AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 58, 10 February 1885, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Jan. 18. M^ Geor&e An usuis Sala, is 6naged t lectare m New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and New ' Zealand.. Wright Levoy, a lawyer, was hanged in 'San Francisco on January 16, for the murder of Nicholas Skerre t, a capital st. He strangled his victim to. ..death. Congress refused a pension of thirty dollars a wonth to the widow of Commander de Long, of Jeannette fame. Lord Giirtnoylf>i defendant m the Fortescue breach of promise ease, arrived m San Francisco on J'anuaiy 6th, fro. i China. He met \ with an accideni on the trip, and is temporarily crippled. A few San Francisco papers have been exceedingly discourteous m their allusions to Lord Garniioyle. ':: An ; imprnbable story lias been set afloat by despatches, dated .January 7, to the effect that the English detectives have obtained, oyidence that a powerful Society of Dynamiters exists within the boundaries ot Westmoreland, County of Pennsylvania, and tint the society is directly responsible for the recent . explosions and assasunations m Great Britain, while £rish-A mericans scoff at too idea. A Greensbtirg correspondent says it-is certa'm there has' been something m the wind m this country for some time past of an unusually exciting nature. Mrs Herman Adler, better known as Leoiora Simonsen,tlie prima donna, died ia San Francisco, on December 27th, rf perit<mitis. Her father, Mr Martii Simonsen, arrived m San Francisco the day before his daughter's death. He is quite wild with grief. A scheme has been naturcd by certain liish-Americans whereby 20,000 responsible persons m the United State> will agree to pay isdols per annum each towards a fund tor the payment of Irish members of Parliament, *o long as constitutional methods, as conducted by Mr Parnell, are maintained. The organisation will be completed at a' meeting* m Cincinnati on tlie 24th January. , Moody, the Revivalist, opened services m Richmond, Va., on January 6. Some hostility is felt towards him, because he was charged with aspersing the names of General Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the great Confederate Generals. Ho published a card m denial, and declared that he always looked upon the generals named as the highest types of Christians and soldiers. The papers are full of General Grant's atfairs, owing to his trouble through borrowing 150,000d015. from Vanderbilt. Grace Harding Hammond, daughter of Belle Boyd, well known during the Confederate War as a re.e l spy, was married m Texas to Ray Charteriva young Englishman whoclaims to be Eurl of Lin wood. „ JBritish business men are complaining about the Australian and American mail service. Duiiug December seven steamei;s were slow, while the steamers talcing niails to New York were beaten by other vessels sailing on the same day. !