AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 321, 16 January 1879, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Sam Fkancii-co, 23rd December. A swindler named William Griffis has been arrested in San Francisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank of London, in the shape of letters of credit passed on Mr. Baldwin, the mining millionaire, and proprietor of the Baldwin theatre and hotel. The Marquis of Lome was sworn in as Governor-General of the New Dominion at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on tbe 25th ult. Great festivities took place on the occasion. Plans are in consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific Railroad under one management. The American theatrical firm of Shook and Palmer have dissolved partnership ; the former will become Police Commissioner of New York. Napoleon Campana, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has challenged O'Leary to a six days' walk. O'Leary has accepted. William Miller, the champion athlete, of New York, publishes a challenge to wrestle for 500 dollars a side. M'Mahon, of New Jersey, has accepted. Weston proposes to walk in San Francisco 522 miles in 144 hours. The Harvard Boat Club are enthusiastic in their determination to challenge the oarsmen of the two English Universities for an 8-oared race next summer. * Dennis Kearney, the agitator, was received on his return to San Francisco by a procession of nearly 5000 working-men, with banners and music MdJle. C?ara Louise Kellogg, the celebrated prima donna, has quarrelled with her .manager because a new prima donna has eclipsed her in the estimation of the musical world.

Chinamen art being naturalised in New York. The steamship New Zealand, bound from New York to Antwerp, returned on the 27th with her cargo on fire. Virginia has refused to observe the thanks-giving-day on President Hayes' proclamation. The Andrews brothers, who went to Europe in the John Dory, are coming back next spring in the same boat. They intend building another, in which to go to San Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to Australia. Mrs. Tilton has been formally expelled from Mr. Beecher's church at Brooklyn. Mr. Orville Grant, brother of the exPresident Grant, has been released from tbe insane asylum, cured of his mental disease. Mackay, the Bonanza king, has given Gilmore and Bandmann 150,000 dollars to insure their European professional tour against loss. A "vendetta" fray took place in Breathill County, in which a judge and several other persons were killed. General Grant has decided to visit Asia and British India before his return home, which will be by way of Austra'ia, New Zealand, and California. Heavy floods have occured at New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, and New Hampshire, washing out the railway beds, and doing vast damage otherwise. The British ship Thalia, bound from Glasgow to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of her crew reached Valparaiso safely. A general strike ot car-drivers has occurred in New York. Mr. Bayard Taylor, traveller and author, formerly United States Minister to Germany, is dead. The cause of death was dropsy. Mr. Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly, is spoken of as his successor. A mutiny occurred on board the British barque Anaway on her voyage from New York to Trieste. The mate was killed and others wounded. The Captain shot one of the mutineers. Gold was sold at par in New York on the 18th for the first time since the suspension of specie payments in 1862. Gas stock in San Francisco has fallen heavily in consequence of the preparations for the production of the electric light. The Pacific Mail Company have been offered 2,000,000 dollars for two of their China steamers, and 300.000 for one of the Australian steamers. It is believed that this will lead to the withdrawal of the company from the latter route, and to its passing into English hands. Mr. David Cownie, for many years Pacific mail agent at Panama, and also during the existence of the Australian-Panama line, died in Florida on the 26th ultimo.