Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-20

ing Chinese news, dated FEBRUARY Ao''' "As
received:
IT, IL currently reported in Shanghai that
tbe Rritish authorities propose to initiate
tLs EXAMPLE lately introduced by the Gsr-
man officials, ard resort to forcible meas'
ures If private business is obstructed by Cei-
nese. The British telegraph Company de-
sires TO land a new cable ct Shanghai, pus
acknowledge doubt Of their right to DO 30,
and asks permission from tha Chinese fuuc-
t;onar;e4. Who have withheld an answer for
several weeks. Representations having been
made to the British Government, the Foreign
Office ia sid to have been telegraphed to land
forcibly. if necessary.
Y. z. Hunter, a uativs Of Virginis, 81
gagged as clerk for Jardine, Mattsewson &
Co. Shanghai, died In commissions in that
CITY recently OF hydrophotis.
An engagement is said TO have taken place
lately near Ku Lun between . band Of
mounted brigands and some Government
troop, in which the former vera defeated.
Several Ters captured and beheadsd On !hs
spot.
levied at New ChWang. The money IS to be
expended in putting the Corean frontier upon
a war footing.
The machinery for the Kirin arsenal was
recently shippsd from New ChwaDg 10 four
whealed wagons built especially for that pur-
pose, but owing 80 the heavy falls OF snow
some Of thu wagons fell over preciplce on
the Chen Chen Shan-she mountain OF o
thousand peaks.
News has been received at Canton OF 8
most daring pira.icsl raid in tbs Ksl Chsu
district. On the 81 instant town called
Tien Peh was suddenly attacked and tsksn
T-n -. -L-r Tt-T s,f4f
was to break opepsthe jail aud release some OF
their comrades who had recently been placed
in durance VILE This they succeeded in &C
complaining, but the place was retaken the
next day by body Of soldisrs Some CT the
officials were wounded during the contest,
and the robbers are go formidable in numbers
and 30 daring that application was sent to
Canton for reinforcement of troops.
Tia French transport. bringing the FIRST 10.
stallment of troops for the Tonquin expsdi'
ton. is reported to have arrived &c her dest;-
nation.
The Norwegian bark Henrik Isoeu was
wrecke. January 10th on the PescadoTes
Islands. The ship and cargo were total
loss. The crew was saved.
Kwong XII Chin, lately Secretary and In
terpretcr to the Chinese Educational Mission
in America, is now on his way to Shanghai,
where he intends to settle down snd com
plete translation of bis work, voluulinous
tDiction9sy Of English Phrases, with Illus
trative Sentences This work has already
occupied Mr.. Kvoug several years. and re-
fleets equal credit on his industry and ability.
The turret ship Wiyern had been gos of
ths bank On which she vas grounded up the
Canton liVsr.
a Tientsin correspondent says: The mutiny
az the Eastern TOmbs is finished. Wang,
the General IN command of the troops, has
been beheaded on the spot, snd the soldiers
who submitted have bee psrdonsd asd have
received the balance Of their pay. The cav
airy. however, numbering 100 mer, have not
returned. They are eaid 20 hsvs joined the
robbers and gone into Mapchuria.
A Chinese banker st Shanghai recently
failed for 100, coo teels, and felt 50 bad about
it that he committed suicide.
The Briii.h steamship Msrionsthshirs sr.
rived at Hongkong February Ssh, aud reports
having picked up q CHINESE junk Ia the Bay
of Bengal. with six Chinese on board in bad
condition and starving. The junk had met
with q heavy gale and lost her mast and rud-
der, and was driven $50 miles from land.
JAPAN.
It ia reported that the Government viii
shortly reimposs the income tax, abTogated
some years ago, on official salaries.
a further strengthening of the army ID con-
templased, coo, 600 yen being the sum men
toned az likely 60 be added to the expsndi-
ture Of the army department for that pur.
pose.
The Japan Gasette says: The uncertainty
in regard to the probable action of China to-
wards Japan still prevails but, although the
Government OF this country is adopting pre-.
causionary measures by strengthening and
improving the naval and military forces, there
is an absence Of energy and activity which
seems to indicate that there is little fear OF
any Immediate rupture of the friendly reia'
tons between the two countries.
The suspension of the Jiyu StiRJun has
been followed by summary proceedings
against the writers, terminating in both OF
them being treated like common criminals,
and being sentenced TO three months impris-
onment with hard labor and fine Of 80 yer,
for having insultsd the Executive Govern
ment.
The Japan Gazette attributes the depressed
state Of affairs in Japan to the fact that the
Imperial Government either engages directly
in trade, or makes uss of trade as means OF
transferring money from the owners Of the
produce dealt in to the Treasury.
At Yokohama, February oath, during tar
get practice on the British man os-war Oar
ing, a 6Spound muzzle-loading gun exploded,
wounding others. The names of the men who
lost their lives are Timothy Connolly and
John Randell. The breech of the gun was
blown clean off.
The Hiogo Neeos states that in the event of
war between Japan and China, operations
will be carried on from Cores, 80 that the
army there may be utilized. while the naval
forces are only to be employed in coast de-
Tense and transportation of material.
Yokohama was visited on February 9Th by
the heaviest fall of snow during the past
twenty years. Railroad traffic was entirely
suspended, and business seriously interiered
with.
The young Prince Kwacho-no- Miya died on
February 18th.
The Chinese Legation hes regularly sent
translations to the Chinese Government of all
important items in respect to the enlarge.
ment of our army and navy. and it has re-
ceived orders to send more minute and COM
plete Information.
1t is reported that the Government is about
to export large quantities of silk, with view
of raising funds co pay for purchases abroad.
The kerosene oil test has once more been
changed, but in place of giving the number
of degrees, according to the test adopted in
Americs, the country Of its production, the
oil is tested in totally different manner.
That given by the GoFernmsnt is 80 cent. or
Sc Fair, in q closed vessel.
One IF the seamen On board the American
ship Vigilant, namsd w. Erickson, was at
work in the aizzsn-topmast crosstrees, when
he fell from sloft and struck the mizzsl chan
nels, and then fell overheard. One of his
messmates Jumped overheard and picked him
up, but life was found 70 be extinct, his skull
having been fractured.
coREA
The Clioga Sltiabun states that while the
United States and Germany are desirous Of
establishing the independence Of Corea, Eng.
land wishes it 10 be dependency on Chino, g
condition Of affairs which would enable Greai
Britain to send opium into Corea.
The ProgressiOnists are anxious TO be or
friendly terms with the japanese, but they
are ia the minority, and tbs msj Jrity of the
people sFe unfrisndiy.
Although the Shuieldt treaty has been raj
fed st Washington, il is feared thSt some diff
feultiss viii crop up hereafter, as the new
convention between China and Corea converts
the latter not merely into akChinese prefscs
ure, but, according TO some peoples opinion,
into q private estate of His Excellency J.
Hung Chang.
Tbs Government has ordered 500 900 kin Of
copper and 100 COO kin of zinc. The meta
is to BIO used for the manufacture Of brass
coins.
Monsieur Bourse, the French Envey il
Picking, is ssid to have addressed very in
terestiDg note to Prince Kung, stating that
the Government of the Republic had no diff
Guilty in recognizing the order of things il
Caraa viz that c9untrY's dependency or