AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6075, 19 September 1881, Page 2

AMERICA.

The Universal Jewish Society of New York are bringing the oppressed" Jews from Russia arid settling them in the United States.

President Garfield exhibits all the signs of blood poisoning. The physicians having notified to Mrs Garfield that nothing but •a miracle could save her husband she replied, "Then that miracle will occur. My husband will recover — he must." The assassin Guiteau is in a state of abject terror and quite sleepless. It is reported that an organisation has been formed to kill him, but the authorities have taken precautions to prevent any lynching. The latest news from Chili and Peru reports the formation of a considerable Peruvian force in the neighborhood of Lima, threatening the capital. The Chilians haTe greatly reduced the army of occupation . The American Press is agitating for theu^ annexation of the Sandwich Islands. Orizona and New Mexican advices report the commission of murders and outrages among the white desperados in those territories.

The Nicaragua canal scheme is revived and application has been made to Congress for a. charter.

The mortality from the heat in New York has been excessive of late.

A fire occurred at San Domingo by which 250 lives were lost.

The Frenchmen employed at the Panama canal are dying rapidly of yellow fever The Duke of Argyll, the Earl' of !i ™ a r\ h ™ , BOTi > Lord oglM 9 and Mr John Walter, proprietor of the London Times, will make a tour of America this season.

Alaska has applied for representation in Congress as a recogni&ed territory of the United States, and the election will take place in September.

France has decided to send over one or two war vessels with troops to lake part in the York Town Centennial celebration at Baltimore in October. Twenty guests from the French Government will also be present.

The " Josephite" branch of the Mormon Church held a convention at whioh JJ e y repudiated as slander the report that tfce Mormons generally rejoiced in the

misfortune of President Garfield. _ They passed a resolution of Sympathy with the President;

The residence of John A. Kimball, Utah, was destroyed by fire and with it his five children. The cause was the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The village of St. Jean le Baptiste, near Montreal, has been nestroyed by fire. General Leslie Coo jabs, the great horseman of Kentuck, ia dead. He was the most celebrated trainer and turfman in the United States.

It is reported that James Gordon Bennett has invited the Hon. Frances tiawley to come out to New York and take charge of the Herdld newspaper, atld that he has accepted the invitation. MrLawley was the London Times' correspondent .at Richmond during the Confederate war, but did not visit the North.

Captain Howgate, of the United States, at xrae time prominent in his efforts to promote exploration, has been arrested for the embezzlement of 40,000 dole. It ia now openly, charged that Shinka, a member of the Oannell crew, \»ho fainted at Vienna, and so the race is alleged to have been lost, was in collusion witK a betting ring in America to throw off on all races made by the crew in Europe. It is said that he wrote to Casey from London before leaving for Vienna, "Bet Cannells will lose Vienna rsce^".

Julie Benant, Tichborne's missing valet, has turned up in Buffalo, New York. He verifies the story of the Californian Claimant, and says he will give corroborative testimony. He knows all the marks Sir Roger had on his body, and can identify him at once. He says Sir Roger had good reasons for keeping quiet during the Or ton trial.

Typhoid fever, resulting from bad drainage;, and impure water, prevails at Tom Hughe's colony, Rugby, Tennessee. D. and J. Sadlier, the great Catholic publishersof New York, have failed for 150,000 dollars.

The Canadian Commission have arrived in .'San: Francisco en route to inspect the conatraction of the Canadian-Pacific railroad.

The proposed prohibition of intoxicating drinks has been defeated in Alabama by an overwhelming vote of the people. William Gale, English pedestrian, has completed the great feat of covering 6000 quarter miles in 6000 hours in New York.

The Convention of Irishmen at Chicago got into trouble over the diecovery as was alleged of a paid British spy in their midst, one George J. West, who acted as secretary. West had to take pains to prove he was an American, born in Providence.

A new line of sailing vessels has been established between Portland, Oregon, and Chinese ports, owned by the Oregon and Chinese Mercantile Company.