AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 29.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, July 29.

The proposition to make San Diego, in Southern California, a port of call for j tho Australian mail steamers to and j from San Francisco, is being favourably • entertained by J. IX Spreckels and Co., tho contractors and owners of the lino. Spreekles and ft party visited San Diego recently in relation to the matter. The 'iJarl of Aberdeen was feasted by 200 Irifc.li -American and other «itiaens, on July ! 7fch, at St. Paul, Minnesota. He evaded, with great tact, all efforts to chaw him out on tho Irish question. Tho counsel ot Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, sentenced at St. Louis to be hanged, August 2Gth, for the murder of C. Arthur Preller, have refused to carry his ease bo tho higher Court, and he therefore will bo hanged at the time fixed. Mr 11. W. Markhaui, assistant paymaster of tho British Navy, was arrested in Kansas city, on July 1-KJi, charged wibli ioigmg the name of .superior officer tor amounts aggregating about LS,OU(). The crime was committal over a year ago, when his »hip was cruising oil the eoa^fc of China, lie left the \osel ostensibly ior Yucatan, and all clue to him had been lost before his misdeeds came to lip; lit, when the cat- e was iornvilly handed o\er to the Scotland Yard deteethes, who have been pecking him e\er since. Markham went to" Shangai when lie left the service, and spent money hbei.tlly in company with a San Fiauci^co advent 1 utess, named (Jussiu Bland, tiaveihngns Mrs Lh. Faust. When Jie found out incidentally that --oarch was being made for him, he iled to Cali- | toinia, and eventually brought up in Kansas, where he was arrested, and wheie, under the assumed name of (Jay lor, he had been acting as agent for a well-known insurance company. His Delilah returned to California, from China on the steamer .following the one on which ho took passage, and it was through her the detectives found their man. A railroad accident occurred, July 28th, on the Atlantic and Pacific line, near a place called the Needles, in New Mexico. The engine ot a Height tiain plunged full speed into a (try cicek, and the nremun Spaikes was killed, and Ins body burned in the bla/ing Main. Gibson, tho brakeman, was also fatally injured. Loss to the Company about $1)0,000. An engineer, fireman and biakcnian were killed, the same day, in a collision on a Missoun load. Oidois were mistaken. Jlairis Hit seh, familiarly called Rabbi Hiisch, a l'ohhh Jew, died in New York, on Julo '28th, at the advanced age oi 1 OS)) ears. He was bom near Warsaw, and with eight of his brothci s served under Napoleon tluougii tho Consciiption. The Pope totu.se-> to interefeie in any way witii the Ameiiean Older of the Knights of Labour ; an order, it may be added, that i.s shoving a lemuikably lapid deciease in membership. At the lecent quarteily con\cntion in Fall Rivet, Mahs., it was shown that District Assembly No. ;j(), of that State had deci eased from 83,000 members to '27,000. R. P. Clement President of the Citizen's Sa\ings Bank of Le.tvenwoith, Kansas, wa.s defaulted to th" tune of ,">(). OOOdol, and levanted on July '27th. Wheat speculation did it. Two lailway 'accidents occurred on July 27. A construction train was run into on the Chicago and Alton Road, killing many labouiers and a misplaced switch on the Baltimore and Ohio, at York, Indiana, killed the engineer and foreman of the expi ess, and mortally wounded the engineer of the freight train. A Sporting man, and one of the managers of the California. Athletic Club, in Calfornia known as Jack Seymour, committed smcuU by drowning in the bay, early in J uly. His body was discovei ed float • ing on the 18th. He was a nativeof Australia about 37 yeais of age, and came to San Francisco about five ago, wheie he became identified with the spoiting- fiaternit.y of the city. For .some time he was manager of Harry Maynard's sporting house in Pinestreet. He mairied in San Francisco, about thirteen months ago. Seymour was locked upon always by the fancy as a " square ' man, and one unusually sensitive for his line of life. The reason for committing suicide was a shortage in his accounts with Matthews, his partner in management of the Club. Sir John Thins ton, Governor of the Fiji Islands, whose (supposed) mission to the United States Government has been po freely commented on by the American papers, was in Washington on July !2G. The New York's *' Post's"' correspondent says this fact is about all the foundation there is lor the current statement that he has come to make "ome arrangements with the United States Government as to the ttamoan Islands. The State Department officials say that they have no knowledge of the diplomatic purpose which the Governor has to accomplish by being here, and therefore are compelled to credit his own statement that he has come simply on his way to i Europe, to see tho country, and for pleasure.