Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-12-11
SATU RDAY PRESS.
Foreign News Items
DECEMBER IL, 1850

Wheeler m Irish land agent, has been
shot dead near COLA, Limerick county.
During October 6l,Sl2 immigrants mr..
rived In the United States.
The town Of Kcoche, Louisiana, was
utterly demolished by recent cyclone.
One person was killed and ten injured.
The Second Chamber Of the States Gen.
cral Of the Netherlands. by vote of 81 to
90, has refused to rc.cstsblish capital pun.
i.hment
Fighting continues along the Russian
line in the Turkoman Steppcs. General
Skobeloff proposes TO declare state of
siege in the Trsns-Caspian region.
IL is said that the Shah Of Persia has
appealed TO Russia for help against the
Kurds. The Government has consented
TO give help under certain limitations.
Rumors Of another Nihiist conspiracy,
even more terrible and more carefully or
ganised than any of the plots hitherto dis.
covered, are afoat.
A Are damp explosion occurred in coal
pit near Mons, France, Nov. 18th. Twenty.
seven men were in the pit Mt the time, of
whom Is have been recovered more or less
injured.
Smallpox is sweeping off by hundreds
the Canadian Indians ON the north shore
Of the ST. Lawrence, and such is the panic
that those not afflicted flee from the dead
and dying.
Lord Clnncarty has taken house ut
Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, for tho
winter. Tho effect Of his leaving Ireland
will be to deprive labor of employment to
he of
The epizootic is spreading to IN alarming
extent among the horses in Montreal. The
disease is ore severe than on any previous
occasion. The deaths, already numerous,
are spreading most among heavy draught
horses.
Gonzalez, President elect of Mexico, has
arrived at the capital. 1t is rumored that
he will leave matters as before the election,
almost all the officials retaining their posts.
The public debt of Mexico amounts to
Sl4, 100000.
Capt. Jas. b. Eads, accompanied by his
wife and daughter and others has gone to
Mexico. The mission is to make survey
Of the 1sthmus of Tehuantepec, to de-
termine its adaptability for an interoceanic
ship railroad.
The Land Leaguers at Cork are reported |
as saying that the country farmers would |
do well to poison all game covers and thus |
spread CONSERVATION among the land gentry |
thereabouts. The report in all probability |
originated with the landlords themselves,
or with the correspondents Of English
papers.
News is received from the West Coast of
Africa of the death of Chaca, Governor of
Whydahs. His funeral was to be celebrated
by massacre of natives, after which the
King had announced his intention of hold.
ing an annual celebration in memory of his
father. The celebration will last four
mouths, during which 200 chiefs will be
behcaded The English have refused to 60
to the celebration.
The American cattle trade, notwithstand-
ing that all arrivals must be slaughtered
where landed, continues to progress. From
New York, Boston and Baltimore, during
the last three months, 1879 head were
landed, as against l0,205 for the same
period last year. The severe weather lately
recorded has caused the losses on passage
to be heavier than last year-the numbers
being LIS head, or 500 per cent, as
against 253 head, or 2 .4S per cent, in 1879.
The Congress of San Domingo has pass.
cd decree that, considering the proofs
sufficient that the remains fouod in the
cathedral on September 10th, 1877, are the
remains Of Christopher Columbus, monu-
ment to enshrine them shall be erected at
the capital All the American Governments
arc solicited to contribute to the fund. The
Government Of Santo Domingo gives
10000.