AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1293, 9 April 1881, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

.lease R. Grant, brother of the exprosident, has gone to Europe to start a Mining Exchange, Amorioan smugglers, chiefly from San Francisco, have become so numerous on the coast of Eastern Siberia, that the Governor-General aaks for a Russian naval force to suppress them. An immense corporation has been organised in St. Louis, the purpose of which is to forward gram in bulk, and all kinds of produce and merchandise from St. Louis to Liverpool and other foreign ports. j The State of Delawaro has passed a prohibition liquor law, Beecher h, aa cancelled all lecture en. gagemen,ts, an,d will devote himself exclusively to church matters in future. His congregation had beoome dissatisfied, and an effort is being made to compel his resignation as pastor, if not withdrawal from the congregational commission. . A terrible blow-up of a high explosive manufactory occurred at West ««rkeley, near San Francisco, on March

4th. The buildings were reduced to kindling wood, ami three Chinamen and two white men were torn to pieces. President Garfield'a inaugural address was telegraphed verbatim to the London press, and produced an excellent impression. Both English and Americans alike admired it for its style and wise moderation of tone. Journals praise liberally the new President's good|sensc, and augur a prosperous administration. Veto of the Funding Bill by President Hayes had produced extraordinary activity in American securities in Eng land, President Garßeld's inauguration, notwithstanding stormy weather, was a brilliant affair. Nearly 50,000 people were massed in front of the capital, at Washington, and the address is pronounced one of the most careful and Statesmen-like documents ever delivered there. General W. S. Hancock, the defeated democratic candidate, was present, at the head of his brilliant staff, and, by the attentions paid him, seemed to divide the honours of the day with his successful rival. Edwin Booth has met with so great a success in England that the Pall Mall Gazette is fain to say " no English speaking actor is master of any method so fine." The " Anthenpeum " uses similar language, and the "Saturday Review " saya : "It would bo difficult to speaktoo highly of his performance. The crowning success was " King Lear." "Kirk Bros., iron masters at Workington and Maryport, and the Monison Bros., iron brokers at Glasgow, have failed. Lieut. Schwatka, U.S.W. , has offered to place at the disposal of H.M. Government the Franklin relics recently discovered. General Grant positively refused an invitation to attend the Garfield inauguration at Washington on the 4th March. Grant is said to be very sore because of his failure of re-nomination, and does not scruple to show his feelings. He has left for Mexico, in which country he says he has had a deep interest ever since he was there as a young officer during the Mexican war. Previous to leaving, he urged publicly that the United States do justice to Japan in returning to her a portion of the idemnnity exacted in what is called the " Simonostic affair."