GENERAL MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 257, 7 February 1889, Page 3

GENERAL MAIL NEWS.

[PER ZEALANDIA IN AUCKLAND] During tho performance of the “Midsummer Night’s Dream ” at the Opera House at Berlin on December 30th Princess Alberta, of Bavaria, was seized with a violent attack of hysteria, and had to be removed. It is now believed that she has become insane. Russia bas placed a flotilla of war vessels on the Vistula.

A number of New York towns received a severe shaking up on January 11 by earthquake, It is said that James Gordon Bennett bas bought the plant of the London Globe, and that paper will be transformed into an edition of the New York Herald,

O’Connor, the oarsman, will probably leave San Francisco for Australia by the February boat.

The surplus in the United States Treasury at the close of the year 1888 amounted to 80,000,000 dollars. The express car of an east bound train on the Central Pacific Railroad was stuck up by two young men only partly disguised. They succeeded in getting away with 50,000 dollars. The train men say that the robbery was the neatest and best job of the kind on record. Governor West, of Utah, opposes the admission of that territory into the Union on the ground that Mormons are unfitted to exercise the rights of citizenship. Mrs Jay Gould, wife of the American railway magnate, died in New York on the 13th, from paralysis.

It now turns out that the famous Murchison letter, which cost Lord Beckville his position as British Minister at Washington, was written by an Englishman named George Osgoodby (of Pomona, California), who is a member of the St. George’s Society. He had no political design whatever in doing so. By the lapse on January 4 of the famous Levarge Tontine the French Government gets 10,000,000 francs and an annuity of 1,250,000 francs. Of the 116,000 subscribers twenty are living, all of them being over 100 years of age.