The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-03-25
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nator WirAll Of Texas is dead.

Congress
Famine in Bengal, India, is beginning
to be something terrible.
Several deaths from famine have taken
place in Nepaul, India.
Chas S. Brooks, the dramatic author
died at London on the esd.
In New York City 5000 women resolv.
ed to go after the saloon keepers.
DR.. Liviugstono's remains were expect
ed at Zanzibar on the goth of March.
DR.. Livingstone's children have been
granted pension of 81 900 year
Los Angeles county has had over
twenty-one inches of rain this season.
In Cuba the Spanish have met with an
other severe defeat, losing coo meu.
Bilboa is about to capitulate TO the
Carlists, the Spanish army having retired.
1t is said the Senate will consent to the
House bill to reduce the army to $4,000
men.
a Commissioner of Forests is the latest
United States officer talked of at Wash
ington.
The State Senate of Maine on Friday
by IA to IL voted to abolish the death
penalty.
Cincinnati brewers are losers by the
Ohio temperance movement among the
women.
Lima has had another bloody military
riot: Is mutinous soldiers killed and $50
wounded.
Two thousand operatives are on a strike
in Philadelphia for higher wages in the
cotton mills
Minister Schenck started from Liver
pool for the United States on the 2Ist to
remain three months.
A fight recently took place between an
army of Egyptians and 10000 troops of
the Sultan of Darfour The latter lost the
battle.
BY IS to 25 the Z. S. Senate voted on
the 2lst to increase the National Bank
currency TO 100000 900.
Insurrection is rapidly spreading in
Japan, and foreign residents are hastily
leaving some Of the threatened towns.
The famine districts of India contain
total population of 100000, and the
suffering is described as most appalling.
Cardinal Antonelli by circular letters
invites all the Catholic Bishops to Rome,
as the Pope desires to see them before he
dies.
News have been received of the sur
render of the Ashautee capital, and it is
stated that the King and family are pris-
oners.
Won Molke's speech in the German Par
lament on the question of maintaining
the army to match France causes agita-
ton in Paris.
Some of the Ohio saloon-keepers, closed
out by the women's praying societies,
threaten to resume business again as soon
as the grass shoots.
The Asiatic cholera is raging in Buenos
Ayres with intensity-tbirty to forty vic
tins per day. Fifty thousand residents
abandon the city.
News from the Hague reports the re-
cent capture of an important fort in
Acheen by the Dutch, and the killing of
200 of its defenders.
Ohio and Indiana still keep up at white
heat the women's anti,liquor movement,
and most of the saloons where it is kept
up have been closed out
1t is proposed to exclude seeds, ore
specimens, books, and many other arti-
lies that now lumber up the mails, from
that sort of transportation.
La Guayra, the port of Caracas, Vene-
zuela, had terrible earthquake on the
as severe as that of 1912,
which laid Caracas in ruins.
The total votes polled at the late cleo
ion in England, Scotland, Wales and Ire
and, is 2,5OO.OOO. The Conservatives
,lect s5l; the Liberal and Home Rulers
100.
A Washington dispatch says there are
umors in that city that Schenck will re
urn from the London mission at his own
and viii be succeeded by Sc
rotary Fish.
Chief Justice Allen Of the Supreme
Jourt of the Sandwich Islands is in Wash
ngton trying to reopen negotiations for
reciprocity treaty between the United
states and the islands.
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