Frisco Mail Items

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 115, 5 April 1887, Page 3

Frisco Mail Items

A Berlin telegram of the 10th March says that the German politic pretend to have discovered a great Anarchist conspiracy, extending throughout Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and America. Two as a^sins were arrested at Odessa (Russia) on the 27th February, when about to sail for Turkey. The men were Nihilists. They had murdered their employer, a rich landlord named Goroszelo, his wife, eight children and several relatives, and then decamped with, the spoils, amounting 8,000,000 roubles. During the riot in Gal way on March 7 while the troops were confined in the barracks, the mob to the number of 1000 men beat and kicked a dozen soldiers found straggling in the streets and chased them into the barracks, the windows of which they afterwards smashed. The Dublin municipality has proposed to appeal to the " free people of the world" against what it calls " the outrages of the British Government. Haggard, author of " She," a work making much noise in the world at present, is accused in the Pall Mall Gazette of plagiarising most of it from Tom Moore's " Experience." A London despatch, dated March. 12th, says that the decided majority in the German Keichstag in favor of the septennate produced an immediate feeling of relief in the financial and commercial world. George Augustus Sala has gone to Some, where he will remain till after the coming spring. Sir Micheal Hicks-Beach's physician, in a bulletin concerning his con* dition, on the sth of March, says he h.ac cataract over both «yes, and that unless he rests from official life he must submit to an operation. He has gone to the country for a week. The first Queen's drawiugroom for the season was held at Buckingham Palace on March 3rd. The attendance was greater than at any preceding affair of the kind during the long reign of the Queen. The weather was fine, and large crowds congrogated in the parks and roadway around the palace. The. court officials say the reception was the most brilliaut they had ever attended. The American flour trade is exercised over a London project to estallish in Kio Janeiro a fluur nulling company, with a capital of £500,000. It is proposed to carry grain ixuni the Argentine Republic and Chili into Brazil and mill it there. No duty is imposed on grain in that country, and hence the American flour trade would find it impossible to Gompete. Cardinal Gibbons and the American Itonian Catholic Bishops have sent a memorial to the Vatecan, endorsing the order of the Knights of Labour in the United States, nearly one-third of whom they say, belong to the Eomish Church. Lord Salisbury is preparing a long despatch to the British Minister at Washington, relative to the Canadian fisheries dispute —a dispute admitted by Sir James Fergusson in the House of Commons on March 9th, to contain an element of interest not inferior to that in Egypt and Bulgaria. It is believed that Lord Salisbury's dispatch will lead to a satisfactory adjustment of the trouble. The London Daily News says :-■- --" The only basis for the report of dissension in the Cabinet is that Mr Goschen favours a sweeping land measure, while his colleagues support less agrarian reforms. This difference is in a fair way of beiug compromised. The British people residing in San Francisco have concluded to endow a wing or ward of some hospital in the city as the best permanent method of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign. Mr James Eussel Lowell, the late American Minister to England, created a sensation in Chicago. A vast audience had assembled at the Central Music Hail to hear his address on American politics, but at the last minute he chanegd his mind to a dissertation on " Richard III." It took the i j j '

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