ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5532, 19 December 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

(peu pbuss agknuv.) San Fkancisco, Nov. 25.

A negro and his wife were lynched recently in Mississippi for murderiiig a white child ; it appeared subsequently that the mother of the child induced the uegress to do it, as by its death she would become the direct heiress to considerable property, Rear-Adniral Ammani, U.S.N., recommends Nicaragua route for a ship canal; he thinks it can be built for 50,000,000 dollars, and that 3,000,000 tons of British and American shipping would pass through yearly. Dr. Gilosy, Bishop of Elephin, has been appointed by the P»pe Apostolic delegate to the United States and Canada.

Prices are now below specie level, wheat has not in twenty-seven year 3 bean no low; cetton has not been so low in thirty-three year?, nor corn since 1845, except in June, 1861. The llothschilds, of London, have offered £8,500,000 at 5 per cent. Egyptian bonds guaranteed from 70 to 75. The Maynooth College in Ireland has been damaged by fire to the extent of £10,000; the students lost all their personal property. The municipal elections throughout England and Wales were in favor of Liberals.

Mormons are arriving in large numbers at New York from Europe. Harvard College has accepted Yates' challenge to row a four-oared four mil* race. The P.M.S. Georgia was lost at Punta Arenas while the captain was intoxicated in his cabin.

The revenue cutter Fanny was ran into by the s teamer Helvetia. Seventeen of the crew were drowned. The international walking match commenced at the Agricultural Hall, London, on the 28th at 11.5 p.m., and terminated on the 2nd in9t. at 10.30 p.m. The competitors numbered 23, and included Weston, of New York. The stakes were £SBO, with the Ashley belt and £l5O. Vaughau and Weston were the favorites at the start; betting 5 to 1 against Corkey. At the conclusion the scores stood— Corkey, 521 miles; Brown, 505; Russell, 469 ; Hebbert, 440 ; Eness, of Chicago, 410 ; Courtney, 404 ; Day, 400 ; Richardson, 388. 16,000 persons were present at the close. Weston retired early in the contest with a sprained ankle. The Oldham cotton operatives are on strike. 20,000 hands have struck, and 8,000,000 spindles are idle. They were asked to submit to a reduction of 10 per cent, on their wages. A convention embracing the leading clergymen of the Episcopalian Church has been in session at New York, considering the premillenial coming of Christ.

The Mormon elders are on trial in Utah for polygamous practices. The yellow fever is rapidly disappearing in the Southern States.

The coal miners of Ohio and the power loom weavers of Philadelphia have struck against a reduction of wages. Body-snatching has become common in Ohio. The bodies of four' prominent citizens of Zantavale, a short time deceased, were lately taken from a waggon, the driver of which escaped pursuit. The steamer Quebec has been lost on Lake Huron.

Two freight trains collided near Montreal, injuring an engineer and breakman. The loss is £IO,OOO. Two Franks at Fort Jervis, New York, entered a village school after the children were dismissed, and seized the teacher Alice Bennet, and grossly assaulted her, and to prevent her telling the story cut out her tongue. The young woman managed to reach the black board, and wrote the circumstances of the affair, and the description of the scoundrels, and then died. The results of the elections for November are a defeat of General Butler for the Governorship of Massachusetts, and of Tammany King, New York. The widow of Alexander T. Stewart, New York, a millionaire, offers 25,000d015. for the return of remains stolen from a vault.. The New York and Boston banks have taken action which practically taboos silver as currency.

Tho Mormon women at Salt Lake City, Utah, recently held a mass meeting in the theatre of the city, and passed a series of resolutions endorsing polygamy as a God given institution.

A proposition impends among certain Congressmen to reduce the gold dollar to an equality with the silver coin of the same denomination.

For fear of theft of the body from, the grave of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, it has been walled up with masonry, and is closely watched.

The Honest Money League has issued an address asking for co-operation and assistance of friends of fair dealing all over the United States against the fiat re money and greenbacks.

Adam Haber, German farmer, Oshbok, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in Germany for reviling the Emperor. Haber was on a visit to his old home. He is a naturalised American, and the United States Government is asked to interfere.