The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-02-13
Latest Foreign News.

A telegram from Geneva, Jan. "a.
says Swiss paper publishes pri-
vate cable reporting q revolution in
Costa Rica Thursday night, the 10th
inst. The Government was over
turned and the revolutionists reign
supreme. There were horrible
scenes of bloodshed.
Mortineau, the seeding Boulan-
gst, attended II Boulangist meeting,
when he was kicked and cuffed and
compelled to agree to resign his seat
in the Chamber of Deputies.
The President of the French Com
mission at Panama thinks it is feasible
TO continue the canal. He denies
that either De Lesseps or the Man
aging Council Of the old company
has anything to do with the attempts
to resume work.
The total number of presbyteries
in the United States is 2l1. or these
35 have voted in favor OF revising
the Westminster Confession and l2
have voted against.
provisions of the Act of Parliament
restricting the immigration of Chi
nese is the cause Of much dissatis-
faction in British Columbia, and
Gordon, member from Nanaimo,
says that unless the law was made
more effective he would introduce n
new measure of more comprehcn-
sive character.
The steamer Erin of the National
line sailed from New York Dec. 2S
Tor London, and not having been
heard Of since is feared to he lost.
Some shipping men hope she is only
disabled and may have reached the
Azores under sail. The Erin was
commanded by Capt. Tyson, she
carried no passengers, but had q
crew of iifty-five men, and about
fifteen cattle-men who had charge of
nearly 400 cattle.
Secretary Tracy appeared before
Senate Committee on Naval Affairs
and recommended Legislation in the
line of the recommendations in his
annual report for eight line-Ot-battle
ships, to cost So ,00O, 900 each
ANGRY PORTUGUESE.
A Portuguese meeting at Rio de
Ianeiro resolved to suspend business
with the English people and TO send
telegram TO Lisbon stating that
the members Of the colony there are
prepared TO make any sacrifice for
their native country. The Ameri-
can commercial houses and CONNER
cial travellers at Lisbon are reaping
ahafvest from the imbroglio between
Portugal and Great Britain, which
is displcasing to the British mer-
chants. The Americans are selling
more goods than were ever sold be-
fore in the country.
NEGRO MIGRATION.
A st. LOUIS despatch of Jan. -
says: Letters received by w. L..
Eagleson, business manager of the
Oklahoma Immigration Society in
Kansas, from points in North Caro-
lima say that large number of
negroes of that State are going
through in wagons this winter to
The new territory. Mr.. Eagleson
says that there are now about $4,000
negroes in Oklahoma and that by
spring there will be At least 30, 900.
He claims they ought to have that
country, and says President Lincoln
and the Republican party promised
10 give ii to them. He adds: I'VE
are determined TO take 1t anyhow,
and we will make it one of the
Srandest States in the Union. |
favor Colonel Morgans scheme to
purchase the Cherokee Strip and the
other lands in the Indian Territory
exclusively for negro settlement.
Give MS the Blair bill, Indian Terri
tory and Senator Buffers $4,000
900, and VIC shall he content.
Oklahoma, in my judgment, is the
land Of promise for the race, and
migration the panacea for every i'll
now affecting negroes of the
South"
TAILORs WANT PROTECTION.
At the annual convention of the
Merchant Tailors' National Associa-
iion in Chicago, President Turncr
deprecated the practice OF English
agents soliciting trade in the States
by promising goods at 80 per cent
below trade prices. He also adyo.
Gated the adoption of style of gar
ment based upon tastes thoroughly
American and breaking away from
English styles and ideas. The Exc
cutive Committee recommended the
establishment of bureau of in.
formation which should publish q
monthly rating book, to be a com.
pIete directory of all the dead beats
in the big cities.
A HUMANE SKIPPER.
The British bark Allonby, Captain
Rsthery, arrived in San Francisco
recently, sevcnty-seven days from
Newcastle, y. $. W. On November
I'd last, when the vessel was 400
miles from Newcastle. Thomas
brocklebank, an apprenticeship tell