NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2052, 21 September 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Br TeiiEGbaph.] [Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY, The French Jesuits have made two settlements in Wales. Harvesting is proceeding rapidly in Ireland. Nearly one-half of the land is cleared. The Savings Bank Bill passed through Committee in the House of Commons on August 25th. The strike of nail makers in Worcestershire has been abandoned for want of cooperation. Dr. Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, is reported to be about to marry a well-known society lady. Wm, Thompson, formerly known as Bendigo, a famous prize fighter, is dead. He was latterly a Revivalist preacher.. A footman named Donovan has been arrested, charged with sending threatening letters to Lord Orramore for advocating the cause of the Irish landlords.

Five hundred pounds is on hand in London to baok Triokett in the match against Hanlan. At the Home Buie demonstration in Glasgow a serious riot took place while the procession was passing the Orange lodge. The police were overpowered and two wore badly injured and are not expected to Hyp. Anglo-American cable shares are firm in London. Negotiations with the French company are practically completed, and a uniform tariff of 2i per word agreed upon. In the debate on the Irish constabulary on August 26tfa, Mr Eiobard O’Shannessy, of Limerick, protested against the use of bullets or buckshot, and urged the use of small shot in firing on a mob. The Secretary for Ireland said that small shot were useless, and only irritated.

Miss Adelaide Neilson left the bulk of her fortune (£40,000) to Hear-Admiral Carr Glynne, to whom she was engaged to bo married, with a bequest of £IOOO to Edward Ksmpton. A scene of confusion, almost riot, took place among the crowd at the grave. Ex-Empress Eugenie intends to quit Ohislehurst, and take the remains of the late Frinoe Imperial with her. M. and W. Oollinson, of London, offer to stake £IOOO against a similar sum that Dr. Tanner will not fast forty days and forty nights, the Brothers Oollinson to watch him.

Jonas Eeed and Co., bankers, of Liverpool, have suspended payment. The Dublin steamer Lawford and the steamer Baltic, for New York, collided in the Mersey, aud the Lawford sunk. The passengers and crew were saved. The Baltic put back for repairs. Emigration returns from Liverpool show an increase of 5000 compared with July, 1879. Thirteen thousand emigrants went to America during the month. A scandalous romance comes from New Mexico, where a priest named Father Teddoraranalt persuaded a beautiful young nun, named Margrita Garcia, to elope with him from the convent. She had entered it at the solicitation of the priests and against the wishes of her relatives. An uncle of the girl followed the fugitives and would have killed the lover, but he compromised by marriage. The priest and the girl tell horrible stories about the conduct of the clergy of all grades, Herbert Spencer, the writer on political economy and philosophy, will make a tour of the world next year. He first visits the United States.

The cattle plague appeared on the 15th on farms in Lancashire. Elliott offers to row either Geo. Hosmer (American), Blackmore, Boyd or Laycook, over the Tyne course for £IOO or £2OO a side. A cable is about to be laid from England to the Azores, and thence to America. It will receive Portuguese concession. The steamer Jeddab, abandoned at sea, has arrived at Adrian. The figure-head recently picked up, ond said to have belonged to the missing, training ship Atlanta, does not, according to “ The Times,” answer the description of that vessel at the time she left on her voyage. The iron makers in the West of Scotland mot at Glasgow, and resolved that all the furnaces in the country belonging to the firms represented at the meeting should be blown out at once. Mr Lowin, a Justice of the Peace, was fired at while riding home recently from Tuam, County Galway. Three bullets struck him in the breast without effect, as he wore a coat of mail. Eivo hundred officers and men of the Royal Marine have been ordered to Ireland. The “New York Tribune’s” correspondent Bays that when Lord Lytton landed from India the Queen’ summoned him to Osborne, where ho had a bad quarter of an hour. It is now known that he had advised a declaration of war with Russia when Saljikoff wont to Cabul.

The man who fired at Lord Lytton in Calcutta in December has recovered from his insanity, and has been committed for trial, Mr Thorold A. Rogers, M.P., is commencing meetings in London to encourage the emigration of small farmers to the United States. The emigrants will be assisted by loans secured on land sold and occupied. Ten thousand workmen in the Tyne shipyards have struck for an advance of 10 per cent.

The Marquis of Waterford was warned net to attend the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show. If he wont ho would be shot for voting against the Compensation Bill. Ho was present despite the threat. In two-thirds of the area from north to south throughout the central districts harvesting is in full swing, and the demand for labor is excessively brisk. A terrible riot took piano at Dungannon on Sunday, the 15tb inst., in which many policemen were wounded. Their ranks were finally broken, and they fired buckshot freely into the crowd, several of whom almost rushed on the points of the bayonets in their eagerness to attack. At Downpatrick in a fight between the Catholics and Orangemen (the former being worsted), firearms were almost incessantly discharged from Sunday till Monday. Precautions have been taken against reei>tanoo to eviction in the West of Ireland. Iron huts for the police are being constructed near Olaremarvis, in County M iyo.

