SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1217, 11 March 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

San Francisco, Feb. 16.

A Bill making it a misdemeanor for females to engage in walking matches is before the New York Senate.

Clearing House statistics show a decrease of 10 "3 per cent, m San Francisco in January 1880, Delegates from thePennsylvanian State Convention of Republicans have been instructed to. vote for Grant at the National Convention of the Pennsylvanian State. Exertions are being made to abolish the charge of 100,000dols. for carrying the Australian mail across the continent, and success is expected. The United States Government are now considering the matter.

Bowie, ex-Secretary of the Navy, is dead. The New York Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution favoring a return by the Government of the overplus of indemnity expected from Japan. Eleven Chinese were burnt to death in a San Francisco laundry. At Londonderry a lad named Dellingham has been arrested for shooting his aunt. He confessed that he outraged her afterwards ; the victim diec^ D. Stanton, tm Englishman, has won the bicycle race for a purse and the ohampionship of America ; he made 50 miles in 3 hours 6 mins. 1£ sees. At Springfield, Mass., Mr. Parnell attacked the veracity and condemned the origin of Lord Alfred Churchill, who by cable denied Mr. Parnell's statement that Queen Victoria contributed nothing to the Irish Fortune Fund in 1847, and also restrained the Sultan of Turkey from giving. The French Government officially denies any responsibility for De Lesseps' Inter-Oceanic canal scheme ; no political significance is attached to his plans ; these declarations avert any pretext fqr international complications which before were ooqsiflpred probablo. ; At Bacoon Strait, in San Francisco Bay, Daniel Teakey beat Hoyte in the single scull race on February Ist, making the best time on record, :or 5 miles in 34 min, 30 sac.

Mr. Parnell addressed the "United States at an informal meeting, on the present condition of .Ireland ; he believed' that the force of American public opinion would bring about the desired reforms. • - • v.' : •' ■■

The County Hospital of Mihrew&g was burned on 3rd February j two lives were lost, "

4. heavy storm was experienced along the Atlantic seaboard on the 3rd inst., but few disasters are reported. r The new invention called the multiplex telegraph is said to be a humbug, Jay Goulds, purchaser, of |he Qeutyal Paoifip railroatl stopk, excites attention, and his main object is surmised to be to < secure control of all roads having Gali-: fornia routes in their charters. He will next turn to St, Louis and San Francisco,; and the Iron Mountain roads, the only 1 ones he fears as rivals.

The Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Mail Company-are in open rupture;, and a fierce competition in Pacific slope freights is anticipated. Lewis Kearney, the has returned to California from his Eastern tour, : . .

Bobjngersoll, in Chicago, lectured on Tom Paine, whom , he extolled for his freedom from religious belief, aiid American patriotism. The New York Commercial Bulletin, in an elaborate..article, shows that the Be Lesseps canal scheme is chimerical, and the tonnage passing through it at 4 dols, per ton, as proposed, would fail by 6,600,000 dols.. to pay the annual interest charges', to say nothing ot working expenses., The calculation is based on an estimated cost of 260,000,000 dols., and the tonnage parsing through yearly at froin j;wQ a half ta millions, , Congress is considering a Bill fbr the complete reorganisation of the navy. The Rev. Adolf Balazer, President of the German Evangelistic Synod of North America, died near Marthaville on :the 2gth ult. He was a classmate of Prince Bismarck.

The Mormons seek to liiive TJtah united as a state, which, a;s they hold the power, would enable them to expel their opponents by taxation- They are ajao making overtures tp several Jndian tribes for an alliance;' ■ •'

M. Yickers' Theatre, in Chicago, is illuminated by the electric light, a local electrician having anticipated Edison and overcome the difficulty of dividing the current. .

Mackay, the Bonanza magnate, gives 10,000 dols. to the Irish Relief Fund, and the Nevada Bank of San Francisco 25,000 dols.

There is great distress among the poorer fishermen in Canada, and efforts are being made for their relief.

The heavy cannon in the Dominion are being ponvertpd into rifle guns. Messrs. Parnell and Gillon addressed an urgent appeal to the Canadians for help to the distressed in Ireland.

At Ottawa, a small-pox victim was rescued alive from a coffin after the gravedigger had partially covered it with earth. The gravedigger having heard a noise, and inquiring into the cause, succeeded in saving the unfortunate. Mr. Parnell refused tci visit Montreal on acpoiint of the strong feeling against him. Princess Louise has returned from England. Captain William Tower, of the barque Brothers' Pride, has been arrested at St. John's, charged with scuttling the vessel at sea in order to defraud the insurance, companies of 72,000 dols. The people of Luncan, Ontario, suspecting a family named Donnelly of numerous acts of incendiarism and other offences, formed a vigilance committee, attacked Donnelly's house, murdered all the five inmates, fired the building, and consumed the bodies at the same time. It was a horrible affair, and caused great excitement. Four arrests were made, one of the persons arrested being a constable. London, February 16.

Sir Stafford Northcote has announced in the House cf Commons that the Government wovild advance Ireland three-quarters instead of half a million.