ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1676, 4 July 1879, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

General Grant will reach San Fran’isoo on August Ist. The railroad track to be laid to the new mining region of Leadvillo, Colorado, roaches at Kensho summit an altitude of 10,000 ft. above the sea, the highest point yet reached by any railroad within America. General Grant declines to re-enter political life. „ The Choctaw and Ohickastnw Indians are arming to resist the forcible entry on their landa by whites. The Russian Consul at New York has boon threatened. He is charged by a member of the Revolutionary party with transferring to this free state the contemptible system of Romanoff “espionage.” • The Chinese Government are said to be disappointed that President Hayes vetoed the Anti-Chinese Bill. Had he signed it, it would have given ground for the eviction of American foreigners from China. A subscription has been opened in Now York for a company to lay a submarine cable from the Pacific Coast to the Sandwich Islands and Japan. The British war ships Triumph and Opal arrived, en route for the west coast of America, to look after English interests. Dr. Talmage was arraigned hero by the Presbyterian Synod, and acquitted. He sailed for Europe. , , , , The amount of claims scheduled against the bankrupt Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati, is 3,607,000 dollars. The assets are 1,181,000 dollars. 418,000 dollars are classed as worthless, . The Western Union Telegraphs are doing away with the use of poles, and laying underground telegraphs. The wires are laid in pipes filled with grease. The proposed ship canal across Panama is not likely to bo built. Tha Railroad Company hold such guarantees from the Columbian Government as will prevent the introduction of any other means of transit. Alfred O. Milcome claims to have solved the problem of the divisibility of the electric current for ordinary lighting purposes, and has patented the invention. Minute candles of lamp black are used instead of ordinary carbon pencils. . Pittsburg iron mills have closed, the iron manufacturers refusing to pay operators fidols per ton for puddling. Bishop Corrigan, of Now York, refused permission to the Ancient Order of Hibernians to participate in a Catholic parade, Jjecause they are not recognised as a Church society. . The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise visited Montreal, to participate in the celebration of the Queen’s Birthday, and were received with great enthusiasm. The Mechanics’ Bank, Montreal, failed.