Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-24
FOREIGN
Mormon vengence (!
The Cars Dread Of NihiIists.
Russia's Work on the Black Sea,
SPANISH COMMERCIAL TREATIES,
ETC, ETC.

The Tonquin war cost China $s4r,-
100000.
Hans Canon, the famous Austrian
artist is dead.
Jean Claude Banquet, the we'll
known French mathematician, is dead.
The Postmaster General has ap-
pointed about 500 fourth-class Post
masters. No appointments have been
made for the Pacific Coast.
The strike OF 5000 workmen en-
ployed at the Elswick Gun and Ma
chine Works of Sir William Armstrong
has been settled in favor of the strikers.
The two foremen objected to by the
workmen were discharged.
Baker County, Oregon, has organized
Board of immigration for the purpose
of taking steps toward obtaining agri
culturaland mineral exhibits in the East,
and giving information to those seeking
location in Baker County.
The sheep men of Monterey County
want the coyote scalp ordinance re-
enacted. From January Ist to Aug
ust ist that comfy paid $4,000 for coy
ote scalps. AS the business was be-
coming too vast the Supervisors repealed
the act.
The board Of naval officers appointed
to consider plans for the construction
of the new naval vessels have met at the
Navy Department and the Board
expects to have its report ready to
submit to Secretary Whitney within a
couple of weeks.
Rear Admiral John w. Livingston
died in New York Thursday He was
born in 1904. In 1892 he served as
watch officer in the brig Dolphin and
sloop Eaivhild, in the Pacific, and in
the frigate Columbia on the voyage
around the world.
Charles H. Chamberlain Of St. Louis
has begun suit against the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, ask
ing $1,000 damages for injuries re-
ceived at an accident on that road ten
years ago. Mr.. Chamberlain claims
that he was permanently disabled by
the accident
The steamers of the China Steam
Navigation Company, which were
transferred to the house of Russell &
Co. at the breaking out of hostilities
between France and China, have been
re-transferred. The American flag has
| been hauled down and the Chinese
flag rehoisted
The British ship Gnlaoys was cut to
the waters edge by a collision with the
American ship Payamatta, on the coast
Of Ireland, during recent storm.
AS the American ship was com
paratively uninjured, it is unnecessary
to look for her name in the list ol
naval vessels.
Ten cutters employed in the Phila-
delphia Mint who desired assurances
that they would not be displaced ex-
cept for cause, received a notifica
ton from Superintendent Fox dis
charging them for insubordination
and conspiracy to embarass the bust
ness Of the institution
From list Of las applicants fol
appointment as messengers for the spe
cial delivery service, the Postmaster
has decided to select thirty to com
mence with. This number, it is
thought will give good fair trial
Should the service prove popular and
more messengers be required, they viii
be appointed,
Germany is preparing her navy fo,
active service, but as the orders are tc
reft for duty in the north Atlantic
Alfonso need not be excited or fright
ened by the preparations unless he
fears that Bismarck is cross-eyed anc
in reality is looking at the south Pa
ci6c while ostensibly cruising at the
north Atlantic
A Calcutta special says No doub
remains but that terrible famine il