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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3023, 23 October 1878, Page 4

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San Fbancisco, Sept. 30. The settlement, of the (frappists monks from Europe will be made in Pennsylvania. „- .: , .■■';.:'•■' :.: --, A day of fasting and prayer mil be observed on account of the ravages of yellow fever and of commercial distress and discontent throughout the country. Hayden, and his; surveying party, had been attacked by Bamook Indians at Yellowstoree, but escaped without loss of life. A riDg of jewelry thieves has. been discovered and broken up. The Chicago stone-cutters struck for nine hours a day. Kearney, the agitator, has been sued for libel by a manufacturing firm in New York. The Oxford Iron Company failed for six million dollars. A fre in Frederictown, N. 8., caused a Joss of £3,000. A glove fight between John Connelly, of Boston, and Welsh, formerly of New York; resulted in the latter being knocked , out of time in the 15th round. i Pennsylvania and Ohio have suffered from sovere equinoctial storms. Sitting 'Bull has sent offers of peace from Canada, and wants to return to his old hunting grounds. The brothers; Landrean, of Paris and New Orleans, sue the Peruvian Government for one hundred millions, commission for discovering guano beds. Cohen, a Jew proletarian, is heading tho Working l Men's riotous demonstration in Washington, D.C. A number of wealthy and influential men have committed suicide during the month. Jennette Bennett, sister of Mr Bennett, of the JN. Y. Herald, married a wealthy

New Yorker named Isaac Bell. She had | lO.OOOdols. worth of wedding presents. The Zona Litre (free trading ground) in Mexico, has been abolished, except as to Malrananous and New Laredo.

Ex-Governor Haight, of California, died suddenly of heart disease on the 2nd ultimo.

Bishop MeOoskray has been deposed from the Michigan diocese by a house of Bishops, for scandalous practices and abandoning his pulpit. Orville Grant, brother of General Grant, has become insane.

President Hayes is making a tour of the! North-western States, and is well recteived everywhere. A strike among street car-drivers of New York has occurred for shorter hours and increased pay. Alexander Austin, ex-tax collector, of San Francisco, committed suicide at his residence in San Mateo by shooting himself through the heart. Financial embarrassments are the supposed cause. Gustav Mahe, Director-General of the French Savings Bank in San Francisco, killed himself by a pistol shot through the brain on the 17th instant. Cause of suicide, financial troubles.

Major-General John C. Tremont has arrived at San Francisco, en route to Arizona, of which territory he takes the Governorship. Matilda Stanley, known as the Queen Gipsy in the United States, and recognised as such by all the tribes, died in rDaytpvfn, Ohio, on the 15th ult. A dynamite machine exploded at Bradford, Pa., on the 15th, and blew four merfJ into fragments. A deputy sheriff at Boutte, La., having killed a couple of men in a quarrel, was taken from gaol by a band of negroes the same night and literally riddled with bullets. ■■''.. l The local columns of the New York papers are swelled with accounts of daily murders and all kinds of brutal deeds. Destructive floods are visiting Ontario, Canada.