English & American Mails

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1036, 14 February 1882, Page 4

English & American Mails

London, January 17. i The largest steel sailing vessel afloat (2,220 tons) was launched on the 9th at Belfast for Jemie aud Co., managers of the White Star Line. She will be named the Garfield, and be employed in the •Californian and Australian trade. The cotton weavers of Lancashire lave decided to apply for a general advance of wages. The sulphur mines of Schmslnitz, Hungary, are on fire. It is expected that the loss will amount to many millions of florins. The Czar has signed a ukase reducing the payments by peasants for lands received at their emancipation by 120,000,000 roubles yearly. A party has been arrested on suspicion of being the Hatton Post Office robber. At a banquet at Borne in honour of veteran soldiers, the Mayor said the people of Rome would rather see the city in ashes than again under Tapal domination. James Gordan Bennett has gone to Russia to consult the Russian Government on the possibility of starting an. other Polar expidition. Servants of the Portuguese Court . have been dismissed on suspicion of attempting to poison the King. The Grand Society Railway in Russia is insolvent, and has misappropriated 25,000,000 roubles of Government money. The Italian Government has determined to guarantee more efficiently the independence of the Pope in Rome,, The arrest of a Jewish pickpocket in a Moscow Church led to a panic, in which 46 were killed. Serious riots ensued. Many Jewish houses were sacked. Fifteen hundred Mormon converts have been made in England since August. Mormon missionaries in London have been mobbed. Gladstone declined to interfere with Mormon missionaries. There is enormous German emigration to the United States. 715,000 tickets are already taken for the spring. The cashier of the banking-house of FrenzieandCo. Florence, aged seventy years, has absconded with 2,000,000 lire. Christmas was heralded in London by the densest fog of the seasou. Mrs Langtry receives £5OO a week at the Haymarket Theatre. She is a tremendous draw. There is a growing distrust of the electric light in London. '■ The eruption of Vesuvius has assumed large proportions. Earl Shrewsbury, who eloped with Mrs. Miller-Munday, is before the public again in a discreditable role. Mrs. Munday’s four brothers were arrested at Earl Shrewsbury’s residence for terribly assaulting another brother because he would not convey certain properties. The Earl went bail. The revelations in the Latnson poisoning case, London, have caused a scare about poisoning, and the sale of poisons will be restricted. Germany intends to participate in Arctic exploration. A committee of scientist has been convened at Berlin to decide on plans. Mr Gladstone has again reduced the rents on his estate 10 per cent. The Marquis of Huntley is under examination at the Mansion House on a charge of obtaining £2,378 by false pretences. The charge arose out of a betting affair. Nordensjold contemplates a new Arctic expedition to open a commerroute te Siberia. Hamilton Palace Library will very shortly be sold. The family valued it at half a million sterling. Short crops in Russia are reported. A despatch in “ La France ” says : ■“ Emperor William has determined to proclaim the Crown Prince Regent on the 22nd March next (the Emperor’s •85th birthday).'” The “ Allgemeine Zertiing ” has been seized for designating Emperor William’s recent manifesto a coup •d'etat. The coroner’s jury found a verdict of wilful murder against Dr. George 11. Lamson. St Petersburg advices state that General Ignatieff will shortly be appointed Governor-General of Central Asia in place of General Kaufman, who is still very ill. The London .News says that international polities are the subject of unfavorable attention on the Stock Exchange. The rescript of the Emperor of Germany is regarded as so unconstitutional as to amount to revolution, while the designs of Prince Bismarck may also have caused uneasiness. San Francisco, Jan. 16. A movement is projected to bring a Jewish Colony from Russia to Canada. The outlook for crops in California this season is very gloomy. Rain is greatly needed in the southern portion of the United States. Sheep are dying. The U.S. gunboat Essex has been dispatched to settle difficulties among the Liberians in Africa. A scarlet fever epidemic prevails at New York, aud small pox at Chicago. Phillips, Marshall and Co., of London, have bought 1,300,000 acres of rich cotton land in Mississippi for colonization. O'Connor Power, the Land Leaguer, is lecturing to crowded houses in America. The story that Jeff. Davis stole the Confederate Treasury chest is denied.

A bill has been introduced iti the U.S. Senate to pay 100,000d015., Garfield’s doctors’ bil. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER CASE IN ENGLAND. London, December 30.—At the examination in the ease of Dr. Lawson, charged with murder, in administering poison to a student at Blenheim House School, the prosecution stated that the persons who made the analysis of the stomach found the most positive traces of aconite poisoning, and they had experimented fully with portions of the stomach on animals. TRIAL TRIP THROUGH ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL. Geneva, Dec. 30th.—The trial trip through St. Gothard tunnel was highly successful. The time occupied in the passage of the train was fifty minutes one way and thirty-three the other way. A LIVELY FIGHT WITH REVOLVERS. New York, Jan. 6th. —The Herald’s New Orleans special gives the details of a terrible Southern difficulty which occurred in a country store in the villiage of West-port recently over a horse race dispute. After every revolver had been emptied, a survey of the field gave the following result: Killed Robert Perkins, James Dykes, Simon Mercle. Wounded — Hiram Mercle (injuries supposed to be mortal), George Musgrove and Jessie Davis slightly wounded. Deputy Sheriff Smith, who visited the scene immediately after the affray says the store presented the appearance of a protracted siege, one window being entirely destroyed, and the walls of the buildings showing no less than fifty bullet holes. ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND. London, Dec. 31st. Two sisters named Croughan have been shot near Mullingar, County Westmeath, by an unknown assassin, who entered their mother’s farm-house early in the morning, and, after greeting them, drew a revolver and fired, killing one sister and fatally wounding the other.