AMERICAN NUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5760, 4 May 1880, Page 5

AMERICAN NUMMARY.

The English astronomer, Professor Proctor, who has been delivering lectures in San Francisco, sails by this steamer for the colonies. . . The result of the late pedestrian match in New York for the O'Leary belt astonishes athletics. The winner, a negro named Hart, made 565 miles in less than six days, beating the .London champion, t ' Blower " Brown's. Time, twelve miles. Hart's total rest during the match was 22 hours 54 minutes 59 seconds; his longest rest at one time, 3 hours 3 minutes 25 seconds. Hart makes nearly 20,000 dollars by this transaction. The barque Snariabrook, from Darien for Hull, ba3 been lost at seaThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the clergy, and the author, Salmi Morse (formerly of Melbourne), are wrangling over a Passion play which the latter wishes to produce. It is similar to the one at OberAincrgau. The clergy fight against it vehemently. Morse is a Jew. Charles W. Severance, land agent at Sancilito, near San Francisco, has been murdered, and the house robbed by his Chinese servants, assisted by confederates. The Carlotta Patti libel suit against the Pittsburg Post-Despatch has been dinmissed. The singer, it will be remembered, was charged with intemperance. Au outrage is reported at West Point. Co'e, a coloured cadet, was found in his room tightly bound, and with his head bruised and his ears slit. According to his statement four masked men did tho deed at midnight. A Herald despatch says Cole wounded himself to excite feeling against his white class mates, or to escape examination for another term, as he is behind in his studies. Much indignation is felt, and the case is under thorough investigation. An American rifle team will go to Ireland in June to compete at the international con« test.

An educated but dissipated journalist, connected with the Cleveland Anzeigcr, has committed suicide by wading into a lake near the city and then cutting his throat.' A "Centenary" in memory of the Rev. William Eilery Canning, founder of Unitarianiam, had been celebrated in Europe and America. St. James's Hall, London, was crowded with participant?. The JVeto York Times claims that De Lesseps has gone back to France, from his mission in this country, without accomplishing anything in furtherance of his Panama Canal scheme. At the election in San Francisco, on March 30th, for a Joint Senator and a Commissioner of Freeholders, to frame a new charter, the working-men's party (sometimes called Land-lutter) combined with the Democrats, were badly outvoted by the Republicans. The result has restored business confidence in a measure. A line of 6teamer3 is projected from San Francisco to the mouth of 4moor River. The Russian Commissioner (Klavotaky) is expected in the city shortly to arrange details. James B. Angel), President of Michigan University, has been confirmed Minister to China, vice Seward, recalled for irregularities in office. John F. Swift, of California, and W. H. Westcott, of South Carolina, have been named Commissioners, to act with Angell in arranging a new Chinese-American Treat, that will be free from the objectionable features of the Burlingham document. Good results are confidently looked for from the commission. The members are all able men. A Metropolitan Museum of Art has been opened at Central Park, New York. Ex-President Grant will undoubtedly seek nomination for a third Presidential term. His prospects of success are bright. Of the delegates to the Chicago Nominating Convention, to assemble in les3 than two months, he has already 12S "instructed" votes, and 94 who will vote from real preferences. It will take 379 votes to nominate. Grant's opponents in the race are Senator Blaine, Sherman, and Edmunds. Christiancy, an old Senator, who married a young Treasury employee at Washington, and was afterwards appointed Minister to Peru, has been compelled to send his wife home from Lima on account of her scandalous conduct. He now applies for a divorce.

