Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-29

There are over forty tobacco facto-
ries in Richmond, Va, employing $500
persons.
| Wolves of q very ravenous nature are
said to be numerous in Hampshire
county, Virginia.
It is estimated that by the recent
New Orleans inundation, small prop
Eerty owners there lost IS, 600, 900.
Vermont hop-growers are said to be
holding on for higher prices.
The Canadians have subscribed $S, 900
for Darcy M'Gee's widow.
Los Angolos, California, is terribly
afflicted with organized bands Of horse
thieves.
Munitions Of war are being accumu-
lated in Rome.
Galveston claims to be the healthiest
city in the South.
In New York city last week there
were $50 weddings.
The worlds annual crop of tobacco
is estimated AZ 432, 400 tons.
In Sacramento, there is tomato vine
sixty-nine feet in circumference.
81, 500. 600 worth OF dry goods enter
ed the port Of New York from abroad
last week. ~sss
The cattle disease has recently broke
out with violence near ST. Louis. Eg 4
Al Canton, China, the Catholics are
building q Cathedral which will cost
81. 600, 900. 4
A, test vote at o rennion of the first
Connecticut cavalry showed every man
for Grant
A flock of ants, ten miles in width,
recently swept across Shasty Valley.
Siskiyou County, Cal.
The republic Of Hayti ought to be
well governed It now has only four
Presidents in the field :
The search Of DR.. Livingstone is
made the basis 81 half a dozen works
lately published in England.
The steamer Lilly, bound for Fort
sully, Upper Missouri, with cargo Of
-four and tobacco, belonging TO the
government, was sunk at Rush Bottom,
on Saturday last. and is total loss.
The New Hampshire Mechanics Art
Association Exhibition in Concord
closed last night. The exhibitors and
invited guests gave supper at the
Phoenix Hotel, Mayor Stevens presid-
ing.
Long Brothers jewelry store, No.
81 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, was
robbed yesterday morning of $1,000
worth Of. diamond rings. Two men en-
tered the store and asked to be shown
some rings. While one called the at
tention of the clerk to another part of
the store the other grasped the rings
and fled.
A terrible accident recently happened
on the Saint Gothard route. The dill
gence from Italy with six passengers
was upset not far from Goeschenen and
fell over precipice. All the passen-
gers were very seriously injured three
managed to continue their journey as
far as Lucerne, the others were trans
ported to Goschenen in hopeless
state.
The Elevated Railway in New York.
has been erected for half mile at the
lower end of Greenwich street. and the
rosd having proved a success will be
extended to the northern end of the
island. It Is claimed that passengers
can be conveyed from the Battery to
Thirteenth street in fifteen minutes.
The operatives in the Philadelphia
wooden mills have struck and five hum
dred of them have ceased work. The
trouble is occasioned by the fact that
their wages, which have been increased
fifteen per cent. temporarily during an
advance in goods, was to be again re-
duced in that amount.
The Captain General of Cuba claims
to have obtained another victory over
the insurgents. The latter, however,
carried off their wounded and killed
A few more victories of this kind, we
suppose. would put an end to Spanish
rule in the West Indies.