'Frisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 56, 20 October 1885, Page 3

'Frisco Mail Items

Sak Fbancisco, September 26. LondondespatchestoSeptember2sth report a fearful cyclone at False Point back of Bengal. Telegraph lines were swept away, vessels foundered, and many lives were lost. The Duke of Edinburgh has had trouble with his hoppickers on his Kentish estate. Picking finished on i the 25th. The usual price for pickers is Is 6d a basket, but the Duke offered a shilling, which was refused, amid such a row that the Duke became frightened and quickly paid the full rates. It is proposed to cleanse and rebuild the slums of Windsor. It is also suggested that the expense be defrayed from the Queen's Privy Purse. The Royal town is said to be frightfully filthy. London Clubmen have accepted it as proof of Sir Charles Dilke's innocence of the charges recently brought against him that the father of the lady implicated, Mr Eustace Smith, M.P., is seen often in company with the baronet. Thirty soldiers belonging: to a Highland regiment came in collision on the 6th September with a dozen cavalrymen in a villiage near Plymouth. The Scotchmen were routed and then the artillerymen carried the place by etorm. Mr Gladstone's daughter and young Arnold Morley, son of Mr John Morley, M.P., late of the Pall Mall Gazette, are to be married. Mr Samuel Plimsoll, the millionaire philanthropist and sailor's friend, is about to marry Miss Wade, an enormously rich spinster, living in Hull. Boycotting is increasing in Ireland now. It has been carried to a greater length than ever. Persons obnoxious to their neighbors because of honest, independent action, are unable to dispose of their produce even at a sacrifice in their market towns, and the entrance of some boycotted people in ? some of the Roman Catholic Churches in Connty Cork, to join in divine service, is made a signal for the people to arise en masse and quit the building. Occasionally the priest remonstrates with the people, hut sometimes he denounces the boycotted party for showing himself at the church. A free fight occurred on a racecourse at Kilrush on September 11th, in which several jockeys were nearly beaten to death. Mr Parnell intends to send one of his staff to the United States for a few weeks to stimulate contributions to the parliamentary fund. On the 16th September the Nationalists held 62 meetings throughout Ireland. The amount of enthusiasm exceeded that in Daniel O'Connell's time. The cry at all these assemblages was, "Down with directors and rack-renters." The most notable gathering was at Glengariff, County Cork, where Mr Healy, MR, spoko. In the course of his remarks he said that although the Irish race on the: island was small, far away beyond the Atlantic Ocean there were now 20,000,000 descendants of their race planning for the good of Ireland. Lord Randolph Churchill's health has given way under the severe strain of his., official duties, and his late electioneering fatigues. Allusions have been made by moderate Tories to his avoidance of Mr Parnell and the' Irish question, and the vigorous and straightforward way in which Mr Chamberlain tackled it, are not very palatable, it may be added, to the Secretary of State for India. A lunatic was arrested in Buckingham Palace on September Bth while seeking an interview with the Queen. He had with him an ordinary grease bottle, which he insisted on presenting to Her Majesty, in order that by looking in it she might have a knowledge of all that was happening. James Bowman, the gamekeeper so frequently mentioned in the Queen's Life *in the Highlands, was found hanging head downwards on a wire fence in the forest on September 12th. The position of the dead man forbade the idea that he had committed suicide. The Munster Bank has been reorganised, with a capital of £1,000.000 in £5 shares. There will be six directors with power to add to their number. An undertaking has been entered into to pay Ids in the pound to creditors of the old bank before 1887.. On the 10th Sept., at night, two men approached the powder magazine at Woolwich arsenal, surprising the sentry, beat him brutally. They were about to enter the magazine, but hearing a noise they decamped. Prince Battenburg has resigned from the German service, and been made a commander in the British Navy. There is a chorus of indignation from Service papers. Capetown advices to the 9th Sept. state that the Congo cannibals attacked several stations of the African Association, and roasted and devoured a number of whites. The massacre of Christians at Annam was frightful. The superior of the college and a whole host of Christians weW slaughtered pell mell. Some Were thrown into the sea with their tied behind their backs. Some missionaries tried to make a s.tand with roustete.,\biit w;ere soon 4ej^ated. Churches, : schools, and dwelHngh^ouses were burnt. General de. -^jtuccey promised to send a gunbpat^ '^hich {came to Quinhon after the. place - was..burned down, and never fired a shot, owing, to the absence of orders! }; .' ' In the crowd of people before Madpme NeJlspn, prima donna at Stockholm,' on September the 23rd seventeen persons were crushed to death, and ninetiefen seriously injured. The anger is so prostrated by the affair that she has abandoned,, heir engagemlSnSsT -■--■"-_■■•■•;■ .-'"'. Socialists who persisted in Addressing,an open-air meeting at a l»PT^ridn,t^ac© in ;the heart of the East End, arrested by the police on Suaday the 18tb /, instant, for

obstructing the traffic. The arrest led nearly to riot. The Social Democratic Federation have now determined to hold a mass meeting in the same place every Sunday, and subscriptions are being made for a i defence fund. By an accident at Oatwell Colliery at Ilkstone, eight miles from Derby, on 16th September, 300 miners were entombed. They were rescued by way of the furnace shaft. On the 9th the Bank of Ireland received another £500,000 from the Bank of England to enable it to meet any extra demand that was made on