American Summary.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1732, 22 July 1874, Page 2

American Summary.

There is great distress in Canada. ; •At Saquenal there has been incessant heavy rain since the diaappearance' of snow. Farmers have been eating seed grain, and' cattle have died. Fears of a famine are entertained. Small,pox is very prevalent. It has broken out in ah' asylum containing 600 patients at Toronto. Races, ladies' fairs, and balls hare been successfully held in aid of the Louitiana sufferers. An excursion train with seven hundred people ran' off . the track at liilesrille. 'Three negroes were killed, ten injured, 1 and ten whites killed. ' Another railway accident occurred at , Syracuse. Thirty persons were injured I by one car jumping off the track. Thirty disguised men entered the gaol ! in Louisiana, took out two murderers and

hung them in accordance with lynch law. ; .'Mrs. Dwyejr, released from a lunatic ttsylum years ago as cured, has murdered her husband and three children in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven before herself. An explosion in a Pennsylvania mine killed three minerr. Seven men, while fighting with the fire were overcomo with gas, and were carried home unconscious. The sufferings by the Mississippi overflow continue : Twenty thousand rations are daily issued. A hurricane in Kempeville unroofed and demolished a number of houses, and injured several persons. Large fires in various parti of the states. ■;• .;■ „ ..' •. .. ..;. ■_•