AMERICAN SUMNARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5370, 15 December 1885, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMNARY.

San Francisco, November 23. The agent of the Zealandia claimed the right to carry the English mails to the colonies, alleging that the contract had not expired. The agent of tho New Zealand Government at San Francisco notified the postal, authorities that they had placed the mails aboard the Alameda. This was done, the agent of the Zealandia formally protesting, and threatening to hold the New Zealand port responsible for damages. The Chinese Ambassador denies that the Chinese Government granted any concessions for making railroads. Senator Sharon, the California millionaire is dead. He left 1,000,000 dollars to charities. He made a solemn affidavit on his deathbed that no marital relations existed between himself in the celebrated case against him. William Heath, a leading New York broker, recently failed for several millions. A tremendous fire occurred at Galveston, Texas, and destroyed 52 blocks. The loss was two million dollars. The insurances were a million, mostly in foreign companies. Governor Stanford, of California, has endowed the University at Palo with a anded estate worth five million dollars. Minister Carter, of the Hawaian Islands, has left for Europe to propose a plan to j England, France, and Germany, to secure

the neutrality of the Pacific Islands, and centralising the authority in the Sandwich Islands. Mrs Parnell, mother of the agitator, ia stumping the United States in favor of parliamentary funds. Ferdinand Ward, Grant's partner, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment. John Sullivan, pugilist, starts for Australia in April. A crusade a»ainst the liquor business in the United States, under Catholic auspices, is threatened by the Pope's endorsement of the anti-liquor decree of the American Plenary Council. There is a great revival in the American iron trade, and mills are active. John Bowman, ex-Mayor of St. Louis, was assassinated within a few feet of his own door. It is believed to have been done by a political opponent. Hannah Masterton obtained a divorce" at' San Francisco from Joseph Masterton, athlete, Australia, on the grounds of cruelty. The Free Trade conference at Chicago was largely attended. Henry Ward Beecher denounced Protection as the jugglery of the devil. Rodriquez, who accompanied De Lesseps to Panama, has published a book in New York containing damaging criticisms regarding the canal He declares that the scheme has already sunk twenty millions sterling, and is doomed to inevitable failure. The Economise Francaise warns its countrymen that the whole concern is on the verge of bankruptcy, and'that the collapse will be the most terrible of the nineteenth century. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company started its first through train from Montreal to the Rocky Mountains on November 3rd, but it is understood that there will be no regular through service to the Pacific Coast till next spring. A great storm has occurred off the coast of Labrador, and 80 fishing vessels were wrecked, and seventy men lost their lives. Opposition to vaccination continues in Montreal and Toronto, and small-pox continues its ravages also. It has spread to Prince Edward's Island, and 41 cases are reported at Charlotte Town. ! Sir Jno. McDonald left Ottawa for England to confer with the Imperial authorities re American fishery rights. A conflagration occurred at Iquique, Pevu. The loss was a million dollars. The insurance was £375,000 amongst British' Companies. Civil war continues to rage at Peru.