The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-23
Phlladelphla.
Correspondence Of the Herald.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. q, 1913
Large Sale of Valuable Real Estate Damages for
assault and Battery Tipplim g-house Cases---Ge.
neral Tom Hummelshine, among the Weapers---
Elopen,cnt---Arrest of Fugitive Homicide Case
Bank Directors.
! JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ. 49,
DEAR SIR
AT the Exchange last evening large sale of real
estate took place, by order of the trustees of the
Bank of the United States, being all the property
not previously sold, owned by the institution at the
time of the assignment, except the banking house
on Chestnut street. The following is a brief abb
stract of the property sold and the price obtained
| for each, making total as will be seen below of
$l37 ,475 TO wit -
House 81 South 18th street. House 20 South 18th
street 200; Market street lot $500 Catharne and 9th
street $500; Philadelphia banking house, $4,000 house
business stand III Chestnut street. TO- business stand
| as Walnut street. 800; house 10th by Clinton street.
6a5 house 10th below Clinton 1900 house Penn's
avenue 800 house do do 500 dwelling Coates st.
farm property in Trenton, 400 basin &c in Trenton
475o coal lands selser tract sloG coal lands 100 part
Clearfeld lands 2O0 do do do as tract in Centre
| Co., I5O-Tota Sl37, 475.
crowded, and the bidding the most spirited have
| noticed for some time. The terms on which the
property was sold, was one third cash within twen-
| ty days; one third in one year; the remainder in
|
| tioneers.
Captain Esling, of the barque Globe was yester-
of three hundred dollars damages for committing
an assault and battery upon Samuel Benjamin. 1t
appears that during the year 1912, Benjamin was
Steward of the Globe; of which vessel Esling
| was commander, and Henry Gray indicted with
him. first officer; that while in the port of Pernam-
buco, the captain and mate violently assaulted him,
the captain beating him violently with billet of
wood, and at various times inflctng similar chas-
4 he WaS brought
| IMAGES with the above result, the captain having
been found guilty, and the mate acquitted. am
inclined to believe this will prove a salutary lesson
to many captains who often forget that subordi-
mates are entitled to decent respect or even commits
seration.
The Court ofQuarter Sessions have been engaged
for several DAYS in the trial of persons indicted for
keeping tippling houses number have been con-
| victed and fined in heavy penalties; there having
been eighty true bills found by the Grand Jury
against persons OF this Glass. Inc rigid course
this alarming evil and incentive to decentralization
| and crime.
| General Tom Thumb is in command at the Ma
| sonic Hail. and is waited on by crowds of vislters
daily particularly by children, who seem to admire
his dimnutive stature and stately air: The Gene
raj is regarded one of the most polite gentlemen
| of the age.
| There was another strike for wages among the
| Movamensng weavers yesterday, who held meet
lngs upon the subject in the Market House at Elev-
enth and Shipper, and atterWards In the Moyamen-
number of the streets in large and compact body,
but believe without committing. any act of vlo-
lence. The cause of the strike, if am correctly.
informed, is that the manufacturers IN one part OF
| the city have withheld portion OF the wages OF
their workmen to be appropriated to the cause OF
| ireland and Repeal" and the increase Of the
part of the city. knowing this, attempted to reduce
the wages ia lower standard, which the operatives
| would not submit to and quit work
Nothing further has transpired in relation
to The aln
husband Of the lady is said to be public ofh-
Ger, and is good looking and gentlemanly man.
Pity, isn't II There seems to be something go un-
natural in woman deserving her offspring, that |
| think the husband may ma e up his mind to for
| get his faithless spouse, and console himself with
| the conviction that whatever is, is right
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General
Quarter Sessions this morning, before Judges King
| and Campbell, James Brister, colored man, was
put upon his trial to answer the charge Of the muir
der of William Thomas, alias Conally-(aso a
colored man,
The deceased, Conally, was stabbed on the eve
ming of the 18th November, 1912, and died at the
hospital during the ensuing week. The defendant
left the city about that time, and was not arrested
until about two months ago, when he was disco
vercd living with DR.. Fisher, at Woodstown near
| Salem New Jersey, under an assumed name
Suspicion having been fastened upon him, he was
brought to the city by officers Russell and Fisher,
and the circumstances are now undergoing legal III
vestlgation
Monday for Directors of the different banks of the
city and county of Philadelphia, for the ensuing
year. in addition to those given yesterday with the
| exception of Southwark; which is not made pub
| lie =
MECHANICS BANx-Joseph b. Mitchell, James II. Hart,
VIM r.. Thompson, Richard G. See, Erasmus D: Wolfe.
| Lewis Cooper, Charles Leland Archibald Wright VIM.
NJ. Collins, Alexander Symngton Geo. X. Rosengarten,
PnrIApELrHIA B,Nx.-samuel f. Smith, John Walsh,
Samuel w Jones' Joseph II. Evans VIM. Phillips Joshua
Longstreh Robert Patterson, Quinon Campbell Richard
D. Wood Henry Z. Corbt, w. Caghorn, John Duncan,
VIM. Worrell
scHuYLxiLL BANx-John Price wetheri, Robert Burk-
hart John Fausset Robert Hare r Charles Stokes John
shsrpe YaeS MbSo
Owen Sheridan.
Krys,ScToN B,Sx-Jonathan Wainwright Hugh
Smith, Joseph Baker Charles Kurlbaum Jacob Donald
son, Charles Edwards, VIM Whitman Samuel r. Bodine,
Alexander Petersen John + Keen Geo Lande John NJ
BANK OF PENN TowNsHIr-Elijah Dallett Lawrence
shuster, James Mcclure, James IL sroup Daniel Deal
woelpper VIM sharpless Geo H. Miller Elihu Picker
ing Gabriel Knecht.
| COMMERCIAL BANK RECOMMENDATIONS Dundas,
Joseph Jones VIM Gill Isaac Dunon, Robert s. Johnson,
| Samuel Brooks, Matthew Conrad, VIM. Wainwright, Caleb
p Wayne, VIM. Lynch, Geo. Fales, VIM Musser, Daniel
BANK OF THE NoRrHERy LrprRrns.-Robert L. Pitfeld,
Isaac W. Norris Joseph T. Naher Joseph Jeans Joshua
Lippincott VIM. II. Hart, Dexter Stone VIM Reynolds,
Elhanan w Kcyser, Charles Suffer Henry NJ Naglee.
Robert b. Kirkpatrick, John G. Dacosta James Starr.
FARMERS AND MEcHAsros BASK.-Joseph Tagert Robert
Toand, J. Pembcrton Hutchinson, Willium Hansell,
Henry White, Paul Famum, II. +. Holingshead, Seth
Crage Adoph H. Borie John Ashhurst, Isaac r. Davis,
Andrew r. Chambers Francis Tete .
MANUFACTURERS MECHANICS BANK OF THE NORTHERN
LIpERrms-John Farr, william Richardson John welsh,
u.s., Thomas Snowden Nathaniel Randolph John Phiips'
John Ross Cooley, Edward Roberts, Curwin Stod'
dart, T.. L. Moss, David Scull, Daniel $. Miller.
Yours, NC.
sales OF stocks at Philadelphia.
FIRST Bo,Rp, Nov. pa shares U Bank 81 67b do
Girard Bank 81 do do s5f 81 205 do Bank g. $3.50
State SIS TO- SiOi2 do 69}, $50 shares Wilmington X
1874 $50 do Reading BOZ - 40 do Manufacturing and
Mechanics Bank 22i, do Bank of Memphis y, $4,000