The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-03-08

Berlin, have been seized. Disorders have
occurred at the Charkoff University, Russia,
caused By the expulsion Of three students for
i'll treating person, formerly Socialist Tor
changing his views.
LoNpoy, Feb l3.-It is announced that
Roustan. the French Minister to Tuuis, will
shortly be recalled There is talk Of his
succeeding Count de Mousy as Minister at
Athens, who is going to Washington.
ST. PErERsBURG, Feb. ia Jewish
family, consisting Of the mother, daughter
aged seventeen, and a son aged fourteen, have
been murdered by peasants in the District OF
Ananief.
PANS. Feb. I3.-B. B. Hotchkiss, the
American inventor Of revolving cannon adopt
ed by the principal Governments, has received
the decoratiau Of ChevalieP Of the Legion Of
| Honor. on account Of his services 10 the
French Marine The Danish Government has
also conferred upon Hotehkiss the Cross OF
Denmark, for similar services rendered to the
artillery.
American.
Chicago. Feb. 1.-THE TfnttS' Winnepeg
special saws: Major Van Horn will tO-mor-
row announce the resignation of General
Rosser as Chief Engineer OF the Canada Paci-
fc, and T. B. Reed will ofiiciate. Rosser will
continue TO reside here.
The contractor on section 10 announces he
will have the track finished from Winnipeg TO
Fort William, Lake Superior, 10y July Isl.
CHICAGO, Feb. lG.-The Times prints this
morning what purports TO be copy Of a
registered letter sent by Mrs Scoville to Mrs
Garfield last Tuesday, pleading for forgive
ness for the assassin. II concludes: Never
can rest satisfied until be allowed, on my
Blended knees, under the weight Of this hunil-
lation and despair, few brief moments in
which to pour forth to your nerciiul heart tic
pleadings Of one who must ever teel sisters
love for an insane nOtherless boy, even
though by the whole world condemned and
despised'
NV YoRK, Feb. l3-Advices from Lima
of January 25th confirm the report that a
treaty Of peace has been signed between
Bolivia and Chile. By its terms, Bolivia is
left without a sea- board.
NEw York, Feb. l3.-A Lima dispatch
says: The result Of the contests between the
hands Of General Mass and Nillavicencia, at
Chindia, in Bolivia, shows that between fifty
and sixty foreigners lost their lives, and
property valued at 100000 was destroyed.
General Mass gave his soldiers permission to
sack the town after entering It.
CHICAGO, Feb. ia Washington special
says: General Fitz John Porter, last Friday
had an interview with the President and eN
planned the Pope campaign and how he had
been so long misiudged He invited the
PresideRt to carefully peFuse the records, as
General Grant lad recently done. General
Porter will return, and in a few days press
the passage of a bill restoring him to his
former rank.
WASHINGTON, Feb. LITTLE President will
not do anything 10 the Fitz-Jolm Porter case,
but will leave the whole matter with Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Fitz john
Porter case was under consideration at the
Cabinet meeting to-day, and it IS believed that
action will be taken toward having it re-
opened. All the members were present,
except The Attorney General.
New YoRK, Feb. IA letter 10 the World
from Aspinwall, dated the ith inst, says that
Of thirty Belgian mechanics WHO arrived some
three months ago, to work on the Panama
Canal, eighteen have died Of Isthmus fever.
Those who have escaped are leaving as rapid
ly as possible. 1t is said that thus far since
the commencement of the work, 1000 persons
have died.
Hueme, Stevens a Lynch Of San Francisco
have secured contract for the excavation Of
six million cubic meters of canal at 80 cents
(gold) per meter. This is considered re-
markably low price They will have to cut
through swamp and alluvial soil. 1t is the
worst section in the whole surface Of the
canal. 1t was here that the dreadful mortality
took place when the Panama Railroad was
being built. Fifteen hundred lives were then
lost, and many deaths were Unchronicled.