AMERICAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3695, 25 December 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

{From the New ‘ Zealand Herald ’ and other papers) GENERAL SHERMAN’S RELIGION, On being questioned recently as ’to his raitb, the bluff old soldier replied, “I feelieve that if people only act half as well as they know how, God will forgive the balance AN - AMERICAN WAY OF PUTTING IT A New York ‘Graphic’ art st called at the home of the Sartoris, fir the purpose of making a sketch. The elder Mr Sartoris appeared, and turned out to be a cordial pleasant old gentleman, of the bluff and loud English type. “ Demme, demme,” he exclaimed, “ no objection at all; make all tbe sketches yon like, Trend of the honor • demme, proud of the honor.” Very like a whale. MURDER Is so common an occurrence in Calafornia as to be scarcely thought worth noticing but for special circumstances connected with the most recent case, that of an English gentleman, a Major Larkyns. Larkyns was connected with an old aristocratic English family, but ear y in life got adrift and wandered through the world in search of adventure. He gained his title of major in the Trench *ervice during the FrancoPrussian war, where he distinguished himself. Coming to this country, when his funds were well nigh exhausted, he became connected with the Press of this City Larkyns was unfortunately one of those men who could not nicely measure out the quality of his love, and became the object of a most engrossing passion on the part of a Mrs Muybridge, the wife of a photographer of this city. Muybridge is an eccentric man entirely devoted to his business. He is many years his wife’s senior. His wife is* fond of amusement, the husband disinclined to waste ms tmie in that way. He encouraged the visits of Larkyns to his wife, permitted th'* closest intimacy, and then finding his wife false, shot Larkyns. 'I he peculiar relations that existed between husband and wife his criminal neglect of her, and the cowardly ™ h ?® h he destr oyed Larkyns, robbed Muybridge of the public sympathy During his connection with the lost, an evening paper, I arkjns had quarrelled with another, but very different kind of a linghshman. The latter on hearing of Ins enemy’s death, behaved in a manner so repulsive to the friendsjof Larkyns

that one of them undertook to thrash him Ellis, the individual alluded to, had d c o!ared his hope that Larkyns was in hell, and eai> he would walk twenty miles bare-footed to see his corpse. A young fellow, an Irish gentleman— r l. V. Darcy—recently from Sydney, and who was a friend of Larkyns took it upon him to chastise Ellis. The latter sought the protection of the Police Court. All the papers were full of the details of the caie, and the police offices were crowded. The magistrate, however, declined to entertain Ellis’s complaint, and the announcement made • arcy the hero of the hour. ANNEXATION OF THE NAVIGATOR ISLANDS. Uncle Sam’s envy was aroused on hearing of the annexation of Fiji, and now the papers are demanding that American interests in the South Pacific be conserved by the appropriation of the JNavigator Group. As an inducement have got np a bogus story charging Germany with designs in that direction. It is more than probable that the question will be introduced in the next Congress.