AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

ENFORCING THE LIQUOR LAWS IN CALIFORNIA, A SUPPOSED LUNATIC AT WHITE HOUfcE. HANLAN "BLUFFING" TRICK&TT. A MELBOURNE HEIRESS IN AMKHICA. THK MISSING ARCTIC YACHT. PROBABILITY OF GUITEAU'S ESCAPE. PATTI IN AMERICA. San Fbakci-co, 21st November. Great efforts are made to induce immigration to < alifornia, but it is considered useless in the face of the present and increasing' Chinese competition with white labour in the State. The Sunday law closing 1 saloons and stopping all kinds of secular occupations on the Sunday has been pronounced constitutional by the Supreme Court of California, and it will bs rigidly enforced. Colonel Watson 13. Smith, Clerk of tbe United States Court at Omaha, was found murdered at his officn doo *. Deceased was a prominent temperance man, and had taken an active part in enforcing the Slooum liquor law, compelling saloons to pay 1000 dollars license, and to close on Sunday. It is supposed ho fell a victim to some «ne incensed by his action. The Liquor Dealers' Union offered a reward of 500 dollars, the Good Templars 200 dollars, and the Governor 200 dollars lor the discovery of the murderer. Many threatening letters were found on the person of the deceased. Ah Kirn, a Chines* missionary student, killed himself at Mariotta, Ohio, because he was disappointed in love with a white servant girl. Woling, alias Dr. Nootling, was arrested at White House, Washington, armed with a aeven-barrelleled revolver, bent on shooting somebody. Ho presented the following letter :—": — " John Woling, you are hereby informed that Dr. John Woot'ing is lawfully elected President of the United States, and occupies White, House every day. — Signed, Almighty God, commanded by Holy Spirit." Hanlan demands of Trioket 2000 dollars as the condition for rowing him for 1000 dollars a side, at St. Louis (sic). It is regarded as " bluff." Triokett is anxious to row. it is intimated that at the approaching session of the Dominion Parliament a member will take the sense of tke assemblage on the desirability of Canadian independence, and the election of a Chief Magistrate or Governor General. Testimony taken by the British Consul at St. Jjuit's, Minnesota, shews that Mra. Maryfsraca is heiress to .£95,000 from the estate of Mr. Patrick C. Buokley, of Melbourne. Miss Louisa Kellogg, x>rima donna, waa married to a wealthy New Yorker named - Whity, the hero sf several escapades, more or less scandalous. The United States steamship Rodgers returned to San Francisco from her Arctic voyage in search of the Jeannette, but brings no news of the missipg vessal. One important discovery made is that Wrangel Laud is an island about 65 miles in length by half that width. It was circumnavigated by the Rodgers. General Robert B. Lynch, the Fenian captured in the Canadian invasion, and imprisoned for a long time in the Dominion, has been given the position as messenger in the War Department at Washington. A curious state of things exists in Brooklyn, L.1., where, on account «f a dispute between the Mayor and Fire Department, a fire was allowed to rage unchecked, and 500,000 dollars' worth damage was done. ' The conviction is growing that Guiteau may escape through a legal technicality, and as a consequence there is a daily growing crowd around the Court-house and gaol. The prisoner is hailed with shouts and yells of derision, mingled with imprecations. Many in the crowd are armed. Guiteau is thoroughly frightened, and bounds into the prison van as though pursued. Advices from Panama state that the Government has increased taxes on merchants, native and foreign, 25 per cent. The canal labourers are striking, and the police have to protect the Superintendent. The native labourers do not like French overseers, and say that the Americans could get 33 per cent, more work out of thum. Ihe Champion and other varieties of potatoes grown in the north of Ireland are offered for Bale in the New York market. Beans and cabbasres have also been imported. The success of Patti's concert in the United States is doubted, the Frenchmen whom she brought over to manage her affairs blundering in eve ry movement. Prices have been reduced from .£lO per seat to JJS, and even at this figure the public are slow in buying.