YANKEE ODDS AND ENDS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 170, 31 July 1874, Page 2

YANKEE ODDS AND ENDS.

Tho following items were compiled from American papers by the San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland Herald : — San Francisco has two thousand whisky mills and one thousand artesian wells. The wheat product of California for 1873 was 25,000,000 bushels. Gold and silver product. 82,000,000 dola. Wool clip of 1873, 36,000,000 lbs. Wine product, 2,500,000 gallons Deposits in Sayings Banks, 35,000,000 dols. Capital employed in banking, 100.000,000 dols. James Lich, an old settler, has deeded all bis property, amounting to 2,000,000 dols , to various scientific and charitable purposes, observatories, baths, schools, &c. Thirty couples were undone last month. Sixty broken hearts mile whole by the Divorce Court. A speculative Yankee is publishing an illustrated pamphlet — descriptive of the nuptials of Nellie Grant and Mr Sartoris, the fortunate Englishman who has won the President's beautiful daughter. '* Old folks' concerts," and Dickens' representations are very popular here. CiafTlin and Woodhull, the Freelovists are spouting again in this city. But the Women's Rights Society have decided to put them down. The Chinese in this state number 60,000. The Chinese merchants are collecting the " Hoodlum " Chinamen, and sending them back to China. Australian lemons are much in favor here. There are at least 40 spirit mediums and cl.irvoyauts in San Francisco, all making money. Brigbam Young's new religious order of " Enoch " is progressing. Its members yield themselves up, body, soul, and estate, to the dictum of Brig ham. Immigrants recently arrived in Utah are returning to England disgusted. Newton Booth, Governor of California is talked of as the next President. As he is a wine and spirit merchant, the Crusaders will "go for him." At an anti-Papal lecture, delivered in Calvary Church, San Francisco, oa a Sunday evening, the people clapped and cheered vociferously. The Rev. John Hemphill, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church, is the most eloquent and able minister in San Francisco. He is from the North of Ireland. The Episcopal Bishop of California thinks that Sunday-schools are interfering with the Church aud paternal instruction. Lady principals of public schools here receive as much as £300 a year. California submits to a poll-tax of two dollars per annum. Americans are grossly ignorant of everything connected, with Australia. New Zealand is supposed to be a part of the continent, and the whole simply a penal settlement. A drinking saloon in San Francisco has a bar which cost 40,000 dollars. At Woodward's Gardens, the great pleasure grounds of Sao Francisco, there are several varieties of New Zealand evergreens, native trees and plants. \ Books and newspaper, are 100 per cent dearer than in the English colonies. When the newspaper men in this city ■<> get short of copy, theyvgo for each t^her, do a little target practice in the streets, and then publish QiauQsational article next day. tU^ i An American, named Manning, writing in a locaUufagazine, stated some time ago jhat during the war in New Zealand, Colonel Cameron had killed in one day 600 Maori men, women, and 'children in cold blood, and had been sent home on account thereof. Nice \ little story. A recent writer, however, has knocked it into pie. A newspaper here, in describing Dunedin, says, "it is a British settlement not far from New Zealand." Sic. There are no shops iv America. Places of business are described as "grocery," " dry goods store," "hardware store. 1 ' Puh&s-houses are "saloons." Chemist ships are "drug stores," &c. Roast turkey is the national dish of America. A policeman's pay in Sau Francisco is 125 dollars— £2s per month. The Chief of Police runs aw holeeale whiskey store. The parson runs his church, the miller his mill, the publican his saloon, &c. There are at least 50 men in California worth three million dollars each. There is a great deal of growling about the it regularities of tbe Astral ian line. The Palace Hotel in course of erection in Market-street, San Francisco, will cost nearly 2,000.000 dol. Cremation is the latest novelty. Its discussion has been a boon to the papers. The editors talk • about'cremating delinquent subscribers. You are quite safe in addressing every, or any, man in America, as colonel, major, captain, or doctor. No one refuses the compliment. Mrs Van Cott, the great Methodist revival preacher, is coming this way again. It is proposed to send her on a mission to the Maoris. She talks like an offended lion.