The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-22
FOREIGN NJ EWS
Dates to .iug. 10Th, By Tie s. s..
Aldmed0.
UNITED STATES.
GENERAL GRANTS FUNERAL.

nificence commensurate with the
greatness of the nation and of the
deceased hero of the Civil war. In
New York, fifteen thousand veterans
of the Grand Army with some five
thousand other survivors of the con-
hict, followed the casket to the
tomb. Besides the President and
Cabinet and high officers of the
army and navy, many of the most
distinguished of the surviving Con-
federate Generals, two of whom
acted as pall-bearers, were present.
New York is said to have contained
more people that day than ever it
did on any single occasion before.
From eight to eleven O'Clock the
various bodies, military and civic
were occupied in falling into line,
after which the procession started,
and not until five O'Clock was the
casket containing the remains of the
famed General deposited in their
last resting place.
THE AWFUL CYCLONE.
A terrific cyclone swept up the
Delaware river, Aug. 3rd, and took
path across Philadelphia and the
river, and along the New Jersey
shore. The steamer Reybold, with
about seventy people on board, was
wrecked and the pilot drowned.
Scores of houses were unroofed, and
some blown down, in Camden, n. j.
In Richmond, q suburb of Phila-
delphia, about $50 dwellings were
wrecked. Flat-roofed houses suffered
most. The moving fury resembled
dense mass of rolling, black
smoke. A huge ball Of fire, fully
ten feet in diameter, swiftly accom-
panied the cloud. Several persons
lost their lives in the devastation.
Aug. 2nd was the hottest day on
record in Sacramento, CAL. the ther-
mometer registering l05 degrees.
At Napa it was 1O4 in the shade.
After Il fight, officers brought a
Mexican stage robber in to Tucson,
Arizona, and left another dead on
the ground.
Hog cholera is devastating the
pens of Napa, Cal.
The Montezuma Hotel at Las
Vegas hot springs, Colorado, was
burned the night of Aug. 7th, and
eight Eastern guests perished in the
flames.
Seven persons, two women and
five children, perished in fire in
the Webster Block, Manchester,
N. H., Aug. 7th.
A Rome despatch to the N. Y.
Herald intimates that Rev. John j.
Williams, Archbishop of Boston, is
to be made cardinal at the next
consistory in December.
The Atlantic liner Etruria made
the trip from New York to Fastnet
in six days, five hours and thirty
five minutes, the fastest time ever
made.
The New York World has sue
ccssfully completed its task of rails
ing 1000 for the Bartholdi Statue
Pedestal. The Washington cent
was sold to Miss Helen Dauvray for
Sl30. The total nmount collected
was S1O2, ,O00.39, which was contri-
buted by over 100000 persons.
John Roach the shipbuilder's s
liabilities are over $4,000, 900, with
nominal assets stated to be S., ,1S1,.
900, and actual assets 81 ,4S1, 900.
The publisher says that Miss
Cleveland's book continues great
success. The work sells not only
on account of The position of the
writer, but because of its undis-
puted merit. The Empress of Rus
sia has written an autograph letter
to Miss Cleveland, requesting her
permission to have the book trans
lated in Russian. The Empress has
great admiration for the work, and
makes the request on behalf of her
countrywomen. George Parson
Lathrop, the poet and novelist, has
written highly complimentary letter
about it, and Joaquin Miller says he
is quite enthusiastic on the subject.
The father of Preller, the victim
of the st. Louis murder, is reported
from London to be painfully affected
by the details of the tragedy. He
is indignant at the story of the af-
fair being job on the insurance
company, and says his son is above
the necessity or the disposition to
make money in that way. 1t is
reported Maxwell was becoming
more nervous as he approached st,
Louis.
A tray containing $4,000 in gold
was stolen in broad daylight Oh