Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-04-14

Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, have asked to
have retail liquor licences fixed at Sage a
year.
The frs, instance in America where lady
ofhciated as clergyman at a wedding ceremony
was at Columbus, Ohio, recently, when Mrs.
Lydia G. Romick, the evangelist, performed
the marriage service for Charles PIN Of Damas-
Gus, Ohio, and Miss Emma Bryant. Both
bride and groom are members OF the Society
Of Friends.
Some OF the war vessels OF France, having
threatened to blockade Madagascar ports. the
government denies that it ever had such in,en.
ton, excep, in defense Of vested French inter
ests. In the meanwhile several Madagascar
chiefs are in the United States, uttering a
semisocia, semi-dploma,ic protest against
French intervention.
The French Ministry Of Marine are having
forty six vessels constructed at the present mo-
ment, thirty-one in the Government dock.
yards and fifteen by private firms. Fourteen
OF these vessels are ironclads, representing
value Of lao, 600, 600 francs. Two will cost
II, SOC, 600 francs each. Eight others will cost
each more than three.quarters OF that sum.
There is anarchy and there are rumors of an.
archy all over Europe. The very latest out
cropping is in Spain. The Black Hand" is
an organization similar TO that of the old "In.
ternationalc." 1t is waging war upon landed
proprietors, particularly in Andalusia. Work.
men in large numbers have been drawn into
the Society, whose chief object is an agrarian
revolution. 1t has declared war against landed
proprietors, and has commenced work by the
commission of horrible outrages.
The Irish Fenian Nationalist Land League.
l. 4. A.
explosion in London. The Local Government
Board Offices at Westminster and the Times
office were the points of attack. No lives were
lost, and little damage was done. The
Russian Government has proposed to the other
Powers that an international detective force be
organized to cope with Anarchists, Nihilists,
Fenians and Socialists France, Switzerland
and Austria have acquiesced in the proposal
The San Francisco Bulletin says A rumor
| which seems to have some truth in it is now
current that the Pacific Mail Steamship Com.
pany and the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company have entered into an agreement to
transport Chinese passengers and freight from
Hongkong to Portland and British Columbia
by way Of San Francisco. The steamer c. T.
Hook was sent out with miscellaneous cargo
| and laborers for the Canada Pacific Railroad
as an experiment, and the venture was found
so promising that, it is stated, it was deter.
mined to establish monthly service. The
route determined on is Portland, San Francisco
and Honolulu on the return trip. The steam.
ers to be employed belong to Howard & Co.
Of Hongkong. 1t is also stated that an ar.
rangement has been made by which the Pacific
Mail Company receives $40 and the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company receives
$Io for the transportation Of Chinese passen.
gers from Hongkong to British Columbia Ed.
win Goodall, of Goodall, Perkins & Co., ad.
and states that provision has been made for the
joint maintenance Of the Chinese in transitu
while waiting here for the departure of the
steamer for Victoria. This agreement has al
ready gone into effect, and at present a con.
siderable number of Chinese laborers are
awaiting transportation to scenes Of activity on
the Canada Pacific.