The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
UNITED STATES
PACIFIC COAST.

"IhimDle parties are the latest.
Crescent City is building theatre.
Crescent City is filed with idle
men.
Frost did not harm oranges on the
trees at Modesto.
Agricultural Park at Sacramento
has been leased for three years at
sl,152 per year.
Mrs. Hagenow has been found
guilty, at San Jose, of practising
medicine without license.
Nevada county Supervisors have
decided to put all vagrants to work
on the public roads.
Large excursion parties to Mexico
and Southern California were eX-
pected to pass through El Paso
Jan. 16.
Rabbit hunts are popular in
Shasta. A recent hunt near Pitt
vile, of ten hours, ended in the
destruction of 366.
The bodies of two murdered China
men were found on the trail between
Sunny South and Damascus, Placer
county.
Miss Francisco Badilla has sued
j. S. Phillips, a capitalist of Los
Angeles, for trifling with her affec-
tions. She claims S25, 900 damages.
Horace Bell, editor of the Los
Angeles Porcupine, says he has
money enough to pay all damages
+. j. Baldwin may get against him
in his libel suit.
Mrs. Eleanor f. Kellogg Of Visalia
died from wound inflicted by the
tire of fork in the thumb of her
left hand, on the 1st. Blood poison
ing had resulted.
The little linnets are proving such
a nuisance this season, says the
Santa Maria Times, that many of
our citizens are poisoning them by
hundreds. One fruit man put out
poison apples, and next day picked
up 250 dead birds.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The Pacific Mail statement of
business for the last year shows a
net increase in the earnings of over
s percent, being S1,617,055. After
paying the dividend the company
carries over surplus of 100000.
Never before in the history of the
West have so many persons found
their deaths from severe cold, as are
reported lost during the first week
Of Jan. Twenty-four persons are
known to have been frozen to death
in Nebraska.
Zukertort won the third game in
the chess contest in New York. The
game now stands two to one, in
Zukertort's favor.
The New York San makes a
double-leaded appeal for subscrip-
tions to the Irish Parliamentary fund,
which now amounts to S35, 900.
A friend of the New York Histor-
ical Society has deposited with the
Central Trust Company $4,000 to
be used for new building, pro-
vided $500, 200 is raised in two
years.
The colt by Spendthrift, Doubt,
which, as yearling, was sold last
year at Madison-square Garden, N.
Y, for $4,000, has been named
Stockton, and there is report that
he will be matched against 2-year-
old of Pierre Lorillard's. Stockton
is said to have run half mile last
fall in fifty seconds.
The House Committee ON Rivers
and Harbors are resolved to limit
the total amount of the appropria-
ton for improving the rivers and
harbors to S11 100000.
The four children who returned
from Paris after having been inocu-
lated for the rabies, by M. Pasteur,
are pronounced in good health by
examining physicians.
In u two-column letter to the
Times, ex-Consul Thomas b. Van
Buren, approves Col. John S.
Mosby's suggestion as to the collec-
tion of fees by consuls. He also
suggests that it might be wise to
abolish the diplomatic service, which
is undemocratic and unsuited to the
country's needs, and expend the
monav saved IN imnrOyino the con-