AMERICAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 189, 22 February 1878, Page 7

AMERICAN.

A mob of roughs captured Dead City, a town near Deadwood, Dukata territory. Mr Creighton, agent for New Zealand in San Francisco, sends by the City of New York a consignment of half a million of white fish eggs. The Stella Kate, a whaling- schooner, with a crew ot thirteen men, natives of South Boston, foundered at sea recently. The stage super, M'Kenna, was captured at ffillisboro, Ohio, on January 15th. He had purchased property there with the proceeds of last, summer's ; plunder, and married and' settled down. General M'Lellan.hns been installed Governor of New Jersey. War is threatened between Guatemala and Port Nico. Guatemala has invited immigration, and is sending out agents to induce it. Three hundred cattle perished in the flames at the buring of a stock-yard, at Terra Haute. The Spanish Government has proposed ppace to the insurgents of Cuba. \ President Hayes intends to make tbe Chinese question the subject of a special message to Congress. Secretary Schurel is pushing a measure to purify the . Indian bureau. There has been an appalling development. N. M. Cutter, cotton broker of New York, has failed and fled, liabilities amounting to 20,000d015. Numerous important business failures in Chicago and New York have; occurred. „ — . Beecher offers to give up a quarter of his salary because the pew rents have fallen off. The salary will still be 15,000 dollars yearly. i Moody and Sankey are preaching to audiences of 10,000 persons at Hartford, Connecticut, Stringent measures are being re-

sorted to for the protection ofthe Cali» fornian fisheries, as the Italians and Chinese, by careless and destructive methods, have been extirpating fish of all kinds.

T. S. Lambert, the perjured president of a New York life assurance company, has been sent to the state prison for five years. 100,000 dollars worth of bonds were stolen on the 2nd January from the offices of Young and Gate, of New York. Seven men were blown to atoms by an explosion of nitro-glvc'i-ine at Marquetti, Michigan, a iooumotive was thrown fifty feet and reduced to a confused heap of wood and iron. Merchants in New York propose to abandon the system of commercial travelling. The Tennessee whisky men petition to have the tax reduced to 80 cents per gallon. A tramp being ordered out of Furnival's baggage factory, Brooklyn, deliberately applied a lighted match to a bag of jute. The fire ensued, and involved a loss of 8000 dollars. 130 employed had a narrow escape from burning and suffocation. The Independent Greenback party of New York have petitioned Congress first to remonetisse silver coin to the standard of 1870, and make it full legal j tender ; secondly, to repeal the Act by which Government is pledged to resume specie payment. It is stated that the Marquis of Lome will next summer visit Hie interior districts of British North America on a hunting expedition, aud that arrangements have already been made with the Indians for the formation of camps, &c. tie, will travel in company with the Earl of Dunraveu, who has described his travels ih these and similar regions, in his well-known book, "'J he Great Divide." General O'Neill, the Fenian, has died. California received over 100,000 tons of Australian coal during 1877. Compared with the previous year, tin's shows a falling off of 31,300 tons. An accident on the Fairville and Hartford line, ocenred at the Thistle Bridge crossing, at Errnington River, just at the west of the village. The train was bound for 'Millenon, and carried passengers who came in to attend the Moody and San key meeiings. Two engines, a baggage "truck, and three passenger coaches went down on the western end of the bridge, the engines touching the shore, and the cars breaking through the ice in three feet of water, one car resting on the end of the pier, and two otl;er cars head down in the river resting on the bridge. The passengers climbed out of these. The baggage cars were broken in two. in the fall. Several ofthe dead show cuts and bruises ; but most of them were drowned or suffocated by the heaters in the cars. The Railroad Commissioners examined the bridge two months ago and .pronounced it safe. The number of (lend is 14, and of wounded 40 — some severely, but most only slightly, hurt. fSfo enquiry has been made for the people missing.

The Herald's Washington correspon-dent-speaking of the proposed investigation, says the Democrats have resolved that if the inquiry is begun ie shall be put througu : that it" shall begin with Florida and Louisiana and. with the last clays of General Grant's administration ; and it shall not. leave unrevenled auy secrets of the great strtmo'le.

At Hyde Park, on January 17, seven cars were thrown from a trestle at Ogdensburg, on the Portland railroud. Six passengers were killed and four injured.

The dissenting Protesiant churches of Scotland have an aggregate of 2112 congregation, and last year raised L9£u,ooo lor religious purposes — a sum two and a half times as great as that raised by the hlstablisbed Church.

The Hey. Dr Wilson, hite of Dundee, on resigning his charge in that town a few months ago to enter upon hid duties as Convener and Secretary ofthe Sustentation Fund ot the Free Church, was presented by his congregation with* LIBWO as a parting gift. On Nov, 20, he was presented by his friends iv Edinburgh with Ll(jo0 and a linrary clock as v gift of welcome from them, the presentation heing made by Provost Swan, of Kirkcaldy, an old iriend of .Dr - Wilson's. A large number of leading Free Churchmen • were present on the occasion. Mr James Ballantine, the woll-known author of "Ilka Blade o' Orass keps its am Drap o : Dew," " The Gaberlunzie's Wallet," &c, died at Edinburgh on the „18th instaut, in his 09th year, after a protracted illness. Dv fjegg lectured recently to the members of the Glasgow Young Men's Christian Association, on A' The Dangers of Scotland aud the, Duties of her Christian ifoung lUen.'A Referring to the nevy Roman Catholic hierarcUy, he said ; ; ' Tbe cry we hear most, frequently at the present day, ' Religious Equality,' would place atUeisna.eu the same looting as Christianity...:-. Jkwould abolish a State ! religion j the consequences of which' would be that 'the,'Bioie ; would he' excluded from our ; scuoois^the Sab..b.a!tb^abolished, the. marriage; vows done !away ; ;!>wi ; th,3nd, oaths', ue^susedL in courts of justice.- in^facti, the State' would, undet such ■circumstances, become a mere secular machine/