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Dunstan Times, Issue 1246, 15 January 1886, Page 3

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the owner of a hotel in San Francisco that bears his name, is about to build a first-class theatre in New York, rumour says for the veteran Californian 3er, Thomas Macquire. Baldwin has off some SOO.OOOdoL by his racing stable in the East this season. His horses are all Californian raised. Charles D. Bradley, a Chicago physician, 'V/ Jus become insane by the use of the new A anesthetic cocoaine, and has physically rained his wife and five children by experiments with the drag. The Salt Lake Mormoms have turned

the tables on the Gentiles. In return lor ' almost incessant prosecutions for poly- ' gamy they have examined closely into the private lives of the anti-Mormoms, and the . are indictments for lewdness, .adultery, and other practices contrary to law and good morals. There were some fears of an uprising in

Utah on account of the rigid enforcement of the anti-polygamy law. The infantry and artillery at. contiguous posts were under marching orders for Salt Lake on the 10th of December. -- President Cleveland allowed himself to

be dissuaded from attending Vice-President Hendrick’s funeral on the. ground , that some crank might assassinate him, ahd now the majority of the Press are'jeering him for causeless timidity. , The San Francisco police made a descent on December 15 on a cottage iu the suburbs of the city and captured four dynamiters, ‘ with many of their destructive appliances, ' and a list of citizens checked off for death.

Jt is asserted the plot is an outgrowth of i the anti-Chinese agitation, and as a means

4o enforce a resolution pissed by the agitators that the Chinese “ mast go ” on or before January 16bh, 1866. The parties arrested are three Germans and one Bus,'sian. Judge Dawne, of Sitka, Alaska, an American official, fled on December 14th

on account of official crookedness, involving L 30.000.. Wm. H. Vandsrhilt, of New York, died

-suddenly of paralysis of the brain at his mansion, New York, on the night of Bth December. His total income per annum is <stated at 15,000,000d01. The money and stock market will not be affected by his death.

'The authorities of New York are taking .notice of the fact that desperate boxing matches are the rule now among the young aristocracy of that place. There was a set-to at the rooms of the Athletic Club; the richest in the city, 6n December 11th,.

- 'between Inglesworth and MacMahon, two gilded youths, the bloo y details of which are sickening. MacMahon was punished " nearly to death, and the fnrniture, carpets, and clothes of the spectators 'sprinkled -with the blood of the combatants. Slogging matches in dabs are also being revived in Boston.

Vanderbilt’s death is attributed to overwork. Suspicious characters have been found hovering near his tomb, and it is ..believed the theft of the body is contemplated, as in the case of the millionaire Stewart. Society circles in Cork were agitated on December 14 over the elopement of Miss Marian Long with her father’s groom, a pre»possessing young fellow named Hod* met. The runaways were married in Dublin, where they were captured. The young lady was Jsent back to her father’s, and Hodnet to gaol for six months, w The challenge cups won by the Genesta And to pay a duty of L4O. Sir Richard Sutton, the owner of the yacht, protested. -- Sir Richard Sutton was married on December 6 to a daughter of the brother of ■Sir Vincent Rowland Corbett, who lives at Acton Hall, Shropshire. , Investigation shows there are now only 700 bison and buffalos on the American

•Continent, Twenty head were slaughtered in the Yellowstone Park on November 20 by a party of English tourists, and this fact has prompted the Government to legislate for the protection of this class of animal. The monument erected in honour of Ed-is-ard Kelly, the Irish leader, who was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1767, was unveiled at Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, on November 23. The trustees of the Sharon estate have distributed 60,000d0l among the various

«haritable institutions of San Francisco. The distribution was made within three days after the millionaire' death. Evacuation Day, November 26, passed off almost unnoticed in New York, and two -veterans of 1812, who placed a flag on. the

battery flagstaff, were the only survivors to. ■enjoy the banquet. This fact is quoted to dhow how rapidly and completely the com*. •mu-lty is becoming Anglicised in feeling. Chinamen are being systematically boy-' cotted in every town on the Pacific coast, iud opium dens have increased so fast in Eastern cities that general alarm if felt. . .Thomas B. Grata Brown, who ran as Vice-president on the Horace Greeley tic* •fcet, died at St. Louis on December 1 3. . Miss Nannie de Vallanoe, who claimed *to be the widow of an English lord, was ar•reated for forgery in New York on December ia The number of members of the new

House of Commons who never before werq -elected to Parliament is 332. This has no parallel since the first Parliament under the Reform Bill. The Parnehite vote in Dub-

lin was immense, there being 23,772 for that party, against 4476 cast for the . Conaervatives and 3170 for the Liberals,

; There is a most decided boom in the iron trade in the United States at present. Oq December 5 pig metal advanced Idol a ton; gtnd 50 cents on ore, . - Six children were bitten by a rabid dog gunning at large in Newarn, N. J., on De•cember 12. The peculiar feature of the case is that, at his request, the children Have been sent to Mr Pasteur, in Paris, for treatment. .. ' ’ ■

Weston and O’Leary began a foot.journey «f 2500 miles -at the Metropolitan rink, Newark,-New Jersey, on December 7. The tales are 12 hours a day, excluding Sundays. The walk is undertaken as a trial of endurance between the two men.

':Ths Grant memorial fund had reached, «n November 6, 10,000dols. . Mr J Gould, the great operator, has announced his intention to retire from Wall Street at the close of the year. . -The Stock Board propose to erect a new exchange in another locality in New York, at a cost of 5,000,000d01.

J. K. Emmett, the actor, is still repeating the disreputable practices he was given to in Australia. On the night of November 27, he and several of his company appeered on the stage in Pennsylvania city J miich the worse for liquor, and were promptly and vigorously hissed by theaudience.

The degree establishing a customhouse at

the Isthmus of Panama has been suspended as lona as the Panama Railway Company awl two merchants guarantee the payment of the expenses of the national troops “ until the Canal Comp my has fulfilled its eu* gagemenls with the Columbian Government.”

The State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, started a revuluibu ou December 1.

A fretful mother and cross child indicates ill health, requiring only American Co.’s Hop Bitters to remove; See