The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-28
FOREIGN NEWS.
(Son Francisco, Dec. 20M, per
s. s. MorpoSa.)
UNITED STATES.

dencc in New York. He was the
richest man in the United States,
his father having left him 500, 900;
owned more miles of railway than
any man in the world, and held
more bonds of the United States
than any oihc' citizen. Vanderbilt
was friend o, Nral Grant. His
will leaves SlO,U 800 to each of
his eight childreb, anA nearly a
million TO charitable institutions /;
his wife gets the mansion and
stables in New York, with their
contents excepting pictures, sta
tuary and works of art, IN annuity
of 100000 during .hcr life and the
disposal by will of $500, 900. The
residue is to be equally divided be-
tween his two sons, Cornelius and
William X. Vanderbilt. The for
tune aggregates S1S2, 100000.
Diphtheria is spreading in New
York, and strenuous measures will
be required to prevent it getting
beyond control. 1t is regarded as
serious rs smallpox, and its ravages
are puzzling the doctors.
A successful operation of remov-
ing a cancer. from the tongue and
throat was lately performed at the
New York Hospital, which was in
tcrcsting from the fact that the
malady was identical in nature and
situation with that which brought
| General Grants life to close.
Hon. b. Gratz Brown died at his
residence in Kirkwood, o suburb Of
st. Louis, of pneumonia complicated
with heart disease, on Dec. 18th, at
80 years of age. Mr.. Brown made
the first emancipation speech ever
delivered in the Missouri Legisla-
ture, entered the Union service ut
the outbreak of the war, joined the
liberal movement in Missouri at the
close of the war, was elected Gov
ernor of the State in, 1871, subse-
quently Il United States Senator,
and was nominated for Vice President
on the Greeley ticket.
| The Grant monument fund
amounts to over Sill 900.
| Cyrus w. Field endorses bill of
Senator Edmunds, to provide for the
national Government securing con-
troll of the telegraph lines.
The correspondence relating to
the appointment of A. M. Kelley as
United States Minister to Austria,
and his rejection by that country,
Shows Il firm attitude on the part OF
the American Government to the
last. Mr.. Bayard, Secretary OF
State, in his final letter, says the
conditions of rejection on account
of the race and faith of Keiley's
wife, and the objection of Italy.
that had also refused to accept the
same man as Minister there, "are
simply intolerable and " incon'
sistent with that decent self-respect
which forbids q nation of 60,000,.
600 of freemen to accept the situa
: ton of a diplomatic dependency o1
J 4 foreign Power.'
The banks of Sacramento have
placed a discount of one-fourth o.
one percent on all silver received
to cover the cost of shipping it tt
f other points, which has to be dom
, on account of its rapid accumula
: ton.
The prohibitionists have carrie'
the day in Atlanta, Georgia, in til
$ local option contest.
0 Settlers in the Gila, Arizona, ar
n fleeing for their lives, the countr
!, being overrun with Indians.
The anti-Chinese agitation ha
: become general all over the Pacifi
n Coast, large meetings being held i
e the chief towns. At Truckee, Ne
vada, the employers of labor hav
;, resolved to discharge their Chimes
" hands, and an organization has bee
u made to procure white help for a
y purposes. The. Chinese at El Past
It CAL, are taking out naturalizatio
r papers by the hundred, believin
they will be better protected if the
! become American citizens, and it
:. supposed the movement will becom
d general on the Coast. A plot fl
c blowing up the Chinese quarter
San Francisco has been discovere'
Several of the foreign socialist bree
i have been arrested, and the noto
c ious Coroner O'Donnell's name
c freely mentioned in connection wit
n the business.
j. ENGLAND.
q John and Sarah Magee have bee
IS arrested in London for trying
s. blaclimail the Prince of Vale
id They wrote letters to his roy
,r highness,g threatening assassinatic
y, if he did not fork over ESQ.
~ The elections have resulted in
81 House of Commons about equal
" divided, with Liberals on one sic
f. and Tories and Parnellites on IL
other. The members of the ne
II House of Commons who never we