Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-14

was at Honolulu on March 20.
The Leayenworth Kansas Club gave
Gen. Scofeld public reception yester
day.
Henry Sheldon Croker, native of
Brooklyn, n Y, died suddenly at Bos-
ton yesterday.
Well-executed counterfeit $40 bills
on the Fourth National Bank of Phila-
delphia are in circulation in Boston.
The suit of John A. Coleman against
the New-York and New Haven RAILROAD
Company, at Boston, claiming damages
for assault and ejectment from car by
defendants agent, resulted in award
ing So, 300 to the plaintiff. L1
Another consciousness stricken indiyid
ual yesterday TRANSMITTED from Boston
to,the Treasury Department the sum of
$10O.
A large and enthusiastic meeting in
favor of the Whitehall and Plattsburg
Railroad was held at Whitehall, N. Y,
yesterday.
Anon Green, for many years connee-
neeted with the cotton manufacturing
interests of Baltimore, died on Satur
day, aged 81 years.
A Baltimore Grand Jury has indicted
the proprietors of two places of amuse-
ment, in Baltimore, where the "can
can" was exhibited.
The town of Portland, Conn, voted
yesterday-229 to 13-to loan its credit
to the Airline Railroad Company to
the amount Of SOS, 900.
The Boston and Albany Railroad
offers $500 reward for the arrest of the
persons who committed the depreda-
tons along the line on Sunday night.
A violent north-eas storm, accom-
paniedby snow and sleet, prevailed at
Fort Monroe yesterday. A large num-
Der of vessels took refuge in the Roads.
The Pontifical anniversary celebra-
at New Orleans on Sunday, is said to
have been a magnificent affair
Two men, named Elijah Smeal and
Thomas Ross, were killed at Wallace
ton, Penn, on Thursday last, by the
explosion of a boiler. The boiler had
been condemned about six weeks ago.
Judge Marcus Morton has been con-
firmed as Justice of the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts in place of Judge
Hoar.
Capt. Killet, one of the oldest foreign
residents at the Sandwich Islands, died
on the 7th of March ut Kanai.
The Mechanics Institute of San Fran
cisco is making arrangements to oele-
brate the completion of the Pacific
Railroad.
The ice in the Kennebec River at
Augusta, Me-, above the dam, started
yesterday, but the river is not yet open
to navigation.
A sale OF ordinance and ordinance
stores was commenced at the Arsenal
in st. Louis yesterday. The sale reali-
zed about $190,000
George Crowley, a lad II years of
age, was arrested in West Springfield,
Mass, yesterday, for attempting rape
on an Irish woman.
Charles e. Merrill of Meredith, N.
H., yesterday felled q tree which acct
dentally fell upon his son, ten years of
age, and killed him instantly.
The ship King Phillip of Boston was
nearly destroyed by fire on the 18th of
March at Honolulu. One of the crew
has been arrested on suspicion.
The trial Of Dsvid Dore and Joseph
inc La Flamme, for the murder of
Chas La Flamme, husband of the lat
ter, commenced at Worcester, Mass !,
yesterday. si
The missing banker, F. G. Jewett of
Skaneateles, N. Y, has not been found
as reported His family and friends are
in great distress regarding his fate.
Tho time between the termini of the
Union and Central Pacific Railroads is
now reduced to q hours. Wells, Far
go & Co. s stages now make the route
via the north end Of Saltdmke.
Commissioner Delano has decided
that any dealer who converts plug to.
bacco into smoking tobacco, either by
cutting, rolling, or in any other manner,
keeping the same for sale, is thereby
constituted manufacturer under the
law, and mustpay u tax and give bonds
as tobacco manufacturers.
John e. Larkin, who was arrested
in Chicago in February, was yesterday
convicted at Concord, N. Ell. of being