ARRIVAL. OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2305, 24 August 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL. OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

fßx Teibqbaph.] [Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. The latest news from San Francisco of July 30th states that troops have had to be called out in Wisconsin to oppose the striking of the lumber men and the mill men. The latter assembled in mobs of 1000. A collection of American histories, including Virginia colonial records and autograph letters of Washington, were sold by auction in London recently for 2215d015. Gnarrity, a noted bookseller, has purchased the Earl of Harwich’s estate. A Bill to enable the bankruptcy trustees to pay that nobleman’s debts had passed the House of Commons, when it was ascertained there had been forty-five insurances on his life, the whole amount being nearly 1,000,0C3d015., the premiums being nearly So,ooodola. annually, Canada shows a population, increase in ten years of 680,498. George Hazel, champion of England, defeated Charles Price, the ex-champion, in a ten mile race at the Polo grounds, New York. Hazel ran ton miles in 53min. 23iaec. An immense nrolite fell at San Francisco on the 30th inst., and struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of the gaol on Gaot Island.

Hartman, the Nihilist, now in Now York, proposes to lecture on Russia and her prospects. The Chinese Ministers, Chin Fin, Oban Low Par, and Young Wing, have been recalled from the United States, much against their wishes.

If, is proposed to send Carl Shniz as American Minister to Berlin. The Alents Natives of the Island of Alaska are dying in numbers from an epidemic of typhoid pneumonia fever. O’Donovan, connected with the Fenian movement seme fifteen years ago, and now a prisoner at Mern, is writing letters from that place to the London “ Daily News ” that attract a great deal of attention. He •> a son of Dr. O’Donovan, a famous Celtic scholar, and since bis banishment baa been a soldier of fortune.

Domingo Santa Maria has been elected President of Chili.

An alliance between Germany, Austria end Italy, is spoken of as likely. No reply has yet been made by the United States to the representatives of the British Government in regard to the incitement to outrages by the American press. France and Italy arc negotiating a Treaty of Commerce.

It is reported from London that the wellknown Victoria WoodhuU ia about to marry a rich banker, and that the Baroness Burdett Coutts, as well as the prima donna Mdlo. Albani, will soon be under the necessity of retiring for a short time from publ'o life. Baron Von Qeyse, a young officer of much promise, has been shot dead at Berl’u in a dui 1 with a brother officer.

George Baddaw, author of “ The Bible in Spain,” is dead. The Duke of Argyle, it is said, wiU mt>\/y the widow of the late Hon. Augustus Anson. The lady is the daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans.

Further steps regarding the murder of Captain Elliott and the Magistrate Malcolm, in the Transvaal, will not be taken.

The total number of petitions presented in the House of Commons praying the House to reject any change in the law which may be proposed for admitting an Atheist into Parliament is 1392, with 230,595 signatures, and the number praying for the alteration of the law is 673, with 15,541 signers. The Land Bill finally passed the House of Commons on the 29th inst. Mr Parnell’s amendment, adding to clause 44 a proviso that action for rent pending at the same time as an application for fixing judicial rent shall be suspended until the latter is determined, was accepted. A majority of Conservatives and some Parnellitcs, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting on the Bill, as also did Goschen, Henage and some other Liberals, The Prince of Wales has visited Don Carlos in a friendly way. The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that in future no more British subjects captured by brigands will be ransomed by Government.

The two treaties between the United States and China have been formally ratified and exchanged. Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America and sent for education to France, England, and Germany. Just now there is a mania for killing officials in the United States. Tho Governors of Pittsburg and of Minnesota, and Governor Connell, of Now York, have had narrow escapes from murderous lunatics. The United States has decided to join in tho proposed general representation on the subject of the treatment of Jews in Russia, on the ground that it has already instructed its minister to Russia on tho subject. The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare here, and almost equal excitement in the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a communication to the collectors of New York and Boston, with instructions to use every means to find out the names of the consignors of the deadly packages. The representatives of the steamship companies are especially agitated on the affair, and have deprived O’Donovan Rossa of *a sub-agency he held in the Allan line. The city editor of the “ National Democrat,” Plori- Illinois, states that the infernal machines were made in that city, and gives the name of the street, and says, a reporter of the paper had been invited to an exhibition of the machines’ destructive power. The

“ New York Tribune,” replying to the matter, says—“lf the American authorities do their duty the Irish revolutionists will not be long able to plan their hellish scheme in America. The “Now York Times” publishes acorn, munication from Elisha A. Allen, tho Hawaian Minister at Washington, denying that Ring Ealakala wants to sell his kingdom, as reported. Such an idea, he says, would be abhorrent to him. In Abyssinia the Catholic missionaries’ station has been captured by the natives, who burned a church and the mission-house, robbed ten prisoners of their clothes and sent them into the interior. The London “ Standard ” reprints from Irish-American papers published in Now York a column and a half of extracts praising the outrages against England. Tho shooting at Wimbledon began on July 12tb. The Canadian team numbered twenty, commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot in Canada, The

University match terminated in favor of Oxford. The heat was intense, the thermometer on the 15th standing at 127. Several riflemen were overcome and had to go to the hospital. Scotland won the international trophy, scoring 1774 j England, 1744 ; Wales, 1086.

