ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2495, 5 April 1882, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE ’FRISCO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY. "LONDON, March 12. Don Carlos has abdicated his claim to the Spanish throne in favor of his infant. Two persons were arrested at Ragusa for assisting a correspon lent of tho “ Manchester Guardian ” to spread false news of insurgent victories. . , The failure of the Anrio-Frsnoh commercial treaty causes grievous disappointment in the manufacturing districts. England’s woollen trade will suffer heavily. The London papers say the matter is of no consequence, but manufacturers do not take that view. “Vanity Fair” says poker playing has reached such a height in London fashionable society as to bo a public scandal._ Lieut. Dance-lower is forbidden to leave Irkutsk till his eyesight is restored. The rest of the Jeannette survivors remain with him. A report is current to the effect that unless the condition of Russia improves, the Czar will abdicate after bis coronation. Eight persons were indicted at Vienna for criminal negligence in relation to the Ring Theatre disaster. Among them are ex-Bur-gomaater Neval, Jenna), tho theatre manager, and Lindsay, the commissary of police. The editor of the “Leinster Leader” was

rested under tho Irish Coercion Act. Madame Neilson’e husband, who became insane daring tho excitement attending the to cent financial crisis in Paris, died in an asylum on the 22nd. . . T , The wreckage from tho City ef London steamer that sailed from London for New A ork on November 13ch, and never reached her dostination, is continually washing up on the Irish coast. kerbert Spencer will visit the United States is August. A balloon which ascended from London on the 4th March fell into the t- traits of Dover, and the aeronauts perished. They were attempting to cross the Channel. A farther report states that the balloonists, sighting a steamer, purposely descended because the wind bad shifted and was driving them towards tho North Sea . Jessie Heltmann, Nihilist, who, because of being enciente, was respited from execution for complicity in the assassination of _the late Czar, died at St. Petersburg on tho 3rd in childbirth. General Skobeloff acquired such popularity by his Servic speech that crowds cheered him ■whenever he appeared in pnblio.

One of the wild stories afloat is that a scheme is under discussion in Camilla for the removal ■ot the Poj e from Romo to tha shores of tho St. Lawrence. It is said that negotiations on this side of the Atlantic are being entered into to secure a grant of 8,000.000 from the province of Quebec for the purpose of tin erjation of a Papal palace. Tho American Gevernment is urged by his relatives in California to move i* tho matter of obtaining the release of Dank MoSweeny. an alleged American citizen, and now imprisoned by tho British Government in Ireland. The Rev. Geo. Learning, D.D., Roman Catholic priest, late of New t-'outh Wales, and cow ot Boston. Mass., made his debut as an actor in that city on the 19th nt the Gaiety Theatre, playing Othello. He assumes the professional name of Sydney Clifford, and probably, to conceal his identity, claims to bo a star tragedian from Australia. It is said Learning was born in England, educated at Oxford, and a year ago was pastor of a chnrch in New South Wales. A convention baa been called in Utah territory to form a constitution with a view to admission to the Union. ’-The anniversary of the 102nd birthday of Robert Emmett was celebrated all over the United States.

The editor of a Gnatemalian paper has been Arrested by President Barrios, and tho paper suspended, because it contained an article unfriendly to Dr. Logan, the United States Minister.

The Catalonia, Cnnari steamer, ran into an ■unknown brigantine off Point Liuas during a fog, and sank her with all on b jard. The London “ Times ” Constantinople correspondent says it is feared in official circles war Between Russia and Austria is inevitable.

An American company is trying to get a concession for a]rai!w»y in Bagdad. Warre and Brothers, wine merchants, London, failed for -2120,000.

The peaceful cession of Thessaly was celebrated in London by a banquet nt Willis’s Rooms. Lord Rosebery was in the chair. Tho chief of the section of the revolutionary party, known aa Farta Noir, has fallen into the hands of the Bt. Petersburg police. The foreign correspondents in St. Petersburg are now refused telegraphic communication with the papers they represent. An inquiry is now going on as bow a report of the Nihilists’ trial was obtained for Gutride journals.

A party of Americans travelling from Brussels to Paris were brutally abused by the Custom House officers at a frontier station. One lady was roughly dragged ont ofa sleeping cor without bonnet and cloak, and exposed to coarse jssts. When the male portion ot tho party resisted violence was done to them. The gendarmes were called to the assistance of the officials. Three travellers were arrested, and sentenced to pay a fine of 50Ch francs each, with police surveillance for eight months. The cause of the trouble was apparently that when tho Americana were awakened to have their luggage examined they did not respond with sufficient alacrity. Hargreaves’ co’.ton mills, Lancashire, were burned. Tho loss was 265,000.

It is reported that 151 persons were killed by an explosion in a coal mine. Germany and Austria are strengthening their Eastern fortresses. Goruokpore, in the Presidency of Benge’, was destroyed by fire. Mr Cowan, M.P., ex-Liboral, has been formally denounced by tho Newcastle Liberal Association for having during the last five years opposed the Liberal party on leading questions.

Lawrence Oliphant bos been sent to the continent to administer the Mansion House Fund for tho relief of the Jews. In Austria 2060 Hebrew refugees are on the verge of starvation. The Russian steamer Wiladar was sunk by a collision iu the Black Saa, and all perished. In the silk trade Zorich failed for 280,000.

