Additional Mail News.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2039, 17 July 1875, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

; : ".- ' I[BY TELEGBAPhI] \ -N; , A terrible disaster occurred at the Erench Catholic church at Holyoke, near Springfield, during the service, when there were seven hundred people in the church, some light .matters j around th,e altar, ignited, bursting immediately into flames; A fearful panic ensued, the people jumping from the gallery upon the heads of the people below crushing to the doors whichbecame blocked up with the dead. One hundred; arid twentytpeoplo were roasted or crushed'to death. Many were injured. ....The Archbishop of Canterbury has recognised with approval the services of Moody and Sankey. By an; earthquake in Asia Minor 2COO lives are reported as lost. A fire occurred in Dublin at which such drunkenness ensued^ that j three persons died from drinking whiskey and seventeen were seriously ill in hospital. The fire was at the exciss bonded stores. There were 18.00 puncheons of whisky in stere, and the mob rolled several casks into,- the streets, helping themselves. Manyexpldsions took place during the [ progress of the fire, and whisky flowed down the Streets—crowds collecting it in pails and hats. ' Thirty-five 'Eduses and five thousand casks were destroyed by /fire.

[>Eo3t THE HEKALD'S SPECIAL.] The First Sunday in the month was darkened, and humanity disgraced, by tke perpetration of six murders in this-city. The practice of carrying weapons is the immediate cause of this wholesale butchery and utter .contempt for : life. Of thesesix murders, it cannot be said that one of them had even the ordinary excuse for crime. They were not prompted by a desire to gain, nor by revenge long fostered —a word, a blow, and a shot; a druiikenif quarrel—and shooting for the*.mere sake- of shootings- I The murder - mania has been so virulent during this month that the City Fathers have been compelled to pass an Act making it penal to carry arms without a license. It is doubtful, however, if the Act can be enforced, because it is in opposition to the Constitution, which gives to every man the right to r; carry arms. ;r ■■*■■■-• --:■- ----The French Catholic churclw took firei One hundred and twenty persons met their death in the panic. } An unknown substance exploded in Dow's!!drug stored Boston; -blowing- out the sides of the building, and killing 25 persons. ' ■"; •■•■■ r:;. ,■ v ■-. Yesterday Michael Gillespie, a native j of Strabane,; Ireland,rwas killed, by the premature discharge of a blast. The drills he >as using were driven through his temple. A. Mr Tait, a paper-maker from Australia, has just been handed over to the keeper of the asylum. AMr Totten, formerly of the Thames (New Zealand), and a Mr McKenzie, late of the Dido, have gone to keep him company. They aro all in Stockton. The Roman wrestle, between the Australian . Miller and the giant Bauer, was pulled off last night. The whole affair was a sell, and the parties concerned barely eseapedjynching. A new Stock Exchange, called .the Pacific, has just been opened in this city, with a capital of 500,000 dollars. The price of a seat at this Board is 25,000 dollars.' •' • An extraordinary race was pulled off in the beginning of the month.' The" match was between men rather than horses, and was a test of endurance rather than speed. The contest was for 2000 dollars, each man having ten horses. Js: Mowery, the winner, did the fifty miles in 2 hours and 2^ mm. The quickest mile done wa3 in 2 mm., the slowest 3 mm. 11-£ sec. Owing to the inability of the directors of the Erie railroad to meet the June interest on bonds the company has gone into bankruptcy, and its affairs—railroad included—have passed into the hands of a Keceiver. H.J. Jewett' has boen appointed Eeceiver by the Supreme Court. • .Mr-tJewett is the president of the company,*^ The Erie road is the best constructed in America —steel rails, broad gauge^f-and every familiar to many New 2ealanders who have been down the Falls, . The'&ood Templers in this slate are putting their theories into practice in a most laudable manner, by establishing homes for children orphaned through the intemperance of their parents. At Vallejo, a few miles out of 'Frisco, there is one of these homes, in which 65 children are comfortably cared for.