Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-11
whalen has been respited to the Goth.

WOOley ~ Co., nave aDandOned bnell
suit in Baltimore against Gen. Butler
The Philadelphia City Councils last
evening fixed the tax-rate for 1869 al
81 so per $780,
Alderman s. L. Russell's planning,
mill, in Chicago, was burned ON Wed
nesday night. Loss, 1000; no in.
surance.
DR.. Moore, late Surgeon General OF
the Confederate Army, has been elected
Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic
Asylum of Richmond.
The Criminal Court of st. Louis rem
dered decision, yesterday, which will
open the doors of the city workhouse
and release all the Migrants.
1t is said that the Presidents private
Secretary supplied the synopsis of the
Message which the Richmond news
papers published on Wednesday.
Robert M. Douglas, son Of Stephen
A. Douglas, und private Secretary for
Governor Holden OF North Carolina, is
to have lucrative appointment abroad.
The Mobile, New Orleans and Chata-
nooga Railroad Company have put on
exhibition their maps, profles, and
plans, preparatory to placing the road
under contract.
Thomas Thompson, of the firm of
Thompson & Edmeads of Baltimore, is
dead. He was native of England,
but had been engaged in business in
Baltimore thirty-five years.
Walter Brown, the oarsmau, arrived
in Cincinnati, on wednesday, nine hours
ahead of time His agent, having
heard of the wrecking of his shell at
Parkersburg, sent on new boat from
Cincinnati.
The prize fighters, Boyton and Laf-
ferty, met in the ring, yesterday after
noon, in Kentucky, near Cincinnati, for
$500 side. Seventeen rounds were
fought in thirty-fve minutes, and Boy
toms second having thrown up the
PONCE Lafferty was declared the winner
In match at pigeons yesterday, at
Riverside Park, for $50, Ira A. Payne
of New York, beat E. Wingay of Bos-
ton, killing 10 to Is out of % birds
each. E. M. Perry of Philadelphia,
and G. Portlock of Boston, shot two
matches, which were both won by Port
lock, the first by and the second by 2
birds out of 81.
The girders in Baldwin's locomotive
works, in Philadelphia, gave way yes
terday, and four men were hurt VIM.
Fleming has since died. james Came
ron and Chas. Liebic, each had one leg
broken, and John Mariner was badly
hurt.
The Pittsburgh Petroleum Associa-
ton having declined to consent to the
proposed change in the existing stand
ard of refined petroleum.
Gen. Stoneman and and Gen. Brown,
Commissioners OF the Freedmen's Blu
reau, started for Washington yesterday
morning.
A telegram has been received at Lon
don announcing the arrival off Donegal,
IRELAND, of one of the missing boats
from the lost steamer Hibernia. This
boat contained the second officer Of the
Hibernia and two other persons.
Twenty eight, all told, embarked, but
twenty-five were drowned by the cap
sizing of the boat.
The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery So.
ciety, organized by Benjamin Franklin,
was addressed yesterday by Wendell
Phillips.
The eruption of Mount Etna, in
Sicily, has broken out again with in
creased violence, and sand from the
crater fell in the streets of Messina, {
distance of fifty miles.
At the Hon. f. W. Birds residence
in Boston, on Monday evening, Mr.
William s. Robinson, Clerk Of thu
House of Representatives, was made tn
recepient of 81 900 bond and othe
gifts, the occasion being his fftietl