AMERICA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2321, 6 January 1890, Page 2

AMERICA.

Parnnm'a largest elephant fatally gored hit keeper on the morning of December 3rd, Ha repeatedly drove his tnsks into the nnfortunate man'a nook and head. Seven thoasand five hundred women voted In Boston, on Deo, 10, for a Sohool Committee, andar thn Australian ballot By»tem« They voted Intelligently and quietly. The Presbytery of the Pteibyterlan Obnrob at Brooklyn, D°o. 2, and a'so one assembled at Boff»lo, N,T, on the same da c, resolved to revise Calvin's Creed, the first by a vote of 48 to 30, and the second by 21 to 12 An Eugllah Syndicate completed, on December 8, the purohase of 64,000 aares of mineral land In Sagumaonee Valloy, Tenneaeee, for 225.000J01. They have organised a Town Company with a oaah capital of 4,000,000 dol, and frill build the town of Kunball. Two thousand five hundred people in M nes County, (n the newly-admitted State of South Dakota, are depending on charity to survive the winter. In Battincan County, In the s*me State, the settlers are subsisting upon bran and sharps. Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish agitator, now living in destitute clrcnmetancos ia Trenton, N J., at'rlbuted her j condition to prominent Land Leaguera, i who took pai s to deny that ahe was in need. She declares that her aon Charles has not a dollar, having giving everything he owned to the cause of Ireland. In the oasa of a con etted e'eotlon In the town of Holyoak. Colorado, a gang of masked rofEins setzad the attorneys for the contestant?, before daylight on Sanday morning, Deoomber 8, and beat them half to death, Sheriff Witterbee, against whom the contest Is pending, is ccauaed of leading the assailants, who are oiled the •', White Oapa " from tluir dlsguiae. j The, Panama Canal Rrjup of Baalish capitalists aad contractors have offered, acoirJlng to Crawford Douglas, an employee of tin American Dredging Company, over a mbntantial guarantee, In consideration of a fixed charge on the I revenue of the Company from the time the < canal Is opened to the termination of its oonoesilons, to take tha whole matter of finance and constrnotlon out of Brannett's hands, and complete the eaml at its own chtrge and risk. The ether propositions involve the completion of a tide-w»tet canal, with but two looks and a ?ort of central lake made by damming, at a cost of 500,000,000 fracc.