The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial 0Oerttser.
NOTES FROM FOREIGN PAPERS.

White House at an early hour on the morning
of September 9Th, and conveyed by q special
train 10 Long Branch, reaching that place shortly
after one P. II. According 20 a letter from Sec
rotary Blaine, he seemed TO bear the journey
well, though the heat was oppressive. After his
arrival he was for several hours restless, and
showed signs Of great fatigue, complaining that
his back had q bruised feeling. For some dis
lance during the latter part Of the journey he is
said 70 have been travelling az tie rate Of q
mile IN 50 seconds. The day on which the Jour
ney was taken was very hot, and the blowing
day was worse, but a favorable change followed,
and the Presidents condition at the date Of our
latest advices was considered satisfactory. Sur
geoa-General Barnes, Surgeon J. J. Woodward,
and DR.. Robert Reyburn are no longer in attend
ance on the President.
Terrible forest fires have occurred in Michigan,
causing great destruction of timber, and the loss
Of nearly a hundred1iyes.
Great uneasiness was caused at the beginning
OF September by q rumor that General Carr and
all the troops under his command had been
masSacred by the Apaches. General Carr set
out with a party of 50 officers and men and %
Indian scouts, 10 arrest the Indian medicine
man, Mckay Delklinne, and succeeded in doing
so. During the return journey, General Cars
scouts and q number of other Indians attacked the
party suddenly, when they were making camp,
and killed Captain Heutig and ten soldiers. The
remainder of the force succeeded in driving of
their assailants, but f~orty-fve horses and ten
mules were either killed or stolen by the Indi-
hnS Liz 4tllCll hldLs hAOhC dIEtHIN WAS the
cause of the attack, was killed at the outset of
the fray. This incident, though only of a piece
with many others that have occurred, has been
rendered alarming by the fear that it is but the
beginning of greater troubles, more than 10, 600
Apaches being believed to be in an excited state,
and ready to test the power of their wild bravery
against the discipline and pluck of the Z. s.
troops.
September 7th was the hottest day of the
season in the Eastern States, the thermometer
in the shade registering 95o in New York and
1929 at Washington.
Within two miles of Glendale, Mo-, on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, the Western-bound
Express was stopped by nine armed men, who
used lamp signals, and had also INSTRUCTED the
track with stones and timber. The express
messenger, for defending his safe, was beaten TO
death. The treasure taken is variously re-
ported at from S., 900 to $50, 900. There were a
hundred passengers, all of whom were robbed.
Seven of the brigands were arrested within
forty-eight hours of the robbery. The number
of similar robberies which have lately taken
place in the vicinity of the Missouri, in one of
which q booty of $780, 900 was taken, has given
rise to a strong feeling of alarm, on account of
the ease with which desperate men may imperil
hundreds of lives.
4 portrait of Christopher Columbus has been
discovered in the Colonial office of the Spanish
Government at Madrid. 1t appears TO have
been taken when he was about 40 years of age.
At the election for Tyrone, the Land League
candluate SUFFERED an Overwhelming de1eat, only
receiving 9O4 votes, against more than 5000
recorded for each of the other candidates.
Several recent elections in England have gone
in favor of the Conservative party.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the NJ:
Y. Herald cabled on the Sd September that
China has agreed to allow telegraphs to be laid
down across the Celestial Empire, and that
Russia has already entrusted this work to the
Danish Company which constructed her own
lines.
TroubIas hatween the French and fha Arabs
in North Africa have again assumed alarming
magnitude. Reiuforcements are being sent from
France, and it is deemed certain that Tunis must
be subdued inch by inch. and subsequently held
for q heightened period by a military force. The
Bey is accused by the French Minister ROustan
of secretly supporting the g rebels"
The result of the French elections is a Cham
Der comprising 459 Republicans, AZ Bonapartists
and IL Monarchists. This does not include the
Colonial Deputies.
The condition of affairs in Egypt is so serious
that there is talk that the country will have to
fall under an English Protectorate. Russia has
been endeavoring to buy an interest in the Suez
Canal, and claims that she ought to have a voice
in its control, as part of the water highway from
her Western to her Eastern dominions.
In Afghanistan, Ayoub Khan has been uni
formly victorious over Abdurrahman, and has
proclaimed himself Ameer. He is reported to
be intent on n "holy war" against the English.
At last dates, however, Abdurrahman had rallied
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against Ayoub Khan, who was at Candahar.
Mount Vesuvius was in violent eruption
during the first week in September.
An extraordinary outrage took place at Lille,
an important manufacturing city of France, i'll
the department of the Nord, Oh 4th September.
A large number of the principal citizens of the
place received parcels containing some explosive
material. On the attempt being made to open
them these parcels exploded, in several cases
with disastrous results. Many persons were
killed, and others injured. The cause of the
outrage is at present entirely inexplicable.
A cablegram of the 4th September says that
another eruption of Mount Vesuyius has taken
place. The scene is described as most imposing,
and much alarm was felt by the inhabitants of
the villages on the slopes.
ALondont telegram says that Baron de Lesseps,
the promoter of the scheme for cutting a canal
across the Isthmus of Panama, is experiencing
great difficulties in the prosecution of his work,
owing to the opposition displayed by the Govern
ment of the United States, and TO the trouble
with his laborers. The work of cutting the canal
il consequently DELAYED,