AMERICAN SUMMARY.
San Franscisco, January 21. The R.M.S. Australia ra delayed 20 hours owing to the non-arrival of tho English niau>" v . «£ Jfrembj} l^' 0 ' 5 conflagrations have occurred ijiM 6w York. •• One of ihe'ni'in the.Broad--I™vT»k.4 i|© other/ in Wortle Street. r THe#>^ir estimated at 5000,000 dollars. ; : Mormon /Vives were brought before Congress, aiid spoke against jnalcing CPpiygjCmpus marriages in Utali illegal. BHgKany Young's dxiuglttetiwasone of the -speakers?-;- '. ..-" ■-. ■'..,': l}'/- ■'■ -, -iVOalifprnia -is suffering from wanfc of Mfi: ,\ '-".. ' ■■ '■'-'--■ Arch-bishop Purcoll, of Cincinnati, a leading Roman Catholic Bishop, has been declared bankrupt, and has resigned his Bishopric. , . . " ' The Government of tho United States formally resumed specie payments on Jan. Ist. This caused great rejoicing in financial and commercial circles. ;.,'|.Cpbb pushing, a prominent Democratic is dead. '' ': Spaiiet fever is raging in New York.. : Russian deserters are expected to arrive ih ! New York this month. Nino thousand ar^flebing' tb escape tho military service. ', Fiftjr.drunken ; women were arrested in "a streetof NeV York on the 1 day following the New Year. The European steamers havo been icobound recently in New York harbour. i\T i^uidlrbiit" intends starting a lino of steamships betsveen Now York and Europe.' ; - ' : ; ; TJlie Sitting Bull, and Indians to the ! number, of 25,000, havo come into the United States from Canada. Another ship leaves New York during ■the present winter with American exhibits for the International Exhibition to be held in Sydney.. j[j -Extern are talcing ad"vantage to a considerable extent of this o^prtunity fpr introducing their gooda to ,4 v&isf. "market. '•>,'' "" r :'''■■',' : ,;'., J^.i'sirong. company, of New. York and i'.B.pst9ft .capitalists has .^een formed for the iiatrsoductipn of, Garny^s magnetic-electric ! (machine, for generating, electricity for the i'feldciSticjlightj'.telegraphing without theuso ob '4 battery, and other purposes. This i does not inblude, however, his magnetic "meter. '/' •' • -• •• - ' •' : i ' 'During'the last two years the American i wine business has nearly doubled, while I | during six years past the sale of foreign I | distilled wines has decreased nearly twot thjrds. The increase in alcohol exportation is enormous, and the trade unusually j Jlai&eiand.profitable. ! The Giant powdor-works at San Fran- > cisco have been blown up. The shock was \ felt 60 miles off. Throo employees were i torn to shreds. The loss is estimated at £50,000. ! ..The Congressional Committee made a ; strong repox-fc against further Chinese emigration to the United States. Richmond,, Virginia, has boon flooded by' a rush of the James river. \ An Engineer residing in Cincinnati has taken the contract for tho railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa, Palestine. ' I." MrSpurgeon, the London preacher, is i engaged in -'a : "controversy with Dr Neal, | the American Temperance Lecturer, bej cause the, latter charged him with an excessive fondness for beer and sprits. . The resumption of specie payments has lessened General Grants, chance of reelection to the Presidency. I ■"''the New York Times intimates that the Messrs Flood and .O'Brien,, <>f" San Francisco, h6ld the titles of tho 'Central Pacific Railroad, . and Branches, '.«$ security for borrowed money. L-n'dOO agricultural labourers, according to ;'iiiV. tetter received' 'in New York,: left .•■England fpr New Ze^jand recently, and fthe ; authorities; 'iiVView of the prevailing | •''diatress^are endeavouring to induce others to immigrate to tho colpny. •"? Thirty Cheyenne Indians were recently slaughtered by United States soldiers, at r C^nlp"Sbbinson, Nebraska": '•. TheJndians •liad become mutineous. . . • ' J Havard University has challenged .Oxford to a rowing match. The latter declines the challenge. :'.', The' Irish -American citizens tried to organize a mass meeting to censure ' the <action of the Cork Town Council with re.gard to General Grant. The attompt was •however, a signal failure. The United States Supremo Court fixes penally for polygamous marriages at 500 dollar fines, and five years imprisonment. Shocks of earthquake have- boon felt at Florida. ' .Anderson, an Englishman walked 2700 quarter miles, in as many quarter hours. The feat was accomplished in Brooklyn. A gale at Aspsinwall damaged tho Pacific Mail Works to tho extent of 1,000,000 •dollars. ■Ex-Governor 'Bravo, of Mexico, has been killed, with fourteen followers. ;.'.<•- The Brazilian Government proposes the extinction of all Monastic orders, and the application of the property to tho redemption of the public debt. Yellow fever has re-appeared at Bio Janiero.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 692, 15 February 1879, Page 3
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