AMERICAN SUMMARY

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 59, 16 November 1878, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY

September ‘U). A dav of national fasting’ ami prayer is (u im* t jl i>t.*r\'• 1, on account of th»• ravages of voii..\v iVo.m*, un i of I'no. t*-nnmcrcia! distress and discontent throughout tlio country. Tim llav-h-n surviving party liavobcon attacked hvt’ne ih-inniu’k Indians at Vel-low-stono. Titov osvapod without loss of lift;. A i •»iur of jew'-lk'vv thieves was discover in Chicago, and hr*»keu up. t'hica'j’o sioim-cuUoi’s huvo st in U 1' n- | --!> per i ny. ; i; ■!.• v, I :i" r.'.'iinn 'V. ;; ■m i ■ '..1- i 1 1 ,,■'. bv n m inufm ':;,;.i.y tilill N w i V :I. , ■' ■ i n.yniiy, N.'V V-irk, M;;,n.\ !taVi* cu.sj. I.i \ i • -no el.-clum ia’ \ : i, in .loan I'aunr.lly, |,,l' it PMi’ii, an'i W.-.sli, formerly for New York, i■ ■ 1; ■■■ I .n l lie latter luring knocked oit of 11 1 n■ •lu tin) loth rounU. Sitting Hull In- >. Nt oilers of pence from (.'amnia, ami wants to return to Ills out limitiiiLT ground- in the United States. Til" (l.'Verni i at n plied that they were not anxious for ills return, and he conhi only no so hv s;ii reutiering: micoiiditionally. The Bros Landrenn, of Paris ami. Xew Orleans, sue the Peruvian (luvernment for 100,001),OOOdols. commission, fur discovering; guano beds. Bolien, the Jew proletarian, is heading working-men’s riotous demonstrations in Washington, I LG. A number of wealthy and influential men have committed suicide during the month. Jeanette Bennett, sister of Bennett of the New York " Herald " has married n wealthy Xew Yorker, named Issue Hell. There were §100,OOt) worth of wedding 1 presents. Yellow fever, after ravaging many cities in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tetmesso, is abating. Those cities which suffered moat are New Orleans, Memphis. Granada, Canton, Holly Springs, Vicksburg, Baton Kongo, and Port Gibson, Large amounts of money for relief of distress were sent from all parts of the United States, and from Liverpool, London, Paris ami other European cities. The Chinese Embassy has arrived in . Washington. Ho is shortly to leave for Spain and Peru. The barque Carlo arrived at Philadelphia on the 10th with Iml officers amt crew of the Spanish frigate Pitarro, which foundered at sen. Kx-Governor Haight of California, died suddenly of heart disease on the 2nd ultimo. Bishop McCuskray has been deposed from the Michigan diocese, by the House of Bishop for scandalous practices, ami I abandoning his pulpit.

Haitian and Courtney arc to row at Ixtchine ai.d Canada, for X. 1.200. President Have; is making a tour of the Northwestern States, and is well received everywhere. Alexander Austin, ex-tax -collector of Sun Francisco, committed suicide at bis residence in Sun Matin, by shooting himself through the heart. Financial embarasmeut is the supposed cause. Major-t ienend John I Tennonl has arrived in San Francisco on rente to Arizona, of which territory he takes the Governorship. Matilda Stanley, known ns the t'ucen „f the Gipsies in the Vnited States, and recognised, as such by ail the tribes, died at jfavton, I )iii<>, on "the I.lth nit. A dvuamite magazine exploded) at lit ad lord, Pa., on the loth, and blew four men into Im^mcnts. A destructive fire occurred at San i»ernarJiim on September litli, by which eighteen places of business were reduced tj ashes. The total loss was upwards of lot I.out) dollars. The New Zealand lu- , - aranee 11 tmpanv had a risk of lOOdollars ! on one of the buildings. | “a llepntv Sheri that Pontte, La., having i killed a coloured man in a ‘pnmel, was taken from the gaol by a band of negroes the same night, anti literally riddled with bullets. The local columns of the New York papers are swelled with accounts of daily murders and all kinds of brutal deeds. Destructive Hoods have visited Ontar.o, : ('unada.

General Hutler'elaims to have been nominated by the Uemocra'.ic ( onvenlioii fur the Governor of Massachusetts, i'lie managers of the parly deny it, and call him a usurper. J.G. Ahott had been nominated by a second t ’unvenlion.

Ah mili- Leechor ineeting*was held in Omaha, on 1 lit* I Dili, during bis presence in that city. Beecher has made bimselt very obnoxious to working men by disparaging their social position, and adulating waitb. A heavy fight between Indians and U.S. troops, near Fort Wallace*, Kansas, Took place on the listh. In which Colonel Lewis, in command, was killed. A tcinlic and disastrous tornado in tin* West Indies devastated I’or-au-l’rinee and other towns, blowing down bouses, and destroying a large amount of property, besides doing extendve injury to c »coji and eoiiee er- »ps. Orville I irant, a brother of tbe (lenei al has become insane.