King George of Greece has sent a letter of thanks to Charles Juckerman, formerly United States Minister to his Court, for his paper on the Greek frontier question, prepared some time ago for ooosidiratioa of the Mixed Commission. A four-mile race for 30,000i01. is proposed iu San Francisco, November next. Eastern racing men are invited to participate, and will do so if personal assurance be given by Governor Stanford aud Theodore Winters of California, that the money will be paid. In tha Callahan-Maguire prize-fight, near Philadelphia, April 5, the latter was beaten nearly to death. As his life was despaired of, Callohan and his seconds fled. The Anglo-American Cable of 1573 has parted at point 36 miles from the landingplace on the Irish coast, in 80 fathoms of water. 1000 tons of printing papsr hag been ordered by the Chicago Times from a Canadian manufacturer. Immigration by negroes to Liberia, Africa, is largely on the increase. Uid accommodation offer, it is believed 500,000 would leave at once. At no time since the war has there been £0 much dissatisfaction among the negroes of the Southern States. The State of Maine has been earthquaked again. The shocks were severe in the town o£ Maysville. The Earl of Dunmar (Charles Adolphus Helena. Montana, bnviosr cattle for a farm he has taken up in tne Yellowstone Valley. j Two supposed thie.ves, Henry Gatette and Gustavus .Edward D'Araenay, have been arrested in New York for offering, at halfprice, bonds of the Breslau-Fribourg railway. A number of these bonds were sometime ago stolen from a German banker in a railway car, near London, and those offered at reduced prices are said to be a portion of the missing documents. Rear-Admiral Thatcher, U.S.N., is dead. An Egyptian obelisk has been successfully embarked for New York.

Rhode Island State Senate had refused the s;hool suffrage to women. A British ironclad, tho Triumph, flagship ot the Pacific squadron, with Rear-Admiral Frederick H. Sterling on board, arrived at San Francisco eu route to Victoria, B. 8,, for refitting. The Home Committee of the United States Congress have decided to place on the free list "all manufactured paper, wood, flax, straw, and all other fibre and fibrous plants fit for use in the manufacture of paper." The Committee also decided to fix the duty at 40 per cent, upon flannels, blankets, knots of wool, knit goods, balmorals and woollens of every description, composed wholly and in part of worsted, hair of the Alpaca goat, or other like animals, except such as are composed in part of wool not otherwise provided for. Nearly 3000 immigrants landed at New York, on the 22nd ult., from European steamers, and 4000 on the 6th insfc. Many are well-to-do Irish farmers and their families. John Nugent, formerly of the Herald, a pioneer newspaper publisher of San Francisco, originator of the Vigilance Committee I in 1852, and opposed to its re-organisation in ' ISSG, whereby he was reduced to poverty, died on the 29 th ult. He was nearly 70 years of age, and a celebrity in his time. Dawson, United States Consul at Apia, Samoan Islands, is likely to come to grief. Serious charges, the least of which is malfeasance in office, have been filed against him at Washington. Edison, the electrical light man, claims to have invented methods by which he can extract a greater amount of gold from the rejected residuum of auriferous quattz or eand than is obtained by present processes from viigin rock delivered fresh from the powerful trituration of tho orushing mill. Dion Boucicault, playwright and actor, was arrested at New York on the 27fch JJBarch, in a divorce suit brought by his wife, Agne3 Robertson. She charges him with adultery, continued through many years. An actress named Katharine Rogers, otherwise Mrs. Davis, is the party. The King of Siam proposes early in May, after visiting the principal European capitals, including London (where the ceremony of the investment of the Queen with the Order of the White Elephant will take place), to extend his travels to the United States. An American frigate will await him at Southampton. A New Orleans Bank president, Palmer by name, has been sent to' the Penitentiary for three years for embezzlement. The conviction and punishment are considered remarkable.

Investigation has uncovered a conspiracy to destroy the entire journalistic fraternity of Deadwood, Colorado. The first attempt was in an effort to assassinate George Stokes, of the Evening Press, by bravos hired for 50 dollars each by well-known scoundrels. The Winchester Arms Company have an order from the Chinese Government for 20,000,000 cartridges—the first ever given to foreigners. The shipa Homewood and M. G. Reed have cleared from Burrard Inlet for Sydney, N.S. W., with lumber.