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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 27 September 1895, Page 29

Frank M. Pixley, founder of the San Francisco Argonaut, and for many years its editor, died August 11. He was a bigot of tbe worst kind, «\nd continually assailed everything Irish and Catholic. George Frederick Root, who wrote "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching," " The Battle Cry of Freedom," and other patriotic Union war songs, died in Bailey's Island, Me, August 6. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, says that tbe waters in the great North American lakes become lower every year, and the "day may not be distant when the falls of Niagara will disappeir." If we are to oompare this with his former predictions, then it will work opposite. The s«a serpent which was lately seen in Long Island Sound and at New London, Ct, was washed ashore dead at Blackwell's Island, New York city, a few days ago. There was a rope roun t its neck and many wounds on i's body, as if struck by screws or paddles of steamers. It is twe.ty-five feet long and looks equal to a vast amount of mischief. The head is flat and the wide mouth is garnished with spike-like teeth. A narrow, scaly neck widens out to a round, heavily-ribbed body, which in turn tapers away to a tail like that of a rattlesnake. The monster's backbone rises like a xidge and bristles with sharp-edged scales of spotted gray. A race war is causing many deaths at the glass, iron, and steel company's workings near Birmingham, Ala., where on Tuesday a man named Baxter, who was Bsaistiog the Sheriff to arrest b coloured trespasser, was killed by the coloured men. White then attacked the others, and, it is alleged, killed come and fatally wounded others.