An association has been formed to collect money for the necessities of the Pope. The amount of tribute demanded from all Catholics being one centime or six sous per month.

A Royal decree issued by the King of Spain intimates that if a son be born to the Queen he will take the title of Prince of Asturias, if a daughter that of Infanta of Spain. The opposition press comment on this as a severs slight on Queen Christina. The banquet at Cherbourg following the naval demonstration was a grand affair. The Minister of Marine proposed ‘‘Success to the English Navy,” and Mr Shaw Lofevro, Secretary to the Admiralty, responded. MM. Grevy and Gambetta were enthusiastically cheered. The fleet comprised six first-class ironclads, the Flying Squadron, and the Submarine or Torpedo Squadron. Baron Hardey Hickey, editor of the antiRepublicau paper “ La Triboulet,” has been expelled from Paris. France is assuming an attitude of reserve towards Greece. Consent to General Thomasine’s mission is withdrawn, and the private supply of 30,000 rifles forbidden. The final results of the elections for the Councils show a gain of 300 Republicans. A young Lyons physician attempted to imitate Dr. Tanner in fasting. Ho gave up at the end of a week. His limit was fifteen days. A dispute has arisen between Austria and England regarding the navigation of the Danube, Austria wants the control of the

river between Galatz and tbe Iron Gates, and England insists on a commission, consisting only of representatives of the states bordering on the Lower Danube.

The crops in Silesia, Posen and the east and west of Prussia may be said to bo wholly destroyed by the recent storms. Many lives have been lost. Bismarck is devising relief measures.

Count Henry von Arnim, who was declared guilty of treason, desires a re-hearing, and has expressed his readiness to submit himself to Prussia’s jurisdiction. Germany has given np all intention of colonising riamoa. The Rhine vintage this season will, it is said, bo a comparative failure. Two Bussian corvettes have been ordered to Corea, and were instructed to demand permission to remain in a Oorean port. Russia is concentrating 45,000 troops near Binder. Skobeloff has failed to reduce Geitup?, the Turcoman stronghold. Greece is recruiting rapidly, and the army will soon number 20,000. Volunteers are enrolling everywhere. A camp has been formed in Athens, and recruits are drilling in the streets. 14,000 artillery horses have been purchased. The advance to Servia with the view of forming an alliance, offensive or defensive, is denied. The “ Times” Paris correspondent summarises fthe Turko-Greek question as follows:—“The Montenegro question will be settled on the basis of the County Cortes scheme. The naval demonstrations will be suspended, and the Powers will moderate between Turkey and Greece. There will be negotiations regarding Jauina, which the Turks will not oedo at any price, but which the Greeks might safely waive, and Greece will imperatively demand the cession of Metz ova, with the support of the Powers.” A steamship line is to be established between Havannah and Shanghai for the purpose of conveying emigrants to the former place. “ L’lndopendent," a journal published in Sicily, counsels the Algerians to revolt against the French Dominion, Three vessels of the French Channel squadron have gone to Tunis. AMERICAN NEWS. A number of Chinese students now in the United States will be sent back home for offences committed. Some are dishonored for having out off their queues. A man supposed to bo Stanbrey O. Auguro, a correspondent of the “ Liverpool Courier,” who was with Prince Napoleon in Zululand when the latter* was killed, was found dead beside the Union Pacific railroad track oa August sth. He had boon run over by the oars, and ended his life by shooting himself through the heart.

The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is making great efforts to induce a larger trade with Mexico and Central America.

The gun case of the American sharp shooter Col. Bodeve, was seized on his arrival in New York from England, and was found to be stuffed full of costly goods which he purposed to smuggle. The United States Consul at Geneva, S witzerland, writes that the American beef and live stock trade has penetrated as far as that region, and has sensibly diminished the price of beef raised for the Faria and French markets. Freserved meats and fruits, butter and cheese, also find extensive sale.

The Chinese workmen in Massachusetts are striking for higher wages, and forming trade unions to gain their ends. They are more inflexible in- their demands than the white workmen, and more cunning in compassing them.

Julian, the famous trotter, has made a mile in 2min. lllaeos. He was recently purchased by Vanderbilt for 50,000d015, President Hayes is about to visit the Pacific coast to talk about tbe Chinese question and the importance of commercial treaties with Mexico and Central America.

Good crops are reported from all parts of the United States. Our commercial world has been somewhat startled by the arrival of the steamer Hoo Chung, which arrived at San Francisco direct from China. She is the pioneer vessel of an exclusively Chinese Hue of traders. The Hoo Chung hails from a port that the United States is not allowed to trade with. She will have to pay an alien tax of 2dols. SOcents. per ton every time she enters the United States from such a port, and, in addition to this, 10 per cent .ad valorem on her cargo. The American press generally condemn the Canadian Pacific railroad as a “ foolish and expensive scheme," that will not pay running expenses during the present century of the country. It is to traverse a country that is barren and desolate of inhabitants, save a few savages, but the Dominion Government', now that English capital has been secured, is nevertheless pushing it forward energetically. A minor has died from tbe extreme heat in the deep working of the Comstock Silver Mine, Virginia, Nevado. Owing to the heat, it is found impossible to continue the south drive in the 3000 feet level of the belcher. General Sohenck, late Minister to England, whose name wasunpleasantly associated with the Emma mine swindle, is dying from Bright’s disease. The experiment of connecting New York with London by telephone is to be tried, using the French cable for the purpose. The Treasury Department is considering the question whether or not Sara Bernhardt’s theatrical wardrobe, consisting of fifty-seven dresses, shall be admitted free of duty. Tbe census, just completed, shows the population of the United States to be 49,000,000. A New York street oar was recently invaded by a gang of robbers, and the passengers despoiled of their watches and muney. Mr Tom Hughes, M.F., has arrived in New York.

