ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 805, 23 May 1876, Page 5

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The Secretary of War, Belknar, has been arraigned on trial of impeachment for selling offices. The eruption of Vesuvius is exceedingly grand. A stream of lava is flowing towards Pompeii. The fires cast splendid crimson tints upon the clouds. It is expected to last four weeks. The steamer Agrigentis, from Italian ports, collided with the English steamer Hylton Castle off Cape Malta. The former immediately sank, and of sixty-four persons comprising her passengers and crew, nine of the former and twenty of the latter were drowned. Balicoa, coiner at the Californian Mint, has defrauded the Government of fourteen thousand dollars in gold. Shocking cruelties to the insane have been, discovered in the Washington Asylum, exciting great indignation. Four powder magazines exploded at Salt Lake City, causing terrible devastation in the city. The damage is estimated at over a hundred thousand dollars. One child's head was knocked off by the debris and carried over a mile away. Several persons were killed. ! The Pacific Mail Company's difficulties are a topic of discussion in commercial circles. Another large failure of a West Indian house is reported in Liverpool. A revolution has taken place in Hayti. The revolutionists deposed the President. Latest Turkish advices report that the Montenegrines have joined the insurgents. Tweed's accomplices, under threats, have agreed to refund plunder from New York city. A heavy snow-storm in Bordeaux damaged the vines.