NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume xii, Issue 3852, 4 May 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

American.

San Fbancisco, April 10,

After a trial- lasting fortys'evtfn days, ELallock was acquitted of murdeting Pc Young, proprietor of the Chronicle. The verdict was hailed "with.delight by. the " sand lot" element, but is causing much dissatisfaction among the more conservative ci'izens. Tlie New York Commissioners expect a half-million of European immigrants this year. Father Gavazzi, the Italian reformed priest, is preaching at San • Francisco to raise funds to assist the auti Catholic movement in his own coimtry. Commodore Shut'eldt, of the United States Wary, has beeu selected to reorganise the Chinese naval force. Chicago. It has been decided not to follow San Francisco in laying wire cable street railroads. The cost and the severity of the climate might prevent the successful operation. The whole Platte Valley, from Columbus to Fremont, is under water. . The Lorillard exploring party in Mexico has exhumed a buried town on the line of the Central railway. Evi dences of advanced civilisation have been found—paved streets, regular stone steps and carvings, showing a high order of workmanship. Han lan the rower has issued a challenge to meet anybody in the world for any amount up to 10,000 dols., and beat him in fifteen seconds; Any race growing out of the challenge to ba rowed at Toronto, Canada. . The wife of a wealthy Chicago physician has been arrested for stealing 10,000 dols. worth of diamonds at New York. It is a case of kleptomania. Edison's electric light system.is now said to be .complete. A. company has been granted permission to lay wires to light New York city. ... . JBeecher iris discoursed against the widespread sympathy" for murderers and criminals. The Chicago Socialists hare passed a resolution approving of the killing of the Czar, whom they styled, the " boulder in the pathway of human progress that had to be blown out of the way,' 1 . Forster, th^ son'of a leading citizen of kos Angelos, Cal,' was deliberately shot in the streets of that city by a young Spanish girl, because he refused marriage as promised. Moody and San key have ceased their revival in San Francisco, and declare themselves disappointed in the results so I far as the, num.bert of converted is -concerned. ,: ■'■'. ' .'* ■'■ ■ . -;:, . ''. . The Presidedt has declared : himself unalterably opposed to. AformpQMim; it I must be stamped pxfr., . He feelsbound to do this because his pfwdewwsorsjaw flt to reaogaise the institution bj ih.e ippointment of Bn«ham Young, bead of the Cfaar^l^ as Governor of territory. . ■ X Colemao, an alleged Fenian, suapeoted by the j^oddoa pdico tab« AorHi^riied in tbfs, plot ta blow up the Mapsioa iimna on 8^ Patrick** Day. has been arrested miNeiP-¥dfk. ..,-k.--. : i-Uv/.-iW,.^!- ---■ Secretary Blnne called th« attention of the Commisaioner of luwnigration«Wt New York to the fact Ibat Swilierhna-is deporting her sick, insaoe, paupers «od other undesirable people vto \fas Suited Statin number^, .- n . ...'.,■ Sullivan, so associate p^iPiraell' apd 95® °'Af* twerwrs, is now m New York addressing the Irish societies'knj ititrin* up subscriptions. Salt tt^e C^fcy is vow lighted: by tbe ptyiDh. system of. eltecfcrioel li^ht.

Pennsylvania has passed a prohibitory liquor law. J Mark Twain has a new work in the pre&p, called " Handbook of Etiquette." Beecber surprised his congregation recently.by .relating in open meeting how one of Ihe lambs of his flock, hiring preferred the Botnan Catholic communion to the Protestant, he took her by th» hand and led her to the priest in Brooklyn, telling him he hid brought one who had found " greener pastures in your fields than in mine," r .and Jhej^ddejl." I i would do so again if necessary."^ The j affair has created » great sensation. • CHINA AND JAPAN.

t, •• , OS<J Kong, Miroh 7. rair, a -British subject employed by the' Chinese, who had killed a smunrler, Was thanked therefore' by bis \esployers. Subsequently the Britlsfi authorities arrested and tried him forumurder, but the jury acquitted him. I