AMERICAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1928, 9 March 1875, Page 2

AMERICAN.

San Fbancisc?O; Feb. 7J? A tremendous fall in California raining stocks, unduly inflated by the Bonanza find, has occurred. Thousands have been ruined, including many women who had mortgaged their homesteads in order to invest in mines. Heartrending scenes occurred up the country and in the cities as telegrams announcing the fall were received. ■ Great floods hare occurred in Maryville. The water reached the roofs of the houses, and. there was serious destruction of property. A few lives were lost. Heavy snow storms occurred in various parts of the States, doing great damage. In Canada an avalanche fell oh a house, bur v ing six persons. At Quebec a large rock fell on a house and eight persons were taken out of the ruins.' - v '■". \ ■■ '.' "' '..' ;'. ■"■•■/■ '• „■■ "

Two railway accidents occurred with slight loss of life, but many wounded.

An armed mob attacked the Protestant Church in the City of Mexico. The minister escaped on board an American man-of-war. The commandant of the castle charged the mob. Four Mexicans and one American were killed.

Mr Lesseps writes favoring the interocean canal by the Nicaragua route. The Boechercase is continuing at great length in the American Courts, and is not conclud. d.

Ihe magnificent steamship Payta, of 2,000 tons register, has been wrecked, striking a sunken rock in Nanta Harbour. All the passengers were saved, The Insane Asylum, Beaufort, Canada, has been burned. The bodies of eight lunatics Wv re found among the ruins. The American ship St. Nicholas, coalladen, reached Callao after a fire hud been burning seven days in the hold. She was scuttled to extinguish it.