AMERICAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3563, 24 July 1874, Page 2

AMERICAN.

. is great distress in consequence cf the incessant rains since the disappearance of snow. Ihe farmers have been eating seed grain. Many cattle have died. Fears of a tamme are entertained. .thirty disguised men entered the gaol at -Louisiana, took out two murderers, and hung them in accordance with lynch law. Mrs Moyer has been released from the lunatic asylum. A year ago she murdered her husband and three children in a shocking manner, bhe says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to heaven before herself. 1 here has been an explosion in a Pennsylvania mine, which killed three miners. Seven * 9 fighting the fire, were overcome with the gas, and carried home unconsious.

Small-pox is very prevalent; it has broken out in an Asylum containing 600 patients. At Toronto, ladies’ fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers.

An excursion train, with 700 people, ran off the track &<. Louisville. Three negroes were killed and ten injured, and ten whites killed. Another railway accident has occurred at Syracuse. Thirty people were injured by one car jumping off the track. The sufferings by the Missiasipi overflow continue ; 20,000 rations are daily issued. A hurricane at Kempoville unroofed and de* tnolished a number of houses, and injured several persons.

There have been large fires in various parts of the States.