AMERICAN ITEMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 267, 22 December 1874, Page 7

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Father Genderman, priest of the German Catholic church at Philadelphia, has absconded with 40,000 dollars, the funds of the church. He is supposed to have eloped with a young lady, the organist of the church. Over .1100 men are employed putting up ihe biggest hotel in the world, for Sharon, stock king of California. Baroness Burdett Coutts has given Mr Stanley, the explorer, a dog valued at £SOO. Bishop Selwyn has been visiting California, and returned to Europe on the 14th of October. Dr Ayers, the medicine man, has been nominated for Congress. Mr J. B. Booth, brother of President Lincoln's assassin, is playing Shakespearian characters at the Californian Theatre. Masked burglars robbed the Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, on the 17th September, binding and gagging president and cashier. Custom House and lighthouse buildings, at Brazos, Santiago, Texas, were entirely swept away in a recent; storm. All records and papers were destroyed. At Nebraska, a prize-fight between Allen, the American'champion, and Jem Mace, for the championship of the world, is on the tapis. A terrible state of things exists in Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The coloured people are in constant apprehension of massacre by white men's leagues. Notwithstanding an official proclamation against it, large numbers of emigrants are entering the auriferous region newly discovered, called the Black Hills, Dakotah Territory. Brigham Young is so ill that fears are entertained of his recovery. A tremendous fight took place among the Irish labourers on the 22nd nit., on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. Two factions were engaged, Oorkonians and Fardownera. A number were injured. Samuel A. Briggs, vice-president and cashier of a bank in Chicago, arrested for a defalcation of 100,000 dollars, was discharged by consent of counsel. Lake Weewanapee, ISew Jersey, has been purchased for 300,000 dollars, to raise trout, salmon, and leeches, A heavy fire in Chartres street, New Orleans, on September 26th, destroyed 100,0000 dollars worth of property." George Brown has challenged Saddler, the champion rower of England, to a five-mile race, for 2500d0l or DOOOdol a side, at Springfield, Mass, Halifax, N.S., or St. John's N. 8., to take place in October or November. An affray, arising from the changing of superintendents of the Justice Mine, Gold Hill, Nevada, led to the killing of four men and mortal wounding of another. The New York Htrald pledges itself to pay one-fourth of the entire cost of another Polar expedition. San Francisco has been made a free port for foreign goods intended for the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. A terrible" cloud burst on the Humboldt Division of the Central Pacific Railroad, on the Ist instant, washed away a large portion of the track, smashed the rolling stock, and r killed two engineers. John Anderson, of New York, has sent i Garibaldi 5000f., and made provision for a like sum annually during his life. The New York Commercial intimates that many of the recent failures in that city are fictitious, and reported by business firms themselves with the design of buying up their own paper at a discount. The coloured men of Louisiana have issued an address asking an executive committee of whites to confer with one from their own body, with a view to harmonising present discords. Thirty-nine medical students were arrested in Buffalo, charged with disinterring bodies for dissection. An Illinois editor returns thanks for a centipede sent to him by mail from Texas : " It being," he says, " the first cent of any kind that we've received for several weeks. When Mr Soberleigh read that a father in the West had chopped his only son in two, he innocently remarked that he didn't think they ought to arrest a man for simply " parting his heir in the middle." Yonkers, N.Y., employ 1250 persons in making wool hats, and sends nearly 10,000 of these hats daily to the New York market.

The inhabitants of the Cromwell district are sometimes puzzled to know which is the best and cheapest establishment to purchase their supplies of drapery and clothing at. They should no longer remain in doubt on that score. If they will only pay one visit.to W. Tam»oys' London House, they will discover for themselves that it is not only the cheapest but the best store at which to deal for these articles. Mr Tallinvs has marie arrangements to import his stock direct from the Home markets, and the public can rest assured that everything will be sold by him at an advance only sufficient to repay the original cost, and return a fair percentage on the outlay. Every article in Mr Talboys' establishment is marked in plain figures', from which no abatement ia ever made.--[ADVT.]