New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-25
NEW YORK.

Important Arrests to be NIRde-General
SlOCum-West Virginia-SupDOsed Ar
rest of nm AbsCOndinR French Band
ARent-The Irish Band-COnnOIIy-Des-
perate Attempt at Sulcide-Bank Stnte-
ment.
New YORK, August GA rumor is
current this afternoon that deputy sheriff
Jarvis was to make important arrests to-
night.
Arrived-Parthia and Bodica. Arrived
Out-Siberia and Cuba
1t is thought that General SIOcum will be
the candidate of the Democrats for gov
ernOr. o..
A Martinsburg dispatch states that
enough is known of the West Virginia
election that the constitution is defeated
and Jacobs defeated.
Information was received here to-day
from Troy, of the arrest of a man sup
posed to be Steiner, the absconding agent
of the Garde Republicaine Band
The Irish band has had another split;
only seven of the band men are with their
leader. Thomas d. Richardson sailed for
Europe today. Some of the members 90
to Canada and two remain in this city.
Both O'Baldwin and Mace, the prize
fighters, claim the stakes.
The Tribune says Controller Connolly
has not been further tlan fifty miles from
New York, most of the time in Westchester
county; that he will turn States evidence,
and his testimony will absolutely convict
Tweed and twenty other ring officials
whose names thus far have not been pub
lished. He will first appear to testify
against the voucher thieves, under Attor
ney General BarloWs instructions.
Thomas Dungee, aged fOrty,a wealthy Eng
ish American, a wholesale lace importer,
attempted suicide four times Yesterday he
first ran needle in his throat then rushed
to drug store, and seizing bottle marked
poison, swallowed its contents; he then
stabbed himself with pen knife; and when
seized and rescued, for the third time he
broke away and plunged a butcher knife
into his breast-probably a fatal wound,
Cause, delirium tremens.
ArTived-steamer Huntsville.
. The bank statement shows: Loans de-
creased s., 200; specie decreased s 1885,
600 legal tenders decreased 81 500, 900:
deposits decreased $9,25O,O 900.
Money 4. Sterling dull. Gold 1928 a
0ll2&. Governments dull and weak
States quiet. New South Carolinas p
lower. Skies of 1881 1853; five twenties of
1862 ll1l9; 1864, 1l4A; 1865, lis; new 1879;
1867, ia; 1868, ll334; new tives ll2; ten
fOrties llI24. Tennessees 1874 new 1873;
Virginias 45lR, now so, consolidated ST. de-
ferred -; Louisiana skies 50, new IS; leYee
skies 6O14, eights 70; Alabama eights 81,
fves So; Georgia skies 70, sevens S5; North
Carolinas old 335a, new 20, special tax l3;
South CarOlinas 50.
The bank statement shows a loss in re-
serves of 81, ,509, $50.
Money to-day ranged from three to five
on call, with closing loans at four Ex-
change dull and nominally steady; the ask
ing rates of prime bankers are nine and
eight, but the actual business is One-quarter
below these quotations. Gold weak and
active; opened at 1872, sold down to 1I2A
before noon, but rallied to Il3, fell again to
ll29s and closed at 1928 1924. Loans
ranged from 4 to 2.
The Mutual Base Ball Club beat the Eek
fOrds by score Of to ,:
The English gentlemen eleven (cricket-
ersl, now in Canada, have arranged d game
with the St. George club of this city, to be
played here September lS and i9.