—Ex-Governor James Irwin, of California, died in San Francisco on the 15th inst.
—Major-General John Pope was placed on the retired list of the army, March 17.
—March 17 President Cleveland requested the immediate resignation of Governor Murray, of Utah.
—Forty-six men were arrested in Philadelphia the other day for participation in a prize-fight. They were each fined $450.
—The steam-ship City of Sidney, which arrived at San Francisco recently, brought $582,000 worth of raw silk from China and Japan.
—An engine was wrecked and two men killed and several others injured at Ioni Station, fourteen miles from Fort Worth, Texas, March 19.
—The strike on the Missouri Pacific Railroad still continues, and the officers of the road have invoked the powers of the United States Courts to restrain the strikers from obstructing traffic.
—The House Ways and Means Committee has reported in favor of abrogating the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. There is but little doubt that such a measure will pass both houses of Congress.
—Immense snow-falls are reported in Silesia, Prussia. Several villages were completely buried, and the inhabitants obliged to dig their way out. Five children were frozen to death while going to school.
—Two bales of cotton raised by slave labor in 1862 were sold, a few days since, in one of the Southern States, for eight and three-fourth cents per pound, the lowest price touched by cotton since the beginning of the war. The cotton was in excellent condition.
—Advices from Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, say that there is great excitement in Arispe and Magdalena, caused by the discovery of rich placer diggings in the mountains, three leagues from Cananea, on the northeastern tributaries of the Sonora River, in the Magdalena mountains.
—On the 16th inst. the House Committee on Foreign Affairs reported adversely on the Morrow bill. This is looked upon as a decided victory for the Chinese. The committee will, it is thought, report favorably upon the bill for the payment of damages to the sufferers of the Rock Springs' riot. The amount claimed is $160,000.
—There are rumors of another war between France and Germany. The Berlin Post says: "France confesses that she is waiting to attack Germany. This is serious. Germans who desired to conciliate France will now recognize the uselessness of conciliation, and will wish that Frenchmen may soon find the opportunity they desire."
—On the 17th inst. a party of about fifty armed men entered the court house at Carrollton, Mississippi, where a trial was in progress in which several negroes were interested, and at once commenced firing on the negroes, killing ten and mortally wounding three. The latter have since died.
—Nearly 8,000 men are said to be out of employment in Vienna, Austria, and as the weather has been phenomenally cold for over three months, there is much suffering among the poorer classes. A dispatch dated March 16, says: "Starvation is staring many of them in the face. The same condition of affairs prevails in every large town in Austria."
—Geo. Q. Cannon, the noted Mormon apostle and ex-delegate to Congress, who was arrested some weeks ago in Nevada and returned to Salt Lake City for trial on the charge of polygamy, failed to appear on the 17th inst. when his case was called in the Third District Court, and his bail, $25,000, was declared forfeited. Cannon is, therefore, again a fugitive from justice.
—March 14 the British steam-ship Oregon ran into a deeply-laden three-masted schooner off the eastern coast of Long Island, and both vessels sunk. The schooner went down immediately, with all on board, but the steamer floated about eight hours, and both the crew and passengers, 665 persons in all, were safely transferred to other vessels. The loss on the steamer and cargo alone is estimated at $1,775,000.
—Geronimo, the noted Apache leader, and his band surrendered to Lieutenant Maus on the 19th inst. The Apache camp was attacked by the Mexican forces, and a hot skirmish ensued. During the skirmish two Apaches were killed, and the forces of Geronimo were completely routed. Geronimo and his band fled in utter dismay in the direction of Lieutenant Maus' camp, for safety, and immediately gave up their arms and surrendered unconditionally.
—In view of important military measures adopted by Russia, Count Bylundt Rhegdt, the Austro-Hungarian Minister of War, has resolved to mass large forces of troops on the southern frontiers.191
—One of the New York aldermen who were bribed to vote for Jacob Sharp's Broadway franchise, was arrested on the 18th inst. Before his arrest he not only confessed to a detective that he had received $20,000 for his vote, but also implicated others. His bond was fixed at $15,000. Other arrests are expected to follow soon, and it is probable that the whole secret history of the granting of the franchise will come out. It is said that but two members of the board are free from taint.
—Last week Delegate Voorhees presented a petition to the House from the Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma. The petition asks that the duty on coal and wood be retained. It says that if these articles be put on the free list, every coal mine in Washington Territory will have to shut down, and that nearly every saw-mill will have to stop. The petition concludes by predicting that 10,000 men in Washington Territory will be thrown out of employment if coal or lumber is placed on the free list.
—The fact has recently come to light that artificial milk is being manufactured and sold in San Francisco. This bogus milk so closely resembles the genuine as to readily deceive almost any one. Its ingredients are sugar, nitrate of potash, glycerine, bicarbonate of soda, protoxide of soda, chloride of sodium, water, and milk, combined in proportions which have not yet been made public. It costs less than five cents per gallon to manufacture the stuff, which is, of course, sold at the regular price to unsuspecting customers as genuine milk.
—Mr. Thomas A. Edison in a recent article in the North American Review explains an invention whereby he can throw an electric current from a rapidly-moving railway train to a telegraph wire more than five hundred feet distant. This discovery promises to be of immense importance, as "a circuit can now be established between any train, either moving or at a stand-still on a railroad, and the terminus of the road, or between the trains and any station on the route. A circuit is also established between any one train and all other trains on the same road." Mr. Edison says that he expects to so perfect his invention that ships at sea can exchange messages while many miles apart.