The Now York “Tribune,” in an article on the commercial marine of the United States, says that while England employs 424 firstclass steamers in the foreign trade of the United States, we employ only about sixtyone ourselves, and in the Cuban and Mexican trades only fifteen or sixteen. A convention has been called to discuss this question, and will meet at Boston on October 6th.

It is estimated that 200,000 Americans who have gone abroad this season huve spent and left in England 10,000,000 dollars. General Longstreet (ex Confederate) succeeds Horace May-Ward as Minister to Turkey. The deaf mutes of the United States and Canada held a convention in Cincinnatti. The proceedings were carried on by signs. Ex-Governor Hersohel Johnson, of Georgia, is dead. He was a candidate for the VioeProsidency of the United States, with Hepburn Douglas as President. The Department of Agriculture says that the total crop is 98 against 100 for the pre-vious-year, up to August Ist. John Buchanan, Dean o| the Medical College, Philadelphia, under charges for fraudulent issue of medical diplomas, attempted suicide by drowning. One of his diplomas was issued to a “ Doctor ” Wright, who certified a ease of death as coilary infantum. Buchanan is now in gaol in Detroit.

Over 100 new claims of gold and silver discoveries have been found within the past year in the Secretary for States’ office, New York. They are all located in Hamilton, Fulton, and Saratoga countries on the southern edge of Adirondack wilderness. The new Transcontinental railway from San Francisco and the Gulf of California to Now Orleans and St. Louis will, it is confidently expected, be completed and in working order by the end of 1883. The activity of railway building in the south-west is remarkable, and soon the whole of the interior of Mexico will be opened up. Rowell, the English pedestrian, has been challenged by an American to contest for the Astley belt, and has accepted. Wallace Boss, of St. John’s, N. 8., has been challenged by Leahey, of California, to a single sculling race. Boyd has accepted Elliott’s challenge to row over the Tyne course next February for £IOO to £2OO a-side.

Yellow fever has disappeared from the jo ithorn cities.

Spanish fever has broken out among the Texas cattle, and fears are entertained that it will spread to the stock farms in other states. Precautions are being taken in England. An immense triennial conclave of Knight Templars was held in Chicago on August 19th. Including the wives and children of the knights, there were 1,000,000 visitors on the occasion. There were delegations from every city in the States and territories. Dr. Tanner, the forty-days’ faster, seems so far none the worse for his experiment, and is rapidly gaining flesh. His divorced wife, who ia now in Paris, says that Tanner is afraid to take nourishment in a liquid form. The French papers laugh at the Americans for their credulity.

In the last clearing-house report all the cities show an improvement except San Fran-

cisco. This is due to an almost complete paralysis of stock business for some months pist. A filhbustering scheme is gaining headway in Texas. A large number of men there are banded together, whose purpose it is to wrench from the Mexican Government the States of Sonara, Ohibuitera, and San-Arloa, in the north-western part of the Republic, and to convert them into an independent confederacy. In the meantime General Ord, the American officer in command at Rio Grande, is close by watching their movements, and the Mexicans are reported to be also ready to give the filibusters a warm reception. Tbo influence of Chinese labor may be estimated when it is stated that so far as their trade is concerned the San Francisco manufacturers employing Chinese find a profit by importing tobacco from the East and returning it in the shape of cigars. One million were exported during the month of August. A wholesale surrender of the hitherto insubmissive Sioux, who went up to Canada, has taken place at Port Keogh. There are 1800 of them, who were formerly connected with Sitting Bull. There is trouble among tbe Indiana in the North-West territory, growing out of the scant supply of food. They have killed the Government bullocks and raided the private stores. The upper part of the town of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, has been destroyed by fire. The Chilians appear more determined than ever to capture Lima, and have gathered a force of 30,000 men about the city, which they propose to increase to 45,000. The garrison consists of 10,000 meu, Tbe Chilians, it is reported, have 6000 men in the northern part of Peru, destroying plantations and sacking defenceless towns. The exports of Chili for the past four months has been largely in excess of the imports, and two millions more tbau at the same period last year. A contract Las been signed in Guatemala for an extension of the San Jose and Exumptala railroad to the capital, forty-five miles. Tbe contractors represent a Californian company. The Nicaragua railroad is progressing rapidly, and the grading has been nearly completed from Oarinta to Lson.