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

Secretary of the Treasury Folger is seri.
ously i'll.
The "Star Route" trial still drags i, weary
length along
The new tariff regulations in the United
States increase the duty on steel wire.
The Arizona Apaches are on the warpath
again, and have killed several settlers.
There has been a smallpox epidemic in Min.
nesota, now happily under complete control.
There has been an increase Of salaries of
pos,masters in the United States. all along the
line.
| Work is TO be prosecuted on the Portage,
Washburne and Northwestern Railway, in
Canada.
The New York Timer says the new tariff
law in the United States is only step towards
free trade.
Genial John Mccullough, the actor of whom
San Francisco is proudest, has been i'll, but is
recovering
A recent telephone test in the United States
resulted in distinct conversation, heard dis
lance OF $50 miles.
| The Texas cowboys are on strike and
trouble is feared The Trenton, N. j., iron.
workers are also on strike.
A Federal Marriage Law" has been pro-
posed, in order to equalize the marriage and
divorce laws Of the several United States.
Money has been offered to O'Donovan Rosa,
the Irish Socialist OF New York, for "blowing
up the Parliament buildings in London" The
money was declined.
A number of German capitalists have pur.
chased million acre land grant in Mexico.
A report that Prince Bismark is connected with
the scheme is denied.
Mrs. William Ii. Vanderbilt announced a
fancy dress ball. Some Of the New York So.
cialists threatened to throw bombs through the
windows but did not.
The AMT Monopoly Party in many states,
including California, has issued calls for dis.
trict conventions to formulate some plan fol
action. The Republicans and Democrats are
| also active.
A two-months old Jersey heifer calf was re.
Gently sold at Ramsey, N. j., for STA, 500, and
the trotting stallion Jerome Eddy, with q
record Of 2:I6, recently sold at Buffalo, N. Y,
for $2s,ooo.
The national banking system of the United
States will receive an impetus il the new rule
prevail that none of them shall in the future
be required. to pay any tax except "tax on
| circulation"
Reports continue to arrive from all sections
of Nova Scotia regarding the damage to prop.
erty by the freshets. While the losses will no,
reach very large amount, the aggregate Of the
damage will be most serious. In nearly every
county the bridges have been swept away.
Washouts are reported and great damage has
been done TO fences, small bridges, etc.
The New York 7fmes, noticing the appoin,
ment by Secretary Teller Of Mrs, Helen Hun,
! Jackson, special agent to investigate Califonis
Indian land titles, says: SIT is an Unprecedented
thing, but there is propriety in it, In the phil
anthroplc work of ascertaining the equitable
rights Of these poor people, dispossessed Of thei
ancient holdings, Mrs. Jackson will have tn,
goodwill Of all honest people"
1t is reported that the new road from 81,
Louis 10 san Francisco via the ST. Louis anc
San Francisco to Halstead, Kan, the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe to Albuquerque
New Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific to tn,
Needles, on the Colorado river, and the All
roma and Southern Pacific to San Francisco
IS expected to be in complete operation by Ma,
list. The line will be three hundred miles
shorter than the present one via Deming, ane
promises t" become very popular in all seasons
Of the year.
Commissioners, from the several little State.
OF Central America have under consideration
the terms Of projected federation Of thei
Governments. The New York Sss says: 9Th,
scheme Of a. Central American union is old
In fact, should the present movement succeed
i may properly be described as a revival Of IN,
former confederation. There ought to be n,
great difficulty in bringing abou, a necesSar,
agreement upon all the questions a, issue
II ought TO be easy Tor the States to establish
a union upon terms that are honest, fair an,
directed to common interest. Let Contra
America be united.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey steame
Blake has returned TO New York with the dis
,inetion Of having made the deepest soundin.
ever before made in the Atlantic Ocean. o.
the 18TH OF January in latitude ~ AZ north
90 ~ west, about los miles northwest Of st
Thomas, the lead did not touch bottom unit
ASoi fathoms Of the line had been paid out
The greatest depth heretofore found in tn
Atlantic has been 31o2 fathoms. The Location
Of this sounding was close to that of the presen
. one, and was made by the Ckallsssvy, which
sent out by the Royal Society Of England
made soundings in the Atlantic between tn
years is7a and 1876.
There was recently report in wsshineto,
l that the British Minister resident had receive,
instructions from the London Foreign Ofiic
directing inquiry into the inccndiary ntterance
, Of Irish Nationalist in America. Apuopos Q
which Assistant Secretary Of State Davis sal.
there had been any communication receive,
from the British government, Il would no, |,
proper matter to discuss With the public.
was. no doubt. very annoying 10 he Englis
government and people to feel that men a.
{ harbored In another country, and 10 some "a
tent encouraged In their sympaihics with an
! indirect aid to assaszins and dynamite plostess
who are giving them % much troabls but hi
government can deal only with facts, and e
under the laws n they sand upon our stasut
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