The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
FOREIGN NEWS.
UNITED STATES.

Gen. Sherman publicly denies
that he ever used the expression,
"IIad Gen. G. +. Smith lived, Gen.
Grant would have disappeared from
history" attributed to him in re-
cent article in the North american
ReUieac.
An expose has been made of q
swindling colonizing scheme in Flor
ida, by which large party in Scot
land were induced to place their
funds in lands which proved miser-
able disappointment TO the investors.
The colony settled at Sarasota Bay,
Fla, and paid $3.50 an acre for
the land.
X. r. O'Connor, First Secretary
of the British Legation at Picking,
has been transferred to the Secre-
taryship of the British Legation at
Washington.
The suit against the Government
by Basith & Son of New York for
duties collected on Australian wool,
entered as wooden waste, but which
the Collector assessed as secured
wool at 80 cents per pound, resulted
in verdict for the Government of
the United States. The District At
torney showed that it was fine wool
mixed with threads got up rs
subterfuge to evade the payment OF
higher duties.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pickard, an absconding jeweler
from Montreal, is found to have
been defrauding the Canadian GUS
toms for three years, his illicit gains
in this way amounting to about
$4,000.
Large guano deposits have been
discovered in caves on the south
coast of Cuba.
Many laborers have left Havana
for the Isthmus of Panama, in ex-
pectation of obtaining work with
more remunerative wages than they
can obtain on the island of Cuba.
Berlin dispatches state that EN-
peror William and Bismarck arc in
very good health.
Louise Michel and Prince Krapot-
kline have been released from the
ST. Lazare Prison, Paris.
A syndicate of French contractors
has been formed to compete with the
German syndicate in supplying the
Chinese Government with material
for the construction of railways.
At the Consistory at Rome, the
Pope, referring to his mediation in
the dispute between Germany and
Spain over the Caroline Islands, SAID
he was gratified to act as a peace
maker between nations. AT the con-
clusion of his remarks his Holiness
appointed twelve Bishops.
The King of the Belgians has
proposed an international annual
prize of 25 200 francs for the pur-
pose of encouraging works of mind.
The subject of the third mixed in
ternational competition, tob be decided
in 1889, is the progress of electricity
US HiOllNc-pONcl aiit 40 ~ ihSoho
of illumination, etc.
Archdeacon Farrar, who reserves
the most of his opinions on America,
declares that the temperance cause
of the United States is far in adj
vance of the temperance cause of
England.
The Punellites announce that
they will join with the English and
Scotch Radicals in supporting an
amendment to the address protesting
against evictions in Ireland and in
the Highlands.
The English Cabinet Jan. 10Th
unanimously agreed to ask Parlia-
ment to re-enact the boycotting
clauses of the Crimes Act, and to
change the venues in criminal cases
with return to the special jury
features of the old coercive statute.
1t agreed to give Edward Stanhope,
the new Secretary for Ireland, a
place in the Cabinet and to ask
Parliament to enlarge his powers.
Mr.. Stanhope was Lord Beacons-
fields Indian Under Secretary for a
time, and is described as having San