Tho contributions to tho Irish Land League from America have fallen off so materially that Sexton, the president, suggested that the Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement.

The daughter of Major-General Fyers fell into the sea at Hyers, France. His wife and two other daughters attempted to rescue her, and all fo«r perished. Labouchere censures the resolution against the Prince of Bulgaria. It was not permitted to be put in the House of Commons.

The American homeopathic delegate to the Convention in London was banquottod. Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the Peerage for services in the Transvaal. All England has been occupied during the month with the great libel case. Plaintiff, Miss Wilberforoe, sued a prominent citizen, named Phillips, for having said she poisoned his father, and that she was an adventuress and a swindler. Plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony, and will be prosecuted for perjury. A steamer arrived in the Thames, from Clyde, steered by an electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, but the compasses were made useless by the electricity.

In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as the O’Hagan Act. In some oases the jury announce before the charge is delivered that they have madeup their minds to a verdict of “ Not Guilty.” The evidence of crime is disregarded, and if the Crown’s case is absolutely conclusive of prisoner’s guilt the jury generally disagree

The London Board of Trade returns show that the value of imports has decreased £6,5000,000 as compared with June of last year. Exports have increased £342,000. Mr Keene presented 5000 francs to the poor of Paris out of his grand prize winnings.

The Oassagne-Lullin duel was a sanguinary one. It was fonght with swords, and continued till the last drop of blood was drawn, and the body of the vanquished combatant placed at the absolute disposal of the victor.

The death of the Her. Daniel McCarthy, a Boman Catholic, of Kerry, is announced. Although Arthur Lefroy, the alleged murderer of Gould, was sent away from London at 7 o’clock in the morning, a large crowd assembled at London bridge station, and but for a strong guard of police, prisoner would have been put out of his misery. He had lived for a fortnight in a wretched coffeehouse in Stepney, almost without food. He looked nearly starved. His arrest was due to the lodging-house keeper, an old woman named Smith, who recognised him from the “ Hue and Cry ” pictures. She will get the whole of the reward of £2OO, for her shrewdness. The police say that the prisoner seemed relieved when captured. He had shaved off hia whiskers, and although he denied all knowledge of the crime, his flight, concealment, and attempt to disguise himself really amount to proof of his guilt. He took his arrest coolly, but was much depressed and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station. Dean Stanley was stricken by erysipelas on the 15th, and the disease spread rapidly. Canon Farrar administered the sacrament. The Dean died on the 19th, The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Canons Farrar and Jones and the Dean’s sisters were at his bedside. His last audible words were “ I have laboured amidst many frailties and much weakness to make Westminster Abbey the great centre of religious life in a truly liberal spirit.” The Spanish hostility towards France is very bittter, and in the Madrid Cortes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. Midhet Pasha attempted suicide by opening hie veins with a pair of scissors. The County Cork farmers and agricultural laborers have come to terms. The potato crop throughout the country promises to be plentiful. An anti-slavery decree hai been issued in Egypt. The actual slaves rema : n so, but no additions are to be made.

Another comet has appeared in the west. It is labelled by astronomers as comet “ O,” being che third this year. The Ozar will shortly leave for Moscow. .As a precautionary measure, troops have been stationed all along the line, and -ICO police will act as an escort.

Siity-three persons perished in eleven fishing boats off the cjast of England in a gale on July 21st.

The Nihilists held a congress in Berlin under the very nose of the Government, which, although fully warned of the fact, was unable to discover the place of meeting. The Jew rioters in New Stalling are angered at the denunciation of the “ Zeitung,” a local paper. Several assaulted the editor, sacked some of the shops, and demolished the “Zeitung” office. Over thirty rioters were arrested.

The “New York Herald’s” special of July 21st hes the following fresh particulars of the recent plot to assassinate the Ozar : “ The police had received an anonymous letter stating that the Emperor was to be assassinated on the 15th. The letter contained nothing more. Baronoff made enquiries in every direction, and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under extraordinary circumstances. The man thrust himself through with a sword without having injured a vital part. He then lodged a bullet from a revolver in his left temple, and finding himself still alive, fired again in his temple and in the gaping wound made by the sword. This determined suicide awakened Baronoff’s suspicion. He found the man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing and in a swoon. By the aid of the doctors he caused him to come to his senses. The student declared he had formed one of a band of twenty Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. The lot bad fallen to him, but his heart failed, and he determined to kill himself instead. He lived till the 18th, and before breathing his lost revealed to Baronoff the names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly secured by the police. A special from St. Petersburg says another Nihilist was found murdered in the cemetery with his throat out from ear to ear. The deceased was in communication with the police, when his brother Nihilists disooved his treachery. They sent him a circular letter inviting him to dinner, and on returning at night they assassinated him, and carried h ; s body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found in the victim’s pocket, which enabled the police to make the important arrest.”