SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS,

Temuka Leader, Issue 1466, 11 February 1886, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS,

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The attorneys for the prosecution have discovered some startling evidence in the now famous Maxwell-Brooks-Preller murder case. They have circled tha whole world in their efforts in getting evidence to convict the accused, and from Hong Kong (China) they will bring as a witness a girl named Grace, whom Maxwell got acquainted with in San Francisco. Her evidence will be startling and interesting. On the day Maxwell arrived in San Francisco, while ihe two were together in the evening, the girl had occasion to go down stairs, and when she returned to the room Maxwell was holding a revolver with the muzzle pointing at the door. The girl screamed, whereupon Maxwell said “ Don’t be afraid, I wont shoot been a man, however, instead of a woman, I should shoot to kill. 1 just killed a man, and when that door opened I though it was someone following ms,”

The Times correspondent, writing in January, says that the French Government will, at the request of the Panama Canal Co., send M. Rousheau to inspect and report on the prospects of the work. If the report is favorable a loan will be granted to push the canal to completion, but if it is adverse the enterprise will be allowed to collapse, and the Government will assume the responsibility. Delegates will also be invited from England, Germany, and America.

A fight has taken place between a body of Russian troops and 6000 Shoisovals who were crossing the Persian frontier to winter in Russian territory. Eighty Shoiaovals and seventeen Cossacks were killed in ihe battle, and large numbers were wounded. The Russian Goveimaaked for reinforcements. The Persian Government is said to fear a Russian invasion ofKhorashan.

Joshua Lippincott, the head of the Lippincott publishing house, Philadelphia, died on the 15th January.

Sarah Althea Hill, somewhat notorious as the plaintiff 1 in a suit for divorce against the late William Sharon, married h-r counsel, David G. Terry, at Stockton, on January 7th,

John Magee, who attempted to blackmail the Prince of Wales, has confessed his guilt. M. De Lesseps will remain a fortnight at Panama. He declares the task there far easier than was the construction of the Suez Canal, and it will be completed in 1888. '

Henry Stanley, the African explorer, has taken up the cudgels against Parnell. He published a letter on January 15th over his own signature, io which ho says : the North listened to the South, as England now listens to (he Irish separationiats, where would the American Union bet We did not listen, we fought.”

Farquharson, the Munster Bank defaulter, is reported as having died at Barcelona on January 3rd. He absconded several months ago, The British barque Captain Jones, from Dernerara for Bristol, foundered on Ath January, it is reported, in the Bristol Channel with all ou board. The lakes in Regent Park were all frozen on January IQth. The ice on one of the ponds gavo way, and at least 100 women and children were given cold baths. A severe snow storm on January sth and 6th impeded railway traffic and prostrated many of the telegraph wires. The traffic to London was greatly interfered with. Skatchef, a well-known Nihilist, and (first editor 1 of the ’Nihilist paper the I Todsin, died on January B|th, at an asylum I near Paris,

The Queen commanded on January 14t i the production of Gounod’s oratorio “ Mors et Vita ” at the Royal Albert Hall, London, aa<l will go from Windsor to attend the performance. This vill ha Her Majesty’s first appearance m public for many years. A disastrous cyclone passed over the Midland counties of England on January 13th. The railway station at Stratford-on-Avon was unroofed, and the traffic on the railway was stopped for some time, a number of cranes were blown off at Worineshury, and two persons were killed at that place. The reports from all districts traversed by the cyclone says that trees were uprooted, bouses unroofed and other damage sustained.

A London cable message to the New York Sun of January 10th says the Marchioness of Westmeath was arrested in the streets of London on January 6th for drunkenness. She was divorced twenty-four years ago from the Marquis and has led a disreputable life since. On January 13th, the State Department at Washington received official information from the United States consul, Greensbaum, at Apia, Samoa, of the seizure of the Samoan Islands by the German Government.

Tremendous freshets have taken place in the Balkans. The Maritza, a large river in Roumelia, overflowed its banks on January 9th, and a number of villages were swept away with much loss of life.

According to a despatch from London, dated January 3rd, a number of Mahdist fanatics penetrated the British lines in Souakim and a'tacked the British soldiers in the streets of that town. The fighting was furious, and a great many English troops were killed and wounded. The Radicals, looking for the eventual passing of Mr Gladstone’s Irish Bill in the House of Commons and its rejection by the Lords, hope for an appeal to the country by Mr Gladstone on the basis of universal sufferage, the abolition of the House of Lords, and an Irish Parliament, aided by Nationalists in Great Britain and I reland.

Michael Davitt has promised to visit Wales in February next, for the purpose of assisting in the agrarian agitation and giving information to tha Welsh Land League. The ironmasters of Lancaster notified their employees on January sth of a proposal to reduce their wages, and the workmen immediately made known their purpose to vigorously resist any reduction.

