AMERICA

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6851, 6 May 1884, Page 3

AMERICA

In Cincinnati on March 28 a mob was suddenly formed to lynch a man named Berver, convicted of murder, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for twenty years. The people thought the punishment insufficient, and sought to inflict the death penalty. There were over 10,000 desperate men assembled, who attacked the gaol and the court-house, attempting to fire both buildings by means of coal oil. The police and military resisted them, and the fighting on both sides was desperate. On the second day the mob succeeded in destroying the gaol and court-house, but previously Berver had been rescued by an underground passage. During the fight 200 persons were killed or wounded. In a debate in the Canadian Parliament on the causes of the discontent in Manitoba, and their removal, Mr Cartwright said that by the land policy of the Government thousands of Canadians had been driven to seek horaea in the United States. Sir John A. M 'Donald, the Premier of the Canadian Government, is reported to be seriously ill. The Dominion Parliament, while disallowing the bill passed by British Columbia for the exclusion of Chinese, adopted a resolution that it was prepared, as soon as public opinion sanctioned the prohibition, to make such enactments in that direction as were "within, the competency of Parliament. Twenty-four inches of snow fell at London, Ontario, on April Ist. The storm was accompanied by phenomenal thunder and lightning. At Toronto, Horace F. Allkins having what he supposed sufficient proof that his wife was too intimate with a man named Hackett, a street car conductor, deliberately shot them both. A most extraordinary catch of seals was reported from Newfoundland ou April 3rd -41 ,000 seals, valued at 125,000 dollars, were taken by the steamer Neptuno in twelve days. The steamship Daniel Steinmann, from. Antwerp for Halifax, Nova Scotia, struck on the night of April 3rd off Sambo Heads, 20 miles from port, and sank almost immediately. Ninety passengers, and thirtythree of the crew were drowned. Only six passengers and six sailors were saved. The steamer struck during an eastearly storm with a dense fog and raiu. The real cause of the disaster appears to have been a mistake in the captain's observations, taking the Sambo light for that of Chebucto, and so getting wrong bearings. The deficit of the Province of Quebec for the present fiscal year is stated :;at 485,500 dollars. The emigration from the neighborhood of Quebec to the United States is alarming the provincial authorities. From one parish, Montmangny, 3200 persons left in one week, a large majority of whom never intend to return. A party of filibusters under General Aguero landed at Hzcacos, Cuba, on April Ist without resistance. Numerous factions joined him on his march to the interior. His force encountered the regular troops several times, but obliged them to retreat. Great excitement prevails, especially in Havanna. A perfect panic is reigning in the Cuban markets, and merchants, in order to sell their drafts, have to submit to large loss on current rates. The Wool Tariff Bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives for restoring the duty of 1867 on wool was defeated on April 7th after a long and hotly contested debate. Tho vote stood— Ayes, 119; noes, 126. The measure was of special interest to the representatives from Ohio, as it waa iustigated by the wool-growers of that State, who claimed that its passage would only be a fulfilment of the pledge made last fall, that the wool duty would be restored, and that it was only a matter of simple, pure, and unmitigated justice. One member said that it was not often the farmers came asking for legislation, and when they did Congress should give them a respectful hearing. Mr Hurd, of Ohio, in opposing the restoration of the duty, said that the only effect of imposing it would be to increase the cost of woollen goods to the poor, and he waa not prepared to do that for the benefit of the already prosperous farmer and woclgrower. His Legislature had asked him to vote for this measure, but he would not so vote, if every Democrat in Ohio had requested him to do it. Professor Mezzeroff came out with a proposition in a leading New York paper on the 7th of April to the following effect:— "l propose, with 1000 Irishmen picked from the most intelligent and best educated of those living in the Irish cities, to free Ireland. They will first have to be brought over here. There is neither freedom of speech nor freedom of action in Ireland, England, or Scotland. England would hang at a moment's notice all the scholars and instructors in a dynamite school. One thousand scholars must be taught right here, in this city ; then we could oend them back. I would distribute them in tho cities of England, Ireland, and Scotland, ready at a preconcerted signal to destroy all the English banking houses, arsenals, prisons, and public works. I would keep up the war until every English ship-of-war was blown from the seas. Let mo tell you what tri-niiro-glycerine is. It is ninety-two times more powerful than any other powder." The New York Commercial Bulletin of April 3rd gives a prominent place in its editorial columns to the views of a gentleman for many years resident in India, and occupying a position there which has enabled him to acquire the best knowledge of facts and opinions relating to the recent expansion of agricultural interests in that country, and who closed his review ao follows : — " The area under wheat is equal to that devoted to the same staple in tho United States. The out-turn in the Punjaub wheat fields some yeara ago averaged 13 bushels per acre, and commanded a price in the market not much less than the best Australian or Californian. The grain shipments during the first half of 1882---83 exceeded thoso of tho corresponding period in previous years by fully 50 per cent. Earl Kimberly doubtless made his recent favorable statement about the prospects of the Indian wheat trade in full view of the complete returns for last year, and of the present condition of the crop to be harvested in April or May."