A fire occurred at Stilliu railway station, Berlin, caused by the explosion of an infernal machine in a box mark d to contain valuable dry goods, and heavily insured. The successful rising in Soudan is headed by a Sheik known es Emond of Islam. His proper name is Sheik Mohaned Ashmel. He turned up afow months ago at Cowen on tho way to Elurd. Since that time be has played havoc with the Egyptian troops sent against him. He is master of the whole country, and is hacked by all the Bagarah tribes, and t'o,ooo fighting men armed with double-barrelled gnus. Imalo Castillar published an article in reference to Skbeloff’a recent extraordinary speech.in ■which he says he fears tho coming Slav invasion of Europe, and declares it behoves tho Latin races, in the interest of civilization, to enter into a close alliance with the Germans. Ignatieff repudiated Skoheloff entirely after his St. Petersburg speech. The lattsr was summoned by the Minister of tho Interior and reprimanded. “ How oan I keep myself,” said Skoheloff, in reply; “ I am neither a politician nor a diplomat. I am like you. and I must have some outlet for my energy.” Hearing this. Ignatieff exclaimed, " Surely you'do not expect me to invent an invention for you every year.”

AMEE T C4N SUMMARY. SAN FRANC rSCO, March 20.

The Chinese Bill limiting coolie immigration to tho United States passed the Senate on the Dtb, by 20 to 15. A letter written by General Garfield in 1865, attacking Genera Eoseckranta. has just come to light and censed a great sensation. Boaenkrants ia investigating the matter. He thinks tho letter a fraud. If genuine, he boldly charges the Jato President with falsehood and studied deception.

A tremendous labor riot prevailed in Omaha among the railroad employes, who demand 1 del. 75 cents per day wages. The city is in a state of uneasiness, as tho rioters at one time bod decided to sack the Binhugton and Mission railroad depots, and tbe office of tfae Omaha “ Herald.” The military were finally called oat and ended the trouble. A novel case is before tho San Francisco Courts, in which a confiding woman named Mrs Ettai Bennett is the prosecutor. Two fema'e sharpers, mother and daughter, persuaded her that the Duke of Leicester, who they said was travelling in California, had seen her and had fallen deeply in love with her, and bed wished to make her bis wife. The deluded woman gave the pair her confidence, and they managed to do her ont of a large amount of personal property. Her eyes were opened when the duke did not come, and now she sues her delndera as common swindlers. Father Hugh Gallagher, a Eoman Catholic priest, of great influence in the Church and in focal politics, died in San Francisco on the JOth March. The journeymen printers of St. Louis are out on strike for three dollars a day. A singular murder is reported from Boston, where Mrs Harriet Bell, who had just entered her residence, was followed by a stranger, who drew a long knife and plunged it into her nook. Just before the blow was given she looked at the man and said, “I don’t know yon.” She only lived two minutes after being stabbed. It is now discovered that General Grant is not the wealthy man he was reported to bo. A fund of 200,000 dollars had been collected for him by Jones, of the “New York Times,” and others, and was dissipated by bad investmentsAn exciting scene occurred in the San Francisco police court. A policeman, named Moroney. who was detailed to get evidence against a xioh man charged with an indecent crime, was

30 b idgored find insulted by tbo defendants’ | attorney, T). J. Murphy, that ho drew a pistol and shot the lawyer in the neck, and immediately ] afterwards attempted suicide. Morom-y is an Australian by birth, and is held in good estimuticn by the chief of the force. Havorahill, Massachusetts, was destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to several millions, bnt no loss of life is reported. Great destitution prevails in Southern Illinois A woman and her children are reported to have died of starvation. The Russian Jewish refugees are flicking to the United States. The Mormon young unmarried women have sent a long petition to I'ongresr, numerously signed, asking the Government to_lo r . them and their religion alone In this petition the signers say “We, yonng ladies of Utah Territory, do most humbly and truthfully declare that neither we, nor our mothers, are held in bondage, but that we enjoy the greatest possible freedom, socially and rclisiously, and that our homos are happy ones, und that we are , neither low nor degraded, for tho principles of purity, virtno. integrity, and loyalty to tho Government of the United States have been instilled into onr minds and hearts since our earliest childhood ” The married women also send a petition to tho effect that they are_ happy in their homes, and satisfied with their marriages and relations, and desire no change. Tho memorial from Mormon citizens generally declares the object of the present movements from the outside is the an t robbing of inhabitants of Utah, utter ruin of her bright prospects and ultimate an vrchy and slavery under the plea of the snopression of polygamy. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation has memorialised Congress for the discontinuance of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. The principal point made is that the treaty is taken advantage of by a syndicate of capitalists to devolope the enormous production of sugar in the Sandwich Islands, and which sugar isadmitted free of duty in the United States, thus discriminating against other sugar producing nations and injuring the domestic sugar interest. iiowell withdrew from th« pedestrian contest in New York on the 3rd instant. Hughes rushed the “little Englishman,” as he called him, so unmercifully at the outset, aa to force him into retirement. Hughes knew he was destroying his own chances of success, but sacrificed hims Jf in order to break up Rowell, and succeeded. He compelled Rowell on tho first day to cover over 150 miles in a little over twenty two hours. George Scoville, Gniteau’s brother in-law, has dropped all legal connection with the case. This is tho result, not only of unpleasantness almost amounting to a quarrel, bnt of the opinion held by the prisoner’s relations that Scoville’.a legal abilities are not of tbo best order. John Ouiteau has announced tho discovery of important evidence in regard to the insanity, and will endeavor to get a now trial. Ben Bntler, it is said, has consented to undertake the case Mr Edward J. Kennedy, a youngland brilliant journalist, and for some time leading editorial writer of the “ Alta California,” committed suicide in San Francisco. Ho loft a letter to an intimate friend saying disgust for life was the cause. He was a native of N.S.W., having come from thence to California when about five years old.