San Francisco Mail News.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 275, 24 August 1881, Page 2

San Francisco Mail News.

* AUCKLAND. This Day. The City of New York with the English mail arrived at two o’clock this morning. A cabin passenger named A. Horton died during the passage. SUMMARY OF NEWS. San Francisco, July 30. It is stated the troops have had to be called out in Wisconsin to oppose the striking of the Lumber men and millmen. The latter assembled in m 01,3 of 1000. Canada shows an increase of population in the year of 050,495. George Hazel, the champion of England, defeated Charles Trice, the ex-champion, in a ten-mile race at the Polo Grounds, New York. Hazel ran ten miles in 53mins, 231 seconds. An immense aerolite fell at San Franc sco on the 30th instant, and struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of the gaol on Goat Is lan 1. Hartmann, a Nihilist, now in New York, proposes to lecture on “Russia and her prospects.” The Chinese Ministers, Chin Tau, Chiu Lau Pai, and Yong Wing, have been recalled from the United States muck against their wishes. It is proposed to send Carl Schurz as American Minister to Berlin. Domingo Santa Maria has been elected president of Chili. An alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy is spoken of as likely. 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 an alteration of the law is G 73 with 15,541 signatures. 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.

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 Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America and sent for education to France, England, and Germany. George Barron, author of “ The Bible in Spain ” is dead. The Duke of Argylc, it is said, will marry the widow of the late Hon. Augustus Anson. The lady is the daughter of the Bishop of St. Alban’s. France and Italy are negotiating a treaty of commerce.

In Abyssinia a Catholic Mission was captured by the natives, who burned the Church and Mission-house, robbed ten prisoners of their clothes, and sent them into the interior. It is denied that the King of Hawaii wishes to sell his kingdom. The United States Government is taking every means to discover the shippers of the infernal machines to Liverpool. A Democrat paper in Peoria, Illinois, states that they were made there, and that a reporter of theirs was invited to an exhibition of their destructive effects. The shipping companies are greatly excited, and O’Donovan Rossa has been dismissed from a subagency he held for the Allah line. The Standard reprints from Irish-Ameri-can papers published in New York a column and a half of extracts praising outrages against England. The shooting at Wimbledon began on July 12th. Scotland won the International Trophy, scoring 177-1 against England’s 174-1, and Wales 1030.

Contributions to the Irish Land League have fallen off so much that’it is suggested the Irish farmers sbouid be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement. The daughter of the English MajorGeneral Fyers, fell into the sea at Hyerers in France. His wife and two other daughters attempted to rescue her but all perished. All England was occupied during the month with a great libel case, in which Miss Wilborforce sues a prominent citizen named Phillips for having said she poisoned hor father and that she was ail adventuress and swindler. The plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony and will be prosecuted for perjury. Tiie death of the Rev. Daniel McCarthy Roman Catholic priest of Kerry is announced. Although Lsfroy, the alleged murderer ot Gould, was sent away from London at / o’clock in the morning a large crowd assembled, and but for a strong guard ot police the prisoner would have .been put out of bis misery. The police say he seemed relieved when arrested. He had shaved off bis whiskers, cut his hair and although be denies the crime, his fright and concealment and attempt at disguise, really amount to a proof of guilty. Dean Stanley was stricken with erysipelas on the 18th, and the disease spiead rapidly. He died the following day. Don Carlos, the pretender, has been expelled from French territory. Spanish hostility to France is ve. 1 } hitter. In the Madrid cafes, the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. Keene the winner of the Grand Pnx has presented 039 francs to the poor at Paris. Midiiat Pasha attempted suicide by opening his veins with a scissors. An anti-slavery decree has been issued by Egypt. Actual slaves are to remain so hut no addition to he made. The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow. As a precautionary measure, troops have been stationed all along the line, and 400 police will act as an escort. G 3 persons perished in eleven fishing boats lest off the coast of England in a gale on 21st July. . The Nihilists hel l a congress m Berlin under the very nose of Government, who although fully warned of the faet were unable to find the place of meeting. A New York Humid special dated July 21st, has further fresh particulars of the plot to assassinate the Czar. It is telegraphed that Baronoff chief of the police had received an anonymous letter stating that the Empcrcr 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 ran himself through with a sword without injury to vital parts, fired a bullet in his left temple, then finding himself still alive fired again in his temple and in the g-vping wound made by the sword. This suicide awakened Baronoff’s suspicion he found the student in swoon. He was brought to, and then declared he was one of a band of 20 Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. The lot had fallen upon him, hut his heart failed and he determined to kill himself. He lived till the 18th and before his death revealed to Baronoff all his brother Nihilists, who wore promptly secured by the police. A special from St. Petersburg says that another Nihilist was found imirdored in the cemetry with his throat cut from ear to ear. Deceased was in communication with the police, when his brother Nihilists discovered his treachery. They sent him a circular letter inviting him to dinner, and on returning at night they assassinated linn and carried his body to the cemctry. The invitation letter was found in the victim s pocket, and enabled the police to make important arrest. AMERICAN' SUMMARY. July 3).

A party of Americans travelling from Paso del Notts to Cholmahua, Mexico, discovered 13 dead bodies, all American, and a portion of the surveying expedition of Mexican Central Raildroad, which had been murdered by Apaches. Mormon converts by thousands are landing at New York from Europe en route for Salt Lake. The British barque Beatrice, oil-laden was struck by lightning off Ready Island, and bin rued to the water’s edge. The electric fluid ran down tiie mast into the hold, firing her cargo. _ It is reported the Tiehborno’s claimants daughter, Jennie Ogden Ferris, writes to tiie New York Star that her father is playing a game of deception. Outrages continue in New and Old Mexieo,° In the latter the Apaches killed a great many mining prospectors. The missing whalers, Mount Wallaston and Vigilant, wero both lost in the iec of the Arctic Seas and all perished. The editor of the J lines Littcrock, Arkansas, was assassinated because his paper did not please certain outlaws.