LATEST AMERICAN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1493, 23 November 1874, Page 3

LATEST AMERICAN NEWS.

An orchestra of first-class musicians is to be organised m Philadelphia for the ce£ tenmal, at an expense of 10,000 dollars -A Michigan woman received a kick from a horse which severed her windpipe, and died after Ijittg insensible for two weeks.-A lake the water of which is clear near the sho efbut of inky blackness in the middle, has been dis covered in Colorado— The Russian Government is to build a Greek churchin New York the chapel at present used being altogether too small.- An old horse in Hardin h?^' fi •T aVrm^ itted Suicide by trusting his nose into the mire and holding it there until he smothered to death. -Clouds miles m length, of winged ants, that move^E rate of twenty miles an hour, passed throng rZ7t° n C°m? ty ' IU -' days ago.The fish are said to be dying by the hundreds in the river at Brighton, N. J., from the effects of tomato offal deposited in the water by a canning-house.-A new salt basin has been discovered in Saginaw valley, Michigan, which is considered inexhaustible. The brine is obtained at a depth of 1.500.-A brutal stepfather of Cincinatti, while on the rampage the other night, threw a burning lamp at his daughter, dangerously burning ncr, and setting fire to the house.—An lowa minister was recently killed by lightning while standing on the bank of a murmuring* stream and endeavouring to convince some bad boys that bathing on Sunday was