Frisco Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1608, 13 February 1884, Page 2

Frisco Mail News.

~ FRANCE. •'' It is denied thafc the Rothschilds have offered to buy the Government railways. •' A company will be formed for the' purpose of acquiring them. ABayonno telegram, dated January* 2, states that a revolutionary movement is expected to occur on the Franco-Spanish 'frontier,' arid all persons are warned to take precautions. - • A' : Paris'' despatch' of-January 10th says.tnatJl, Do!Ruyher had been reelected' Pre'sideht of the French Senate. A cahle despatch from London, January 13, says reports from the Spanish Parliament show that it has been turned into a bear garden, and that the patched-up;. alliance with the various Liberal, groups is broken.' The War Minister's proposal of increased pay to officers of the army is suspended, as forcasting a coup d'etat. Several Republican refugees have disappeared from their places;'of retreat, and the solcliers/iii.many of the garrisons have been kept under arms at night. Nobody seems to know why, but. the impression i 3 that King Alphonso will soon have to fight 'for his crown. A banquet was given in honor of free-trade principles at Madrid, on January 15, to celebrate the conclusion of the, commercial treaties between Spain; and 'the various. European countries. '"•'' ITALY. The London Post's correspondent telegraphs January 3rd as follows: The Pope's secretary, Monsignore Boccalli, opened a letter from America addressed to Pope Leo XIII., containing Fenian threats, should the Pope jcontinue supporting England against (the national cause in Ireland. The ■letter states that the protection which the Italian Government gives the Pope will be of no avail. The Pope is warned there are priests he is bound to receive .who will obtain accese to his presence to sustain the cause of the Irish agitatators against oppression. /RUSSIA.. M. Talosi, Minister of the Interior, received a letter on January 8, stating he has been sentenced to death by the Nihilists. The letter also intimated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecutor, M. Defresk'ausk'y. •

NEW YORK.

■ : Charles Delmonico, the. celebrated New York caterer, died oh January 14 under distressing circumstances. He being ill, and partially : out of his mind, escaped from his guardians and wandered into New Jersey, and was found,-oh 'the'morning of the day above named, between Orange, and. Mount Clair, lying under a' tree frozen stiff.

' East River, between New York and Brooklyn, was bridged by ice on the 13th for the first time since 1875.

i The streets of.Boston, : ,Mass;,a city that has enjoyed the reputation of being thobest municipality governed in the United States, has become unsafe by reason of bold robberies and brutal assaults on respectable citizens, A proposition was introduced into Congress on January 9, backed chiefly by western sentiment, to exclude German and French products from the United States in retaliation; for hostility of those Governmentsjtbj American hog. This policy is strongly favored by the Californian wino growers.

: News is to the effect that the tariff reforrners-among the Democratic members of Congress, who have niado Mr Carlisle a speaker on the question of the reduction and duties, are weakening, and indications are not wanting that they will abandon the i position altogether.

Dr Edward Losccr, the-eminent German, died in New York suddenly on January 5. He was leader of tho National Liberal Party in the German Parliament, and was in the United States on ah invitation from Villiard, to attend the opening of tho Northern Pacific Railway. His body was taken to Berlin for interment.

The organ of the American Iron and Steel Association stated on December 22, that prices-are about steady; and owing to the restriction in the production lately, there will be no further depression. . The laboring classes of the country realise a change in" the conditions of the trade, and appreciate it. The consumption, of iron and steel will about equal.the'output.

The American coal miners in Pensylyania have commenced war against the Hungarian who were brought over 's> work the coal districts of that .state, r and..trouble is • anticipated. -. ;? ' ■:' v!; ' v! ' : ' : ' ' Matthew Arnold has expressed himself as much gratified by the attendance at his lectures in all the - American cities he visited except Baltimore, ■ He

groups of cultured people, but he was afraid they • were noV'qf-a class that might' be termed .averago-' American citizens. '•■■'•'

Roso Horan, formerly lady's maid to Lady Mandoville, has begun a suit in a Now York Court to recover 20;000 dol., damages for false arrest and imprisonment, at tho instance of Lady Mandeville, who charged.the maid with larceny.; .Lady Mandeville is an■ Amerioanwonianmarriedto an Englishman of title.. . r - _ Mr J. &• Redmond, M.P., arrived in San Francisco, by the Zealandia, on December 31, and delivered several lectures there on Irish affairs. Mr Redmond is en route for Europe. I The New York World of January 1 says that during 1883 not 'one American vessel cleared from the port of New York for .Europe laden with grain, During the ; year there were exportedfrom New York in 491 vessels 21,545,060bu5he1s of wheat 25;222,600 bushels of corn, 5,052,04-3' bushels'of rye, and 1,474,300 bushels of oats. The lowest amount of freight money paid for transportation of this grain would be at least 4,000,000 dollars not one dollar being received by American shipowners, The work of recovering £1,000,000, in treasure, supposed to have been lost in the wreck of the British frigate Hussar, in the bottom ot East River,. New York; just below Ibrt Morris, has commenced, The vessel was wrecked iu 1770 while on her way to Norwich, Conn., and the money wis for the payment of the .British troops. The Hussar had also seventy American prisoners chained to her gun-decks,-The company engaged in the work ; retain 90 per cent of their findings, and the United States Government 10 per cent.