American Summary.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2970, 21 October 1879, Page 3

American Summary.

San Francisco, September 29.

Rev David L. Lonnsberry, Kcctor of Cbristchurcli, Stratford, Conn., has been shot dead, while asleep, by hh insane wife. The coloured postmaster at Blackville, S.C., was shot, because his appointment displeased white residents. Deadwood, the chief town of Dakota Territory, has been consumed. Loss $3,000,000. Two' thousand persons arc homeless. Kamel, who attempted to blow up the Hudson River Bteamboat, Daniel Drew, has been sent to the Penitentiary for seven years. A Clearing-house, for prompt settlement of grain contracts, is proposed in New Widow Oliver, famous for her breach ef promise suit against ex-Senator Cameron, has been admitted to the Washington Almshouse.

The enforcement of the Sunday law in New York has brought the brewers and saloon-keepers into sharp conflict with politicians of the Eepublican party. John E. Owens, leading comedian, will leave for New Zealand and Australia by the October steamer.

Rowell, the English pedestrian, has won in the six-days' match at New York, and carries the Astloy champion belt and the stakes to England. He made 530 miles; Weston 455. There were seven other contestants.

A general strike is contemplated by the working men of the United States and British North America.

Street-cars, with compressed air as a motor, is the latest improvement in New York.

Miss Eleanor R. Carey intends returning to the stage. The number of defaulting clerks and officials from religions, benevolent and business corporations in Massachusetts, is surprising. Scarcely a day elapses without some crookedness being brought to light, and previously-considered respectable business men being sent to prison in connection therewith.

lOOOsilk operatives from England, France, Italy and Germany have arrived at Paterson, New Jersey. It is said many more are coming soon, attracted by reports of the prosperity of the silk industry in that city.

fho New York quarantine hospitals are full of yellow fever patients.

General Grant, family, and suite arrived in San Francisco on the 20th inst. by the steamship City of Tokio from Yokohama. The steamer was met outside the heads by the Yacht Fleet, and conveyed to her landing place. Dennis Kearny, with the object of causing excitement, announced that he, with his following, would burn General Grant iv efrlgv on the Sand-lots as soon as the distinguished American reached San Francisco, because he believed Grant wished to become a dictator and subvert the present form of Republican Government. The speech aroused such a storm that the agitator was glad to take it all back in as public a manner as he made the threats. The city was literally covered with bunting, and the people seemed crazed with excitement on meeting the great General. Arriving about dusk, the effect of the naval display was lost iv a degree; but the procession and military parade was grander than anything of the kind that has taken place in San Francisco. The General purposes remaining on the Coast for sometime, visiting points of interest, and revisiting his old camp-grounds in the northern part of the State, when, 30 years ago, he was simply Lieut. Grant, U.S.A. The Eastern Press generally congratulate the country on San Francisco's action ; but a few, the democratic especially, regret that "snch a fuss" was made over the "American Ciesar." The Sau Francisco reception is regarded as a put-up job to give Graut a " boom" for the next Presidential term.

The result of the election iv California on September 3rd, under the new Constitution, rather disappointed the friends of that instrument. The Republicans, inimical as a party to the new organic law, got all the State officers, a fair share of tbe Legislature, and a number of the officers for the Municipality of San Francisco. The working men's party elected the Mayor (Rev. T. J. Knlloch, whom DoYoung, of the " Chronicle," attempted to assassinate) ; the sheriff (Thomas A. Desmond, who was concerned in the Fenian escapes from Australia some years ago); the auditor, John P. Dunn; treasurer, Win. R. Shaber; City and County Surveyor, A. A. Lindsley; City and County Attorney, John L. Murphy; District Attorney, D. L. Smoot ; Police Judge, H. M. Moore. They have thus secured the Cily Hall, which was the prime object of their ambition. The third party the N.C.P. (New Constitution Party) familiarly called tbe H.B's. (or Honourable Bilks), while nominally in the light, had made so many alliances for the purpose of personal advantage that it was almost lost sight of as a whole. It cut a most sorry figure iv the campaign, as did also the Democrats. In many interior precincts Dr. Glenn, the candidate of the parties last named for Governor, received not a single vote. Botli in the city and in the rural districts the election passed off with the utmost quietude. There were no arrests made iv San Francisco during the day, except a few for attempted illegal votiug, and these infractions of the law arose more from iguoranco than design.

Dennis Kearney, the California Communist was applied to to "agitate" Pennsylvania for political purposes, but declined. California, he said, ueeded him !

Recurring to the Yazoo (Mißs) tragedy, where, as was reported, Burksdalo shot Dixou for daring to run on an independent ticket for the same ollico as himself, it now appears that Dixon was shot because he publicly accused Burksdalc of a nameless crime with his own sister.

The Republican Party has been success, ful in the Maine election.

The steumship P. Calanto arrived at New York ou September 9th from Rotterdam, picked up the shipwrecked crow, twelve in number, of the Norwegian bark Columbia, bound from London for Quebec. The bark was struck by a largo fish or sea monster, and had a hole knocked in her buitoni, which caused her to till and sink in half an hour. The water around the vessel became bloody immediately after the shock was felt. The men had barely time to escape in the boats. Yellow fever was increasing in violence in Memphis and New Orleans. Appeals for aid have been made to the country. Jay Gonld, the New York linancier, sent §5000 to the Howard Association, with the assurance that he would continue to foot the bill of daily expenses while the epidemic lasted.

Theodore Daniel, a negro, of Union, Ky., has been shot by a delegation of the populace for attempting to ravish a white girl. Alex. 11. Stephens, late Vice-President of the Confederacy, favours General Hancock for President of the United States.

A fearful storm has occurred in Louisiana. Damago to property in New Orleans alone is over §200,000.

