Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-16
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The Chinese observation-disclosures
Stewards InssruetiOns.


Tho Chinese QuestiOn-Mi mister
Stewards Instructions.
WASHINGTON, July 15th.-The
State Department has telegraphic
Information OF the safe arrival of
Minister Seward in China. He
carried with him special instruc-
tions from Secretary Evarts to OBJ
tain an interview with the Chinese
Minister Of Foreign Affairs and
other hign dignitaries of the I'm
perial government as soon as possi-
BILE after his arrival in Peking, and
to bring their attention to the de-
sire of the United States govern
| ment for such modification of the
Burlingame treaty as will provide
for placing restrictions upon Chi
nese immigration to the United
States. His instructions are of
specific and urgent nature, and the
representations which he is direct
ed to make to the home govern
ment will leave no room for doubt
as to the earnestness of purpose OF
this nation, or for any long contin-
| ued evasion on the part of the Chi
nese government in defining its
real desires and purposes in regard
to this most i'm mportant subject. The
Chinese Legation in Washingtou.
if entrusted with power to make a
treaty on the subject, have not as
yet given any intimation of their
possession of such authority. The
conferences held with them, up to
the present time, have been of pre-
liminary and inconclusive charac-
ter, owing to the guarded and ex
tremely diplomatic methods of dis
cussion which they have employ ed,
aud those conferences are still
nominally in progress, being con-
ducted occasionally by Secretary
Seward on the one hand, and Lung
Wing and DR.. Bartlett on the
other. Now, however, as the mat
ter is also under discussion at
Peking, the Department entertains
a confident hope that u satisfactory
result in the direction of placing
some limitation upon Mongolian
immigration to this country will
be reached at an early day.
The Labor Iavestigating Csmmit.
Tee Coming.
WASHINGTON, July 15th.-The
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives upon the causes of the
depression of labor, with Herdrick
B. Bright as Chairman, have com
pleted their arrangeme to start
for San Francisco about the 23d in
stant. They will be accompanied
by two stenographers, and expect
to take large amount of testi-
mony in California, and perhaps
also in Oregon and Nevada.
Exc,tement ADated.
WASHINGTON, July 15th.-Ad-
vices received by the National
Board of Health state that the vel
low fever excitement at Water Val
ley, Mississippi, has abated and
there are no new cases.
Reforms In AIasEs-Prizc Fisht.
NEW YORK, July ia Herald
Alaska correspondent says: The re-
suits of Captain Beardslee's policy
in enlisting Indian policemen to
suppress the Hootchenoo traffic are
very satisfactory. Most of the
stills are reno owed, and I have seen
but one Indian under Hootchenoo
influence.
A lively Prize fight occurred at
Harlem, bet ween John Cash and
John Moore. The former was bad
ly pummelled through nineteen
rounds. The crowd was dispersed
by a single policeman, who broke
into a shed occupied by the pugil-
lists and arrested Cash.
Death OF n Feniau-ReiireJ.
NEW YORK, July 18th. Edward
P. Kelly, the last of the Fenian
prisoners released from Spike
Island Convict Prison in February,
died Saturday nightat st. Michael's
Hospital, Newark, of hemorrhage
of the lungs.
Nan, the newsboy, and Two as
sociates, retired from the Life Saw
ing Service after rescuing nearly
sixty persons from drowning and
have been employed by the owner
of some excursion barges. They
complain of the indifference of pre-
tended friends and benefactors, and
impaired health.
A Daring Outrage.
NEW YORK, July 15.-The Her.
aid prints au account of q remark.
able outrage which occurred in
Baltimore on Saturday night. The
victim was George McCOmas,
twenty years old. While walking
near her home stranger seized
her arm and applied chloroform to
her nostrils. She became semi
conscious, when her assailant
placed her on a horse car and took
ner outside the city limits, where
he outraged her person. At the
time of the act she was unconscious.
The penalty of this crime in Mary
land is death.
L. Luck-The hurdrr-Is I Po-
lice man snish.
NEW YORK, July A. Nicholas
Sartung, Il shoe dealer ia Brook
lyn, after spending n large sum in
buying lottery tickets, drew $50, 900
in Southern lottery Saturday.
Regarding Cove Bennet and Mrs.
Smith, arrangements for whose ex-
ecution are making, the general
feeling throughout. Jersey CITY is
that the prisoners will never be
executed, and even If the Court of
Errors and Appeals and the Court