The Hawaiian gazette., 1879-06-25
News and Other Items.

queen Victoria, was delivered OF a sou recently.
The town of Haas, Hungary, is inundated in con-
sequence OF continuous rains. Much damage done
a fire at Lexington. Ky, Wednesday, destroyed
property to the amount of $500 900. The insurance
amounted to SIS, 900.
Charles NJ. Peck. Secretary of the Redin gton
Quicksilver Mining Company, has absconded from
San Francisco, infcting loss the company of
$40 900.
The disease which has broken out in the Caucasus
proves fatal in twenty hours In $50 houses seventy
persons died. The mortality elsewhere is on the
same scale.
The Secretary of the Treasury has accepted bids
for hundred thousand ounces of silver bullion for
the New Orleans Mint, and a somewhat larger guam
tity for the mint at San Francisco.
Destructive fires have been raging for some DAYS
among the mountains in Pennsylvania, and the loss Of
property Is enormous. Bands of men were con-
stantly engaged in lighting the flames.
All the prisoners but one escaped from the Jail
at Began City, Texas, sunday night A confederate
of the prisoners concealed himself in the Jail yard
The prisoners secured the Jail arms
In digging a cellar at st. Paul, Miuu the work.
men unearthed solid silver chalice and salver of
fine workmanship, and they thought to be a part
of a communion service taken from Father Hennepn
in 1850.
The Confederate monument. erected by the Ladies'
Monumental Association, in Capital Square, Column
ba, South Carolina, was unvaied on the 18th with
most imposing ceremonies 10 the presence of 100 900
people.
great conhagration occurred Tuesday night at
Poonah, an important government aud military cen
tire, eighty miles southeast of Bombay. The govern
ment school, BOodwar Palace law courts, pOstufice
police office and fifty houses were completely de-
stroyed
There was snow. storm at Truckee, May
9th.
There slight shock of earthquake at sacra-
mento on Friday.
The Oregon wheat yield will be. it is estimated
onethird greater than that of last year. if not another
acre OF spring grain is sown.
Three thousand people attended the picnic of the
Improved Order of Red Men at Natoma grove, near
Sacramento, on the 18th.
Strong winds are drying up the growing grain in
the vicinity of Ripon, San Joaquin county. The
harvest prospect is unsatisfactory.
The internal revenue collections in the San Fran.
cisco district last week amounted to 500 273, making
a total since January LIST Of S74S,9'9.
general convention of Unitarans of the coast
has been called to meet at Portland June st to as
sist in defeating new $40 600 church there.
An unsuccessful attempt to rob the safe Of j. J.
Agard stockbroker Of Sacramento, was made on the
llth About 81, 600 was the safe, which had been
nearly pred open.
The captain and pilot of the wrecked steamship
Great Republic have been suspended by the Board Of
Inquiry-the former for six months, the latter for
twelve.
Twenty one Indians have been brought into Port
land from Stein mountain, charged with partcipat-
ing in murders committed last Summer. They will
be kept at Vancouver till tried.
The wife and fve-year-od daughter of Martin
SalZberg were found hanged in clubhouse their
ranch, near YubaCity. Suffer county, on the l4th.
The husband Is under arrest, charged with the crime.
Penny subscriptions are coming in from all parts
of Great Britain and Ireland to buy gold laurel
wreath, worth $1,000, for presentation to Lord Bea-
consfeld.
The supposed elopement of burglar confined in
the Columbia county, Wis.,, jail and the daughter of
the keeper of that institution is causing much COM
ment in that vicinity.
Mr.. Woodbridge of Hillsborough, Texas, went
into drug store. drew revolver, compelled clerk
to give him some Strychuine, said that he would
shoot anybody who tried to prevent his suicide took
the poison and died with the cooked weapon in his
| hands.
DIR. Topper of the Dominion House of Commons
has given notice that be will series of resou-
tons providing for the completion of the Canadian
Pacific railway, authorizing the government to secure
additional aid for the enterprise from the mperia
government and granting loo, 900 of land
to the railway.
The Prince of Wales SO tickled with the rifle
shooting of DR.. Carver, the American, before his
august presence recently, that he sent him letter
of compliment, accompanied by gold horse.shO
scarf pin, studded with diamonds and having in the
centre the princes feathers, with minute colored
precious stones in the band Of the coronet.
Minnesota had such q rush of settlers as
have aocked intothe State this Spring. Three trains
heavily loaded with immigrants sent out of ST.
Prul eve.y morning and most of the corners
settle in the State too.
There is IL 900 900 bushels of grain in the Chicago
warehouses, about half Of it being wheat The report
started by the board Of ade that this heating
naturally caused quite big sensation the street
Investigation proves this report to be without found
alton. The grain inspectors say that portion of it
has been 10 the warehouses about six months but it
is all in good condition.
The planters and cotton factors of New Orleans
have formed an immigration society with a capital
of 500 900, and they propose to invite labor into
the country and help the colored refugees, who want
to come home again.
The New ANBAssADoR.-The arrival at New
York of Baron Mayer, Austro- Hungarian Ambassa-
dor TO the United States Is cOlncident with the open
ing of the campaign intended to influence American
public opinion n favor of Garibaldfs new projects
against the Austrian provinces of the Alps and Is
tria. By sending to Washington so able diploma
tist as Baron Mayer, Count Apdrassy, and Baron
Fake. his Director of Foreign Affairs, have shown
that they realize that the United States having been
brought as near Italy as England at the time
of Marsala through the extension of rapid eommun-
cation by steamer and cable. Italian agents will in
fu ire. attempt in this Republic, the moral
and material support necessary for the successful
prosecution Of the anti Austrian cause of Italia IRE
denta. As far as Austria is concerned. the Amer-
cans, like the English in GlAdstoneS time. still be-
eve in the legends of Venetian dungeons the bitches
of Mantua and other stories narrated in 0rsini's
works and Kossuth's speeches. The whole press in
the United States have eagerly copied some scanda-
ous accounts recently published in of the Lon
dun papers about the Arehduke Rudolphe. Further
more, Baron Blanc, the Italian Minister at Wash
ngton, has again seized opportunity to fatter the
United States by deciding 10 their favor and against
Spain, notwithstanding strong anticpations to the
contrary. q claim in which be has been chosen arb-
traitor by the late Spanish Ministry, who did not
feet that Baron Blanc, who married Cuban lady,
was therefore not qualified to render impartial de-
eisiOn in any case affecting SpaniArds and Americans