ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 273, 16 November 1881, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

President Arthur ia called ihe silent P/eaident. A clcsp»vtch says be is ao reserved and sileDt tbnt (he doys of Gracfc ttere gi.rru.-ous compared with these. The Secretary of tho Oldham Colfou Spinners' Aeeochtion has written to the Unlte-l States Consul, in Manchester declaring that a thousand toes of sand are paid for aa eottoD every season in consfqnence of fraudulent packing The Secretary suggests thai the names of the planter and packer should be placed inside each bale of eottrn aa e check A BJitement ia ma ] e that the dead: of Lord Airiie, in the Western States. wbs preceded by the rhostly bea-.ing o : a drum at the ancestral mansion t>s Section !, the u?ual sijrn, according to report, of a fpeedy de.th of a member cf the family. Lady Airlie heurd the sound aud was much prostrated. In consfquence of the action cf the Iceil Land League, Captain Hurtep?, roaster of tho Kilkenny Hounda in Irelano, has discharged his servants and left for Englan-J. Thia entails b loss to the town of £100,000. Lord Waterford also iatecdß to cloee up hie establUhrcear. In view of Mr Gladstonfc's appeal for the support of ail loyal Irishmen, the Land League in County Me&th has reiolved not to permit hunting this season. It will be remembered that the Empress of Austria had intended to hunt in this County this winter. In announcing Parnell's arrest at a meeting at the Guildhall, London, Mr Gladstone aaid : — " I have been icformed that that the first atep has been taken towards vindication of law and order, rights of property, and the first element of civilisation, by the arrest oi a man who, entirely from motives which I do not challenge or examine, has made himself prominent in en attempt to destroy the authority of the law. We era not at issue with the people of Ireland. I firmly believe the majority of the tenants in that country desire a trial of the new Land Act. The power with which we are struggling i 8 that which endeavors to gay how far people shall obey the law. We haveno fear of the people of Ireland, but do fear lest any more shall become demoja'ised or intimidated." An DDsnccessful attempt baa been made in the southern districts of London to imifcue the American crusade against liquor selling by means of prayer meeiings held oppoaite the public-houses The Chamber of Commerce at Yokohama telegraphs to London that the silk busineis in Japan ia suspended, owing to new and oppreeeive conditions on ire sale iaposed by the Japanese Guild, which foreigners resist. Reports from !be whaling fleet advise a csfch of 130 whales, and 60,000 Irs of bone. The catch ia expected lo equal that of 1880. Dr John Buchanan hBB beec sentenced to one year's imprisonment by the PHlftrfeiphia Government, ana a fine oi 1000 dollars, for eeliiag bogus medic:! rtiplcrms. Franklin J. Mo-es, formerly Go vercor of South C=»ro!inr, is ia jail in NewToik, on a charge of swindling. King Kafakaua has inveited in Kentucky blood horses, and le pur poses introducing theai into the Hawaiian Islands. The German ship Hugo lag bpen borcel in the Sourh Pacific/ Her long-boat, with the captain, carpenter, and eeven men, arrived at Cbiloe', having made 800 miles in eight days The Hogo was 1372 tons "burthen, booed from Newcastle to San Fraccisco. Edwtri Thompson, arrested for stealing a mule et Hernando, Wisconsin, proves to be a Eon of the Jete Admiral Thompson, K.C.8., and grandson of the Admiral who led the port fleet under Nelson at Trafalgar. He is said to have led a tramp's life lor several years. It is proposed to establish e National Garfn-ld Memorial Hospital in the City of Washington. The whole country and all foreign nations will be asked to contribute to the fond. Work on the PaDama Canal is advancing rapidly. Twelve handred men are at present employed in excavating, and 2,100,G00 dollsrs have been already expended. The Sou?h Pacific, as well as the Tapikaand Sante Fe Railroads have been so troubled by waterspouts, caused by cloud bursts and heavy rains that the working of the roads has become an expensive and difficult matter. Great frauds have been brought to light in the Washington Pension Office. Hundreds of persons not entitled to them ere receiving pensions, and these and other peculations will, it is Buid, reach millions cf dollars. Senator Miller has addreßßed the San Frarjcisco Board of Trade, and promised to introduce in Congress a Bill prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborerc. SubscriptioEs for e Garfield monument in Golden Gate Perk, San Francisco, are in prcgreeß. A eerioua fire has occurred In New York. By its destructive effects a Jarge stable and 200 horses were con•nmed, Bed of storage and warehouse goods l,ooo,ooodoJß' worth of valuable articles h6ve been lost, among which was a picture owned by W. H. Vanderbilt. VBlued at 50,0001015. Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiike, who was the richest woman in the United States, it dead. Sfce was called the Burdett Coutts of America, and was reported to be worth 12,000,000 dollars. The Czar has tßken comprehensive measures for the protection of his favorite palece in St. Peterebnrg — the Aninfokoff Palace. A subterranean passage haa been constructed all round it, which can be potrclled by sentinels, end if necessary, immediately filler with water. The Czar is negotiating for the purchase of various houses eurronndicg the Palace. Nihilist head-quarters bava been discovered at St. Petersburg, and sixty arrests made. Eight students of the Military Academy at Moscow, and two at St. Petersburg, have also fceen arrested as Nihilisis. The "New York Herald's" special despatches eey the eoraiog zceetisg of

the Emperors of Austria and Eussia has in view the dilution of European Turkey icto its nstural elements, and their absorption by the two great Empires that lie near to it. Sir Garnet Wolseley expresses a hope that a Channel funnel will never jbe constructed. He considers it probable to be a lasting source of dsng«r to England. Captain Boycott wbb recently in Wesiport protected by the police. He was followed, and afterwards burned in effigy. A Liverpool " corner " in the cotton trade, hsa netted from o quarter to half a million pounds sterling. Is ie proposed that a duplicate of Bruce Janes' etaiue of Gladstone, now ready for casting, be made and presented to the United States, to be erected in Washington, to cotnemorate the kindly sympathy ejpressed from the highest to the lowest with the United States in the national sorrow at the death of Garfield. Aa Irish farmer named Leath, living near Ruthbone, Lord Kenmnir's property, was killed by fl band of Brmed men on October 5, for paying his rent. The same day a man catting some boycotted cats, in the perish of Doon, county Tipperary, wbb mortally wounded. Bingham, a landlord, was fired at near Erris, by a man disguised in woman's clotbiog. A girl with him in the car was also wounded.