The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-02

The United States is to have a
revised seal. The eagle Is finer
and healthier looking bird than on
the old seal. The olive branch has
13 leaves and Is olives instead of
~ leaves and two olives. There are
Is arrows instead of 6, and IL stars
instead of IL. The new seal is said
to be vast improvement on the old
one.
Colonel Mosby, late U. s. Consul
at Hongkong, writes that he has
been offered by Ii Hung Chang, the
Bismarck Of China, che command of
the Chinese army, with liberty to
employ as officers 800 cx-Confede-
rates, but that he declined the honor
with thanks, because he could not
be a "mere mercenary soldier of
fortune"
An evangelist from Georgia, the
Rev. Sam Jones, is preaching in
Nashville to large audiences with
great success. He has had little
schooling, but makes up for that
lack by his intense earnestness he
cannot help but preach. His dis
course is rich in illustrations, and
abounds in epigrams, of which the
following are examples. "Some
preachers are so elegant that they
always refer to hell as the burnt
district This sort of dignity is
the starch of a shroud." "Pull up
your doubts by the roots and you'll
find seed at the bottom, and that
seed is SIM" In such sententious
and striking sayings consists much
of this southern evangelist's power
over his hearers.
The long-promised Crofters Bill
for Scotland has been brought in,
and though it does not satisfy some
of the EXTREMIST advocates of the
Crofters, there is no doubt that it is
large and liberal measure. Nor
does it appear likely to meet with
much opposition from the landlords.
Illegal as some of their acts have
been the Crofters, who have long
supplied many of our best regiments
with soldiers, command a considera-
BILE amount of public sympathy.
AS was anticipated, the bill is ar
extension of the principles of Irish
land legislation to another part of
the United Kingdom. Of the three
Fs the Crofters receive two, viz. {:
fixity of tenure, subject to certain
statutable conditions, and fair rents
fixed by official valuers. Free sale
is alien TO Scoth custom, and is not
demanded.-London Home Neaos.
The difficulties which we may now
be experiencing in our negotiations
with Russia on the subject of the
Afghanistan frontier and the irritat-
ing collision into which we are being
brought on variety of points with
France, cannot, perhaps, be properly
understood without reference to the
action and attitude of Germany.
Lord Rosebery, it is announced, will
leave London to-day or tomorrow
on a visit to Count Herbert Bis
marck at Berlin. The real object
of his journey is probably to see
Count Herbert's illustrious father.
If he can improve the Chancellor
temper towards England he will
have accomplished great and bene-
ficent result. At the present mo-
ment there is every reason to believe
that Prince Bismarck does not like
England at all better than he did
three months ago, and that he is
doing everything to occasion us an
noyance. Thus it may we'll be that
any hitch which has occurred in the
Anglo-Russian negotiations is moro
or less instigated by Germany; ant
it may be regarded as certain thai
if the Egyptian question is KEEP
open much longer, such result viii
be exclusively due 10 German in
fluence, seeing that the settlement
of the Egyptian business would a
once establish more agreeable mu
tual relations between England ant
her European neighbors. -Londo'
Home Neaos, May %.