NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6099, 4 June 1881, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sai.t Lake City lias,been lighted by electricity. .. • * • readied £50,000' Graat haS nOW . po«!^s s 0 1 eoifp^r s thret i,woX!nw in '* said *? havo iiio.mooov ™ P. -\ mcr >can railroads. '/V -• • Von WcK" Vcbbor ' £0n of Carl Maria compos6r, died at Berlin. -_^ 3t< i ue . that the Transvaal settleguiltiness.^' 0 - sheerijlood- "f A +( Dlte ? s smart M lve are in China, pay for 5000.°™ * £ °° 0 S ° lJiM ? /Iraws „,;V,vl l 0\ V , ou Pu S efc Sound has "been etf, ' om tl ; e ■ The University boathouse at Oxford has Forty, ? f convicfc s through Moscow i a!* V* l l S*N ttn - The number £0 bo deported is 12,200. - . P o3^"l ' card has decreased tho sale of writing paper £2,400,000 annually m the United States. . ' „ r J^ ouc ( !le n-. of the London Truth, "made l 3 ■ la l t I'™' had to ' P 1 1!. ,7® defend Ins iaraiits', : " J-he Union loss during the Southern rebellion was 3-7, iSi; the rebel nearly 200,000.' This is the rccently vcrified offic . al account< Lighted gas buoys, costing la. 6d. per week, and only requiring filling every six months, are to be placed on the & Canal. The executioner, Frohtaff, received 100 lashes for mismanagement in the hanging of the iUhilist Michaloff, whose rope broke twice. 1

Larrikins in America are variously designated as hoodlums," " Wood-paps » " nlueuglics, "dead-rabbits," "blue-noses,^and bowery-boys. ; .Monstrous frauds have como to light in Cuba. if the statements and figures"can bo depended upon, the Spanish Governmenthaa lost almost £4,000,000. Among the bodies recovered from the Nice fire were those of a husband, wifo and child clasped together, the latter holding a'haltsucked orange in its hand. :

Preserved provisions in > tins "soldered inside have been prohibited in the Frcnch army, acetate of lead forming by the action of the liquid on the solder, . The }\Weyan Thanksgiving Fund has now reached a total of £2!)G,G37, of which Amount £194,740 has actually b'ceu payed. It is intended to close the fund in Aumwt next. ' Hie drought continues in England, and has injured seriously the prospects for-crops. Much apprehension exists that the country is on the eve of a season of great agricultural distress. ,

An express train on the California and Oregon division of the C. P. R. R. was'wrecked near Redding recently. The engineer and fireman were killed, aud a number of passengers injured.

The (lowers of the scarlet-flowering hibiscus (11. Rosa sinensis), jrubbed on boots, yield a polish equal to tlie. best Day and Martin; the plant is of easy growth and strikes readily." . Count Hamilton, Chancellor of the University at Upsala, Sweden, has been arrested, charged with forgery to tho amount of £40,000. The names counterfeited, inoludo those of the King and Queen. "- Among tlui curiosities'at an exhibition in Washington two are furnished by an American soldier, who captured them from the Sioux. One is a white lady's scalp, and the other is a necklacc of human fingers. It is a noticeable fact (says an American paper) that bees are kept" by people in the extemes. Either very rich or very poor people arc those, that you will find giving their attention to the production of honey. The Paris branch of Rothschild's banking house lias given notice to tho Italian Government of its inability s to issue a loan for tho resumption of specie payments as long as the difficulty between Prance and Italy is not entirely smoothed away." Chinamen who fish in California waters do not return the young 'fish taken in largo numbers in; their nets, but leave them on land to die. In this way many of the Bhad planted from tho East aro being destroyed. Lobsters share tho same fate.-

_A London despatch states that: Henry Riversdale, the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, has published a statement to the effect that events rendered it necessary to elect between bi-metallisin by agreemcnt L OP' a general resort to a mono-metallic golU standard.

