weeks. At Birmingham 50(10 persons out of era ployment adopted a resolution asking the Corporation to furutsb eniidoymmt. a j procession marched ibough tan streets, j and haltc I before a bakery, and shouts cf I “ Break in ” were heart. An artisan stole J a loaf of bread, Pul wis -promptly arrested. | Violence amongst the . working classes is feared. Great lejoicings were indulged in throughout England on January 7th, wh--n Prince Albert Victor of Wales, heir presumptive, attained his majority.Mary Anderson proposes to erect a theatre near the Strand in London. The pol’oe ten lived information on 10th January that simultaneous attempts weie about to be made by dynamiters to blow up the Holborn Viaduct and Mansion House railway station. The Duke of Marlborough’s overtures to his divorced w fe for re marriage have been rejected. On January 9th the Lord Mayor of L -n----don refused the use of the ’dui.dha.! fra meeting at which Henry George was announced to deliver an address on the sub ject of trade depression The Government has decided to create a Minister of E Incation, and it is probable Lyon Playfair will receive the appoint ment. The new Minister will have a seat in the Cabinet. Princes Edward and George, sons of the Prince of Wales, are writing an account of their voyage around the world. The work is based upon the diaries kept by the princes, and will be ready for publication in April. John S. Dewolfo and Co , a well known L'verpool house, failed oa Jauuaty Bth for a large amount. The Bank of England has notified 'he various banking houses throughout the country that there are in circulation perfect imitation of its notes iu denominations from 15 to LISOO. A number of 1.50 notes are in circulation on the Continent, and the bogus notes arc supposed to be the work of American counterfeiters. Mr Gladstone was reported tube very ill on January 4. Ho is suffering fiom insomnia, caused by the heart be’iig t"0 feeble so force sufficient blood to the brain. Sir Andrew Clarke considered his illness identical with that of two years ago. Dispatches of the Bth mentioned a deci led improvement, which continues up to date. Pi-e.-ident Grevy has sent personal congratulations to Princess Beat ice on he. anproaehing marriage with Prince Louis of Batienburg.

The Cabinet Council on January 7 decided to extend the Beehuana frontier to the Limpopo Hirer, the westward frontier to include both banks of the ish River. Th ; - cats the Tiansvaal off from any chance of German connection. , The Transvaal Government is preparing to protest against English annexation in Zuinlaud. In December the B it ish ini. orts had decreased L795,1G1 compared with December of last year, and the exports had decreased LI, 130.999.

Referring to the death of the Bishop of London, which occurred on the 6 hj. a London journal says it is generally believed the catastrophe was hastened by an unploas mt episode which occurred on the Sunday previous, when the BHiop preached in St. Raul’s Cathedral. Dining a momentary panse in the discourse a wild looking individual jumped from a chair, and pointing his linger towards the pulpit, yelled “ You worship idols, while you scorn to save souls. Woe unto you.” The Bishop was quite moved by the orentr nco. The Nordenskjel 1 proposed expedition to the South Pole is postponed until 1887

Ear] Giauvi le has ordered the British Minister at |Tangurs to lemonstrate with the Sultan of Mon-coo about the treatment of the Jews at Demuat, where they have been driven from tbeir homos, imprisoned in foetid dungeons, and their warehouses robbid. The Grand Vizier charges the Jews with fomenting rebellion.