San Francisco Mail.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7826, 19 August 1887, Page 2

San Francisco Mail.

AMERICA.

San Fkaxcisco, July 29. Tlie Pope refuses to interfere in any way with the American Order of Knights of Jjabov, which i« showing a remarkably rapid decrense in membership. At the recent quarterly convention at FnlUiivcr, Mass,, it was shown that in that State the Order hud decreased from 30,000 to

27,000 members. Air Swirilmrno lias entered the lists, against what he calls the excessive hero worship of Walt Wliitinan, the American poet. The dermaii citizens are wroth niiout the Sunday Blue Law of >ew \prk, which forbids tmYmg i» /", (l (lrl " l kiii" beer on the first day of the week. They propose to cast their votes in future for the Kepublican party instead of the

Deniociatic. , .. , , A twelve vear old colored girl has been sentenced to be hanged in Charleston for pon-oiiiii" a white baby she was tired of

' l The town of Hauford, in Tnlar County, California, wn» , partially destroyed by lire on July 13th. I lie los» is about

JUO.OOOdoIs. Messrs H. V. Gregory and Co., San Francisco, have issued circulars to the mercantile community of that city calling attention to the centennial International

Exhibition to lie held in Melbourne on August, 1888. The forwarding of exhibits

ov fifteen at once, and wounding many others. The scene of slaughter is described as horribly sickening. The Order of United American Mechanics have petitioned Congress to restrict foreign immigration, and praying that a -per capita tax lie imposed. John Taylor, who succeeded Brigham Young as presidentof the Mormon Church, died at 8 o'clock p.m. on July 25th in Utah. The exact place is not given at present, as he was hiding from the law on account of his polygamous practices. Taylor was in his 79th year. He joined the Mormon Church in 1837. He was made one of the twelve in 1838, and was a missionary for 20 years afterwards. He edited various Church papers and publications. When Brigham Young died in 1880 Taylor, who was then president of the twelve, became President of the Church. He embraced polygamy among the first, but denied its practice after continuing in it for years, and was indicted for the offence early in 1885. He went into hiding in February of that year and has not shown up since. Taylor was an Englishman. George M'Cannon, a Mormon magnate, charges the President's blood on the " persecutors " who have " hounded him to his death." Sir John •Thnrston, Governor of the Fiji Islands, whose (supposed) mission to the United States Government has been so freely commented on by the American papers was in Washington on July 26th. The New York Post's correspondent says, "This *iact _is about all the foun-dation-there is for the current statement that he has come to some arrangement with the United States Government as to the Samoan Islands. The State departmental officials say they have no knowledge of any diplomatic purpose which the' Governor has to accomplish by being here, and. therefore they are compelled to credit his own statement that he has come simply on his way to Europe to see the country and lot pleasure." Articles'for a prize fight between Jacob Kilrain, of America, and Jem Smith, of England, were signed on July 2Gth. According to the agreement the encounter i will take place on the 3rd day of January in Spain, within 100 miles* of Madrid. Both men deposited forfeit money, and dates were named for the future payments. Mnttoon will train Kilrain, arid Jemmy House will train Smith. The principals will each appoint an umpire, who together will select a referee. Only fif.ty spectators will be allowed on the field. The battle ground will be selected by mutual consent.

From the United States one expedition to witness the coming solar eclipse will be despatched to Japan in charge of Professor Davis H. Todd. Another expedition under the direction of Charles A. Young, astronomer of Princeton, N.J., will co-operate with Dr. Otto Von Struve, director of the Imperial Observatory at Pulkowa, Russia, in the vicinity of Moscow.

Joseph C. G. Kennedy, one of the oldest residents of Washington, was deliberately butchered by a man named Dailv on July 13th. Daily accused him of having wronged his father. The celebration of the anniversary of the fall of the JBastile on July 14th by the French colonv in San' Francisco was a brilliant affair. , A small riot grew out of the celebration of the Orange anniversary on July 12th at Patereon, New Jersey. Several of the celebrants were knocked down by brick? bats, and one kad his face pouurted out of shape- by some stout Catholic women. In Toronto, Canada, the demonstration was a great success. There were iiftythree lodges and between 3000 and 4000 Orangemen in procession. The admission of Utah into the Union is steadily opposed by the influential portion of the Press until the Mormon Church Jormally renounces the doctrine of polygamy. Once in the Union Utah as a State could re-establish polygamy and defy the power of Congress and the nation. - ,

Oscar M. Kelty, living at M'Coy, Polk county, Oregon, was lynched on July 7th for the murder of his wife.

The question of dividing California into two States is being strongly agitated by the southern counties. The head-quarters of the movement are at Los Angeles. It is bitterly opposed by the northern section. .Dr. A. J. Bowie, the pioneer physician of California, and the esteemed leader of the medical profession, died in that city on July 6th. The barque Lizzie Iredale, out about 150 days at date from Newcastle, N.S.W., for San Diego, California, has been given up for lost. It appears now that the late Samuel J. Tilden. who contested the presidency of the United States with Rutherford B.

Hayes, had large investments in English consols, and the executors of his will have probated it there. The property is yalued at from 600,000d01s to 800,000dols. The manner in which Mra Langtry, the English actress, made her declaration during her late visit to San Francisco, to become a. citizen of the United States, has beeri declared irregular by the Circuit Court, and the proceedings are annulled. Sue will iiavein commence de novo.

Atau-erfrilrition of Sells Brothers' circus at Davenport, lowa, on July 20th, during the " Wild West " act, the cowboys who were jmrsuing the Indians were drunk, and fired ammunition from their pistols right and left. Four spectators were wounded, two mortally, and one of the tsuueus Indians was killed.

On July 20th 125 horses belonging to tfie Third Avenue' (New York) Railroad Company were poisoned by the malicious introduction oi cyanide of potassium into their feed.

A fire broke out at the Standard oil works at Constable Hook, New Jersey, Mi July 19th, wliieh involved a loss of jeO.OOOdols. to 500,000 dols. Two large waraJiouses, three tanks, four big docks, And os-fir 10,000 barrels of oil were destroyed. Jennie Collins, tlie famous founder of the cliaritabie institution for working girls in Boston, Mass., called " Boflirl'f, Bower," died iu that city on July 21st. The had feeling engendered between President Cleveland and the ai-auy of the iiepubllc by lii* willingness to retvrn the it'ntilMfirgfc battle flags to tlie respective goutflgti Stales has assumed sueh ashape ftbat he ban withdrawn his pledge to attend the army's encampment at St. Lonk