The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-11
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SATURDAY, JULY II, 1885.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

The net public debt of Canada
June 1st was $751; 1886, 900; floating
debt, $62 200, 900.
Nearly all the cattle in Iceland
persisted during the past winter,
which was the most severe ever
known in the island.
The floating debt of France is
now 400, 100000 francs, and the
deficit for the next fiscal year is
estimated at 30,000,000 francs.
The Paris cemeteries are not con-
secrated; the religious rites over the
bodies of Catholics take place in
church, not in the burial ground.
In New York lace house the girl
clerks, being suspected of little
thefts, organized vigilance com
mittee and soon discovered the thief
to be man.
The new steam yacht Stiletto of
New York has made twenty-five
miles an hour, and her builder
claims she can run twenty-seven
miles an hour easily.
The bankers in Great Britain are
refusing to accept sovercigns on de-
post until they had passed weighing
by the Bank of England. The con-
sequence is the market is glutted.
There are $4,000 blind persons in
France who are without other means
of support than begging. France is
almost wholly without asylums,
either public or private, for the
blind.
NJ. Brsson, the French Premier,
is said to be an Evangelical Protes-
tant of marked purity of private and
public life, of unflinching integrity
and rectitude, opposed to the con-
cordat and to making the church an
instrument in the hands of the state.
The French Government has de-
cided to suppress the gaming tables
at Monte Carlo. The Prince of
Monaco, however, declares that the
French Government has no jurisdic-
ton over his property, and that he
will resist its efforts to interfere with
his business.
In Norway every holder of public
office is obliged to declare his adhe-
sion to the Lutheran or State Church,
but this requirement does not pre-
vent persons who disbclieve the doc
trines of that church from obtaining
official position. No scrutiny is
made of their professions.
The new Forth Bridge between
North and South Queensferry, Scot
land, approaches completion. 1t is
a cantilever structure, S,091 feet
long, $50 feet high, and will cost
IS, 100000. 1t has been nearly
eight years in building. Two thou
sand men are now employed upon it.
A New York despatch says fewer
pastors of city churches than usual
will vacate this summer. Many of
the principal churches will close only
few weeks during the hottest
weather, and some not at all. The
list of clergymen visiting Europe
this summer is conspicuously small.
The New York Tribune says: Adj
miral Porter at the age of seventy
two is writing history of the navy
during the Civil War. He expects
to complete it during the coming
autumn. lie has just issued nine
hundred page novel, and has two
other books of 500 pages each in
press.
Advices from Northern Texas are
to the effect that serious trouble is
looked for in the Panhandle region,
over the arrival of Southern Texas
cattle through Kansas. The opposi.
ton to their passage through Kansas
is given out to be that of sickness
among the cattle, though competi.
ton is probably the main cause.
While the sanitary authorities al
Madrid are carrying out their pre-
cautionary measures against cholera
mobs frequently gather and attack
them. The rioters are composed OF
the lower classes, who are bitterly
opposed to all kinds of practical
preventive measures and rely OF
prayers to keep off the deadly
scourge.
An aeronaut named Patterson me
a horrible death while making an as
cension at circus performance, a
Charleston, West Virginia. Til
balloon took fire from the hot al
stove used to initiate it just at tn,
moment of starting, and collapsed
at a height of several hundred feet
precipitating Patterson TO the cart
in lifeless mass.
Receiver Johnson of the wrecke,
Marine Bank of New York says
"There is not a particle of doub
that Ferdinand Ward has hidde