AMERICA.
The Presidencial contest will be really confined to Greelyand Grant, the latter being sure to be re-elected. At the late Louisville Democratic Convention, Charles O'Connor, of New York, was nominated by acclamation, but declined to stand. Colonel Scott, known as the Railway King of the Pacific Coast, made arrangements for the commencement of a new overland railroad. The Colonial travellers of not a very distant future will have the choice of "two railroads across the Continent. Diamond fields in Arizona are attracting much attention. There is no doubt of the existence of rubies, garnets,, and diamonds, in that locality. ; The Pacific mail steamer Brenville, from New York to Aspinwall, was burned at sea. Thirty-four passengers and the crew are unaccounted for. The Pacific mail steamer America was burned in theharbor of Yokohama, Japan. Nineteen lives lost. The loss is estimated at 1,000, OOOdols. The American steamer Metis was wrecked off Connecticut, and 22 lives lost.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1316, 17 October 1872, Page 2
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156AMERICA. Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1316, 17 October 1872, Page 2
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