AMERICAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 6 May 1874, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

Tbe^ excitement is immense regarding the strike of machinists, on the Ene Railway. A detachment of troops and the Wycoming Artillerists, with four field-pieces^ accompanied by pickets, were at once stationed about the town depot. The depot property was taken possession of, aad traina were despatched gnard»d by four hundred 1 soldiers. Th« Trade Unions here united in an appeal of labour organisations of the country, and insist upon making eight hours a day labour. They hold iaass meetings on the 1 Itb May, in express opposition to the contract system of Government buildings. Tyrrel, a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, shot and killed the Hon. Henry Meyers in Cotvington. He was a law partner with a United btafces Senator. Stevenson. -Meyers was counsel for TyrreTs wife- who had applied for a divorce. The shooting occurred at Meyers's office, white he was taking depositions. Gold is at a high premium. A destructive fire has occured at Camp's ship-yard, Philadelphia. The loss is esimated at 2,000,000d015. An enquiry is to be held on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, in respect to the relation of ' British subjects; captured on board the Virginins and shot, with a view to secur- ! ing compensation from the Spanish Government The machine- shops of the Atlaafcfc and Pacific Railroad Company have been destroyed by fire. -The loss is calculated at 2,ooO*ooOdofe. At K«w York an immense conspiracy to cheat the revenue oujb of the whfeky tax was discovered. The fraud has been conducted so as to bhaafc the Government out of tea million dollars yearly. Letters from Dr- Livingston to. Mr. Stanley •re in the possession of the American Consul at Zanaibar, to be delivered in person. All of Dr. Livingstone's papers sad dwcoveries, 'sealed and addressed to the Secretary of State, are in the possession of Mr. Arthur Lang. Of his death it ys reported

that on May Ist he took to his bed, and on the 4th became insensible, and died at midnight. When first seized he said he intended to change everything for ivory, and push forward to England. A terrible snovr-storm and blockade lias occurred in the Sierra. The freight trains were abandoned. Ralph Waldo Emerson the celebrated American author, is favourably looked upon as a candidate for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University. The Louisiana House of Representatives has voted 130,000d01s to capture outlaws in the western portions of that State. The Mormons are protesting against Brigham Young's Order of Enoch. It is intended to prevent apostacy, and many threaten to leave the Church. A white woman married to a negro has been killed. ' She quarrelled with her sister, who watched till she was asleep, and, then killed her with an axe. Jealousy is the cause. Cuban despatches announce the killing by the insurgents of a colonel, and 16 insurgents were killed by the Spaniards. The New York strikes continue. Severe earthquakes have been experienced at Bald Mount, North Carolina, accompanied by a constant loud noise. The citizens in the vicinity are fleeing. Religious meetings are held nightly, and large numbers have made preparations for the end of the world. There is great religious excitement near New York. Prayer meetings were held for sixteen days consecutively. The people are leaving their cattle and crops to take care of themselves. A Mississippi steamer, the Crescent City, exploded. Sixteen persons were killed. The loss is 300,000 dollars. A large house at New York caught fire. The firemen heroically saved eleven families. A woman and three children it was impossible to save. There is a great strike en the Erie Bail- j way works. 500 troops were called out, and forty engines disabled, the strikers having possession of parts of the machinery. i The loss to the Company is one million dollars.