AMERICAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 7 June 1879, Page 6

AMERICAN.

Sak Fbanoibco, May 1.

There is a political crisis in Canada, li cooseqtfence of Lord Lome havjpg declined, to adopt 'the action recom-' mended: by his Mioisters a* to the dismissal of the late Governor of Quebec. ' : - : ' - : "" : ••'•<■"■•■•''•••; • ■><■>

Fifteen hundred men are now oni /; .i!-.-'-: i.ii.;: ;:;. n,.l M v.f •-•.Uih'L

gaged in the Canada Pacific strike. Violenoe is threatened, andthe.'str'ikera are marching under a red tint?, and ithreateningtd prevent all work until their demand is complied with. 'The are ordered to the scene.

1 The fire, which was the forerunner of a most disastrous conflagration which broke out iv a coal mine at Departure Bay, British Columbia, baa been extinguished, but when fives miners entering to resume work an explosion occurred, which killed four Chinamen and seven whites. Tbe scene on the surface was affecting, the wives and children of the dead miners clustering around the shaft, and anxiously awaiting news from the murky depths below. ,

i A terrific tornado in South Carolina swept through the lower part of the State, causing great destruction of life and property. In the village of Waterboro, more than 100 dwellings and all the churches were a wept away leaving three-fourths of the inhabitants homeless. Fifteen persons were killed and miny wounded.

An explosion of gas occurred in the Leihagh and Wilkiabarre Coal Company at midnight, while men were brushing out accumulation of gai in the lower vein. It came in contact with a •'• blower," causing a terrific explosion A large force of men were driving a tannel at the time, and eight of them were badly burned, the m jority it is thought, fatally. The mine was set on fire, and soon sis hundred feet of solid coal was burning furiously, and the mine had to be flooded.

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Lahouchere, editor of London Truth writes concerning the Chinese question in California :— " Let them sand their Celestials to us, and most willingly : would we welcome them, as he&ven-jent housemaids, cooks, and waiters.

; The steamer Rio Jaoiero ran down the barque Velocity in a fog. The captain and ten of the crew clambere4 into the chains of the steamer, and were saved, but the steward and a boy were drowned. it Excess of exports from the United i States I over imports for twelve monthi 'ending March 31, 1 879, oompar&T iwith 1878 — 283,837,122, against' 199,490,803. s

: Hjtads, % Baltimoran, the father of a young woman seduced by a man named James, met the latter in' the street of that city, and killed him on sight. Himself was mortally wounded.

On the 3rd instant the town of Eareka waa destroyed. The loss ia estimated at 1,000,000 dollars.

j A Second Adventist deliberately killed his five year old daughter Editb, saying he had been instructed by the Almighty to offer her as a sacrifice and : that he would restore her to life on the third day. The child was transflsei with a knife, and her blood poured out on a table improvised as an altar.

A terrible nitro-glycerine explosion occurred at Stratford, Ontario, a few minutes before 10 o'clock. The whole town was shaken as if by an earthquake. Windows blown iaatdo, and walks so moved that pedestrians' were thrown down. . The caaae was that a car, loaded with dynamite, exploded at the Grand Trunk freight yards. The wreck beggars description. Underneith the dynamite a bole, several feet was scooped oat and the end of the brick freight shed, and a portion of the roof was blown down. Several- frame buildings were levelled to the ground, and long strings of freight oars in the yard were utterly destroyed. The business part of the town, nearly a mile from the scene, shared in the disaster; Valuable plate glass windows were broken, and many others blown in, frames and all damages, estimated at many thousands of dollars. Two railway employes were blown into 1 fragments, the foot of one' being found 200 yards off. ;

In connection with the "Talmage trial," which is the present reigning scandal in Kew York, the following particulars summarise the position :—- --"The Eev. Dewitt Talmage, of ttie ! Brooklyn Tabernacle, is accused of lying and unbecoming conduct by some of hia clerical brethren, and the Preaii byterian Church is trying him. As Mi* Talmage, whatever faults of taste he ; may occasionally he guilty of, draws a larger oongregation than even Mif Beecher »and gets v% a"faalary of X2.0001

dollars, a year, his character jis a, mat? ? ter of general interest' The "spectacle' 'j of the secret methods , of .governjnenfc wjiich have . prevailed in. his | f chuTcl^ , however,' is ,by no means apt to promote* ■ the general of society. : It 'is,'. shown that on one occasion geqtfemen,' I were requested (ro allow their names to'b^use^'as haying given fictitious sab-' scriptions, in order to induce certain ! ! other. persons to come forward liberally . In wiping out the debt iof the church-^! i a 'rigging* operation which in its de- ' itails would only be attempted by. the' j most disreputable portion, of Wall-si;. Then, in connection with a certain religious newspaper, Mr Talinage ia i preijsumjptively guilty of, having abstracted j-r* cppvey, the wiseit oair-^tije ' sulb' y acription iiafc in. order to hauditoWfco 1 atibth^c ne^paperV bf'.Whic^ 'be bad! been appoinfcad edifcbp. !I?h:e <iondaclb of 1 | the trial hasj howeveir, , dotie mote harm than atiy thing else. ' UnforEtfnatelyiii;' I 1 wa£ ordered that the proceedings should | be public, which was altogether uri:- 1 riecessatry, arid an innovation, upon the 1 Signal custbin. ; All the r lifjtle, « irrever-' jelQcea' of which , clergymen 'are; from' 1 jfalmiliarity with sacred things, more a'pt 1 jto.be i guilty Jfehan Qt^er'; people, have' j therefore come before, th^ public! whiie; jtheunfitn^sa df a minister , for j.udidia^ j functions has ' been' ; sadly manifest. 1 j I The newspapers award this quasitrial 1 ■several columns a dayi and : &> : lfe caiii hardly be ignored rbuS r it W one i'oP 'OuF least creditable dut-crojppihgs iof A^aieri'canlife." "•' ■• ; -' '"" i; ' ; - '"■ f;f|