AMERICAN EXTRACTS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 63, 19 December 1871, Page 3

AMERICAN EXTRACTS.

Chicago, October 21st. —A terrible affair occurred here last night, about mid-night. While Colonel T. W. Grosvenor, a Avcll-knoAvn citizen, and for several years past Prosecuting Attorney in the Police Court, Avas proceeding home in the south part of the city, one of the Home Guards on patrol in that division halted him and required the countersign. The Colonel made some contemptuous reply, Avhen the guard fired, inflicting a Avound from Avliich he expired at fiv« o’clock this morning. Colonel Grosvenor served with distinction in the late war. and received a Avound Avliich perm C disabled his right arm. All the Chicago Companies ar rupted by the fire. All the banks in the city avill, Avith scarcely a doubt, be able to resume business, as a number of the bank vaults have been opened and Avithout an exception everything has been found in a state of preservation. Chicago, October 19: Every day increases business activity in all circles. Thousands of men are now at Avork in all quarters of the burnt portion on the South Side district, clearing aAvay ruins, erecting temporary Avooden structures and laying foundations for substantial buildings of brick and stone.—November 3: Two thousand five hundred Avooden buildings are in course of erection in the North Division, 500 in the South, and 150 in the West. Permits for the erection of permanent buildings of stone and brick continue to be issued daily. Philadelphia, November 7 : The number of cases of small-pox, last Avcek, amounted to 5G7. The deaths amounted to 95. Council Bluffs, lowa, November 7 ; Yesterday, laborers at work cutting a new road through the liiil and hollow known as Hang Hollow, excavated a sack containing 2,000 dollars in gold and silver. The money was hidden there eighteen years ago by a man named Muir, avlio murdered a comrade Californian in this city. Muir Avas captured and hung by a mob of Californians. He said that "he had hidden the money under a stump in this liolloav, but refused to tell Avhere. Many have hunted for this secreted treasure, but all in A'aiti. The laborers share the booty equally. Kingston, Jamaica, November G. —A negro Avoman, of highly respectable character, has been arrested at Jacmel upon a charge of cannibalism. The accusation alleges that she has killed and eaten 26 children, whom she had inveigled into her premises for that purpose. nilsson’s diamonds. Last spring whilst on her Avay to this city Mile. Christine Nilsson, the celebrated vocalist, lost 4,000 dol. worth 'ff diamonds, Avliich fell out of the windoAV of a car on the Iron Mountain road. The jewels Avere Avrapped in a piece of paper. The train Avas stopped and search made for them, but they Avere not found, and the precious stones Avere put down to the account of profit and loss. On Wednesday morning, as Ave learn, the lost diamonds Avere found at De Soto, near the raihvay track, opposite the mansion of the Fletcher family. The finder is the Avife of Patrick Flynn, a trackman on the road. The lady had tethered a calf to a stake, and in his antics he had scraped up the paper of jeAvels, Avhicli she picked up and turned over to an officer on the road. Nilsson Avas telegraphed to at NeAvport, R. 1., and she sent back Avord that tlie finder Avould receive 500 dols. The precious stones Avill be sent by express to-day to the OAvner. A CHICAGO ROMANCE. The Chicago papers, just before the fire, chronicled a romance in real life that happened in that city, Avhicli might Avell employ the ardent pen of a novelist. It as'as a fine moonlight night when a young clerk “ might have been seen,” and in fact Avas seen, musingly strolling dosvn Wabash Avenue toAvards his frugal boarding house. Casting his eyes torvards the lake, Avhat Avas his surprise to see the figure of a lady, clad in a Avhite dr t -sing gOAvn, at the Avater’s edge. As s! was moA'ing sloAvly towards the moist ■ went, and Avas evidently a somnabuiisi, the youth felt justified in interfering to prevent her from taking an unexpected bath. Ho, therefore, grasped her arm and aAvoke her from the trance. Comprehending the situation at once, she became extremely embarrassed, and blushingly alloAved her gallant attendant to escort her to her palatial residence, near at hand. So politely and delicately did he conduct himself under the very peculiar circumstances that he produced a very favourable impression upon the young lady’s mind. Not long afterwards they met at a party, but did not recognise each other. They met again two or three times, and one evening it was his lot to accompany her home. They passed up the avenue, and to his great delight she paused bofore the same door to Avhioh no had led the beautiful sompabufist.. He could not resist an exclamation of surprise, and Avhen sfie asked the cause and saw his confusion,, the Avhole affair suddenly flashed across her mind. Tableau. And uoav there is a talk of a wedding whereby gallantry will be united to loveliness, and not a little wealth, so that there is no immediate prospect of the lovers going over the hills to the poor house.