AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6053, 9 February 1885, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

SAN FRANCISCO. January 18. The United States Fish Commission I have shipped, through Mr Creighton, of 'San Francisco, one million white fish I eggs from Lake Michigan, for the BaHarat I Fish Acclimatisation Society. The eggs are in a forward state. They are securely placed in the ice-house of the City of J Sydney, and are in prime condition. George Augustus Sala lectured in Boston on " Sketches bom all Countries/* on January 7th and 9th. He is engaged to lecture in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and New Zealand, under the management of . Frank Bowden. ."' "' ■''-■■■■■■'■'■ ■■-■■ ~". Wright Levoi, a lawyer, was hanged in San Francisco on January 16th. for the murder of Nicholas Skerrett, a capitalist. He strangled his victim to death, Congress refused a pension of SOdols a month to the widow of Commander Delonp of the Jeannette fame. Scnlyer Coif ax, Vice-president of the United States with Grant during his first term of Presidency, died suddenly at Manikato, Manniato. Captain Phelan, dynamiter, one «f O'Bonovan Bossa's gang, was stabbed in the- latter's office in New York on January 9th by Biohard Stuart. Phelan was severely but not fatally hurt. He beliere* he was deliberately entrapped into the office to be murdered, because it was thought he blabbed too much to newspaper reporters in the country. Phelan was in Bull in 18S3, and the police there were notified by thoce of Newcastle of hisarSi 6 was carefully watched. He there met Carey and other Insbmen of tte same dynamite ttripe as **>**%, The espionage, however, was so dose that hehad witbwt He had the audacity to visit the Chi*t SasSSeTof Hnll u «d <*°&£l«j£ BurveiltaaoPi aad threatened to «?*£»= to Sir Vemon Harcourt unless it was removed. Papers in his possession would show Phelan to have been an officer in the United Stat* Volunteer force, «d afeo a New York police. ©ffieer.. *. K sf,* 0 £

wife and daughter are at either side of bis cot to minister to his wants. He is very weak, and not permitted to talk for any length of .time. Mrs Phelan says he will make a statement to the public as soon as he is well which will strike terror to the hearts of Bossa and bis-constituents.

Lord Garmoyle, defendant in . the Fortescue breach of promise case, arrived In San Francisc* on January 6th, from China. He met with an accident on th» trip, and was temporarily crippled. A few San Francisco papers had been exceedingly discourteous in alluding to Garmoyle. An improbable story was set afloat by despatches on January 7th to the effect that English detectives have obtained evidence that a powerful society of dynamiters exists within the boundaries of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and that the society is directly responsible for the recent explosions and assassinations in Great Britain. While Irish-Americans scoff at the idea, a Greensburg correspondent saysit is certain there has been something in the wind in this county for some time past of an unusually exciting nature. Mrs Herman Adler, better known as Leonora Simonsen, the prima donna, died in San Francisco, December 37th, of peritonitia. Her father, M. Simonsen, arrived in San Francisco the day before his daughter's death. He is quite wild with grief. A startling revelation was made by a correspondent at Fargo, Dakota, in bis letter December 29th, to the effect that the Dakotas had been grievously disappointed and angered at the neglect with which they are treated by Congress. They have proposed to join Manitoba people, some of whom are growling over their treatment by the Dominion Government, in forming a separate Eepublie. The "Hew York Tribune" considers the proposition ridiculous" and impossible to be carried out; but people are very much in earnest about the matter. , I A flurry was created in New York flnan- j cial circles, on January the 10th, by a report that C. P. Huntingtoß, a Pacific railroad magnate, jwas in difficulties; but' investigation proved the report baseless. A scheme was matured by certain Iriab.Americans whereby 20,000 responsible persons, in the United States will agree to pay Sdol per annum each towards a fund for the payment of the Irish members of Parliament so long as constitutional j methods, as conducted by Parnell, are maintained.

Moody, the revivalist, opened services in Richmond, Va., on January 6th, Some hostility was felt towards him, because he was charged with the aspersion of the names of Lee and Jackson, Confederate generals. He published a card in denial, and declared he always looked upon the generals named as the highest types of Christians and soldiers.

Lord Bandolph Churchill will return to England from India via 'Frisco.

The papers are full of General Grant's affairs, owing to his trouble through borrowing 150,000d01s from Tanderbilt. Grace Harding Hammond, the daughter of Belle Boyd, known during the Confederate war as a rebel spy, was married in Texas to Bay Charteris, a young Englishman who claims to be the Earl of Linwood. -

British business men are complaining about the Australian-American mail service. During December seven steamers were slow, the steamers taking the mails to New York were beaten by other vessels sailing on the same day. Lengthy depositions are being , taken in the libel case of Sarah Althea Hill versus the 'Frisco " Alta," growing out of a divorce case. Wm. Neilson appears to be the principal deponent. In reply to lawyer Sonderback, before Notary Knox on the 17th January, the witness gave an elaborate narration of his life, to the effect that no finding was ever found against him in a court of last resort, but there was a finding againsu him in a lower court, which was reversed by a higher court. The circumstances connected with his prosecution in Tictoria, Australia, for forgery, were related by the witness with much emotion.