By the New York Commercial Bulletin’s review of the wheat markets of the world during the last twenty-five years, it appears the price of wheat in Great Britain at the close of the year was lower than in any year since average market prices wore recorded (a period of 110 years), and the unsold stock of wheat in the United States lias been larger than in previous years. A. despatch from Tamatave says negotiations for the settlement of the differences between France and Madagascar are still in an elementary stage. The Malagasy officials stubbornly reject some of the conditions recently submitted by France, and it is expected that the negotiations will end in a failure. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Emperor William to the throne of Prussia was observed on January 3rd. The Emperor held a reception, which was attended by all foreign ambassadors and diplomatists in the city. He gave an especially warm welcome to Count von Moltke, Prince Bismarck, and General Lord Wolseley. Various firms in the Belgian linen trad have organised a society to secure protective duties on behalf of their trade. Other trades have inaugurated a similar movement, and candidates for election have prepared to introduce measures in favor of the protection of Belgian agri culture and industry against foreign competition. A. despatch from Calcutta dated January 4th says the Indian Government introduced a measure imposing a tax of two per cent on the incomes of professional men and of officials of all classes who hitherto have been exempt from the income tax. The tax is imposed in order to cover a deficiency in the Budget of £200,000 arising from the expenditure caused by military preparations when it was thought there would be war with Russia,

IRISH MATTERS. The faueral of Buckley, the well-known Fenian took place in Cork on January 23rd, and was made the occasion of a great political demonstration. Several of the newly-elected members of Parliament were in attendance,

The London Daily Telegraph of January llth has a despatch from Dublin stating that the excitement there amounts to panic. Hope is at the lowest ebb, and there are fears that mischief will run riot within three months. The members of the League state that the League is in imminent danger, and that the control of the branches is already lost, and Mr Purnells position is dangerous. Patriotic motions laid before the meeting of the Royal National Association held in Dublin on January sth were hooted down amid great uproar, and the assemblage finally dispersed with shouts of “Home Rule” and “God save Ireland.”

The Dublin Express, the organ of the Loyali-ts in Ireland, says British rule has virtually ceased to exist in tire south and western districts. From the West of Cork through the counties of Kerry and Clare, the Nationat Keagqe js the Government recognised by the people, and it is ruling them with a rod of iron, The disclosures of the victim’s names would jeopardise their lives.

Arrangements are made for a monster meeting of loyalists in Dublin, on January 18th, to prot-st against any measures granting Home Pule in Ireland. A meeting of the National League was hold in Dublin on January oth to consider the terrible distress among the perple on ti e West Coast. Speakers ascribed the distress to evictions maiply,

The Cullin Evening Mail ridicules the idea of pabouchere that Ireland would be content with a “Grattan” parliament, J.iho Rnskin, writing on the subject, suggests the Government should consider the'virlues and pecu'iaritios of the Irish people before arranging for managing them. He says the Irish people are witty and affectionate, and the witless and heartless cannot govern them. The Lord Ghancellpr of Ireland will prepare a Bill for increasing the endowment of the Catholic colleges of Galway and Cork. j 3

M' Phillip Chilian, Homo Rule member of Parliament, who was cast out of the Fame Him Ooiiooil cn a charge of treason ami beaten «< die polls in the recent election, has prepared an address to the House, praying that body not to allow Colonel John Nolan (his successful competitor) to take his seat, on the ground that tho petitioner’s defeat was accomplished by slander# and the intimidation of voters by Parnell, Dillon, O’Kolly, and Hartingtuo. Callau thinks his charge strong enougli to disqn&lity Parnell from sitting in the House of Commons.

The Board of tluardians of Kiimallock County, Limerick, at a mauling held on January 10th, which was presided over by Father Sheehy, adopted resolutions to the effect that cottages ho provided for the poor without going through the usual official formalities, and to grant outdoor relief without asking the sanction of the local Government authorities. The Board further expressed its willingness to fight, the authorities with every means in its power. The latest talk on the subject is that the Irish Local Government Bill will be delayed until the English Bill is settled. Although promised in the Queen’s Speech, the Irish measure may not appear during this season of Parliament.

