MAIL ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1582, 24 August 1882, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

A large number of persons have been poisoned at Monckton, New Brunswick, Canada, by eating canned corned beef. General Grant, in giving his opinion concerning the Anglo-Egyptian trouble to a reporter of the Philadelphia Record, sided with Englaud, and said the people of Egypt are ten times worse off than the negroes of the So'nth. Ho believed English protection would help to develope the resources of the country, and improve the condition of the people. Boston merchants are circulating for signature a memorial to Congress in relation to the decline of the American shipping interests. It states that the decline has a depresisng effect upon all interests of the' country, .besides depriving a class of employment who would seek the sea for a livelihood. The memprialists ask that a commission of Congress be appointed to consider the subject, with authority to sit during recess. From Havana, under date July 18, the news is that since the hot season began sixty-four ship captains have died with yellow fever in different Cuban ports. Hanlan, the oarsman, haa about re« covered his health. On the 12th of July he issued,, in Toronto, a challenge to the world, to row any five men two miles, straight races, to be within ■ two days of each other, i A successful experimen was recently made on the Erie railroad, in running a locomotive entirely by hydrogen gas, produced by chemical decomposition of water un.de? the action of ignited naptha, ' Hon. Frank SouleVa pioneer journalist ,of the Pacific Coast, died on the 3rd July. He was a man of great literary attainments. ; Mrs Abraham Lincoln, widow of the late President Lincoln, died in Springfield, Illinois, on ihe 16th July, from th« effects of paralysis. f \ Thurlow Weed, in a letter to the New \ York Tribune^ predicts the failure of xt\ ', stiictivelegi!Blation r to;stop imjtemperance a ' and thinks. a t more general consumption of A wine would be 'the better means towards If this end. 'J ; ;ij •*'; \ General Barrios, president t of the Cen- \ ' tral Retjubliw Gruateinal^ is on \ a visit to' t\ie*tfm&ia States/ »J 1 r A complete editionoJFfcH'e ' bWe ' works of the 'Italian' poet;,'. 6ios'tie > Carducci, is announced.,' HrH r< > ";>-^>jY