AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5205, 23 October 1878, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, September SOth. A settlement of Trappist monks, from Europe, will bo made at Pennsylvania. A day of national fasting anel prayer will be observed on account of the ravages of yellow fever, and of commercial distress and discontent throughout the countrj*. Ilayden's surveying party had been attacked by Bannook Indians at Yellowstone, but escaped without loss of life. A ring of jewellers' thieves has been discovered and broken up. Tho Chicago stonecutters struck for' nine days.

Kearney, the agitator, has been sueel for libel by a manufacturing iirm iv New York. Ths Oxforel Iron Company failed for six million dollars. A fire in Frederick Town, N. 8., caused a loss of LSOOO. The Greenback part)', Maine, has cast a vote large enough to send the election for decision to the State legislature. i A glove fight between Connelly, Boston, and Welsh, formerly of New York, resulted in the latter being knocked out of time in the fifteenth round. Pennsylvania and Ohio have suffered from a severe equinoctial storm. Sitting Bull has sent offers of peace from Canada, and want a to return to his old hunting grounds in the United Stales. A broker named Laudriau, of Paris aud Now Orleans, sues the Peruvian Government for 100,000,000 dollars commission, for discovering guano beds. Cohen, a Jew proletarian, is heading the working men iti a riotous demonstration in Washington. A number of wealthy and influential men have committed suicide (luring tho month. Jeannette Bennett, sister of Bennett of the New York Herald, married a wealthy NewYorker, named Isabell. She received 10,000 dollars worth of wedding presents. Hiekthorpe won the Great Easter Handicap at Newmarket; Warrior', 2nd. Alfred Hose, spinner, Rochdale Lane, failed for L 750.000. Sir Richard Griffiths, RE., is dead. Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, demands the withdrawal of tho Russian agent from Cabul. The Indian troops ate mobilising on the frontier of Afghanistan. near Elling. Hopes of peace are entertained. Zona Hitri (freetrading ground), in Mexico, has heen abolished, except as to Malavanou***, and New Leredo. Ex-Governor Hugh, of California, died suddenly of heart disease on tka 2nd ult. Bishop M'Closkey has been deposed from the Michigan diocese by the House of Bishops for scandalous practices and abandoning his pulpit, Greville Grant, brother of General Grant, has become insane. Hanlon and Courtney are to row Lachure, of Canada, for L2OO. President Hayes is making a tour of the north-western States, and is well received everywhere. A strike took place among the street car drivers of New York tor shorter hours and increased pay. Alexander Austin, an ex-tax-collector of San Francisco, has committed suicide at his residence in San Mateo, by shooting himself through the heart. Financial embarrassment is supposed to be the cause. Gustavo Mate, Director-General of the French Savings Bank, .San Francisco, killed himself by a pistol shot through the brain on the 17th inst. Cause of suicide, financial trouble. Major-Generaljohn C. Freeman has arrived at San Francisco en route to Arizona, of which territory he takes Governorship. Matilda Stanly, known as queen of the Gypsies .in the United States, and reoogaised

as such by all tribes, died atDaytown, Ohio, on>. the 15th ult. .

A dynamite machine exploded at Broadford, Pa., on the 15th, and blew four men into frag-, ments.

The deputy-sheriff at Boutle, Lav., having killed a couple of men in a quarrel, was taken, from gaol by a band of negroes the same night and literally riddled with bullets. The local columns of the New York papers; are swelled with accounts daily of murders and all kinds of deedß.

Destructive floocto have visited Ontario* Canada. ■ ■

Generalßntlerclaims to have been nominatedby the Democratic convention for Governor of Massachusetts. Themanagers of tho party deny it and call him an usurper. Abbot ha 3 been*. nominated by the second convention. The yellow fever, after ravaging cities in thfr States of Mississippi, Louisana, and Tennessee, is abating. The cities which suffered most areNew Orleans, Memphis, Canada, Canton,. Holly Springs, Vicksburg, Bolton, Kenge, and Port Gibson.

Large amounts of money for the relief oE distressed were sent from all parts of the United States, aud from Liverpool, London,. Paris, and other European cities.

An anti-Bcecher meeting was held at Omaha on the 19th, during his presence in that city. Beecher has made himself very obnoxious to the working men by disparagmg their socialposition, and adulating wealth. The Chinese Embassy has arrived in Washington, aud is shortly to leave for Spain and; Peru.

The barque Carl, at Philadelphia on the 19th, brought 153 officers and crew of the Spanish frigate Pizarro, which foundered atsea.

Welhelmig, the famous European violinist, is creating a furore in New York.

Tho New York Times says Henry Morgan, a miner residing at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, recently sent to England for his wife and two children. They took passage in the Wyoming, which arrived here on Wednesday, having 600 Mormons on board. Morgan cama to New York to meet them. He lost his money on the way, and telegraphed his strait to James Brown, of Pittsburg, who sent him 23 dollars. With this in his possession, he went to Castle Garden ou Wednesday night, but his wife refused to go-, with him. She had beeu converted on the. passage over by Mormon elders, aud expressed her determination to follow them to Utah. Argument and entreaty was of no avail, and Morgan, half distracted, was obliged to return to his lodging unaccompanied. Yesterday he went to the Garden and renewed his appeals to Mrs Morgan, but she remained obstinate. At length the Mormou chief took Morgan in. band raid wrestled with him so cilsctiially that he turned over all his money to them, and the entire Morgan family took the train ou the Erie Railway, in company with the other 600 bound for Utah.

An inventory of O'Brien's Bonanza estates showed the deceased millionaire to have been worth only nine million dollars instead of the twenty millions with which he was credited.

James Hervy, actor, known in New Zealand,, and who was the husband of Marie Dunnet, died suddenly iv San Francisco.

Cagurau will furnish a new play for Majeroni, to open in Boston. She has not been, successful so far.

Charters for New Zealand are: —Barques James Botan, at New York, 40s; Albert and Bull at same port. The barque Malay cleared, at 'Frisco on the 21st for Auckland. Thabaripie Regalia has been taken for the Eatne destination, to carry barley and oats at Ll 10s.

The released Fenian prisoners Edward Condon and Melas, arrived in NewYork on the 29th ult, ou board the steamer Mosel. The United States Government placed a revenue cutter at their disposal. They have* been imprisoned for 11 years.

There was a heavy fight between Indians and. the United States troops near Fort Wallace, Kansas, on the 29th, in which Col. Lewis, in*. command, was killed.