THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 378, 29 July 1884, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

*_ GENERAL SUMMARY. A tremendous riot occurred at a recent election at Cape de Verde Islands, in which several persons were killed and wounded. The Government candidate won . Monsigriore Capel is making many converts for the Catholic Church amongst leading Americans. Colonel Bliss, of Now, York, a leading man in politics, is the latest one received into the fold. ~ Two days, July 4 and 0, were devoted to -the celebration of the American national anniversary this year. The procession in San Francisco, especially hi: its military features, was a grand affair. By way of fun on the 4th. of July, some miners of Swan City, Colorado, put some giant gunpowder under the Post-office, and blew it out of sight. Fortunately no one was hurt. The Philadelphia Cricketers won a game witii a team ot gentlemen from Leicester in London on June 24. The Leicester team scored 152 ih two innings to 269 by the Philadelphians in one innings, j ■'••The' demand for the Queen's book has : almost ceased, The librarians are offering it for 4s. , V; l^:pi.liundr.ed and six miles pf the Bennett- Mackay,' cable were laid from • the English shore on July 5, when the Durady returned to Queenstown to coal. ' • At a conference of the memberis of the Houses of Lords and Commons, held in. Lojudpn ;on July 4, it was unanimously resblted -^that the introduction of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in the House of Lords should be made at once. Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice announced in the Commons on July 4 that the whereabouts of Sheldon, an Englishman captured by outlaws in Kansas and held for ransom,' had not been discovered. : The smallpox epidemic wa,s reported on' 'June 23 as spreading in London. Gthe eases daily reported showed a rate, of 75 per week. •....' Patrick Joyce was arrested on the steamship Illinois, at London, op Junei, 21, having in his possession an infernal machine of a new and ingenious pattern. I It resembled a wooden log, but was found to be hollow, a hole having been pierced through it leading into a chamber containing a liquid supposed to bean explosive. There was an outer wooden easing 16 inches long and 4 inches thick, within which a brass tube was inserted. On the removal of the metal cap the liquid was found. Except by careful examination, it was impossible to suppose ' the article anythingbut a log df "wood. J. J. Bleasdale, D.D., formerly of the diocese of Melbourne, died in San Francisco, at the German Hospital, after much suffering. He was compelled to eke -out a meagre subsistence by newspaper work, which he did chiefly on Marriott's News Letter. He was 72 years of age at 'his death. Some scientific friends paid; all his expenses in a reserved room at the hospital, and gave his remains respectable interment. The spread of cholera in France is causing great aferm on the Continent, LabOuchere, the editor of London Trpth, is sued by Bishop, the mind-reader, : for libel. Truth asserted that Bishop was a common swindler, and had rob.bed thei Victoria Hospital of £300, the proceeds ol one of his entertainments, ostensibly for the benefit of the hospital. The report says many members of; the aristocracy are assisting Bishop with money and adv.ce. ■ 'l'he great Sullivan - Mitchell boxing match fixed to take place at Madisonsquare Gardens, New York, on June 30, did not come off, for the reason that Sullivan was too drunk, and Mitchell was ill with malaria. The latter, however,! offered to come to the scratch if Sullivan was ready. There was great indigna*tibn felt by the SQOO spectators present, jand the 'general shout was, " Sullivan, yohVe lost your reputation." The Orangemen of Newiy celebrated, on July 12, the 194 th anniversary of; the Battlei of the Boyne. Bonfires blazed on the, hills, and in various parts of ; tho town, processions preceded by brass bands marched through the streets -carrying r an. effigy inscribed "the traitor Lieny;" which was afterwards burnt. The police dispersed a crowd of Nationalists. • " • - -P na **BMrnMßHnnaaaa»MVMaa^aHaHanMHaMnaaHaaaM'-*>-'«