Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-02-28

There IS negro exodus rom North
Carolina
Francis A. Dacxcl, the Philadelphia
banker is dead
De Lesseps says the Panama canal is
50 far a success.
Another exploring expedition is to
be sent to Alaska
No bigamist or polygamist can here
after vote in Idaho
In San Francisco, Mexican dollars
are qoted at S4H a IS cents.
There is a bill to legalize cremation
before the California legislature.
Gladstone residence has been placed
under special police protection.
Dr. Leopold Damrosch, the emin-
nent New York musician is dead.
On the 18th instant, Queen Victoria's
health was reported precarious.
Francis De Long the well known
dairyman Of Marin County California,
is dead
The rollerskating mania has caused
lockwood to jump from S38 ton TO
$I2o.
Four Portuguese men -of-war have oC.
cupied the mouth of the Congo in
Africa.
The Prince Of Colonna and Miss Eva
Mackay were married in Paris on the
roth instant
Samuel NJ. Wilson Of California is
spoken of as Clevelands secretary Of
the interior
Laura Wilson has been convicted in
San Francisco OF selling a white baby
to Chinaman
A revolution in the United States Of
Colombia has placed the town of Panama
under martial law.
A recent census gives the population
Of Japan as 21442,966 of whom 49,,
95o,Iso are males.
Martin O'Connor, of Pittsburg, con.
iesses to completely in the London
dynamite explosion.
Restriction OF Chinese immigration
to Canada is being considered in the
Canadian Parliament
NJ Vauvert de Mean, late French
Consul at San Francisco, died in Swift
zcrland January 10th.
Captain Ito OF the Japanese Imperial
Navy has been appointed to the com
mand of the Middle Squadron.
The Pope has appointed Bishop
William II. Gross, of Savannah, Georgia,
to be Archbishop of Portland, Oregon.
Japan offers to deed in fee simple
with the United States, for legation pur-
poses, valuable piece OF land in Toxic.
The New Orleans Exhibition had not
been pecuniary success up to the nth
instant-being then some $500, 900 be
hind.
Mrs. Laura De Force Gordon, a
California lawyer, has been admitted to
the bar OF til. -uni,ad States -Supreme
Court.
Hopes are still entertained at Wash
ington that the Nicaragua treaty may
be ratified before the adjournment OF
Congress.
1t is proposed to terrace Telegraph
Hill, San Francisco. II done, the hill
can be made one of the most beautiful
in the world.
A bill to prohibit the introduction Of
contract labor into the United States
has been introduced into the United
States Senate.
On the sth instant two railway train:
at Avignon came into collision, The
Prince of Wales was on one train. Nc
one was seriously hurt.
Five hundred employees of the Lowell
Manufacturing Company, at Lowell
Mass, have struck against reduction
OF ten per cent, in their wages
The missing steamer San PablC
reached Yokohama on the 9th instant
She ran out of coal and had to pu
into the BONN Islands to get wood
The Prairie Cattle Company ha!
about concluded negotiations for tn,
purchase OF 100000 acres of lane
from the Atlantic and Pacific Railwa,
Company.
The French have captured keluni
and the Kelung mines, in the northern
capture practically destroys the Chimes
control OF Formosa
A cousin OF O'Donovan Rosa vlsite,
British-Consul Stanley in San Fran
cisco, on the sd instant, and informe,
him that unless his cousin recovered h
would kill the consul
Germen men OF war have destroye,
two negro towns on the CAMERON
River in Upper Guinea, West Africa
and fears are entertained of serious in
ternational complications,
On the Sth instant the United State
Navy Department was informed tina
the crew OF the United States man-o
war Lackawanna, while at Panama
have contracted yellow fever
1t is officially confirmed that the Ge
man squadron in the South Pacific Ia
hols,ed the flag OF Germany at twelv
points on the islands of New Britain
New Ireland and New Guinea.