ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 107, 25 December 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

(Per San Francisco Mail.)

A negro and his wife were lynched recently in Mississippi for murdering a white child ; it appeared subsequently that the mother of the child induced the negress to do it, ns by its death she would become the direct heiress to considerable property. Bear-Admiral Ammani, U.S.N., recommends Nicaragua route for a shij canal ; he thinks it can be built for 60,000,000 dollars, and that 3,000,000 tons of British and American shipping would pass through yearly. Mormons are arriving in large numbers at New York from Europe. A Convention embracing the leading clergymen of the Episcopalian Church has been in session at New York, considering the premillenial coming of Christ. The Mormon elders are on trial in Utah for polygamous-practices. The yellow fever is rapidly disappearing in the Southern States. The coal miners of Ohio and the power loom weavers of Philadelphia hav? struck against a reduction of wages. Body-snatching has become common in Ohio. The bodies of four prominent citizens of Zantavale, a short time deceased, were lately taken from a waggon, the driver of which escaped pursuit. The steamer Quebec has been lost on Lake Huron.

Two freight trains collided near Montreal, injuring an engineer and breakman. The loss is LIO,OOO. Two Franks at Fort Jervis, New York entered a village school after the children

were dismissed, and seized the, teacher Alice Bennet, and grossly assaulted her, and to prevent her telling the story cut out her tongue. The young woman managed to reach the black board,- and wrote the circumstances of the affair, and the description of the scoundrels, and then died.

The xesults of the elections for November are a defeat of General Butler for the Governorship of Massachusetts, and of Tammany Ring, New York. The widow of Alexander T. Stewart, New York, a millionaire, offers 25,000d01a for the return of remains stolen from a vault.

■ The New York and Boston banks have taken action which practically taboos silver as currency. The Mormon women at Salt Lake City, Utah, recently held a mass ' meeting in the theatre of the city, and passed a series of resolutions endorsing polygamy as a God-given institution. A proposition impends among certain Congressmen to reduce the gold dollar to an equality with the silver coin of the same denomination.

For fear of theft of the body from the grave of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, it has been walled up with masonry, and is closely watched. The Honest Money League has issued an address asking for co-operation and assistance of friends of fair dealing all over the United States against the fiat re money and greenbacks. Adam Haber, German farmer, Oshbok, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to ; five years’imprisonment in Germany for reviling the Emperor. Haber was pn a visit to his old home. He is a naturalised American, and the United States Government is asked to interfere.

The international walking match commenced at the Agricultural Hall, London, on the 28th at 11.5 p.m., and terminated on the 2nd inst., at 10.30 p.m. The competitors numbered 23, and included Weston of New York. The stakes were LSOO, with the Ashley belt and Ll5O. Vaughan and Weston were the favourites at the start; betting, five to one against Corkey. At the conclusion the scores stood—Corkey, 521 miles ; Browni 505 ; Russell, 469 ; Hehbert, 440; Ennes, of Chicago, 410; Courtney, 404; Day, 400 ; Richardson, 380. 16,000 persons were present at the close. Weston re-i tired early in the contest with a sprained ankle.

The Oldham cotton operatives are on strike. 20,000 hands have struck, and 8,000,000 spindles are idle. They were asked to submit to a reduction of ten per cent on their wages.