AMERICAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3073, 3 May 1881, Page 3

AMERICAN.

OAW XHtAHtIISCU, April IV. After a trial lasting forty-seven days, Kulloch was acquitted of the charge of ' the murder of De Young, the proprietor of tbe Chronicle. The verdict was hailed . with delight by the " Sand Lot" element in the community, but is causing much dissatisfaction among the more conservative citizens. The*NewYdrk commissioners expect v , half a million' European immigrants this j'.-./year/r.;'.. ,'. \.: : .' : :: " Father Gavazzi, an Italian reformed priest is preaching at San Francisco to - ; raise funds to assist the anti-Catholic " movement in his own coup try. Commodore Shufeldt, of the U.S. navy, has been selected to reorganise the Chinese naval force.

Chicago has decided not to follow San Francisco in laying a wire cable street. The railroads, cost, and severity of the climate in the winter, which might prevent its successful operation, acted as deterrents.

The ice gorge in the Nebraska river has caused great destruction of property. The whole of the Platte Valley from Columbus to Fremont is under water.

The Lorillard exploring parly in Mexico have exhumed a burried town on the line of the central railway, evidences of advanced civilisation being found, the paved streets, regular stone steps, and carvings showing a high order of workmanship. Hanlan, the rower, has issued a challenge to meet anybody in the world for any amount up to 10,000 dollars, and beat him by 15 seconds. Any race growing out of the challenge to be rowed in; Toronto, Canada. The wife bf a wealthy Chicago physician has been arrested for stealing 10,000 dollars worth of diamonds in New York. It is a case of kleptomania.

The Adison electric light system is now said to be complete, and the com • pany has been granted permission to lay wires of light in New York city. The Chicago Socialists passed a resolution approving of the killing of the Czar, whom they styled " A Boulder in the pathway of Human Progress, that had to be blown out of the way." Forster, the son of a leading citizen of Los Angelos, Cal, has been deliberately shot in the streets of that city by a young Spanish gitl because he refused marriage as promised. Moody and Sankey have ceased their revival in San Francisco. They declare themselves disappointed in the results so far as tbe number converted is concerned.

The President has declared himself unalterably opposed to Mormonism. He says it must be stamped out, and he feels bound to do this because his predecessors saw fit to recognise the institution by the.; appointment of Brigham Young, the head of the" church, as Governor of the territory. Coleman, an alleged Fenian, suspected by the London police to be concerned in the: plot to blow up the Mansion House on St. Patrick's day, has been arrested in New York.

Secretary Blame has called the attention of the commissioners of emigration in New York to the fact that Switzerland is deporting her sick and insane-paupers and other undesirable people to the United States in numbers.

Mr Sullivan, the associate of Mr Parnell, and one of the travenes, is now in New York addressing societies and stirring up subscriptions. Salt Lake City is now lighted by the Brush system of electrical light. Pennsylvania has passed a prohibitory liquor law. Mark Twain has a new work in the press called " Handbook Etiquette." The prohibitory liquor bill has been been defeated in Massachusetts.

The Rev. Mr Beecher surprised his congregation recently .by relating, ,in open meeting how one of the lambs of his flock, having preferred the Roman Catholic communion to the Protestant, he took her by the hand and led her to a priest in Brooklyn, telling him that he had brought one who had found " greener pastures,in your field than in mine," and he added "I would do so again if necessary. The affair created a great sensation.