Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-12

San FRANCISCO yesterday, the following
news is received from the Orient
JAPAN.
The outbreak of cholera at Yokohama
has assumed an epidemic form, though the
number of persons attacked has not been
SO large as might be expected, ranging
from half dozen to one dozen per day /;
but the proportion of fatal results has been
considerable.
The native journals evince considerable
dissatisfaction at China having been the
medium through which commercial rela-
tions between Corea and the United
States have been established, and COM
plain that the only reward Japan has re-
ceived for her efforts in bringing Corea
into closer fellowship with the Western
world has been trouble 1t is also thought
that the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by
Japanese merchants in the trade with for
eign goods is about to be strangled by the
provisions of the treaty between Corea and
America, which supposition will probably
prove correct.
Considerable dissatisfaction prevails in
the southern districts of the empire, which
may be attributed to political agitators
sowing the seeds of dissension under vari-
GUS guises and to the indulgence of the
samural class, whose condition is said to
be most deplorable. -
The Rengo Klito Niadzukarijo, the COM
pany which caused the deadlock in the
silk trade last year, has again commences
operations.
According to recent statistics, the popu.
lation of Japan is computed to be 36, 35S,
994, divided into is, 423, PA males and IT,
935. go females.
There is prospect of tramway being
laid through the center of Toxic, COM
pany having been formed for the purpose OF
carrying out this project.
A case of piracy is reported as having
occurred near Osaka. A small coasting
steamer was boarded by thirty armed men,
who took every available article away.
An insect Is proving very destructive to
the tea plant in Yamashiro.
A charge of establishing monopolies for
the sale of tickets to passengers by coast
ing steamers has been brought against the
Governor of Yehime.ken. The Governors
action has resulted in the owners of sixty
steamers agreeing not to call at the port of
Tadotsu until their grievance is redressed.
This has nearly ruined the trade OF the
port.
A story OF the sea.serpent type is
chronicled in native paper. A fisherman
IN Sado one day not long since sue
ceeded in capturing monster of the deep,
twenty-three feet i'll length and ten feet in
circumference. An autopsy was performed
by the fishermen of the village, which
revealed large golden.hued ball in the
mouth of the animal, the severing of which
ahouad the nf hnp do of
small snakes, which so alarmed the fisher.
men that they committed its body to the
sea.
Radical changes are being made in the
crews and soldiers of the Chinese gunboats.
The Ningpo and Shanghai men are being
replaced by Cantonese
The first consignment of wire for the
new telegraph line to be erected between
Kaulung and Canton has arrived, and the
other portions are to fellow Immediately.
1t is understood that the Chinese Mer-
chants Steam Navigation Company have
arranged to run steamers to Corea.
A Tientsin correspondent of the n. C.. D..
Ne,cs says that all reports az to Sir Thomas
Wade going to Corea are false, and that
Admiral Willes had been given full power.
The funeral of the mother of the great
Lii took place on the 18th ultimo, and was
a very imposing spectacle.
Huang Chin. man, the pirate at Ningpo,
has been heard from again. The District
Magistrate offered reward of Sc, 900 for
his capture and half that sum for his head,
and Immediately he made the same offer
for the person or head of the Magistrate.
This proclamation of the latter was called
forth by the daring of the pirate chief,
who captured and held to ransom several
wealthy men. Soon after this battle took
place, about the lst of May, in which the
rebels were victorious. Though only 400
strong they defy the entire force OF the
district, now $500 regular troops, which
with volunteers numbers about 10000.
Rumor says that sixty imperials were