AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 October 1884, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, September 27. Rich discoveries of tin are reported in Virginia. Henry Clay, grandson of the American statesman, has been shot dead by a barkeeper in a row at Louisville. The remains of a party of miners, massacred by Apaches, were recently dis-

covered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Among the party killed were Bob, Henry, and Edward Carroll, old prospectors, who discovered the famous Pilgrim's Rest Placer mines, South Africa ; and also first discoverers of silver on the borders of New South Wales and Queensland in 1877. The Bank of New Brunswick, Now Jersey, stopped payment on the 6th September, i The cashier suicided the same day, and the ' President followed his example on the Bth. The daughter of the latter, on hearing of her father's death, attempted to drown herself in a well. The bank, which did nearly all the financial business of the city, perished through the manipulations of a ring of political and financial tricksters. Business depression in the iron and steel trade at Pennsylvania is deeper than ever, and where large reduction of wages is not submitted to establishments are closed altogether. Latest returns place the United States wheat crop at 530,000,000 bushels, of which California contributes 45,000,000 Sitting Bull, the Indian chief who caused so much tiouble, is now on exhibition in New York. Lucy Johnson, a Salvation Army girl, was murdered by roughs at Albany in an attack on the Army when entering their hall. The Equal Rights Party have nominated a -\\ oman, Mrs Belva Lock wood, for the Presidency of the United States. A great labour demonstration took place at Hamilton, Ontario, to demand antiChinese legislation. The Panama Canal Company has signed a contract with the New York Dredging Company for cutting the last section of the canal. The contract provides that the work be finished in 1887. De Lessepe visits Panama early in 1885. An expert sent by the "Montreal Gazette i to report on the canal work 3 says they are in a bad way. Confusion and bad management are everywhere observable. Only 7,000, instead of 16,000 men as reported, were working, and over 400 were sick. Only one-twentieth of the work is done, although 80,000,000d015., representing one-third of the original estimated cost, have been spent. Physicians in the South-western States declare, as the result of a long series of observations, that typhoid fever follows the course of cyclones. Lawless miners in the coal districts of Pennsylvania are waging a deadly war against Hungarian and other European operatives recently taken on. Several have been found stabbed to death.