The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-12

zens of the United States, and in
deed to the people of Christendom,
in the financial difficulties in which
General Grant was discovered to
have been overwhelmed, through his
having bestowed unlimited conf
dence in firm of Wall street
brokers, that his son was inveigled
into, to make bait in swndling
transactions of his fathers illus
trious name. BY the obligations
thus incurred General Grant whole
fortune was swept away. While
measures of relief for the nations
hero were being discussed on many
hands, the universal regret was
changed to profound sorrow at the
intelligence that the General was
| seized with fatal cancer i'm the
throat, that must shortly end his
days. Soon he had to take to his
couch, and all the world watched the
progress of the malady in sympathy
with the sufferer and his nation. As
summer came on the patient was
removed to the Adirondacks for the
benefit of the mountain air, and
there. in cottage on Mount McGre-
COR, he died on the 23rd of July.
He was buried with grand honors,
as beiitted his services to the nation,
and his name has been added to the
scroll of great men of all ages.
Several other items of United
States affairs during the year are to
be recalled briefly. Mr.. Cleveland
was auspiciously inaugurated, the
first President given by the Demo-
cratic Party in a quarter of CEN
tury. His administration thus far
has been exceedingly promising of
both reform and progress as the re-
suits of his term. A sad incident
thus early in the regime is the death
of the new Nice-President, Mr..
Hendricks, one of the leading states
men and most estimable citizens of
the Union. The anti-Chinese agita-
ton on the Pacific Coast was gather
ing volume and force with the
closing days of the year. There was
Il shocking massacre of Chinese at
the Cold Springs coal mines, on the
line of the Union Pacific Railway,
in Wyoming Territory, in the
autumn, the actors being depraved
set of European miners. President
Cleveland promulgated stern orders
to have any further acts of violence
sharply dealt with, at the scene of
those atrocities or elsewhere. The
passage of the Contract Labor Act,
forbidding the importation of foreign
laborers into the United States under
contract, is notable piece Of fed
eral legislation. Settlement of the
currency question is left to the new
year, the President bringing the
issue forward by recommending in
his message the suspension of silver
coinage.
London was startled on Jan. oath
by terrific dynamite explosions in
Westminster and the Tower. AL
though holiday had caused throng
at the places, yet nobody was killed
and only few were injured. OF
several suspected persons arrested,
two men were convicted and given
heavy penalties. English politics
have sustained intense interest the
whole year. liarassed bitterly by
the Conservatives, us well as many
of his own following, upon the
Egyptian question, Mr.. Gladstone
continued to hold working
majority in Parliament at increasing
odds, until the Sth of June, when,
upon the question of an increase of
the beer tax in the budget, his adj
ministration was defeated by vote
of 2G4 to 252. The Marquis of
Salisbury formed II new Cabinet
upon Mr.. Gladstone's resignation,
and by consent of the Liberal oppo-
sition conducted the remainder of
the session. Since then the country
has spoken, refusing majority to
the new Cabinet, and further devel-
opments must be awaited. A not
able occurrence was the London
scandal, exposures of immoral prac-