AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3093, 16 January 1879, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, Deo. 23. ;^sl|it^ier named William Griffis has been arrested in 'Frisco for extensive forgeries on the Union Bank, London, in 'the' shape of letters of credit passed on Baldwin, mining millionaire, proprietor of Baldwin's theatre and hotel. A plan is in consideration to consolidate the Union and Central Pacific railroads under one management^ i The Marquis of Lome was sworn in as* Governor-General of the new dominion at Halifax on the*2Kuilt. Great fentivitiep on the occasion., 'i V •#'■"■"• " i The American theatrical fiVDL, Shook and Palmer, have dissolved. TW former will become Police Commissioner of New York.

Napoleon Campana of Bridgeport, Conn., has challenged O'Leary to a, cix days' walk. O'Leary has accepted. ;': William Miller, champion athlete of New York, publishes a challenge to wrestle for, $500 a side McMahon, N.J.., whicji has been accepted. -< Weston proposes to walk in San Fran* cisco 522 miles in 144 hours. .' j The Harvard Boat Club are enthusiastic in a determination to challenge the oarsmen of two English Universities for an eight oared race next sammer. Denis Kearney, agitator, was received *aJ(**nt+uktiis*B.; Sunny— hy » pg». cession (^ nearly ,5000-wiorking'men, with banr»|^s Jand jaWie.■ / T •' \

Clara Louise Kellog. quarrelled with her, manager because the new prima donna Litta eclipssd her iv.the estimation of the musical public. 1 }:.:': ■-^■"■';' l lizli.C Chinamen are being naturalised in New York.< ' 'f" .'' ' r ' The steamship New Zealand, from New York for Antwerp, returned on the 27th with her cargo on fire. '"Virginia refused to observe thanks* giving day on President Hay's proclamation.

Andrews brothers, who went to Europe in a Dory, are coming 1 back next spring in the same boat. They intend to build another in which to go to San Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to Australia. Mrs Tilton has been formally expelled from Beecher's church, Brooklyn. ' Qryille Grant, brother of the ex-Presi-dent, has been released from the insane asylum cured. . ; Mackay, Bonanza Sing, has given Gilmore, the bandsman, 150,000 dollars to insure his European professional tour against 1055.... A vendetta took place at Dreathill County, in which a judge and several others were killed.

General Grant has concluded to visit Asia and British India before his return home, which will be by way of Australia, New Zealand and California. Heavy floods, in .New York, Pennsyl- , vania, Virginia, Vermont and New Hampshire, washing out the railway beds and doing vast damage otherwise. 4 The British ship Thalia, Glasgow /to Honolulu, foundered at sea. Part of the crew reached Valparaiso. - ' A general strike of the car drivers prevails in New York. Bayard Taylor, traveller and author, formerly United States Minister to Germany, died of dropsy. Curtis, editor Harper's Weekly, is flpoken of as his successor.

1 A mutiny occurred on board the British barque Anaway, on the voyage from New York to Trieste. The mate was killed and others wounded. The optain shot one of the mutineers. Gold sold at par in New York on the 18 th, the first time since suspension of specie payments in 1862. Gas stock in 'Frisco has fallen heavily in consequence of preparations for the introduction of the electric light. The Pacific Mail Company are offered two million dollars for two China stea-' mers, and three hundred thousand for Australian steamer. It is believed this will lead to the withdrawal of the company from the latter route,.and to its pas> ing into English hands. - .David Cownie, many years Pacific mail agent at Panama and during the existence of the Australian line on that place, died at Florida on the 26th ult.