AMERICAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 58, 1 March 1876, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

The railroad train at Valcose Points is snowed up, involving a stoppage of the traffio, I Chinamen were engaged iv clearing it away. but on some points the snow drifted as last as it could be shovelled away. Senator Sherman, chairman of the Senate Committee of Finance, is pushing. a Bill through, having as it object uniform specie payments in i?.n«lnnd aod America on the j * basis ol the American dollar. The London I Times endorses the proposal, but considers' the -sovereign should be adopted, as c.iusng ■ebb inconvenience in change owing to tlie 1 irge amount of paper money in America. A | eonterence embracing all nations to conßidir i the subject of universal coinage is urged by | the American press. Kobbers entered the Northamp on Bank, gagged the cashier, and etole funds to the value of three-quarters of a million of dollars. In the Ontario Legislature a bill giving women the right to vote at m niiipiw t fictions has been defeated,

v " *■ * /*- J ", i A terrible boUer expjos'ioh >v occ irred^in Ttxis. when a portion of a boiler, •^reigliing ; ten tons, whs carried 250 fejt. 'I'wo meu „) were killed, and the other wo km^nf e»c4ptdr. i mirwcuioial-/. . \ j i -*\ > 'Tlie'ivfinter is- the most revetfe -experienced; '•"-. N in America for niany yiars. *~ " v V \. Great storms on the Atlantic and Eastern oitjesof the United States have caused great damage In the last engagement of the winter campaign of G- ba between 500Q Spanish troops and 4000 insurgents, the Spanidi army was compelled to rei ire with a loss of 114. ... The postal convention ia concluded betwe=n the United States and Queensland. The mail is to be transported in a direct line of colonial rackets plying between Sin Fr-mcisco and Australia, the lu'l letter postage each way tc ba twelve cents and newspapers twelve cents. - ---- — ~~— - - I