AMERICAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 4

AMERICAN.

There is great distress in consequence cf the incessant rains since the disappearance of snow. The farmers have been eating seed grain. Many cattle have died. Fears of a famine are entertained.

Thirty disguised men entered the gaol at Louisiana, took out two murderers, and hung them in accordance with lynch law.

Mrs Moyer has been released from the lunatic asylum. A year ago she murdered her husband and three children in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and wanted to send them to hearen before herself.

There has been an explosion in a Pennsylvania mine, which killed three miners. Seven m.gn, while fighting the fire, were overpome with the gas, and carried home unconsious.

Small-pox is very prevalent ; it has broken out in an Asylum containing 600 patients. At Toronto, ladies' fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers.

An excursion train, with 700 people, ran off the track ai Louisville. - Three negroes were killed and ten injured, and ten whites killed.

Another railway accident has occurred at Syracuse. Thirty people were injured by one car jumping off the track.

The sufferings by the Mississipi overflow continue ; 20,000 rations are daily i*sued. A hurricane at Kempeville unroofed and demolished a number of houses, and injured several persons. There have been large fires in various parts of the States.