SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 180, 29 August 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The miners' strike in France 19 over. Five hundred participated, and numerous arrests were made. The Russians, near the Gulf of Laro, fired ou a boat belonging to a British man-of-war, which was flying a white flag. The fact was reported by a special messenger to Constau tinople. The shooting at Wimbledon for the Elcho Challenge Shield resnlted as follows:— 800 yards— lreland 543, England 534, Scotland 532; 900 yarda-Ireiand 535, Scotlaud 523 England 521; 1000 yards— lreland 523, England 505, Scotland, 497: summary— lreland 10 10, England 15G0, Scotland, 1552. Groat indignation is felt at St. Petersburg and Moscow at the result of the Congress. The Russian diplomatists in general are spoken of with contempt. Prince Milan has issued a proclamation declaring the independence of Servia. The Porte has declared its willingness to enter into a convention with England for the abolition of the slave trade. At the sitting of the Congress the Sultan was ordered to guard the rights of a Turkish bond to regulate finances. GortschakofE now declares that had he known of the Anglo-Turkish Cyprus conveutiou before Batouui, he would have made no concession. Ruperra won the Newmarket Stakes. Orangeman's day passed off quietly in Ireland. In the House of Commons, the motion of Mitchell Henry, from Galway, for the appointment of a Royal Commissiou ou the treatment of prisoners, was rejected. Reinforcements of French troops are being sent to New Caledonia to repress the revolt. England has formally assured France that she would take no independent action about House property in Beyrout, and other bynan towns, has risen highly in consequence of the English occupation of Cyprus. King John has resigned the crown of Abyssinia in favor of King Meneleke. The Treaty of Berlin is to be printed on parchment in antique type, and each signatory power will receive a copy signed by the plenipotentiaries. The French Press attacks England for the acquisition of Cyprus. Bismarck Avanted a supplementary Conference in the autumn, but the British Commissioners refused. AMERICAN SUMMARY. A Chinese Embassy has arrived in San Francisco en route to Washington, the object being to establish a consulate at both the places named. The export of fresh meat from America to Europe has dropped off in a remarkable manner. Kearney, the working men's agitator, has gone to Boston. The Cork Times comments severely on his speeches, and ridicules his pretentious. The Australian cricketerg will be paid 2000 dollars for expenses to play at San Francisco. The town of St. Miguel, in Peru, was recently invaded by 25 desperadoes, with the intention of murdering and plundering They were all killed by tbe inhabitants. The Pacific Company has notified the Union Company of its intention to cancel the contract with it for freight and passen- ' gers. x j Public opinion in America turns towards Grant for the next President. A general Sioux war is imminent. Yellow fever has appeared in the Brooklyn JSavy Yards, and several deaths have occurred. It has also appeared at St Louis. ,nn n 7 C^, c at Alban y- on 21st June, did 100,000 dollars worth of damage. The gasworks were wrecked, and the city was left in darkness. A number of Englishmen, resident at San -brancisco, will present Earl Beaconsfield with a valuable work of art in the shape of a gold casket inlaid with precious stones. Three miners were recently killed by the excessive heat in a silver mine. In Eastern cities a number of people are dying from sunstroke, and in St. Louis fifty cases octo "00 m ° Ue day ' thG thermometer bei »g 90 The Hon. E. Chandler is gazetted Governor m \?, T n n SWlck ' vice Tilb y- "signed. blla M'Call, an actress, committed suicide in New lork on July 19. Atchinson, the aeronaut, was killed by falling from a balloon at Elmwood Illinois lappact, Treasures of the Boston Bettintr Company, defaulted for over one million dollars. George W. Burleigli, the actor, blew his brains out after delivering an infidel lecture A Commercial Convention, national and international, is to be held at New Orleans