AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 20.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, December 20.

All the property or tho bmger bewing Maclunc Company in Elizabeth Port, New Jersey, was attached on December 19th and 1000 employes discharged. Preparations for the reception of John Stewart Parnell in New York in January aro being made on a grand scale. Tho Parliamentary Fund has reached 10,01)0 dollars. Yscult Dudley, the Englishwoman who attempted to kill O'Donovan Kossa, and now in the Middle-town Insane Asylum, is manifesting suicidal tendencies. Chinamen are being systematically boycotted in every town on the Pacific Coast, and opium joints have increased so fast in Eastern cities that general alarm is felt. Vandcrbilt's death is attributed to over-work. Suspicious characters have been found hovering near his tomb, and it is believed theft of the body is contemplated, as in the case of the millionaire Stewart. The telegram from Captain Morse, of the steamship Alameda, d«ted Auckland, Dec. 13, informing Spreckcls and Co. that he had beaten the Zo .landia to that port, was received with a good deal ot satisfaction, and immediately posted at the San Francisco Merchants' Exchange. Mr Mosely, Superintendent of tho Pacific Mail, denies that any race was intended between the vessels. The steamship Australia, belonging to the old line, is advertised to leave here on Dec. 20th direct for Sydney. In a type sotting contest at the office of the " New York World," December 13th, the record for tour hours showed thai the contestants set respectively, 8,0(32] cms and 7,951 cms. The San Francisco police made a descent, December '6tn, on a cotlago in the subuibs ot the city, and captured four dynamiters with many of their destructive appliances, and a list of citizens checked oil" tor death. It is asserted that the plot is the outgrowth of the anti-Chinese agitation, and as a means to enforce a resolution passed by the agitators that tho Chinese " must go " on or before January 16, ISB6. The parties arrested are three Germans and one Russian. The whole affair, however, has about it so many features of a lirst-class farce that many people are disposed to laugh at it as a " police scare." Judge Dawne, of Sitka, Alaska, an American official, lied on Dec. 11, on account of official crookedness involving £30,000. The American School of Opera— intended to rival and if possible supersede the Italian—commenced active work on Dec. 11th. A rich woman named Mrs Thurber, an enthusiast in music, is the promoter of the scheme. It is called the " American School ;" but, so far, all its professors aro foreigners. No pupil, however, is received who is not American born and reared. Col. Chaillelong, late Chief of the Staff to Goneral Gordon, delivered a lecturo in New York, on Dec. oth, in which he insisted that tho General was still alive. The lecturer said he had four or five steamers, and, in his opinion, went south in one of these to Gondokoro, and would in due time be heard from. v% illiam H. Vanderbilt, of New York, said to have been the richest man in the world, diod suddenly of paralysis of the brain at his mansion, New York, on the night of Dec. Sth. His total income per annum Avas stated at 15,000,000d015. The money and stock market will not be affected by his death. A sensational tragedy occurred in a business office, Nevada Block, San Francisco, on the morning of December 11th. Chas. W. Brown sought a business settlement with John A. Benson, and failing in a satisfactory result, shot Benson twice, and then cut his own throat. Brown' 3 death -« as immediate ; Benson may survive. Both men were concerned in the business of laying-off and selling public lands. The authorities of New York are taking notice of the fact that desperate boxing matches are the rule now among the young aristocracy of that place. There was a set-to at the rooms of tho Athletic Club, the richest in the city, on Deccmbor 11, between Ellingsworth and Macnahon, two gilded youths, the bloody details of which are sickening. Macmahon was punished nearly to death, and the furniture, carpets, and clothes of spectators sprinkled with the blood of the combatants. Slogging matches, in clubs, aro also being revived in Boston. Miss Fannio dc Vallanco, who claimed to bo tho widow of an English lord, was arrested for forgery in New York on December 13th. There is a most decided boom in the iron trade of the Unitod States at present. On December sth, pig metal advanced one dollar a ton on pig metal, and fifty cents on ore. Six children wero bitten by a rabid dog, running at large in Newark, N.J., on Dec. 4th. The peculiar feature of the case is that, at his request, the children have been sent to M. Pasteur, in Paris, for treatment. Weston and O'Leary began a foot journey of 2,500 miles at the Metropolitan rink, Nowark N.Y., on December 7. The rules are twelve house a day, excluding Sundays. The walk is undertaken as a trial of endurance between the two men. The Grant Memorial Fund has reached (Nov. 26) 100,000 dollars. Jay Gould, tho great operator, has announced his intention to re tiro from Wall-street at the close of tho year. The Stock Board propose to erect a now exchange in another locality in New Y r ork, at a cost of 5,000,000 dollars. J. K. Emmett, the actor, is still repeating the disreputable practices he was given to in Australia. On the night of November 27th, ho and several of his company appeared on tho stage, in a Pennsylvania city, much the worse for liquor, and were promptly and vigorously hissed by the audience. Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Vico-Prqsident of the United States, died suddenly at his residence in Indianopolis on November 25th. As the Republicans havo a majority in the Senate, and the Vice- President is ex-offlcio President of that body, tho curious complication will occur of a democratic President and a republican Vice-President. Cleveland's life is all that stands between the latter party and the presidency. To meet complications of this kind in the future, the " Presi dential Succession Bill" will be pressed to passage during the present Congress. This Bill makes no provision for the succession to the Vice-Presidency, but confers the succession to the Presidency in case of a vacancy in the offices of both President and Vice-Presi-dent upon tho Secretary of State If that oflico is vacant, then upon the Secretary of the Treasury, the succession passing to the othor members of the Cabinet in every case of vacancy. Congress assembled on Tuesday, December Bth, and immediately adjourned as a mark of respect to Vice-President Hendricks. The Apacnie Indians have taken the war-path in Arizona, and are murdering settlers and killing off stock. The people of the territory are thoroughly alarmed. Charles D. Bradley, a Chicago physician, haß, become insane by tho use of the new eenesthetio

cocoaine, and has physically ruined his wife and five children by experiments with tho drug. Tho Salt Lake Mormons have turned the tables on the Gentilos. In return for the almost incessant prosecutions of polygamy, they have examined closely into tho private lives of Anti-Mormons, and the result is indictments for lowdnoss, adultery, and other practices contrary to law and good morals. There are some fears of an uprising in Utah, on account of the rigid onforcoment of the anti-polygamy law. Infantry and artillery at contiguous posts were undor marching orders for Salt Lake on the 10th Dec. The fair at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, has already netted £2,000 for the Hebrew free schools. Before the close Mary Anderson and Margaret Mather will sell flowers for charity's sake. St. Prtersburg — Despatches state that a terrible dynamite explosion has occurred in the Pneijnchin mine in Siberia. Accounts are conflicting as regards the num ber of persons killed, some placing the number at 400, while others place it as high as 1,000. The Liberal press in Russia is urging an alliance with England as the sole means of settling the Eastern question and punishing the perfidy of Germany and Austria. Berlin, December 10. — The Bundesrath has unanimously approved the bill for the construction of the long span of ship canal between the Baltic, the Elbe, and the North Sea. The canal will cost ultimately about 156,000,000 marks. It is to be strongly fortified, and will have great military as well as great commercial value. The defence of the coasts of Germany must always remain a divided task so long as a canal does not unite the Baltic with the German Ocean, and enable German vessels to pass from one sea to another, by a route which does not expose them to the danger of falling into foreign hands.