American.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5132, 29 June 1885, Page 2

American.

The World's Industrial Exhibition at New Orleans closed on June Ist, owing §62,318 in excess of the congressional appropriation of §335,000. Panama wishes to separate from the United States of Columbia, and be annexed to the United States of America as a neutral State. -

Bucher has thrown down the gauntlet in favor of evolution.

Col. Charles Denby, an Indiana lawyer* has been appointed U.S. Minister to China.

Apache Indians are committing great damage in Arizona, destroying ranob.es and murdering settlers;

A "faith cure " is the latest craze in the United States. „

The annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons was held in New York on June 3rd. Every Lodge in the States was represented. The burden of Grand Master Brodie's address was an insistance on the Masonic belief in God as the corner stone of the Order. So-called Masonic periodicals have of late been making light of the faith in a Supreme Being. \ . ... ;• •. ■- : :

The entire personal property of Mrs ParneU—mother of the Irish Land Leaguer—at Bordentown, New Jersey, was seized at the suit of Joshua; Turner and others, and sold on June Ist. Mrs ParneU has sacrificed her fortune by care* lesscess, and mixing in Irish politics to aid her son's advancement. Her intellect has been slowly giving way under politi. cal strain, and through monetary worry. Edward Hanlan, the rower, who arrived here by the Zealandia on May 21, reports that notwithstanding bis defeats in the colonies, he made 30,000 dollars as his share of gate. money,—as he naturally would say for his own sake. Beach, in his opinion, is the most wonderful oarsman he ever met.