Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-29
FROM THE ORR MT.
Notes of Interest Clipped tom China and
Japan Papers.

Notes OF Interest Clipped from China and
Japan Papers.
The steamer Gaelic arrived at San Fran
cisco Sunday, bringing Japan and China
dates from June % to June 18th. The fol-
lowing notes are culled from the papers;
JAPAN.
Mutsu Munemicbi is expected to be APP
pointed Minister 10 Austria in place of
Marquis Saionji
1t is proposed to build branch o. a rail-
way from Fujisawa TO Yokosuka, when the
Kanagawa-O dawara line is completed.
Deposits of -bituminous coal have
been discovered at Kama Gori, in Chiku-
zen, and the Naval Department has ordered
an examination to be made of the same.
a telegram from Osaka says that 173 new
cases and los deaths had occurred in that
city on the 9th ultimo up to $50 P. NJ,
when the message was dispatched.
The convention between Japan and
Hawaii, respecting voluntary emigration to
| the latter country, has been ratified by his
| Majesty, the Emperor, and promulgated.
As the theaters, ETC., are closed in Osaka
and Kobe owing to cholera. the pick
pockets have no field in those places for
their energies, and are consequently flock
ing to kyote in numbers.
a clause has been added to the bylaws
Of the Central Tea Association. 1t pro-
vides that all parcels of tea which arrive at
the market without the mark of the local
guild shall be seized
Owing to the superabundance of copper
coin in circulation in the capital, great in
convenience is felt by the people Copper
is mostly used in the daily transactions,
paper being kept back, and unless a pre-
MUM be paid paper cannot be obtained in
| exchange for the more cumbersome article.
Prince Louis Napoleon visited the impe-
rial hunting ground at Narashino, Chlba-
ken. accompanied by III. l. H. Prince Ko-
matsu and the Secretary of the Austrian
legation on the lst instant. After few
DAYS excursion the party will return to
| Toxic The French Prince is to visit Nikko
on the 9Th instant, and then repair to the
Ikao hot springs.
The total quantity of silk sold to foreign
| houses in Yokohama last month was 1,049
bales, of which 81 bales were rejected. The
arrivals were 652 bales and exports rs
bales. The number of bales sent back to
| the interior was 800. Waste silk which ar
rived during the same period amounted to
| 1,915 bales, and there was sold to foreigners
| 1872 bales.
RIB. Hubbard, United States Minister,
Major General Wilson, Mr.. Mansfield, Sec
rotary Of the United States Legation, and
| the new American Minister 10 COrea and
his Secretary were received i'll audience by
his Majesty the Emperor at the imperial
palace on the oath ultmo.
CHINA.
There is a report that railways are to be
constructed on Formosa.
The Foochow tea market was opened on
the 24th instant. Prices are higher this
| year than they were last.
The United States corvette Alert, Com
mander Barclay, arrived al Yokohama on
the 18th instant from the north.
The Sourabaya CourdN mentions that
the Chinese firms there are failing in num-
bers and that by the cleverness of Chi
nese bookkeeper their books are so well ar
ranged that neither the Court nor the
Chinese interpreter can make anything OF
| them.
On the 10th instant new Chinese news
paper appeared in Tientsin, entitled the
| THeh Pdo (Thc Tines. 1t was named after
the most popular journal, The Times, in
London. 1t consists of four pages. The
first part contains an advertisement of the
paper itself, Imperial decree. leading ar
ticles and the local news 1t does not con-
\ tain much news, the third and fourth pages
I being entirely advertisements besides a
little bit of commercial intelligence, mar
\ ket reports, etc.
For the past week or a fortnight Hong
kong has been suffering from great dearth
of water, and at the time we go to press
the colony is closely threatened with a
| famine. Extravagant prices are being paid
| for small quantities of water, 1nen-of- war
are condensing water for their own use,
and the Government has cautioned the
! foreign public against allowing their SER
wants to waste the precious liquid.
| In Picking the Chinese are commencing
| their old game of insulting foreigners, by
throwing bricks at them while passing
along the streets. On the evening of the
9th inst, while two English gentlemen
were returning, at 8 P. NJ, from dinner at
! the lnspectorate. General. one OF them was
knocked down by brick weighing about
three pounds, which was thrown with
great force had the brick hit the gentle
man on the head, instead Of on the Shout
der it would probably have killed him.
The foreign authorities ought to draw the
attention Of the Tsung Ii Yamen to the
| fact, bat l suppose they are SO busy with
| schemes that they fear to offend the men,
| bers of that Board.
The Shanghai Mercury says: Fears are
| entertained, writes an educated Chinese
correspondent, that the molestation of for
eigners and injury of their property will be
more frequent in the interior, now that the
! particulars of the anti-Chinese movement
and persecution of Chinese in the United
States and Australia have been published
in all the vernacular papers, and every
Chinaman feels bitterly against foreigners
in consequence. If the natives treat for
eigners in China the same as their (the
natiyes) compatriots have been treated by
the Americans and Australians, what our
correspondent asks, will be the result?"