Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-28
LOUISVILLE. Ky, April ~

LOUISVILLE, NY, April ~,
A negro named John Hadin has
brought suit against the city for false
Imprisonment, claiming damages to the
amount of $50, 600. This suit will test
the constitutionality of the ordinance
whereby parties arrested rs suspected
felons are committed to the work house
in default of bail.
The wharves Of Montreal are still two
feet under water.
The Presbyterian Church in Wyan-
dotte street, Kansas City, was destroy
ed by fire on Monday.
Col. Jno. W. Forney and party az
aived in at Wilmington, N, c., yester
day. They leave to day for Charleston.
The village of "You Bet" Nevada
County, California, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday last. The loss is $50
900.
The Democratic Convention of Wash
ington Territory met at Vancouver,
April %, and nominated Gov. Moore as
Delegate to Congress.
The depot Of the New Haven and
Northampton railroad company, at
Southampton, Mass, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on Monday.
F. G. Jewett of Skaneateles, the mis-
sing banker, returned to that village on
Monday night, and resumed business
yesterday morning.
Charles n. Scott, on trial at Cincin-
natl for sending bogus lottery drawings
by telegraph, has been found guilty
and sentenced to pay fine of 300 and
costs.
The fire still burns in the Nevada
mines. The steam-injecting process
has been resumed About five hun
bred men have been thrown out of en-
ployment by the fire.
Thomas Mast, the celebrated artist,
was the recipient Of magnificently
carved silver vase. fifteen inches high.
in New York, last evening
The Springfield aad long Meadow
Railroad Company organized i'll Spring
field, Mass, yesterday, with the follow
ing officers Willis Phelps, President
d. L. Harris, Clerk, and J. ID. Brewer,
Treasurer. This road will give .Provi
dence direct connection with Newton
don, Conn, and tide water
The Boaad of Directors of the ST.
Joseph and Denver railroad have deci-
ded that the road should connect with
the Kansas Pacific railroad ut the Tooth
meridian. The work will be pushed
forward rapidly.
The following is the weekly state
ment of the condition of the banks of
Boston Capital, $44, 100000; Loans,
sos, 971,715 Specie, $617;445; Legal
tender notes, 1851, 1927 Deposits,
$35, 800, 203 Circulation, 500, 319, 761.
The returned game of the Interna-
tional cricket match was finished at San
Francisco yesterday, and was won by
the Yictorianas. The final game will be
played at Victoria, which city the Cali
fornia eleven" will visit next June.
The following whalers were in Japan
waters at the latest dates AT Kanaga-
way, the William Hatch, with 100 bar
rels sperm and 100 barrels cocoanut oil
Josephine and Massachusetts,; at Hako-
dade, the Onward and 'Cornelius How
land, clear and the Count Bismarck
and Rome, with oil.
The Empire City of New-York, and
Young America, from Chicago, arrived |
at Detroit on Sunday afternoon, the
first boats through the Straits of Mack
NAV this season.
The meeting of the National Dele
gates Of the Board of Missions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church convened |
at Cincinnati yesterday. About 80
delegates were in attendance. The
questions of Domestic Mission Agen.
cies were discussed.