AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, October 24.

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AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, October 24.

Charleston, I C , and the Southern country generally, is still Buffering by earthquake. Sharp shocks occurrod in Savannah, bynchberg, Washington, Columbia, and Wilmington, on the 22nd October. No material damage. The Apaches of Aiizona are now subdued. Chief Magnus and his party, the last out, surrendered themselves to tho U.S. troops on the 19th October. On tho 23rd, Geronimo and hia band were tens under a heavy £.uard to Florida, where they are to be confined in military forts. Edward F. Hall, a prominent stock broker in San' Francisco during the palmy days of mining, committed Buicide by shooting in New York, on tho 19th October. Tremendous efforts are being made in the South-western States to extirpate the pest of the English sparrow. A roport published by the Department of Agriculture on 17th Ootober puts the estimated lo»s to rice planters in tho Carolir.as from these birds at from $3,000,000 to §4,000,000 annually

The new American »teei cruisers are said to be failures by European experts fcaj» lack of speed. Efforts that' will probably be succeeßfulare being made to settle the BoucicaultRoberteon divorce puit out of court. Tho defendant is willing to make provision for his wife and obildren. Both parties ara now in New York. Prince Louis Napoleon left San Francisco for the East on October 14, after a lengthened visit to California, where he spent much time examining the mining operations: and other objects of interest. An important tariff reform meeting was : held in New York on October 12. It wbb I called by business men in the Stewart building, and was largely attended. Abram H. Hewitt, the Democratic candidate who defeated Henry George for Mayor, concluded a loner and earnest speech with the remark :— " If you want revenue reform, look to the Democratic party, not to the Republican, to bring it about." Dion Boucicault and company returned" to New York, from England, on the 12th October, never, he says, so far as he is concerned, again, to leave it. As usual, in. his interviews, he gives the old country a parting kicK, and with fulsome words of | praise holds out his arms to embrace the new. Some sensation was created in San Francisco stock circles on October 8 by the announcement that work was ordered to ba discontinued in the lower levels of tho Comstock, Virginia City, and also the immediate removal of all machinery there. This is a virtual death-blow to the mining stock business. The prosecution of ex- aldermen in New York, for malversation while in effice, is causing consternation among the suspects. One— Jaehne— ib already in Sing-Sing, and others are leaving hurriedly for Canada. The trial of the Chicago annarchists was concluded on October 9, and seven of the accused were sentenced to be hanged on. December 30. These are Spies, Parsons, Engel, Lingg, Fischer, Schawb, and Fielden. Necbe waa sentenced to fifteen, years' imprisonment at hard labour. ! Beyond growing paler, the priaoners snowed no emotion during the judge's address, which was exceedingly impressive. ' The Peletier Pilot Case, as it is called, 1 was decided ia favour of the pilot by Judge Hoffmann, of the U.S District Court, at San Francisco, on October 4, Peletier was earned to eea on the British ship Occidental, which left Liverpool for San Francisco November 13, 18S5. He entreated the captain at various limes to put him ashore, or put him on board an inward-bound vessel. This the captain refused to do, and brought the unfortunate man to San Francisco, where the local pilots took up his case, and carried it before the Courts on a question of damages. The Judee decided that, under the circumstances, Peletier is sntitled t» such damages as a couinmsion may allow. The challenge of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, on behalf of one of its members, James Bell, for the America's Cup, waß received by John H. Bird, secretary of the New York Club, on October 2 The I ehallengeis a very informal document, and does not at all meet the requirement of the deed of gift. The tobacco crop of Kentucky is repor~ ted a comparative failure owing to the prevalence ot early October frosts. The murderer Maxwell, or Brooks, should have been hanged last August, but he has evidently obtained a reprieve and may yet secure a new trial. Twenty thousand cigar-makers are oution a strike in the island of Havana. Great destitution is the consequence, and also highway robberies and other crimes. Eight hundred men and three hundred in San Diego de las Vegas have appealed to their brethren in the United States for bread for their families, and means to leave the island. Accident on the Canadian-Pacific Railway. The passenger train of the CanadianPacific line went through a trestle bridge 125 miles east of Winnioeg on the morning of the 4th October. Five cars, including the mail car and four passenger coachee, were badly wrecked, and afterwards destroyed completely by fire. Several persona were injured, some fatally. Valuable, papers belonging to President Sutherland, of the Hudson Bay Railway Company, who was just returning from England, were among the property destrayed. This is the first accident on the Canadian road. President Cleveland, on the sth October, formally declared Greenbaum, lately consul at Samoa, formally suspended from office. The peach crop of Delaware has grown so uncertain that thousands of trees will be torn up this fall to make room for other varieties of fruit more dependable.