Some of tlie London papers have of Lite taken to paragraphing in a mild form in imitation of the American style. Their ponderous and headless leaders still survive, but their extinction is now ii matter of time, the paragraph editorial having secured a foothold. :

Several clerical scandals have recently occurred in England. One is the arrest in London of the Rev. Hugh Edward 'Blakoly Allen on a charge of fraudulently obtaining goods from a hotel-keeper. After a preliminary examination the prisoner, was committed for trial. '

A soldier at Fort Colville, 0r.," recently committed suicide in a novel way. He placed the guard of his rifle over tho bedpost, and said to liis cliuiti: " Look this "way and see the fun," at the same time giving the gun a jerk, discharged it, and. sent tho bullet through his breast. The town of Ineboli, on the south :coast of the Black §pa, was completely destroyed by fire. Three hundred and fifteen houses, including the Custom-house, the .Consulates, arid the steamboat agencies, are ja mass of ruins. The English Consul has telegraphed for assistance. The inhabitants have, been left houseless and destitute.

The cost of the census in the United States, was about £70,000. This exceeds the estimates by about £20,000, duo to the rise ill wages and prices that occurred just as the enumeration was commenced, and also partly to the unexpected increase which has taken place in the population, being 2,000,000 in excess of the highest estimate of the office. Afire was found to be raging under the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Darlaston. Under the foundation of the chapel is a scam of coal nine feet thick, and the coal became .ignited.by .the heat from the apparatus used for wanning the chapel. The damage done to the building is very great, and it was -ivitli difficulty that the flames were extinguished. The cutter Corwin has left, San Francisco on .-in Arctic voyage. The Corwin's mission to the Arctic is .a dual one. She' will look after the revenue interests of the'GoVernment and will search for the Jeannette and the missingwhalcrs, Mount Wollaston and Vigilant.; The vessel has a steam : launch and a boat frame to be covered with. walrus 3km.

Dogs will ho taken on at St. Michaels. Recently, at Brideport, Conn., a switch locomotive having ran off the track, two of Barnum's largest elephants werfi brought out and made. to push the locomotive with their heads. They, succeeded in righting the machine after one or two attempts, hot their exposure to the winter air gave the animals bad colds, and to cure them it was necessary, to give them several gallons of whisky. ■ _ Further break-Outs' of pleuro-pneumonia were reported on recently to' the Clerk of the P.eace of Lancashire. Return? made up to date show tliat 30 farms are -',affected in Salford district, 9 in West Derby, 108 in Blackburn district, 2 in Lonsdale, 101 in Amounderness, 101 in Rcyland—making a total of 351 farms on which contagion exists in the country. The most rigid precautions are being taken. \

Pour members of a family named White, living in Whitehall, New York, are remarkable for weight and stature. The father is sue feet one inch tall, and weighs 203 ponnds, while David, the third son, 21 years old, lias the same weight, but is six feet "five inchcs tall. The united weight of the father and three sons is 751 pounds, and their total height is 24 feet 7 inches; There ■ are fivo younger sons, from 11 to 19 years old, who foreshadow proportions similar to their elders.

The'current coin now in use tlu-oughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain amounts - to some twelve hundred and thirty millions, of which one hundred and • thirty millions sterling consist of gold alone.' ' The silver J coins number some 300,000,000, according to - \ the City Press, the largest amount being in shillings, about 125,540,160, while the six- y ponces amount to 82,125,220, and the halfcrowns to 41,516,343. As .to..the brqu/c jj money,' 6,000 tons have been struck since the ; Royal Mint was first instituted;

A report comes fiom New Orleans that J | marriage ceremony in a cliuich m that city - was suddenly interrupted by a -\ oiled w om.in, a who hurriedly laid a child she cimed at the J* feet of the groom, and siid, "Hero is your t , child. You are my hushind. lam lawfully I your .wife," and you shall not marry this | woman." 'An ofliccr orricd the infuriated § woman from tho church by main, force, and | the ('coremdny proceoded close The # woman who creitcd tho disturbance stated 3 that' tho groom had led hor to fcoheve for the | past four years that she ma his liwfully S ifeddcd wifi". « j?