EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1529, 6 January 1875, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

I Particulars of the earthquake in BQsa \ ~a tate that at Flberrado the church anaV * vent were much shattered, and a portion '■, "the tower fell, burying, it is supposed/^! several priests who were preparing for matins. V| *In Tuxtla the shock was very great, pros- y trating several houses and killing and wound- \j ing a number of people. In other parts of the country similar damage and loss of Jiffg.--' resulted. BOSTON WOOL MARKET. **5 • Boston, December 2.—An active demand has sprung up for fine snd desirable lots of fleece wool, and the transactions" of the/week promise tote quite laige. Manufacturers are evidently short of stock. They are compelkd to purchase from..week to week or ' stop, and holders feel that all the wool they I have on hand will be wanted. Some!larj;ey mills are looking around.for fine fleeces, and have been for some we'.kspait trying to bear > down the mai ket one,to two cents per pound*" ■ Holders feel that their position is a strong w one for fleece wool, and concessions are now out of the question. FEARFUL TORNADO AT TUSCUMBIA, ALABAMA. A gentleman from Tuscnmba states that j : Sunday's tornado was most disastrous-initg : effects upon?, the ,-surrounding country. f Fences were blown in every direction ; large trees were torn from the ground, and ffl carried miles: cabins and.-out-houses Were lifted from their foundations. In Tuscumba the loss will be balf-a-million dollars. Nearly every building in the place was more or less damaged. Provisions were given out;, and up. wards of 400 destitute, homeless people. The ruins of the lesidence of State Senator Moore were removed after the storm. Mrs William Winston, mother of the late ex-Governor Winston ; the wife and two children of the Hon. J. B. Moor.c, Fenator from the District, J. D. Hodgkins, editor of the Chronicle, his . : wife and fdnr children-were killed. The Catholic Church, Dishier Female Institute, recently finished, both of the flouring mills, and most of the substantial brick dwellings in town were destroyed.-Many poor families ?; are with/put homes. A. despatch from Selma. dated to-day, says:—"A terrible stormy visited Montevallo, five miles north of Selma, last ni^hf. Twelve or_ fifteen houses were destroyed, and two persons killed^ and fifty or twenty injured, some seriously." :■

FAMINE IN KANSAS-GRASSHOPPER - '' •'■ PLAGUE. : \ Seventeen counties, in which an aggregate of i 58,000 acres have been planted in corn, produced not a bushdl,:An r aggregate population of 17,000 settlers," who generally had their first crop planted, ,fcad expended all their means in building houses and putting in crops. The drought and grasshoppers wrought the total destruction of everything, they° had planted, leaving them totally destitute. -They are without food, clothing orifuel to sustain them until they can produce something on which to live, and must be sustained by the charitable contributions of people in other sections of the State and country at'large. The C7iampwn computes the number destitute in the State at from 20,000 to 25,000. . «

Reports from the trades in New - York and Brooklyn show three times as many men out of employment as at the same time last year, and the suspension of building on account of the cold weather will soon add largelyto the number. "