SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 201, 24 August 1881, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

The Standard of London reprints from the Irish American papers published in New York a column and a half of extracts praising the outrages sgairgt England. The shooting at Wimbledon began on the 12th July. The Canadian team numbers 20 j commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot in Canada, Sir Eveljn Wood baa been rnised to the peerage for Ms services in the Transvaal. The contributions to the Irish Land League from America hare fallen off so materially that Mr Sexton, tbe President, suggested that the Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of tbeir abatement. In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce owing to the lax law known as the O'Hagan Act. In some cases tbe jury announce before the charge is delivered that they hare made up their minds to a verdict of Not guilty. The evidence of the crime is disregarded, and if the Crown's case is absolutely coßclusiTe of the prisoner's guilt the jury generally disagree. The London Board of Trade returns shsw that tbe value of imports has decreased by £6.500,000 bs compared with June last year. Tbe exports bavs increased £342,000. Keene baa presented 5000 francs to the poor of Paris out of the grand prize. Csssagnad and Billier fought a duel, which was a sanguinary one. It was fought with awords, continuing till the last drop of blood was drawn and tbe body of the vanquished combatant, placed at the absolute disposal of (he vie' or. The death of the Rev Daniel McCarthy a Boman Catholic priest at Kerry is announced. Although Arthur Lefroy the alleged murderer of Gould on the Brighton railway was sent away from London at 7 o'clock in the morning, a large crowd assembled at London Bridge station, and, but for the strong guard of police the prisoner would have been put out of his misery. He had lived for 'a fortnight in a wretched Coffee Honse in Stepney, almost without food, and looked nearly starved. His arrest was due to a lodging house keeper, an old woman named Smith, who recognised him from the " Hue and Cry " pictures and will get the "whole reward of £200 for her shrewdness. The police say he seemed relieved when captured. He had shaved off his whiskers and hair, and although he denied all knowledge of the crime, his flight, concealment, and attempt to disguise himself really amount to a proof of his being guilty. He took his arrest cooily but was much depressed, and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station. Dean Stanley was stricken by erysipelas' on tbe 18tb, and the disease spread rapidly Canon Farm administered the sacrament to the Dean, who died on the 19th. The Archbiahep of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Canons Farrar and Jones, and tbe Dean's sisters were at his bedside". Hig last audible worda were " I have labored amidat many frailties and much weakness to' mike Westminster Abbey the great centra of religions life in a truly liberal spirit." Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, has been expelled from French territory. It was aopposed that he had intrigued against the Republic, which he denies. The Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in the Cortes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. At the final reading of the Irish Land Bill in the Hous& of Commons, a number of Conservatives and some Parnellitei, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting, also Goschen, Henage, and some other old Liberals. Miibat Pasha attempted suicide by openXDg his veins with a pair of scissors. The County Cork farmers and laborers have come to terms. The potato crop throughout the country promises to be plentiful. An anti-slavery decree has been issued in Egypt. Actual slaves remain so, bat no additions are <o be made. Another comet has appeared in the west and is labelled by tbe astronomers, Comet " C," being the third tbfs year, The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow. As a precautionary measure troops have been stationed all along the line, and four hnndred police will act as an escort. Sixty-three persons perished in 11 fiahfnpr boats lost off the coa3t of England in the gale of tbe 21st of July. The Nihilists held a Congress in Berlin under the very nose of the Government, which, although fully warned of the fact, I was unable to discover the place of meeting. The Jew rioters at New Stelling, being angered at tbe denunciations of tbe Zuiing ocal paper, i •versl of them assaulted the editoraaeked bis home and shops, and demolished the Znting office. Over thirty of the rioter* were arrested. A New York Herald's upecial of July 21 give3 the following fresh particulars of tbe recent plot to assassinate the Czar : — Baron Off tbe Chief of Police bad received an anomymous letter stating that the Emperor was to be assassinated ou the 15th. The letter contained nothing more. Baron Off made enquiry in every direction, and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under extraordinary circumstances. The man thrust himself through with a sword without having injured a vital part and then lodged a bullet from a revolver in his left temple, and then, finding himself still alive, fired again in the temple and in the gaping wound made by the sword. This determined suicide awakened Baron Off' s suspicion aud he found tbe man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing, and in a swoon, and by the aid of the doctors, he caused him to come to his senses. Tbe student then declared that be had formed one of a band of 20 Nihilists who had all ■worn to kill the Emperor and the lot bad fallen to him, but his heart failed him and he determined to kill himself instead. He lived till the 18th, and before breathing bis last revealed to Baron Off the names of all his brother Nihilist*, who were promptly secured by the police. A special from St. Petersburg says tbat another Nihilist was found murdered in the cemetery with his throat cot 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 his returning at night they assassinated him and carried his body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation wes found iu hia pocket, and enabled the police to make important arrests. A great land alip near Sejrriswell, in Louten Berue, ia steadily moving towards Lake Tbura. It moves three metres daily Its course is three miles wide and of un known depth. The cities are out of danger but the farm houses are deserted. A terrific storm passed over L»ke Geneva, and the crops in tbe vicinity suffered immense damage from hailstones. AMERICAN SUMMARY. A party of Americans travelling from Paso del Norte to Chelmahua in Mexico discovered twelve dead bodies, all Americans and a portion of the surveying expedition of the Mexican Centra,! railroad. They had been murdered by the Apaches. Mormon converts by thousands are landiD? in New York from Europe en route to Salt L&ke. The British barqueJßeatrice, oil laden, was Btrnck by lightning off Ready Island near Philadelphia and burned to the waters edge. The electric fluid ran down the mast into the hold and fired the cargo. The reported Tichbome claimant's daughter, Jennie Ogdou Ferri3, writes to the New York Star tbat her father is playing a game of deception on the Caiifornian people, and that he admitted to her in Brooklyn tbat he intended personating the lost Sir Roger. Indian outrages continue in New and Old Mexico. In the latter the Apaches tortured and killed a great many prospectors and others, ex-Governor Pugh's son among the rest. Friseomo, the imitator of Dr Tanner, has completed a 45 days fast at Chicago. News has been received of the missing whalers Mount Wallaston and Vigilant, both of which were lost in the ice tbe Arctic and all on board perished. The Esquimaux described Captain Miliard to a whaler named Thomas Pope who brought the news^and nnfe*ppy particulars, wry raUmtely, , They

said the "bodies of the dead crew Lad svroll en and then burst open evidently frozen *° death during the winter of 1879-80 and then been acted on by the heat of the succeeding summer. Nothing has been heard of Bennett's Arctic exploring yacht Jeauette. A railroad train was recently hoarded by some 13 desperadoes at a point in New Mexico and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot, also a stonemason , one of the passengers who tried to defend himself Edison is preparing to light a district in Isew York by electricity. The houses will probably be lighted on October Ist. The editor of the Time* at Little Rock in Arkansas has been assassinated because his paper did not please certain outlaws.