MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 80, 2 September 1874, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS.

The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald supplies the following items Rochefort’s letters in the New York Herald caused great excitement in Paris. All of that issue distributed in Paris was seized. In his letter the great Communist charges the late Napoleon with all the evils that have afflicted France, and the party of order with all the horrors attributed to the Commune. Of the Governor of New Caledonia he speaks in the most bitter and contemptuous terms, A large party of Americans are preparing to visit Iceland, to unite with the Icelanders in celebrating the 1000th anniversary of their Republic. Boston has contributed a large parcel of goods in aid of the celebration. North and South America are now connected by telegraph, and the President and Emperor of Brazil have exchanged the customary congratulatory messages. During the past year the San Francisco mint has coined 74 tons gold and 140 tons silver, viz, 22,300,000 dollars gold coin, and 2,500,000 dollars silver. The celebrated Californian trotting horse Sam Purdy has just been sold for 20,000 dollars. At a recent fire in Pearl street, New York, 100 horses were burnt to death. The application by New Mexico and Colorado for admission into the Union has been refused by Congress, which has just closed its present session. In Hamburgh (Pa.) a man died recently from the effects of eating raw ham, A microscopical examination made visible thousands of trichince sjtuales, In the space of an inch sixty-five were counted. Mr Finnic, the assistant manager of the Bank of British North America, has just been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. A Congregational Church has been opened in Utah, right in the centre of the Mormon dominion. Dr Slone, of this city, officiated at the opening service. Mrs Eliza Ann Young, Brigham’s legitimate wife, has been lecturing on Mormonism, and has created a strong feeling against that sect. Brigham has made his will, bequeathing ten children to each of his friends. Captain Blethen, formerly of the Nevada, is chief harbinger at this port. Captain Harding, late of the Nebraska, is sheepfarming in Sonomo Co. Seveial vessels have been loading here for New Zealand with railway ties. Surely there is something incongruous in this arrangement ? A monument has been erected to the notorious Jim Fisk. It turns out that the “ beautiful American actress ” who cajoled the Russian Duke Nicholas out of his mother’s diamonds is none other than the celebrated mistress of Jim Fisk —Josey Mansfield—the woman who sent Fisk to his grave and Stokes to the Tombs. The fear of hydrophobia is so great in New York, the City Council has offered a reward of half a dollar for every dog captured in the streets. The “ hoodlums ” of New York are having a gay old time stringing them in. The American savants have decided that the disease is purely nervous, and are convinced that it is subject to treatment resulting in cure. There has just been an immense gathering of Sunday-school children at Woodward’s gardens here. Some twelve thousand children were present. Dr Buller’s “ Ornithology of New Zealand” has been very favorably reviewed by the press of America. Colonel Chesney, an English military writer of established fame, has issued a history of the American civil war, which has been highly lauded by Americans. Colonel Chesney served in the engineer department in New Zealand. The sons of old colonists appear to prosper in England. Captain Beckham and James O’Neill, Esq., have been made happy by the successful examination which has given to their respective sous commissions in the English service. J. O’Neill, Esq, and S, Morrin, Esq, and his bride return to New Zealand by this opportunity. Messrs Kohn and Loverock passed through here, cn route for Europe, last week. The Yoscraitc Falls have attracted a great number of English visitors this season, “ Foss,” the Prince of stage-drivers, has met with a very severe accident, which may prove fatal. Returning from the Geysers his stage broke down, A lady passenger has died from injuries received by the accident. Mr Cole, formerly of Cobb and Co., Christchurch, is one of the wealthy citizens of Oakland, California, The result of the crusade so far has been in favor of the no-license people. The crusaders have carried upwards of sixty out of ninety towns and cities in California. W. E. Turner, erstwhile of Waikato fame, but now the great champion of the local optiooists, has been stirring up the bile of the license people, who have been going for his record. A little spitfire of an evening paper called the Tribune has taken Turner in hand, and now addresses him as “ Hellfire Jack,” hints at Waikato dead-fall (saloon), Day and Martin racehorse, &c., pointing these allusions with a malicious inuendo in reference to things that have no existence in fact.

There are 13U Baptist churches on the Pacific coast.

During the past month wind, water, and fire have done their utmost to plague this land. From east to west, north to south, terrific storms, fearful rain deluges, and mighty floods have ruined and destroyed the labour of years. The papers arc filled with graphic accounts of these storms, and of the loss consequent upon them. Some attribute this unusual state of the atmosphere to the presence of Coggia’s comet, which has been very close to us during the past mouth, but which has now left us, but not without a memento in the shape of the water spout in Eureka, Nevada.

Small-pox has broken out in South San Francisco. The city is never absolutely free from this disease, but the sanitary arrangements of the city are so complete there is no cause for alarm, nor will the disease spread.