The Parnellitpa are seemingly not eager to force the Government to declare them Irish policy. Earl Spencer and Mr Gladstone are in unison on the Irish question, and Lord Harting'on shares their opinion." Wrn. Lecky, the historian, has written a letter in which he declares any English statesman who advocates handing over the Government and property in Ireland to the Parnellites is either a traitor or a fool. To set up an Irish Parliament, Lecky thinks, would be an act of weakness unparelleled even in Irish history. What Ireland needs, he says, is the restoration of the liberty of the people to carry on their lawful business and fulfil their lawful contracts. Unless the law of tho Empire be restored in Ireland, industrial ruin is inevitable, and will be followed by anarchy, which can only be quelled by the sword. Lord Carnarvon resigned the LordLieutenancy on January 14th leaving the affairs of Ireland to be administered for the present by three gentlemen, two of whom are well-known to .be antiNationalists, while tho leader of the trio is an Orangeman. Cable despatches from London, January 10th, says the interest of the English public in Home Rule has shewn a marked decline during the week. The leaders of both parties maintain complete silence. The Loyalist Union held a meeting in Dublin on the 9th, and resolved to establish branches of the Union throughout Ireland.

The Belfast Presbytery has issued a manifesto declaring the adoption of Home Rule (at any time impolitic) would now be disastrous and criminal.

The Daily News of January 13th says there are rumors that the Government meditate a coup d'etat in Ireland, and that among the changes contemplated will be the appointment of General Viscount Wolseley to be commander of the forces there.

The Methodist clergy of Ireland, at their recent meeting in Dublin, adopted a resolution stating any legislature tending to dissolve the Union will he prejudicial to the moral and material interest of the country. The Methodist Press of England has also adopted a hostile attitude towards the Horae Rule movement.

The Duke of Devonshire, owning 600,000 acres in Ireland, has accepted the Presidency of the Irish Defence Fund,

A state of desperation into which many of the Irish people have been thrown by the long-continued privations was illustrated by an occurraoce at Lismore, County Watterford, on January 13th, Tlia Board of Guardians of the Poor Law Union was holding its meeting'when a crowd of laborers burst into the room and in menacing language demanded assistance for themselves and families. They threatened that unless help was soon forthcoming, they would plunder the neighboring farms iu order to obtain the means of sustenance.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fkancisco, Jan, I?, Miss Kate B*yard, eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, dropped dead in Washington on January loth, while about to attend a Presdent d reception.

Swindling colonising schemes have been started both in California and Florida immigrants being induced by speculators to leave Great Britain to settle on land in the States. After having been fleeced of their money, they have been left to shift for themselves.

Paddy Ryan, the puguliat, is matched to fight John L. Spllivan for 2500 dollars a side.

The city of Cleveland, Ohio, had its water supply cut off on the 14th by the pipes being choked with use. It is impossible to remove the obstruction by mechanical process and the deprivation must continue until warmer weather overcomes it.

The cutter Richard Rush left San Francisco on January 2nd for the Arctic Ocean in search of the missing whaler Amethyst. Success is considered doubt, ful.

J. McCarthy, Clerk of the Supreme Court, left San Francisco in a hurry on January sth for Australia via Honohdu. The cause of his rapid movements is alleged to be shortness in his account-'.

An official statement issued on January 2 d shows u decrease in the public debt for December of 9,098,940 dollars.

Tne Chinese have been warned from the town of Tmkkee, on or before Jan, 16th. The people in a mass meeting declared food would not he found for white women and children on account of coolie compo'Ulrm iu all branches of industries. The same course against Chinese has been taken by the whif,“ dents of Santa Cruz. The Rev, H. D. Jardine, of St. Louis, who was conyicted before an Eccleastical Court, of Kansas City, for misconduct, and was defied a second trial, committed suicide on January 10th, Wealthy Monpons are organising a powerful Lobby Congress to prevent legislation adverse to their interests. The cold is so excessive in the Western States, that many persons, chiefly in Nebraska, have been frozen to death.

Tho Roman Cithobc and Kpiacop dim Churches of America have piononuced against cremation. A cablegram of January 10th says the great steel manufacturer Marshall, of Sheffield, is about to remove his entire works to America. Home of bis most skilled workmen will be brought over, and the rest hired in the United States, a thousand men being employed. A despatch from London of January Bth says the poverty of hundreds of Americans in that city is appalling. Subscriptions are being circulated daily among those with incomes, to send the unfortunates home. More than five hundred are living in absolute squalor, and subsist only by begging. Mr Parnell, in a letter to the leaders of the Parliamentary Aid Ascociation of America, thanks them for the material aid received during the late elections in England, and admits if it bad not been for the funds so timely forwarded from Canada and the United States many of his nominations must have failed of success. Itisannounced that the American Exhibition in London has been postponed to 1887, in order to avoid competition with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition this year. A terrible cyclone passed over Yillamara in the Argentine Republic at 1 a.in. on the 22nd December, doing damage to the extent of 50,000 dollars. The Patticonea railway station was razed, and few buildings escaped damage. Tlie Liberal League of America have a quarrel on hand with Robert Ingersoll, the infidel lecturer, and his agent. They are charged with pocketing funds intended for the benefit of the League.