AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3356, 24 September 1879, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The United States Government claim 100,000 dols. compensation for local interference with the American fishermen last season at Fortune Bay. The charcoal burners' strike near Tureka, Nevada, resulted in a fight-with the Sheriff's posse, in which five rioters were killed.

Affairs in Mexico are very revolutionary. A dictatorship by Dial to preserve order is suggested. The Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette wax heard from at Ounlaska. the distance, . 2100 miles, being made in 25 days. Montreal has passed through a severe - financial crisis. Ttie Virrile Marie Exchange and Consolidated Banks have suspended. Total loss about six hundred thousand dollars.

Tremont temple at Boston is burned. Two firemen were killed. Loss about 1,200,000 dols. The building belonged to the American Bibl* Society, and wai insured for 1,000,000 dols. Several extensive fires occurred daring the month. At one at Richmond, Tirginia, the loss was 100,000 dols., A few cases of yellow fever are reported at New Orleans. The Star aud -Herald of Panama says that Chili loses over one million dollars by the recent raids on the Peruvian war ship Huascar. Calaina has been evacuated by Chili, and all their forces concentrated at Antofogasta preparatory to a deceit upon the Peruvian coast. The arrival in New York of 130 Sheffield cutlers brought over by the Frasy Cutlery Company, of Bridgeport, \Coa« necticut, is said to be the first importation of six hundred contemplated by a Bridge-. ■ port firm, who propose a large manuiaeture . of pocket cutlery extending to other branches if successful. The men say they were offered better wages and mere comfortable homes and gladly came. Committees are forming in New York to collect funds for the Cubans who propose renewing the struggle fer indepea*: . dence.

i The state of Missouri is appointing emigration agenti in Scotland, England, and Germany. . - • • , A war is threatened betwee* tne.Cretv a powerful Canadian tribe, and the Sioux, which have been driven north bjr the : Americans. The Sioux killed all the Buffaloes and Canadian Indians, and ill some eases resorted to cannibalism. The '■ situation it critical. The Dominiom Govern ment organised a fore* of Creer 9 ■• and they promise to await the measures of 'the Government before attacking Sitting Bull. * The ship Oregon arrived at Vancouver Island on August 29th, from Near Zealand. President Hayes has opened 8-J millioi acres of land to homestead pre-emption along the the north-eastern bank- of the Missouri river, North -Western Tern, tory. The Illinois harvests are 42,000.000 bushels wheat, worth 32,000.000 dole., the largest crop ever raised in the State. A terrific storm broke over the eastern ' and middle Atlantic States.. At Newport thirty sail boats and severalraehte „ and one schooner were wrecked. Norfolk was badly damaged in shipping, Merchandise and property. The loss is estimated at £300,000..

A race between Hanlon and Riley al - Barri, Ontaria, on Augast 18th, owing to & Hanlon'n earelesness, resulted in a tie. •"■*

During the snow storm at the Atlantic Coast, the Yachting fleet, off Boston, was badly injured. At Portland several wrecks were noted along the Coast. Th* cities of Beaufort and Moorkead, North Carolina, were nearly destroyed bj tit* hurricane. The sea destroyed every vestige of the Atlantic House, the largest hotel in that psrt of the country. One life boat and all the baggage and ruraitvre was lost. The Ocean View House,

another Beaufort hotel, wu injured, and several private houses rained. The hotel guests lost nearly all their elothea. Hundreds of barefooted people crowded the street seeking to identify their pro* perty. Hundreds of sailing boats were, lost. The yellow fever continues fatally preTalent. At Memphis, Tennessee, 60,000 people in the camp are c* the verge «f starvation, as all business intercourse with the affected districts is stopped. The subscription to the Panama Canal„ stock is a failure in New York. The negro exodus to Kansas continues. Four thousand hare already been helped to employment. Southern planter! hare . sent a commission, of colored men to. Kansas to inspect the condition of tho country and the prospects for the nerroec* and if they truthfully report their oMer> . vations it is believed the recital will eheefc the exodus. Rioting between the French Canadians and Irish residents of Quebec, assuming large proportions and calling for prompt military interference, occurred in tte middle of August. Several were killed, and from twenty to thirty were wounded* The first street fight, in which the French made an attack on the Irish quarters with about 12,000 armdd men, they were routed by the Irish with an inferior nuaeber. Subsequently the French attacked the Champlin streets from the hetfhts. The Irish, in Montcalm and Cbampho wards* fortified the houses, barricaded

the street, and prepared to defend their homes if again attacked. The French were well armed, having got possession of ' the arms of the military eompaaiea iu< tbeir district. They assaulted the pastern by and wrecked the houses. All traffic was stopped by armed men in the riotom quarters. One battalion was disarmed by the authorities, being nearly all French. The trouble arose among the ship carpenters and laborers, the French Society wanting to accept lower wages than the old Society would tolerate. As trad* was dull, the Prqneh thought wage* should fall. Peace was restored throagh the friendly intervention.of the Irish and French Catholic clergy.