American News.
A fire in Philadelphia has destroyed 750,000 dollars worth of property. : . Vanderbilt is buying ateel rails in England because he considers the material better than the American. The State of Louisana is threatened with a depletion of agricultural labour, in consequence of the negroes flocking westward. A rain of sulphur occurred in Pensylvania. An Irish Colonisation Convention has been established in Chicago for "the purpose of securing settlements for poor Irish Catholics upon lands in America.
The New York Tribune urges Menotti Garibaldi and his three thousand Italians proposed for New Guinea colonists, to settle in California or Texas.
The Tilden stock for the next Presl dential election is rising.
Gustavus Goward, the American commercial agent at Pago Pago, has written to Washington urging the Go* rernment to make Samoa a naral station and colony.
An American warship has been ordered to Samoa.
American mules are being embarked for South Africa.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3187, 7 May 1879, Page 2
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153American News. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3187, 7 May 1879, Page 2
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