AMERICAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 275, 20 November 1874, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

News from America is to the I2th ultimo. -, J- ?e American Government have paid the British officials ihe full amount of indemnity awarded by tbe mixed Commisrton Brigham Young is dange ously ill. Sindman and Co, extensive sugar merchants at New York, have failtd. I A terrible riot occurred between North and Southof Ireland laborers on the Delaware Railway, m which many were injured. The Government have arranged for a trimonthly mail between,Cal-fornia and China. Mr Wm. M, Ewarts is spoken of as a most likely candidate for the Presidentship. The American riflemen beat Rigby's Irish team.

Masked burglars robbed tho Ptnnsy van^a Bank at Philadelphia, and gagged the president and ca'hier. The Custom-house and eight dwellings at Brazos wire swept awsv by a tornado. N?g.-o disturbances are preva ent in the South-western States. Ye'iow fey r is raging at Pen^acola. A man named Salmoa threw himself over the Niag-ra Fall?. The Grand Trunk Railway of Can*da has changed the gauge from broad to narrow. Townse: d and Co., bankers at Nt W Haven, have failed for nearly three million d li. Tlie s* cond mat h to cecide the superiority for a long distance of brce-.li and muzzle loaders resulted in favor of the latter. Both Tilton andMoul ou ha -*■** been indicted ior malicious libel on the Rev Ward Bcecher. M-* Gordon Bennett, of the Neiv York Herald, offers to pay one-fourth of the entire cost of a new Arct c expedit on Thi t\-nine medical studi-nta have been arrested j t Buffal • as ri'surr ction!-ts. Commercial credit at New York haß been disturbed by recen' failures. Mr Hepwortb Dixon arr.ro 1 at New York on October 2.