Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-10-09

proposition, but negotiations are now IN
progress with the German postal union,
including Austria, and there is every
probability that they will be brought to
q successful issue by LIST of next Decem-
Der. The draft of an additional postal
convention for this purpose is now being
prepared by Mr.. Blackfan, superintend-
ent of the foreign mails, and will he
forwarde in q few days for the sigma
ture of the German authorities.
LOWELL, Mass, October 8.-The ex-
animation of the Merchants Bank was
continued through. the night up to six
O'Clock this morning, at which hour
Colonel Needham left to fulfill other
engagements, but will return tomorrow
to complete the examination
President Hosford states they have
arrived at the condition of affairs suffi-
GENTLY to relieve in great measure
their anxiety. II the statement of
Pierce's account is correct since the LIST
of October, as he thinks it is, the defal-
cation will fall short of seventy Thousand
dollars, and the surplus of the bank is
seventy-seven Thousand dollars. Pierce's
bond is missing, the lock OF the presi-
dents department having evidently
been tempered with. The bank authori-
ties deny having made any agreement
with Pierce to settle the irregularities,
but they evidently made some arrange.
ment by which he has paid back money
and bonds and transferred his real es
tate. General Butler is his counsel.
Over six thousand dollars of the deficit
was arrived at in the examination.
The third trialof Edward s. Stokes
on the charge of numbering Colonel
Fisk was begun yesterday. No jury was
empanelled and an adjournment was
taken until to dPy.
DR.. Sale, who died recently, was the
last of four clergymen who have held
successfully the vicarnge OF Sheffield,
Eng, during the past one hundred and
sixty years. ~
John Roessle, who established the
brewing of larger beer in this country,
and accumulated about one million dol
lars thereby, died recently in Roxbury,
Mass.
Orders have been given by the war
department to strike the raiding Chey-
ennes near Pueblo as soon as possible.
The Constitutional Convention met
again yesterday at Trenton The prin
cipal matter of interest was the report of
the Committee on Right of Suffrage
In favor of removing distinction of color
with regard to voters, and also provid-
ing that an elector absent on Quilted
States service should be able to cast his
vote by proxy.
1t is now definitely settled that the
telegraph wires in Germany are no
longer to be affixed to poles in open air.
but arc to be buried in underground
tubes The lines on which the princi-
pie is to be first introduced are those
requiring large number of wires and
tho e first on the roll are the line from
Berlin to the Rhine, which branches to
Mainz and Frankfort on the Main the
line from Berlin to Breslau, Posen and
Thorn Berlin to Hamburg, and Berlin
to Hanover and Bremen.
Orders have been given by the Wan
department to have all the remaining
Modoc Indians, men, women and chill
dren, brought to Fort Russell, near
Cheyenne, where they will remain for
the present subject to future orders. Ii
is designed ultimately, or soon as cir
cumstances will permit, to break up
and dissipate the band by scattering
them among other Indians on various
reservations. The remnant will be
thoroughly disintegrated and the Modoc
organization forever destroyed, as
effectually as though every individual
had been hanged with Captain Jack.
| DR.. James NJ. Comins of New York,
accused with having procured the re,
cent fatal abortion in Jersey CITY, was
committed, yesterday, to await the ac
ton of the grand jury f. T. Crosier
son of the keorer of the house in which
tle operation was performed, was re
leased, but was put under two hundred
dollars bail to appear as witness. The
funeral of the victim, Ida NJ. Vail took
place from the residence of her mother
at No. 16 Thomas street, Newark The
Rev. DR.. J. P. Wilson conducted the
services, to which as little publicity as
possib was given, and performed vel
a delicate task. Tho body was buried
at Resedale cemetery. Orange. The
girl was aged nineteen years and six
months