AMERICAN MAIL ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 158, 3 July 1880, Page 1

AMERICAN MAIL ITEMS.

News from' Canada states that a new politioo-oommercial movement has manifested itself in Montreal. The prominent features of the platform are a commercial union with the United States, and all rights aod privileges of office, and an independent nation. A mass meeting hud been held, and resolutions ia favor of the movement passed.—-Arch-bishop Tasohearn has issued a pastoral, condemning Trades Unions, and threatens to excommunicate any Catholic who may attack a person because he chooses to work for any price he may think fit. — An Englishman, named Harrison, hos purohased fifty - two quarter sections of ,laod in Butler County, Kansas, where he intends to locate fifty-two English families under the old country tenantry system. Each family will have from £20 to £500 to commence with. — The wifa of Edwin Hoyt, a murderer, banged nt Bridgeport, recently, after taking a tearful, and apparently affectionate ieave of her bußband in his cell, asked tbe sheriff to show her the preparations for tbe execution, and on seeing them remarked. " I am glad he is to be banged. I would like to see him hanged now." — Hanlon rowed Courtney near Washington on the 19th uit., and gained an easy victory. In fact, so far as Courtney was concerned, the race was a farce. He said he was ill ; but his attendant now proclaims his sickness a bare-faced sham throughout, and he is thoroughly convinced the race was sold before it was rowed. Hanlon won in 36<niu, 49 3-10.cc, and is now. the champion oarao.au of America. Hanlon netted 6000 dollars. A race between Hanlon and Riley afterwards took place on the Potomac, near Washiogton. Hanlon won easily in 36 minutes; Riley 2\ minJtes behind. — The purpose of the Amerioan Government to establish coaling stations io the Gulf of Dulce bas caused muoh wrath among the Colombian.. The war-Bbips Adams and Kearsage were ordered to desist from taking soundings, aod told to be off, and 2000 Colombian troops were actually put under marching orders. American journals be-little tbe affair, and talk of Colombia " putting on her war-paint."— Dsnnis Kearny is released from the House of Correction, whore he had been condemned to imprisonment for six months — the Supreme Court reversing, on appeal, the sentence of the Court below. The result givesgreat dissatisfaction to the Conservative portion of the community. — Sunstrokes are frequent in New York. The thermometer has ranged from 90* to 95* j grooving vegetables are literally burning up^ — A forger, named Ward, convicted before a -Charleston (South Carolina) jury, sprang to his feet as soon as the verdict was delivered, drew a pistol, and fired twice p.t the principal witnesses against hitn — Harper and Lane. The first escaped unhurt, but Lane was wounded in both hands. — Over 4000 people attended the musical festival at Cincinnati on the 10th uit. Miss Amy Sherwin, formerly of Hobart Town, Tasmania, was one of the leading soloists. — An attempt was recently made to blow up with dynamite a dwelling house, situated in the heart of the city of Oakland, California. The author of the crime escaped. — A contractor publicly charges that a Pacific Railway Company recently paid a U.S. senator 90,000 dollars in money and 100,000 dollars' worth of land in grant* bonds, and that 1,000,000 dollars were distributed among members of the House of Representatives. The charge has created a sensation. — All the schools in New Orleans and Louisiana are closed, on account of a lack of funds to meet expenses. — A Chinese deputy sheriff, the first Celestial to hold office in the United States, has been appointed in New York. — The land sown in wheat in the United States this season is 15 per cent greater than last year. — The town of Milton, Pennsylvania, has been reduced to ashes. The loss aggregates 600,000 dollars. — M. Rotchschild's agenoy has closed in San Erancisco and California, having ceased to be a profitable field for the employment of capital in the manner they are accustomed to use ifc. — A movement has been made by the Methodist (African) Conference, in session at St. Louis, Mo. to unite with all the colored branches of the Methodist Church in the world.