AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 18 January 1879, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY .

'; San Fbancisco, December 23. AN ENTERPRISING SWINDLES. , A swindler named William Griffs, alias Lord Ashburton, has been arrested in San Francisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bonk, London, in the shape of a letter of <jredit, which ho passed on Mr Baldwin, mining millionaire and proprietor of Baldwin's Theatre Hotel. A plan is under consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific Railroads under one management. ' > '.■ . ! The Americaatheatrica! firm of Shook and ' Palmer have dissolved, Thpfomei becomes ■ ; Polioa Commwatoaer k KevfYoxk. ; ATHLETICS. ; . Napoleon Cammnft, of Bridgepo^Cana,, ! has otaJlenged O'Learv to !^'atx daya' -walk. . O'Leary baa aooept^d the cttallong^. : -William Millar, 6hamp!oa »th}9ta of New York, publishes a- challenge to ■wrestle- for £500 a-side. MoMahon, .though illj has' accepted it. Western proposes to walk in San Franoisoo 522 miles in 144 hours. The Harvard Boat Club are enthusiastic in their determination to challenge the oarsmen of the two English Universities to an eighty oared race next summer,

MISCELLANEOUS.: - !. ' Dennis Kearney, the agitator, was received on hia return to San Francisco by a procession of nearly 5,000 working men with bands of music. Madame Clare Louise Kellogg quarrelled with her Manager Strakosche because a new prima-donna eclipsed her in the estimation of the musical public. Chinamen are being naturalized in New York. The steamship New Zealand, from New York for Antwerp, returned on the 27th ult. with cargo on fire. The Virginia people refused to observe Thanksgiving day on President Hay's proclamation. The Andrew Brothers, who went to Europe , in a small dingy, are coming back next I spring in the samo boat, arid intend to build another in which to go to San^ Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to, Australia. Mrs Tilton has been formally expelled frojn Beecher's Church at Brooklyn. j Orville Grant, brother of the ex^President, has been released from a Lunatic Asylum cured. ■ • . Great dissatisfaction is felt because President Hay's annual message to Congress contains no allusion to the Chinese immigration to the United States. McKay, the Bonanza king, has given Gilrnore Bodsman £150,000 to insure his European professional tour against loss. Owing to a vendetta in Breathill County, one judgo and several other persons were killed. General Grant has determined to visit Asia and British India before returning home, which he will do by way of Australia, New Zealand, and California. Representatives from the Pacific coast are now in London, and have presented Earl Beaconsfield with a valuable casket and address sent from San Francisco. Heavy floods have occurred in New York, Pennyslvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Washington, doing vast damage. The British ship Thalia, from Glasgow, to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of the cre,w were rescued by the Valparaiso. There is a general strike of car, drivers in New York. . Bayard Taylor, traveller and author, has died from dropsy. TERRIBLE MUTINY. On board the British barque Amoy(?) on a voyage from New Yorke to Trieste, fcwosailors attacked the mate, fatally wounding him, and afterwards attempted to kill the boatswain and a seaman, both of whom had their skulls fractured. The captain fired upon tho mutineers, wounding one, when both jumped overboard and were probably drowned. j Gold sold at par in New York on the 18th ! for the first time since the suspension of specie payment in 1862. ■ Propositions are being made to introduce the electric light in San Francisco, and gas stock has fallen heavily in consequence. The Pacific Mail Company offered two million dollars for two China steamers, and three hundred thousand dollars for an Australian steamer. This, it is thought, will lead to the withdrawal of the Company from the latter route, and to their passing it over to the English. It is generally felt that General Grant will be nominated for the next presidential terra. The barque Sarah, of New Bedford, was caught in a hurricane and capsized the day after she left port. Fifteen were drowned and several others saved by a pilot boat after undergoing fearful sufferings. , I