AMERICAN SUMMARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 August 1874, Page 10

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

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

Small-pox is very prevalent ; it has broken out in an asylum containing 600 patients. At Toronto, ladiea 1 fairs and balls have been successfully held in aid of the Louisiana sufferers.

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

Another railway accident occurred at Syracuse. Thirty people were injured by one car jumping off the track. Thirty disguised men entered the gaol at Louisiana, took out two murderers, and hung them in accordance with lynch law. Mrg Moyer has been released from tho lunatic asylum. A year ago she murdered her husbaud and children in a shocking manner. She says she loved them dearly, and iranted to send them to heaven before herself.

There was an explosion in a Pennsylvania mine, which killed three miners. Seven mon, while fighting the fire, were overcome with the gaa, and carried home unconscious. The steamer Prince Alfred is totally wrecked. In a duel between two editors, in tho open street, in San Franciuo, one of them was shot.

The small-pox is causing great distress in Canada. The steamer Tartar has grounded on Caldrew reef. They lightened the ship, and got her ott without injury. Left Honolulu on the 22nd June. Had been set 40 miles to the eastward by the current. The sufferings by the Mississippi overflow continue; 20,000 rations are daily issued. A hurricane at Kempeville unroofed and demolished a number of houses, »nd injured several persons. There have been large fires in various parts of the States.