SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 7 May 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

AMERICAN. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed 750,000 dollars worth of property. Yanderbilt is buying steel rails in England because he considered the material better than the American. Louisiana is threatened with a repletion of agricultural labor, consequent upon the negroes floating westward. A rain of sulphur has occurred in Pennsylvania. There is a fresh colonisation convention in Chicago for the purpose of securing the settlement of the poor Irish Catholics upon the lands. The iV<?u> York Tribune urges Garibaldi and his 3000 proposed new colonists to settle in California. Stock for the new Presidental election is rising. Gustavus Gourard, an American commercial agent, has written to Washington urging the Government to make Samoa a naval station and colony. An American war ship has been ordered to Samoa. American mules are being embarked for South Africa. EUROPEAN NEWS. No attention is to bo paid to the Sultan's authority in the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty. Business is stagnant at Cairo. Many more Durbam^coliiere have struck. At Durham there are now 30,000 colliers idle, and the military have been called out to suppress the discontented operatives. At Blackburn 20,000 looms are stopped and 5000 weavers are idle. The Times, criticising the Canadian tariff, says that every branch of industry will be crippled. The Duke of Newcastle's Clumber house bas been partially burned. The mutilated body of Mrs Thomas, a widow, has been found in a box In the Thames. Her servant is arrested. France has declined to participate in a mixed Government for Roumelia. Grevy is issuing pardons to the Communists as fast as possible. . The German Emperor and Bismarck daily receive threatening letters. An attempt has been made to assassinate the Prince of Servia. His attendant was wounded. Forty persons were buried in an avalanche in the Tyrol. An Austrian colonel has been murdered by brigands. Seventeen thousand sufferers by the Szegedin disaster are still supported by charity. Twenty thousand Russians have crossed the Caspian boundarylto Mero. Russia is negotiation with Spain for some islands in the North Pacific. Eight officers of' the Imperial Guard have been arrested as Nihilists. Upwards of 1000 arrests have been made in Moscow, in consequence of the assassination of a Government spy. Todleben declares that war ia the only solution of the Eastern Boumelian difficulty. The plague has disappeared from Astrachan. Russia has concluded a new convention with China, and has surrendered Kuldam. The Pope wrote welcoming the Queen to ,Itaiy. ' The Catholics are opposing Protestanft schools in Home supported by foreign money. The Pope appeals to Catholics to subscribe for their own schools. There bas been a sharp correspondence between Sir Battle Frere and the Secretary of State re the Zulu war. The latter censures Sir Bartle for beginning the war without Imperial authority, but says he does not desire to withdraw their confidence in the present crisis. The Egyptian officers sent to suppress the slave trade in South Africa defeated the chiet trader, and 11,000 Arabs fled. There is a terrible famine in Upper Egypt' and many of the inhabitants are running about like wild beasts digging up roots. The Burmese trouble arose from the refusal of the British Resident to deliver up two royal princes to their families. A great fire in Rangoon has done damage to the value of a million sterling. Pirto, a Portuguese, has thoroughly explored the Gambia, The is a terrible sporadic fever in Morocco.