AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 39, 14 February 1880, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

; San Fbanoisco, Jan 19j AH itie children in the Shepherd's ■ Fold -New 3£ork Charitable Institution have been taken io charge \by the Society, for. the Prevention of Cruelty to ■ Children, because . ;lhey - were being ' neglected and starved.- -". . j 1 Diptheria, . or .a (disease resembling it, is carrying off large p umbers of, s hoth adults and children in ColoradV^ieiri— i Mory. • ■ ■ ■- ' ■ '.■'■ ■ "," ; , ■■•■'» \ % Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the ;San Francisco BonanzaElipg, received ,a New Year's present from her father ,of 2,500,000 dollars in United States bonds, the income from which is, over £20,000. 6658 mercantile failures occurred in 4he United States in 1879. .

,;,.; Qbaf lea Stewart .Farnell the ' Jrish" agitator, .was, received, by ;abbut 8000 people at. Madison Square ..Garden', New York, on the 1 4th inst. ■ He made a ; lengthy . speech on Land and" th 3 Landlord system in Ireland, but on tb a whole, Parnell's reception was -quit) moderate, and' the English press 1 compliments the good sense of the i Americans in the matter. /'!!'■' I Earl Dunraven cabled h five column article to the New York Telegraph oh whet he.calls the « Patent Parnell Piti to .Cute ,Esj i^imes." , The letter is pithy and logical, handling, the agitator and his scheme without mercy. j It is reported that Chioamen in Cinicinnati are freely erobrAcing Christianity. . „". ) A female doctbr, Mra Cynthia Hodgson, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the State Penitentiary of California for malpractice. , ',","'"' ; Boston lost 2,500,000 dollars by a fire whiqh occurred on the 20ih ult., in Fredef i^k-Btreet,;tiear Franklin. ' . Lucy ; W^.V,B., Horton, jilted by a son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, met the young man in Washington on New Year's Day, and shot him', causing a severe but not fatal wound. ; In Ohio a sheriff and one of his posse, while attempting to arrest two men in a house of ill fame, was shot .dead. - ' t ,'. : . ]",'"" "" ' ; „ '.'. '"' ." ' '[""' I Playing with, lucifer matches caused the. burning of. a dwelling in San Francisco, and the crepatibn of a mother and three children.', ; ; : The police haveferreted out a gang of robbers and murderers near the railway depot, 'East-WjeStj" Louis, Miasburi. '. Their plan yvas to .lure travellers by night-cars to the. platform,-, kill them, and rob them, and then bury;, the bodies in the marshes close' by! It is said the disappearaoc of several protainebt men of late is thus accounted for. An explosion in the converting room of the Celluloid Manufacturing Com.pany,' New' 'Jersey, killed sis and wounded two working men. Excitement has prevailed in New York over a ". cprner " made in wheat speculation by James E.. Jieene' ! and ; a few associates, and measures are taken to, defeat it. On the 12th January the syndicate : held 10,000,000 bushels of grain in New York and Chicago, and 17,000,000 bushels more on ihe, railroad,: besides paying storage : on, 6,000,000 bushels of business wheat, at \ and 1 per cent per week. ; The Brussels Nord j-idicules the opinion that Grermany can ever successfully cope with English and American influence in the Pacific. Salt Lake antii«p6lygamists have asked that Delegate, Cannon be expelled from Congress, because he is a Mormon apostle, and t the " husband of many wives.