AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 20 November 1878, Page 1

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, October 28. The Australian Cricketers won a match with* the New Yorker* on the 2nd. The totals of the innings were:— Australians, 162; New York, 161. In Philadelphia tlie match was finished on the sth. When the umpires called time, and the matoh was over, the Australians were 43 rant behind, and had only 4 wickets dowa ii

their second innings. It was a drawn game. At Toronto on 'the 9th the Australians were -victorious., They finished the first innings with 123 to the Canadians 100. In the second innings the Canadians scored §4, when the Australians went to the bat and defeated their opponents, with eight wickets to spare. During the game a man in charge of the Australians' wardrobe absconded with five valuable gold watches. On the 10th a second match between the Australians and the 22 of Montreal was commenced. Bannerman and Murdoch, for the Australians, made 86, when time was called, as against Montreal's 90. i They also beat . the Peninsula Club (18) on the 15th. . They did not play in Chicago. The party arrived in San Francisco oh the 22nd, and were warmly received. Consul Booker invited the Board of Supervisors to attend the match, which commenced on the recreation grounds, San Francisco, in the • presence of an immense crowd. On the 25th inst. the Australian team v. 22- of California was played, and the match ended'in favor of the Australians, with 134 runs and an innings to the good. The Manhitan Savings Bank, New York, was entered by burglars on the 27th, and 21757.700-dollars stolen. The. hostile Cheyenne Indians have all surrendered.. • Serious trouble is apprehended among the maritime provinces of the New Do- . minion if the Halifax Fishery Award is \ not, paid. . I The elevated street railroads in New York have been indicted by the-Grand Jury as a nuisance. . The schools are closing in Virginia on account of the utter poverty of the State. Cyrille Dion, the' celebrated billiard player, died 'suddenly on the 2nd inst. ■ Hanlon beat Courtney in the five mile sculling race at Montreal on the 3rd by a leDgth and a quarter. - . Respectable sporting papers accuse Courtney of throwing the race in favor of the Canadian. James Donnelly, a Scotchman, was discovered in the hold of the steamer Chester on her, arrival, in New York. He had been eleven days without food or water. _ The Cheyenne Indians are raiding in Nebraska, and have done incalculable mischief. Expeditions of U.S. troops were sent against them, and were failures'. . A walking match between O'Leary and Hughes, of New York, took place on the sth. Hughes was used up. O'Leary made 203 miles in the six days' tramp, . Hughes 311 i A drunken, man walked into a New York church recently during service and plunged a knife into a woman whom he mistook for his wife, with whom he had a . quarrel. • • . . John A. McDonald will make the people of Canada believers in the millennial advent of Jesus Christ. He is holding a conference in New York. % The attendance is large arad influential. *, An excursion train Qn the old colony railway, near Boston, was thrown off the track on the Bth and 25 persons killed, and nearly 100 wounded. They were ' returning from the Hanlon - Courtney races. ' • • The released Irish Fenian prisoners recently arrived in* New Yorkv They intend to make a statement to the effect that the treatment- of political prisoners in England was so* barbarous and degrading- as to call- for the condemnation of the friends of humanity the world N over. Boucicault has subscribed 900 dollars to start them in business. General Sherman's son Thomas has joined the order of Jesuits through his mother's influence, the result of domestic unhappindss. . Seven negroes outraged 'four white women on the 7th instant, near Mount .Vernon, Illionis. The sheriff was killed in trying to arrest them, and they afterwards were all lynched by indignant citizens. Severe «torms have wrought great damage along the Atlantic coait. Admiral;Paulding of the U.S. Navy isdead. » The October cotton crop returns show 5,000,000 bales. . , - W. J; Fosswell has been arrested in New York for attempting to pass forged notes of the Union. Bank of London. The Harvard graduates offer their College Boat Club 10,000dola. to send-a crew to England. , Frost made its appearance in New Orleans and Memphis, and the yellow fever epidemic has ceased. The proposed commercial treaty between the United States and France will: be defeated, owing to. the strenuous protest by American wine growers. Admiral Qore joins the Eoyal Navy. He was detected in disguise on board the Russian steamer Europe,' in New York, and requested to leave the ship. A meeting was held in the Cooper Institute, N.Y., on the 21st, at which the released Fenians, Conlon and Melody, spoke oh barbarities'practised in the Eng--1 lish prisons. • ' The steam ship City of Houston, from New York to Galveston, foundered on the 23rd during a gale, no lives were lost. v The constitutionality of all laws bearing on polygamy in Utah is to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. By this it is intendedto legally settle the Mormon question. . Soberfc Aulay, Grand Chaplain of the Orange Lodge of Young Britons, at Ottawa, Canada, was murdered recently by the opposite party. He was found floating in the river with his skull pierced by a ball. . V , ' Lord Dufferin, late Governor-General of Canada, sailed from Quebec for Eng- ' land on the 19th. Thousands bade him farewell.