AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1838, 8 January 1889, Page 3

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Feancisco, Dec. 16. It is said that an American syndicate, with a capital of 50,000,000,d0l has been formed to construct a railroad in Silboria, and that several former and present American diplomatic consular agents are interested in the undertaking. Eighteen hundred Chinamen, resident in Philadelphia, ; who it is said received orders from the Imperial Governmeint to go Home, refused to obey, being too well off where they were. One hundred Chinamen arrived irt Charleston, S.C., on December 7th, and immediately took possession of the laundry business, driving out the blacks (male and female). More Chinamen are coming and the negroes are arming, haying declared war to the knife. A Buffalo (N.Y.) man claims to have solved the problem of "harnessing" the ■. Niagara River. He employs a submerged belt composed of two strands of 2in cable, to which steel plates are attached. The full force of the current pressing on these plates forces the belt around at a great rate of speed, producing a high rate of horsepower. The system can b«i duplicated indefinitely. P. T. Barnum, the worll-famou a showman, has announced his retirement from business on account of feeblene/ss and advancing years. A despatch from Ottawa, of; December 7lh, Bays Newfoundland haft a narrow escape from being forced into confederation. It has just been revealed that the province was shout to ba Bold out, Sir W, M. White being promised the Lieu-tenant-Governorship, and Mr Bond, one of the prime movers, the Chief Justiceship.. Sir Jno. Winter and his co-worker were to get the " boodle," Mr Morrin to go into the Cabinet. A telegram in regard to the fund to be raised in Canada leaked out, giving the Newfoundlanders an inkling of the plot. The matter will be investigated in the Dominion Parliament. Peter C. Campbell, a Brooklyn jeweller, has, it is claimed, invented a controllable air ship. In an experiment at Coney Island, New York, on December Bth, it was obedient in all its movements. Shipping disasters were reported along the Atlantic coast on November 25th and 26th. A fleet of sixteen barges were sunk in the lower bay of New York, but fortunately no lives were lost. Several small vessels were driven ashore on the New England coast, and many hands perished, Snowstorms prevailed throughout New England. The barque Morok I Castle/from Philadelphia for 'Frißco, went to pieces on the Delaware breakwater.