ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1967, 17 January 1882, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

SAN FEANCISCO. November 28. It is said that Vanderbilt is about to retire from the active management of his properties, leaving their administration in the hands of Messrs But ter and Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Lord Chamberlain has enjoined on the London managers precautions against fire iu theatres. The circular was called out by the recent disaster at Vienna. The political situation in Germany is darker than ever. The controversy between Bismarck and AVindhurst has put an end to all present hopes of a Parliamentary coalition of the Conservatives and the Clericals. Paul Bret, the French Minister of Public Instruction, has warned the Prelates that they must not absent themselves from their dioceses without first obtainiug the permission of Government. In a moment of fury an Italian gardener named Gallano killed his brother, his cousin, and attempted to murder his sister and mother. The cousin was stabbed 24 times A cast of Guiteau's head has been taken by Theodore Mills, the sculptor. Daniel Hale Haskell, founder of the famous Adam Express Company and Banking House in San Francisco, at one time a man of great wealth and unbounded influence, died in the alms house ot that city on the 10th inst. Ex Senator Dawn, of California, will probably be called to the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. The tea farm sustained up to date by the Government, in South Carolina, i Jas proveu a iauure. One ot the Guiteau jurors having i lost his wife, the trial is postponed | till the 21st. Lawyers think this will j give the prisoner a new trial in ease the jury convict.