The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-03-12
CHE 9ailp 8alletia.
THURSDAY, MARCH ~, 1885.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
AMERICAN.

counties, west Virginia. Last
season the crops failed from drought,
and long before Christmas all the
grain was exhausted. Since that
time food has been hauled by team
over mud roads across the noun
tains, distance of 100 miles, fifteen
days being occupied in many trips,
and longer when the mountain
streams are swollen. Corn is so
nearly exhausted that it is not fed
to stock. Stock has to be turned
out and left to browse for q living.
Many farmers have lost all their
horses and cannot do their spring
work without assistance. A great
deal of sickness prevails, the schools
are closed, and gloom has settled
upon the community.
Three ocean steamers which sail
ed from New York in January were
given up for lost late in February.
They were Cramps" that is, be-
longing to no regular line, and were
bound for British ports. Their
names are the Clandon, the Preston
and the; Fernwood.
The "Independent Citizens AS
ISOLATION of the State Of New York"
is new organization.
Mrs. Annie Sullivan, wife OF, the
bully, is suing for divorce on ac-
count of cruel and abusive treat
ment, and gross and confirmed
habits of intoxication, on the part
of her husband. She desires the
custody of her children, and asks
that Sullivan's property, to the ex-
tent of 500, 900, be attached to Sc
cure the support of herself and
children.
Frank James, of the infamous
Jesse James gang, has been set at
liberty.
Iowa brewers are contesting the
constitutionality of the clause in
that States liquor law which pro-
hibits railways from transporting
liquor except to persons holding
permits.
Jay Gould is reported to have said
that he could afford to lose $50, OOO,-
600 and still be comfortably fixed.
Pittsburg, Ohio, is alleged to be
the centre Of socialism in the United
States. 'A.
Francis S. Drake, q literary man
of Boston, lately dropped dead in
Washington.
EUROPEAN.
Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister
of the Interior, persists in his pur-
pose of retiring from public life, not
withstanding that the Gar declined
to accept his resignation. The Count
pleads that excessive duties of his
office at present, owing to the activity
of the Nihilists, are undermining his
health.
The internationalist meeting of
Anarchist Workmen, which was held
in Paris on Feb. 22nd, appears to
have been controlled largely by men
Of more sense than the name they
met under would imply. Four
thousand persons, including several
members of the French legislature,
were present. English delegates
were introduced by Thomas Burke,
a member of Parliament. Burke
advocated united action of French
and English and said the time had
come to adjust international diff
culties in spirit Of justice; not by
violence. Some violent speeches
were made which provoked protests
from majority of the meeting and
the Objectionable ones were expelled.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
against wars of conquest and expires.
sing sympathy with the workmen OF
all nations. After dancing car.
magnole the meeting adjourned.
The police of Doopat, in Southern
Russia, province of Livonia, recently
made an important seizure of Nihi
list documents. They included
several thousand copies of a terroris
manifesto, which had been printed
on secret press and put up in en-
velopes to be sent to branch organ