The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

We supplement the letter Of our san Francisco
correspondent with the foIlowing brief extracts
from files OF papers received during the week.
Rome, March 27.-Seveu Cardinals were
created to-day, including Archbishop McCabe Of
Dublin. The Pope delivered an ullocution Oh
the position Of the Church.
Cettinge, March 2S-The official organ Of the
MOntenegran Government having published an
address to General Skobeleff signed by the
Prime Minister and the War Minister Of the
principally, applauding SkObeleff's speeches,
Skobeleff replied that he believed IN the mission
of the SclaTs and intends collecting q relief
fund.
Berlin, March 29-General Skobeleff has been
nominated to a Commission for the reOrganiza-
ton Of Turkestan. The appointment Is con-
sidered as an honorable exile.
Madrid, March 3O-A serious strike has
occurred in Barcelona and other towns opposed
to the reforms of the tariff, and works and mills
Will be closed. In Barcelona there have been
fifty arrests. Many thousand operatives are
affected. The labor demonstrations in Andalusia
are owing to distress from drought. The Cata-
Ian operatives informed u committee OF the
Chamber of Deputies that the adoption of a
thousand wOrkmen of means Of subsist-
ence. Shops and manufactures are closing,
in Corona, SabOdell and Tarrasas. A state Of
siege is threatened in Catalonia if the agitation
continues.
st. Petersburg. March Silt is officially
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mutation of all death sentences passed at the
recent trial of Nihilists to an indefinite period
at hard labor IN the mines, except in the case of
Marine Lieutenant Sachanoff, in which sentence
Is confirmed, as his position as officer aggravated
his crime. He is. however, granted a military
execution, which takes place to-day.
The GOlOs says the police are preparing for
further expulsion of Jews from Moscow.
London, April 1.-The Oxfords won the Uni
versity race to-day by six boat-lengths. The
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"won as they pleased" The Cambridge men
were exhausted at the finish, and their rowing
was irregular. The time of the Oxford crew was
20 minutes II seconds; of the Cambridge crew,
20 minutes 81 seconds. The tide and wind were
both favorable for n good race.
Washington, April I-Guiteau has sold the
suit of clothes that he wore when he shot the
President to COup's Circus for exhibition.
Mcdonald, the sculptor, is here, making busts
of Garfield and Guiteau for Coup for exhibition
at the same time. Guiteau continues to abuse
Scoville, who is digusted at the prospect of his
having to continue in the case. Scoville pur-
poses to get up a petition for the Communication
of his sentence to life imprisonment. He thinks
it would be signed by two-thirds of the Congress-
men and many persons of influence.
New York, April 2-W. II. Hurlbut. editor of
the World, has been notified by Prescott that
General Hurlbut, late United States Minister to
Peru, died suddenly, of disease of heart, on
March 2Sth, at Lima.
New York, April 2-Cornelius J. Vanderbilt,
brother of William II. Vanderbilt, shot himself
through the head at Glenham Hotel, on Fifth
Avenue, this afternoon at 2 O'Clock, and died
from the effects of the wound at 6 o'clock. From
the time of the shooting until his death Van
derbilt was unconscious. Many friends of the
dead man and members of his family were pre-
sent when he passed away. The motive for the
act, given by friends of the family is that it was
the result of mental arrangement, brought on
by years of suffering from epileptic fits. Nc
other reason could be given, as his financial
affairs are said to be in the most prosperous
City of Mexico, April 2-Congress has opened.
President Gonzales read the address. 1t is
settled, and Guatemala must now speedily re-
nOunce acquiring the States of Chiapas or So
zorro, or war is inevitable.
New York, April 3.-Advices from Panama
in Chile. formally withdraws any offer of good
offices from the United States in the conclusion
Of peace between Peru and Chile.
London, April An the Hanlan-Boyd race,
Boyd at the outset raised the hopes of his sup
porters, but HARLAN, gathering himself together,
with one effort placed himself first after fifty
yards had been rOwed, and he maintained the
lead Of from one to four lengths throughout
the race, occasionally playing with Boyd, and
won by four lengths.
London, April 4.-Advices from Buenos Ayres
of March Sth say that the PeruVians lost 1000
men in an engagement in Abacucho. The Peru
Wan commanders were taken prisoners, and il is
expected they will be shot.
London, April 5.-Sara Bernhardt was mar
ried to NJ. Damala, a Greek gentleman, in this
city, to-day. She will continue her theatrical
carssr, and Damala and the bride will perform
here ia May. Damala is a fine-looking, middle
aged man, said to be tOlerably rich. Bernhardt
gave no previous notice Of the wedding. 4
French lady and gentleman and the officials of
the church were the only witnesses.
Dill, Anil A The ranorta oopcarDino Ric-
marck's health are unfaYorable. His physicians
recOmmen q long rest.
Moscow, April lO.-The GGsetie says it is in
tended to reduce the army at the end of the year
to 300 600 men.
Berlin, April 1O.-The appointment of Degiers
Minister Of Foreign Affairs to Russia is viewed
as an eminently pacific symptom
Washington, April 10 Secretary Hunt has
received a dispatch from Engineer Melville,
dated Yakutsk, January 9th, as follows 81
have completed all necessary arrangements for
supplies and outfits for six months, and leave
this place for Balun to-day; thence to the Lena
delta to continue the searclrfOr my missing COM
rades."
the pastor Of the First Unitarian Church of
Oakland, on the corner of Thirteenth and JEFF
fersOn streets, dropped dead in his pulpit while
holding morning services yesterday. AT the
moment of his sudden demise he was In the
midst of his sermon. He was seen to raise his
hand to his forehead as If to clear his eyesight,
when, without the least tremor or paro1ysm of
his countenance, he slowly bowed his head on
the manuscript before him, sank quietly on his
knees, and then fell PROSTATE on the floor of the
pulpit. \ physician present pronounced the
attack either thai Of paralysis Of the brain or
apoplexy,
The deceased minister was a native of New
York, aged about 50 years. He was educated at
Hamilton College, New York, trained for the
ministry in the Presbyterian Church, and was
settled at San Jose, from which place he re-
moved to Oakland. Some fifteen years ago he
was tried before the Presbytery for heresy, the
result Of which was his severance from that
denomination, he having modified his views on
all theological questions.
THEY were riding in the horse car past the
poets door, when one of the ladies remarked
That's LOngfellow's home" SIS it?" re-