AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, September 24.

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AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, September 24.

The Biitish Minister at has informed Denis Donaliuo, consul at San Francisco, that the British Government would present Capt. H. M, Hay wood, of the Austral- American liner Mariposa, with a piece of plate, Mr Harr, first officer, with witli a gold medc.l, and each of four seamen with a silver medal and ten dollars in cash. This in i ecognition ot services in rescuing the crew and passengers of bho British barque Henry James in the South Pacific, in the early part of the year 1888. President Cleveland's letter of acceptance of re-nomination tor the second turn, was given to the public on September Bth. Republican paperb are forced to acknowledge it a manly, straightforward document. The President reiterates and emphasizes his views on the necessity of tariff reform, and makes it the single issue of the present campaign. The Cuuard steamship Etruiia arrived at New York on September 22nd. She made the trip from Qneenstown in 6 days 1 hour and 50 minutes, beating the best record (her own) by five minutes. It is denied by the New York " Telegram " thar Villavd's scheme to explore the regions of the South Pole is abandoned. llr William Babeoek, a leading San Francisco merchant, is a passenger by the Mariposa at date. He intends to make a trip of the colonies. Mr Leigh Lynch, formerly business manager for Alice Dunning Lingard in Sydney and Melbourne, goes forward by the steamship Mariposa on September 24th as agent for Spalding's baseball players, who leave en the October steamer. Meyer Golsteiu, confidential clerk of the important New York firm Greenebanmand Son, wa=< locked up on September 22nd for forging cheques to the amount of §30,000, and dissipating the money. Electricity, as applied to street surface cai'S, was put into practical operation for the first time in New York on September 17th, by the Fourth Avenue line. It was eminently successful. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was dangerously ill of gastric fever, at Crescent Beach, Mass., September 16th. The sickness was induced by dissipation, and should he recover, physicians bay he will no longer be fit for the roped ring. Carl O. G. Mueller, a wealthy commission merchant residing in Brooklyn, committed suicide, September 16th, He was crazed by insomnia. Gambling has been again legalised in the important mining oify of Leadville, Coloiado. The law went into effect on September 16th. By the suppression of games of chance the place had become almost depopulated. An explosion occurred, September 16th, at the National Milling Company's Mill, Cleveland, Ohio, killing some seven employees, and injuring many others. Mrs Margaret Fox Kane, widow of Kane, the American Arctic explorer, and one of the famous Fox Sisters, whooriginated spiritism many years ago by the Rochester knocking^, declared formally and explicitly in an interview on September 23rd, at her house in New York, that the whole system was a base deception, and she proposed to lay it bare to its very foundation. " I know, of course," she added, " that every effect at seances is produced by absolute fraud." Alexander Goldenson, the Jew boy who, murdered, some two years ago, the schoolgirl Mamie Kelly, was hanged in ths corridor of the San Fiancihco gaol on September 14th. Much to the a&tonishment and disgust of his fellow religionists, he embodied the Catholic faith just before his death. Charles A. Percy went through the rapids in Niagara River, September 16th, in a boat of his own construction, and for advertising purposes. He escaped with his life, but had a terrible experience. The boat struck a rock, throwing Percy out, and he swam to Lewiston, where he was picked up, almost exhausted, by some fishermen. He had no bones broken ; but was badly strained. The boat disappeared. Richard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer and populor lecturer on the science, died of yellow fever at Millard's Hospital, New York, on September 12ch, of black vomit, the worst phase of yellow fever. Proctor had been spending several weeks with his family at Oaklawn, Marion County, Florida, in which State the fever is now epidemic. The profes&or was a native of Chelsea, England. All possible precautions have been taken by the New York health authorities to prevent an outbreak of the scourge in that city. The Pope has forwarded to Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, a decree favourable to the Knights of Labour organisation in the United States. Astronomers report, September 13th, that the new comet, recently discovered by Professor Buinard at the Lich Observatory, Cal., is moving toward the earth at the rate of 3,000,000 miles daily. An extensive fire occurred in San Francisco on Sunday/ September 9th, involving business and other property on Main, Spear, Stewart and East-streets. The damage is estimated at over one million of dollars. ' The rear part of a circus train of thirtyfive cars, belonging to the estate of old John Robinson, was run into at Waynesville, Ohio, on September 9ih and four of the attaches of the show killed. A sporting man of Boston has offered to match an unknown against Tom Lee, the Australian pugilist. The conditions are :— It he will face the unknown ten rounds, he receives 500$ cash, and 35 per cent, of the gate receipts ; if Lee is knocked out before the tenth round he is to receive 350$ cash. The state elections of Vermont and Maine, held during the first week of September, resulted in increased Republican majorities. Thirteen Roman Catholic priests arrived in New York from Dublin on September 10th, for clerical work in Calitornia and elsewhere in the United States. All are young, and over cix feet in height. William Warren, of Boston, the most famous comedian on the American stage, died in his native city, September 11th. ,He had been upwards of forty years before "the public;

Lesfcer Wallach, the veteran acbor, who recently retired from activo theatrical life, was stricken with apoploxy on September sth at Stamford, Conn., died next day. Yellow fever is rapidly spreading in Jacksonville, Florida. The President of the Board of Health has appealed to the country for financial aid. A scaro was caused in the War Department, Washington, September sth, by information that a British officer had penetrated the secret of operating American torpedoes, on which chief roliance is placed for coast defence, and had forwarded completo drawings to London.