AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 33, 10 February 1881, Page 2

AMERICA.

San Francisco, 18th Jannary. Copious rains have fallen in California, Oregon, and Washington, and the promise of crops of all kinds is particularly good, and of wheat more than good. The Mormous are uneasy at the attitude of the now President, and have organised a lobby party at Washington to guard their iutereats. George C Cannon, their delegate to Congross, was refused his certificate of election by the Governor of the Territory, on the ground that Cannon was a Polygamist. Mark Twain, the famous humorist, is going crazy. The population of the United States is unofficially givon as 50,152,559. Jay Gould, the American railroad operator, last month, by purchase of leases, obtained control of 2487 miles of railway. This makes him controller of 9649 miles of railroad, em« ploying hundreds of millions of capital. Very cold weather has provailod in the Mississippi River Valley and along the Atlantic seaboard, and in the Southern States it has been the coldest ever known. In Bomo places the thermometer has marked 12 and 15 degrees below zero. The British Bhip Lnputa has been wrookftd on Tillamook Rook, Washington territory, and all hands perished. It is not known exactly when she struck, bu'j a quantity of wreokago was picked up during the first week in January. Heavy avalanohes of snow havd fallen in the town of Alta, in Utah, almost destroying the plaoe and killing over twenty persons. The stage running between Fort Cummings to Mossila, in Now Mexico, was attacked by Indians on the 11th January, and tho driver and three passengers murdered. Moody and Sankey are still exhorting in San Francisco, and their services arc attended by large orowds. The Mexican Government has given the proposed ship railway across tho Isthmus of Teheauntepec right of way and 100,000 acres of land. Indians raiding in the State of Chihuahua, on 23rd December, killed eleven persons.