Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-20
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STRIKE OF COLORED MECHANICS In
RALEIGH.
Cerritt Smiths Contribution TO Needy
CubanS.
Lively Condition Of Affairs In Central
America.
Iussia Extending Her Asiatic COnquestS
HON e NEWS.
serious Poisoning Case in New York.


The story published in the Herald yes.
ferday that six persons in the upper part of
the city were poisoned by arsenic, proves
Ia he a fact. The parties were domestics in
4he house of M. r. BIatchford, father of
hudCe BIatchford. 1t is thought that all
6f them will recover, although one or two
ef them are vet very low. 1t has not yet
fransnired who administered the poison or
ne motive. The butler was first charged
Will the crime, but he is also suffering
from the effects of the poison.
VIM. Archdall O'Doherty, who figured
somewhat conspicuously in the recent fight
for the possession of the management of
7the Erie railway, died on last Saturday in
this city.
Gerritt Smith has given 81, 900 for the
relief of the Cubans, who formerly lived in
wealth or comfortable circumstances.
Suicides i'm BROOKLYN.
Two more suicides are reported in Brook
Alvn, making four since Thursday last. Mr..
G1ardwick, aged 65 years, took laudanum
bn Saturday night, while laboring under
mental depression from some unknown
PAUSE. Peter Hippart, young man, cut
his throat with razor, yesterday, because
with having robbed his employers. Both
leave families.
The Facts About the Mobile Failure.
i NEW YORK, May ia morning jour-
tlal speaks of a Mobile correspondent of a
leading banking house of this city drawing
prime sterling bills, as having proved
defaulter to the extent of five hundred
thousand dollars. The facts which led to
such exaggerated statements have been
known for nearly two weeks, and are that
the firms of Halsey & Co., of New Orleans,
tioldthwaite & Co., of Mobile, and Halsey
y Goldthwaite, of Galveston, dissolved
partnership, w. f. Halsey alone being
authorized to sign in liquidation. These
firms represented the house of Brown,
Brothers & Co. in the cotton markets of
1 he South. The trouble which caused the
dissolution was that the sterling bills
against the cotton shipped to Liverpool
bad been purchased, and when the sale of
jhe cotton failed to meet the sums advanc-
fd and reclamation was made, it proved
that the maker of the bills was not respon-
sible, and that Goldthwaite was jointly.:in-
terested in the speculations. Goldthwaite
IS related to the members of the firm of
Brown, Brothers & Co., and his fall is
b ore painful to the New York principals
Dian any sum they may lose, which can
hot be more than one hundred thousand
Dollars.
NEW York, May 1.-THE following is
the bank statement: Loans increased,
s. ,325 600; specie increased, $685., 900; legal
lenders increased, 81 200 600; deposits in
creased S., 900 900.
4 The Master Mechanics meeting who
were recently in session at Baltimore, BAN
quetted at the st. Nicholas. There were
one hundred and fifty present. Nearly all
| he roads in the United States and Canada
were represented.
Catholic Demonstration I'm Hartford,
HARTFORD, May 1S.-The corner stone
pr the Convent of st. Joseph and the chap
p was laid with imposing ceremonies by
Bishop Mcfarland. Various Catholic So
tieties, with banners and music, and about
en thousand people witnessed the cere-
monies.
RALEIGH, May 19-The colored me-
ehanics generally ARE expected to strike for
Yen hours work.
Frank Barthalaw, representing Balti-
Ilore liquor house, favorably known here
Shouts is d cad.
CAMDEN, MAINE, May 19.-Dr. p. r.
Baker was found dead. tits believed that
Pc was killed by woman who lived in his
house.