AMERICAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1511, 11 March 1882, Page 3

AMERICAN.

It is said that the Union and Control Pacific (overland) railroads are about to consolidate on a basis of 125 to 100. A letter from Aspinwall, dated the 4th instant, says, that of the thirty Belgians who arm ed there some months ago to work on the Panama Canal, eighteen have died of Isthmus fever. Those who have escaped sue lca\ing as rapidly as possible. Thus far, since the commencement of the woik, 1000 poisons have i died. The Catholic Bis>hop of Montreal has served notice to quit on all tenants of church property selling liquor. The Marquis of Huntly, the fugitive English nobleman, proposes to take up his residence in the Western States. The Herzegovinans have established a Provisional Government. The revolt appears to be strengthening. Skobeloft intends joining it. A detachment of Yemen lebels is leported advancing on Mecca, via Sandeh, to proclaim the spiritual deposition of the .Sultan of Turkey and the lestoration of an Arabian C>iliphat. Prince Suwaroff, of Russia, is dead. The British ship Cochin, Captain Oudrey, 149 days from Dundee, arrived at San Francisco on the 29th, having on boiid the stewaid and six sailois of the British ship Milton, Captain McArthur, which was burned at sea on the 22nd day of December last, inlat. 22 P N., lon. 123" W. The Milton sailed from Shields, on the 9th August last, for San Francisco, with a cargo of coal, combustion of which a\ as the cause of her destruction. Three boats left the ship — the other two have not been heard from. One of the missing boats contained the captain, his wife, and two sons, who were in a deplorable condition when last seen by the rescued men, the Bufferings of the lady being increased by the fact that she was near confinement. A Philadelphian named Ridgeway has made overtures to get possession of Guiteau'a body immediately after death. He proposes to embalm it and exhibit it the world over for the mutual financial benefit of Guiteau's relatives and himself. It is now safe to say that the wheat crop of California will be a partial failure this year, owing to a prevalence of cold, drying winds. The rumour that Mrs Garfield has written to the President asking him to commute the sentence of Guiteau, is denied most positively. An English company proposes to build the largest iron works in the world on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. It has beeri^grfcertained that the explosion, previously,, >ybported, that occurred on board H.M.s Triumph, flagship of the British Pacific Squadron*, off Coquimbo, Chile, was similar, in all respects, to the one that recently destroyed the British sl6op-of-war\Doterel, in the Straits of Magellan. Professor Joseph Garrat, of Chicago, claims to have discovered / perpetual motion. ,The vague description is given that his system consists of two cylinders worjkhig transversely in a vticuin 1 upbiv a third. The model works until the bearings are worn out, which is practically a perpetual motion. Floods in the state of Tennessee have done, nearly a million dollavs damage,