Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-10
JAPAN AND cHrs.

San Francisco. August 9 .h.-The steamer
Oceanic arrived to-day from Hongkong, via
Yokohama. She brought no Chinese passea.
gers. She bril- gs the following news:
CHINA
HONGKoNG, July 15th.-UnUsual heat and
consequent disease prevails in the region
where the foreign legation is situated. The
Thermometer there has reached l0Ss in the
shade.
The French missionary station at Peishun,
near the AMOR river seven hundred miles
from New Chwang, was attacked by mob.
Father Conrsu and his servant are reported
killed, and several others wounded.
JAPAN.
YOKOHAMA, July 25th.- Cholera increases
in the Dsigbborhood of Yokohama and Toxic.
A special bureau has been created in the
Home Department to regulate the treatment
Of this disease. Medical officials are promptly
| sent to any part of the Empire where it APP.
| pears. Remedies for cholera are exempted
from Government taxation for sixty days.
| Orders have been issued that the bodies. with
th=ir effects, of the pore. victims. be imme-
diatsly burned after death.
| The japanese corvette Hi Yei kuwan is
preparing at Toxic for a cruise round the
world.
| Public libraries are to bs established by the
Government in every provincial capital
throughout the empire.
Professor Morse is earnestly urging upon
the Government the necessity for conserving
and artifcialy propsgating 6sb, the natural
supply of which seeEas dangerously dc.
| creasipg.
There il considerable excitement among
the foreign residents in Toxic. owing to the
daring burgiaries, now of regular nightly &C.
eurrence. and against which the police appear
incapable OF guarding.
A draft of the new treaty with the foreign
powers, now completed, vas submitted to
| the Emperor Tor his approval. This pro-
ceeding is merely formal, snd copies will soon
| be dispatched to the Western capitals. The
treaty is mere make. Sniff, totally unworthy
of any nation claiming to be an independent
state, and affords new proof of the abject
condition to which this Government is re-
ducsd by European pressure. chiefly exsr.
cised by Germany and England.
The United States ship Monocacy is re-
ported to have visited Fusan, the souther.
! most part of Corea, June 22d, to select site
for an American settlement. The captain
and several officers landed, and visited Torai
Flu, the nearest important town, and ex-
changed civihties and presents with the Gov.
| ernor. The Monocacy remained four days.
the friendliest terms prevailing on all sides.
| The japanese Government contemplstes O
| submarine cable from Japan to Corea.
The Corsan authorities have ordered from
Japanese f0undries the necessary machinery
for casting types fer printing.
A curious report is circulating that in
August next. or the occasion Of the Chinese
Emperor's birthday the King of Corea pur.
poses visiting Picking, osteHsibly to offer con.
CALCULATIONS, but really TO seek guidance in
his present complications with the Western
powers. Preparations fer the journey are
now said TO be progressing.
At Seoul the capital nj Cores, the steamer
to be presented by the Emperor of Japan to
the King of Corea, is nearly completed.