Rev. YV. 11. 11. Murray, of great celebrity in Boston, as a preacher, has resolved to retire to private life, because, as he says iv his letter, "My uoblest motives are traduced, my views grossly misrepresented, and my best benevolence made the cause and ground of scandalous attack." The Inter-Stato Exposition opened in Chicago on Sept. 3rd, with great prospects of success.

Johu 11. G.itling, brother of the inventor of the cannon that benrs his name, has bceu found murdered iv Murfrersboro, H.C.

Estellc Johnson, wife of the ex-Governor, of Missouri, committed suicide from grief at the loss of her child.

Demand for Bessemer steel rail is bo great that every mill in the United States lias orders for more work than it can do up to the end of the year.

Dennis Collius, who left San Francisco for New York on foot, on June Ist of the present year, arrived at his destination on Sept. 4th. He was willing to wager he could walk back iv the same time, starting immediately. Two cadet engineers from tho Annapolis Naval Academy, U.S., have been admitted to tbe Royal Naval, College, Greenwich, by request of the American Government. Talmage, the sensationalJpreachcr, late of Brooklyn, New York, didiiot accept a " call" from a London congregation, and remain in England as expected. Ho has returned to Brooklyn,

By stringent laws Pennsylvania has managed to clear the State of tramps. Secretary Evarts will soon visit tho Marquis of Lome in Canada. Advices from London, September tho Bth say that Captain Goldsmith and wife, and crew of the Dory Uncle Sam (from Boston to Europe) had arrived at Liverpool in a vessel which picked them up oft Newfoundland. The wifes sea sickness took an alarming feature, necessitating constant wakefulness by her husband. Tremendous gales were encountered. All the provisions were lost except those canned. Captain Goldsmith finally concluded to return to Newfoundland, but seeing a bark, chased her for an hour, and coming up, wob with his wife hauled ou board. Tho Dory wan scuttled.

Tho Congressional "Hard Times Investigating Committee," lately at San Francisco, say in their report, that, without intending to do so, " all classes in California bear the strongesttcstimony to the skill, business capacity, patience, euduraucsandfrugalityof the Chinese," and also " to the impossibility of the whites competing with them." In the matter of protection from the Asiaticr, California has nothing to hope for from the General Government.

ltev James A. Spurgeon, brother of the Rev Charles Spurgeon, London, is on a visit to N ew York.

Russian Mennonites continue to arrive in New York, en route to Nebraska,

A railroad across the Isthmus of Tcbnantepee is to be built by a Massachusetts man, who has secured from the Mexican Government right of way, and a subsidy of $12,000 per mile. Nathan Appleton has resigned the Presidency of the United States Board of Trade.

The surrender of Urban Cattelowe to the British Government was denied by the U.S. Commissioner at New York. Cattelowe killed Owen Jones, assistant steward of the steamship Arizona. It was shown he was insane at the time, and therefore not a criminal,

Cotton losses in Louisiana and Mississippi by recent storms aggregate 250,000 bales, and sugar 50,000 hhds.

Smallpox is epidemic on the Mexican and Texan border. Whole families are being swept away.

The Irish cricketers (11) have beaten the English St. George's (22) Club, in New York. The Irish made 184 runs in the first inning on the last day of the match, thus winning it.

A rich vein of silver ore has been discovered in Meriditte, New Hampshire, and yields 521bs silver and 591bs lead to the ton. A silver lode has also been found in Maine.

The Tammany Ring has bolted from Robinson's nominations for Governor of New York by the Democrats, thus darkening Tildeu's Presidential prospects. The Grand Opera Season (French) opened in New York on September 15, with Mile. Paola-Marie and Cassoul as the stars. It was a great success.

The National Rifle Association opened the full meeting at Creedmoor, New Jersey on September 16, by a grand cannonade and fusilade. , .' i; |

The coloured emigrants from the Southern States are succeeding well in Kansas.

No less than twenty-four stowaway boys recently came to New York from Liverpool by the steamer Lenhope. Gold is accumulating in the National Treasury, and it is proposed to exchange it

and silver coin for United States notes at the several sub-treasuries.

The Eastern press, particularly the " Nr-w York Sun," associates General Graut with the Nicaraguan Canal project, but Graut denies any connection.

Carlotta Patti and company arrived in New York on September 17th. After visiting San Francisco they cross the Pacific to Australia, and go from thence to Europe by the Suez Canal.

Three hundred and thirty-five Mormon converts arrived in New York on September 17th, en route to Salt Lake. One-half were Scandinavians, and the rest English and Welsh.

Several persons were burned to death by the destruction of a tenement house in South Boston. An incendiary fired the building. Redpath, manager of lecture and amusement bureaus in Boston, is missing. He is supposed to have wandered off insane from bodily suffering.

A convict named Gibson in the State Penitentiary of California having a difficulty with a fellow-prisoner named Austin N. Smith seized him from behind and deliberately cut his throat from ear to ear.

Daniel Drew, who was familiarly known on Wall-street as " Uncle Daniel," and at one time a rich and most successful broker, died September 18th.

The Southern States repudiate Tilden and his Presidential ambition.

Charles Pope, recently in Australia, lias opened a new theatre in St. Louis, Mo. The building wasi formerly used as a church.

It is mooted that the daughter o£ James C. Flood, the Bonanza King, will shortly be married to Ulysses Grant, jun., The acquaintance has been formed since the latter's arrival iv Sau Francisco.

A novel suit has been commenced in Chicago. Widow McGonville, whose husband was murdered by two intoxicated men, Sherry and Conville, for which the latter was hanged, has commenced a suit against the owner of the saloon where they obtained the liquor for 10,000 dollars damages ; also against the owner of the building and the agent who leased the premises.