News by the Mail.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1712, 29 June 1874, Page 2

News by the Mail.

Charles Kingsley is on a lecturing tour throrigh America. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin have arrived in San Francisco, and are also lecturing.

Mr. Hoskins and Miss Colville are acting at Salt Lake City.

Itose Evans, who was a great success in San Francisco, and a failure in New I'ork, is now playing in London to crowded houses.

Mrs. Robert Heir was a failure in New York, but success ful elsewhere.

lima di Hurska (prima donna) j Fechter (actor), and widow of Walter Montgomery (actress) are likely to visit Australia.

Mr. George Wood, New York, proprietor and manager of Wood's Museum, will shortly lead to the altar Miss Henrietta G-ranger, a former member of his stock company, who is at present in Australia for the purpose of bringing her mother to New York.

Sothern, the actor, opens at Chicago on June Ist for a three weeks' engagement. Then he goes to San Francisco, where he plays a brief engagement, and thence direct to Australia, where he is engaged, at a salary, it is stated, of 1,000 dols. in gold per night for eight weeks. Miss Minnie VValton (Mrs. Fred. Lyster) accompanies him on his tour round the world.

A high-class London journal, obviously by mistake, recently admitted into its colu ■ns an advertisement relating to what passes for the most infamous and indecent book ever written and printed. For police reasons no English booksellercould venture to make known that he possessed such a book; to procure which it would be necessary, according to the terms of the advertisement, to send £6 to Hamburgh and then the purchaser would lose the value of his money, for the book would be stopped at the Custom-house. On Saturday night, March 28, a lady named Mrs.Dowling, living with her hus-

band and children in Kensington, London, in impoverished circumstances, cut the throat of her youngest born, an infant of three weeks old. The fatal act was committed with a carving knife. The unfortunate lady, whose mind is affected, was charged with the crime at the Kensington Polico Court and remanded for,a week.

A horrible disaster occurred at Mill Hivor, Springfield, Mass., May 18th. by tho breaking through of the immense reservoir which supplied tho various mills and factories of the district with water. Numerous factories and houses wcro destroyed at Willmmsburg, Haydenville, Leeds, and Springfield. At least 150 bodies have been recovered, so far. The reservoir, being of enormous size, inundated the country for a distanco of three miles. It is estimated that nearly 100 buildings were destroyed, and the loss is from 1 to 1-1- million dollars ; and the loss of life it is impossible to calculate as yet. A banquet was given afc San Francisco on May 24 to I'aschal Groussefc and Fnmcis Jourde, companions of Ilochefort in his escape, by a large number of French residents. The best of good feeling prevailed, and speeches and toasts were given ad libitum. The company adjourned at a late hour, after appointing a committee of seven to receive others who may escape from New California. It is now positively know that Ilochefort left the city on Friday morning, the 22nd May, and eluded all interviewers and newspaper men; and was only interviewed by the firm of Bradley and IMofson, photographers, who succeeded in getting the privilege of taking his photograph. He left Salt Lake for New York on the morning of May 26.