AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 13 February 1879, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

S.vn Francisco, January 21. The Australia was detained 36 hours owing to the non-arrival of the English mails. A tremendous conflagration occurred at New York. Loss five million dollars. Archbishop Parall of Cincinnati, a leading Eoman Catholic Bishop and an American, has been declared a bankrupt. He resigned his Bishopric. Scarlet fever has been declared an epidemic. Russian Meunonites are expected to arrive at New York next mouth by thousands, fleeing to escape military service. Fifty drunken women were arrested in the streets of New York in one day. An engineer residing at Cincinnati has taken the contract to build a railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa in Palestine. Spurgeon, the London preacher, is engaged in a controversy with Neale Dow, the American temperance lecturer, because the latter charged him with excessive fondness for beer and spirits. The resumption of specie payments has lessened Grant's chance for re nomination to the Presidency.

The New York Times intimates that the Bonanza firm of Flood and O'Brien, Sad Francisco, hold the titles of the Ceritral Pacific I? all toad and branches as security for borrowed money. Thirty Cheyenne Indians were recently slaughtered by United States soldiers at Caiiirohinson, Nebraska. The Indians had bccojie mutinous. The Harvard men have challenged Oxford to a rowing rtutclt, biit the latter decline The United States Supreme Court has fixed the penalty for polygamous marriages nt 51)0 dollars fine and five years' imprisonment. Mrs Anderson, an Englishwoman, walked 2700 miles quarter miles in as iniiny quarter hours at Brooklyn. _ Ex-Governor Bravo of Mexico, has been killed, together with fourteen followers. The Brazilian Government proposes the extinction of all Monastic Orders and the application of the property to the reduction of the public debt* Yellow fever has re -appeared afc Rio Janiero. A ship will leave Xew York during the present month with American exhibits for the International Kxpo.-ilion to be held at Sydney. Eastern manufacturers are taking iidvantage to a considerable extent of this opportunity for introducing their productions new markets. A strong Company is being formed for the introduction of Gary's magnets.— Electric machine for generating electricity for the electric light, and telegraphing without the use of a battery and for other purposes. Ibis docs not include, however, his magnetic meter.