ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1881, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

A. Bill has been introduced this session for the relief of contumacious prisoners. Ifc is intended to effect the release of the Rev Mr Green, a Ritualist, imprisoned at Lancaster. The Supreme Council of the Fenian Brotherhood have split on the dynamite queatioD, some favoring and othere opposing the echeme. i John Skitt and Co., London, oil merchants, recently failed, and the business passed into the hands of the present sole partner -, who has absconded to Spain after putting into circulation £20,000 of forged bills. The v Daily News " says it haa become evident that Engiiah tenants mean to bestir themselves to obtain a redress of their legitimate grievances, and that various agencies are co-operatiDg to bring about legislation regarding English land laws. Mr Gladstone recently expressed his opinion favorable to BGch legislation. The London " Times " of Angast 26th says «• It ig the opinion in best informed quarters, that the American gold drain will continue, and if it does there can be but little doubt of a further rise in the rsteg for money." Landlords in the South of Ireland have permanently reduced rents 25 per cent in compliance with extensive appeals to them. Marnott and McKinnon, file makers, Sheffield, have failed for £80,000. The British Consulate at Philadelphia has telegraphed the Home Government the substance of the address of the so-called Irish j Revolutionary Convention, which has been holding secret Bessions in that city. The address, without the slightest qualification, proclaims its intention to destroy British Yestele wherever they can be found, and deClares that it is just as well to begin the work which is most easy of accomplishment, and by the time a few English merchant vessels are destroyed tlie world may witness tbe beneficent sight of all the shipping merchants and insurance companies of England presenting a petition to Mr Gladstone to reconsider the Irish question. Johnson, of Kanturk, founder and secretary of tbe Irish Laborers' League, will contest Tyrone in the interest of the Irish labor movement. Crowe, the infernal machine man, will, it is said, go to Ireland as agent for an American dynamite firm in Limerick. Offers for Bradlatigh's torn coat are said to be numerous. One person offers £20, another £10, and a third suggests that it be raffled for. The owner, however, replies loftily, "We are conscious of the very kindly feeling which prompts these offers, but the coat is not for sale. Payment will be made bye-acd-bye by my foes, and until that payment is exacted the coat has a very special valve as a reminder." At the weekly meeting of the Land League at Dublin, on August 9, subscriptions of £2579 were announced, the whole amount being from America and New Zealand. At Shoeburyness the Canadian team won the prize given by the Marquis of Lome for a detachment that could dismount and remount a cannon in the least time. The' Canadians defeated eleven teams of British Artiilery Volunteers. i A Protectionist meeting has been held at Exeter Hall. One of the resolutions adopted was for a tax of Is per quarter on corn. Much indignation has been expressed through the London Press at the conduct of iome fifty well-built and well-dressed men who stood unconcernedly around a basin in Kensington gardens while a girl four years old drowned in two feet of water. The Coroner Baid he was utterly ashamed of their inhumanity and cowardice. AMERICAN. San Francisco, August 28. At the time of the Bteamer sailing, the President exhibited all the signs of blood poisoning. Tbe glands were swollen, and showed an accumulation of pua in many cells. He was unable to take nourishment, and his physicians notified Mrs Garfield that nothing but a miracle could save her husband. She replied, " Then that miracle will occur; my husband will recover. He must" The usassin, Gintean, is in a state of abject terror, and Bleepless. It iB reported that air organisation has been formed to lyncb him, and the authorities hare taken precautions. Arizona and New Mexico advices report mnrders and outrages among the white desperadoes in these territories, as well as hy the Indians A camp of seven Americans! near the boundary of Mexico, was surprised and killed by Mexicans. Reprisals are threatened, and large bodies of men are forming to carry on war with Mexico. Tbe Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Airlie and his son, Lord Ogilvie, and Mr John Walter (proprietor of the London Timis) will make a tour of America this season. The Universal Jewish Society of New York are bringing oppressed Jews from Rnssia and eettiing them in the United States. France has decided to send over one or two war vessels with troops to take part in the Yorkton Centennial Celebration at Baltimore in October Twenty guests from the French Government will also be present -. The " Josephite " branch of tbe Mormon Church held a convention, in which they repudiated as slander the report that -.- thej Mormons generally rejoiced in the misforr tone of President Garfield. They passed a resolution of sympathy and condolence with the Chief Executive Officer. General Leslie Coomba, tbe great horseman of Kentucky is dead. He was the most' celebrated trainer and turfman in the United States. It is reported from London that James Gordon Bennett has invited the Hon Francis Lawley, brother to the late, and uncle of the present, Lord Wenlook, to go out to New York an.d take charge of tbe New York Herald* and that he has accepted the invitation. Mr Lawley was London Times correspondent at Richmond during tbe Confederate war, but did not visit the North. Captain Howgate, of the U. S. Navy, at one time prominent in his efforts to promote Arctic exploration, has been arreated for the embezzlement of 40,000d015. Shuekel, member of the Cornell crew who fainted at the Vienna boat race (by which the race is alleged to have been lost), is now openly charged with beiog in collusion with a betting ring in America to throw off on all races made by the crew in Europe. The Ithaca (N. V.) Journal says that documentary evidence of treachery is in existence, and that he wrote to Casey from London before leaving for Vienna, " Bet. Cornell's will lose Vienna race." Julea Bevant, Tichborne's missing valet, has turned up in Buffalo, New York. He verifies the story of tbe Californian claimant, and says he will give corroborative testimony. He knows ail the marks Sir Roger had on Bis body, and can identify him at once. He Bays be bad good reasons for keeping quiet during the Orton trial. D. and J. Sadler, the great Catholic publishers of New Yoik, have failed for 150,000 dollars. j The prohibition of intoxicating drinks was defeated in Alabama by an overwhelming vote of the people. William Gale, the English pedestrian, has accomplished the great feat of covering 6000 quarter miles in 6000 hours in New York. The convention of Irishmen at Chicago got into trouble over the discovery, as was alleged, of a paid British spy in their midat i— one George I West — who acted as secretary. West had to take pains to prove he was an American, born in Providence. The Cufcard steamer Catalonia, which left Liverpool on the 6th August;, and had on hoard a heavy mail for the United States and Australia, via 'Frisco, became disabled through the breaking of a shaft, and, at last accounts, her captain had not dec-ded whether to continue under sail for New Yorker return to the nearest British port. The Catalonia is the last Canarder built. The mails arrived, and were despatched from San Francisco in time. The residence of John A. Kimbail, at Utah, was destroyed by fire, and with it his five children. Tbe cause was the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The village of St. Jean Bspfiste, near Montreal, haa been destroyed by fire.