AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3314, 20 November 1878, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, Oct. 28. The Australian cricketers won ths match with the New Yorkers on Oct. 2. The totals of the innings were — Australians, 162 j New York, 161. In the Philadelphia match, finished on Oct. 5, when the umpires called time and the match was over the Australians were 40 runs behind, and had only four wickets down in their second innings. The game was drawn. At Toronto, on Oct. 9, the Australians were victorious. They finished the first innings with 123, to the Canadians' 100. In the second innings the Canadians Bcored s<t, when the Australians went in and defeated their opponents with eight wickets to spare. During the game a man in charge of the Australians' wardrobe absconded with five valuablo gold watches. On Oct. 10 a second match between the Australians and Twentytwo of Montreal was commenced. Bannerman and Murdoch for the Australians made 88 when time was called, as against Montreal's 90. They also beat the Peninsula Club (18) on Oct. 11. They did not play in Chicago. The party arrived in San Fmncisco on Oct. 22, and were warmly received. Consul Booker invited the Board of Supervisors to attend tho match, which was commenced at the recreation ground, San Francisco, in the presence of an immense crowd, on Oct. 25. The _ Australians played twenty-two Califoruians. Tho match ended in favour of the Australians with 134 runs and one innings to "the good. The Manhattan Savings Bank, New York, was entered by burglars on Oct. 27, and 2,757,700d01s stolen. The hostile Cheyne Indians have all surrendered. <j> Serious trouble is apprehended among the Maritime Provinces of tho New Dominion if the Halifax fishing award is not paid. ; The elevated street railroads in New York have been indicted by the grand jury as a nuisance. The schools arc closing in Virginia on account of the utter poverty of tho State. . Cyrille Dron, the celebrated billiard player, died suddenly on Oct. 2. Hanlon beat Courtney in a five miles sculling race at Montreal, on Oct. 3, by a length and a quarter. Respectable sporting papers accuse Courtney of throwing over tho race in favour of Canada. James Donnelly, a Scotchman, discovered in the hold of the steamer Chester, on her arrival in New York, stowed away, had been 12 days without food or water. Tho Cheyno Indians are raiding in Nebraska, and have done incalculable mischief. The expeditions of U.S. troop 3 sent against them have been failures. Tho walking match between O'Leary and Hughes, of New York, closed on Oct. 15. Hughes wa3 used up. O'Leary made <" 322 miles in the six days' tramp, Hughes 311. A half-drunken man walked into a New York church recently during service, and plunged. a knife into a woman whom ho mistook for his wife, with ho had quarrelled. Believers in the millenium and the advent of Jesus Christ are holding a conference in New York. Tho attendance is large ami influential. An excursion train on the old Clong rail- I road, near Boston, was thrown off the track on Oct. 8. Fifty persons were killed and nearly 100 injured. They were returning,, from the Hanlon-Courtncy mcc. ' < Tho released Irish Fenian prisoners who] recently arrived in New York intend to make a statement that the treatment of political prisoners in England wa3 so barbarous, dograding, and inhuman as to call for condemnation by the friends of humanity the world over. , Boucicault has, subscribed 900 j dollars to start them in business. General Shearman's son, Thofoas, has joined the Jesuit Order, through his mother's, influence. The result is domestic unhappi- j nes«i ' "- # : Seven negroes outraged four white women on Oct 7, near Mount Vernon, Illonois. The sheriff was killed trying to arrest them, and they were afterwards all lynched by tho indignant citizens. Several storms have wrought great damage along the Atlantic coast. Admiral Paulking of the United States navy isdead. The October cottonreturns are 50,000,000 bales. pi W. J. Foswellhas been, arrested in JNew York for attempting to pass forged notes of the Union Bank of .London. , The Harvard graduates offer their College Boat Club 10,000 dols to send a crew to England. . ■»* Frost has mide its appearance in New Orleans and Memphi*, and the yellow fever epidemic has ceased. The proposed coaunercial treaty between

the- United Stated x^l Ehuk» jwSL Jbede) featety owing to a strenuous TprjQtess(jbj;ttij American whesg#wew^ ~.l W! ~ : Admiral Gore Jope^ *$„ wag detected iri disguise on board th^ Kuasian, , war; »te»mei Europe in New York, and rtquested to leave the ship. r.;:B ■■■'Mil A meeting was held in th6~€ftoper Institu^ tion, New York, on' '-OdSf^St, iWF which the released Fenions Condon and' 'Melofly spoke of the barbarity practised in'EngffiK prisons. The steamship City df Hoi&ton,JProm New York to Galyeaton, foundered "on, Oct. 23 galA t: %o' lfv es^re IsT^ ; '; l ? S \ The constitutionality of all ltws bearing on polygamy in Utah is to beargned before the! U. S. Supreme Court. By thiSiit is intended to legally .-settle the Mormon question*? > Robert Hulay, Grand Chaplain of the Orangemen at Ottawa, Canada, was murdered recently by_ the opposite' party. ' fie f wa» found floating in the river vdth his skull pierced by balls. ; ; : ' ; Lord Dufferin, late Governjr-General of Canada, sailed from Quebec for England on OcfclO. Thousands bade him farewell. ~UThe blacks on the Danish . .West Indian Islands of Santa Cruz revolted, murdered the planters, and destroyed much property before they were suppressed. " ' ' . * Hayti has been visited by a tremendously destructive hurricane. '"■ ? ' '■■••-■■■ Gold in paying quantities has been discovered in Southern Chili., „ „ „.;