Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-27

This, with the surrounding buildings,
was soon wrapped in flames, and the
entire block was destroyed. The
damage by the fire is estimated at four
hundred thousand dollars
Dr. Adolphi, the foreman of the cor
oner's jury in the Carl Kustner case, in
Hoboken, has notified the jury that he
expects important testimony from Ger
many in few days.
Trenton will be represented at he
approaching Cincinnati industrial exhi-
bition through the firm of Fisher and
Norris, the manufacturers of the eagle
anvils and parallel vises.
The board of works committee on
streets in Jersey City yesterday report
ed favorably on the application Of the
Pennsylvania railroad company to have
Mercer street vacated, and the board
will hear objections on the 22d proximo.
A committee was appointed to examine
Kepler market with view of making it
temporary City hall
A party of twenty-seven emigrants
will sail from Hoboken for Hamburg,
en- route for Palestine on Thursday.
A brakeman on an oil train at Wee
hawken was run over yesterday and re-
moved to st. Mary's hospital in st ate
of insensibility.
| The mile rowing match between
Messrs. Welsh and Lannigan at the
idle Hour" Greenville, yesterday,
was won by Welsh in thirty-one min
utes.
Thirty-two parcels OF land were sold
by the Collector of Jersey City yester-
day for unpaid taxes, when the sale was
adjourned for lack of buyers.
The bodies of two murdered men,
perforated by many bullets, have been
found near Blundenville, on the Toledo,
Peoria and Wabash railway.
The seventh annual Sunday-school
convention of Middlesex county will be
held in Wigwam grove, Jamesburg, to-
day, and it is believed it will be the
largest gathering of Sunday-school chill
dren ever seen in that county. From
half-past ten a. M, until twelve M, and
from two to four p. M, there will be a
series OF addresses and discussions on
Sunday-school work, in which Mr..
John Hill, G. B. Stout, and s. W.
Clark, secretary of the State Sunday
school association, will take part. Vocal
and instrumental music will form part
of the exercises.
A love stricken Cinnamon in San
Jose, CAL, fired three shots at his girl,
who wore steel ribbed corsets, and, fail
ing to kill her, killed himself.
Two Italian padrones were arrested
in New Haven yesterday, and six small
boys who were with them from New
York were cared for.
The expedition which is laying the
cable between Lisbon and Rio Janeiro,
after having proceeded three hundred
and eighty-three knots, was stopped by
the discovery of fault in the wire.
Tests have been made from which it is
believed the fault is near the land. The
expedition will continue paying out I'M
til it reaches Madeira, whence the cable
steamer will probably have to return to
repair the fault.
The campaign in Massachusetts was
opened last night by speech from
General Butler at Worcester.
The steamer City of Limerick was
nearly wrecked yesterday through col
lision with the Castle Garden pier.
The analysis of the Passaic water
made by order of the joint boards of
Newark and Jersey City has resulted
much more favorably than was antici-
pated. The details will be made public
as soon as the August analysis is COM
plete.
A boundary line between Camden
Burlington counties has been surveyed
by order of the Camden county freehold.
ers, an several thousand dollars worth
of property formerly paying taxes in
Burlington county will be assessed in
Camden county.
The activity of the agents of the SO
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
animals in Newark has created consider.
able excitement, and the aggrieved par
ties threaten to carry the matter to the
supreme court claiming that the law
under which they act is unconstitu
tional.
Judge Advocate General Holt denies
having withheld from President John
son a petition signed by five members
of the court when presenting the recorc
of the trial of Mrs. Surratt.
Advices from the United State.
steamer Portsmouth furnish interesting
details of her cruise in search of thu
dangers in the North Pacific.
The bondholders of the st. JOSEPH
and Denver railroad have resolved t.
seize it.
The Democrats of San Francisco az,
not yet harmonized.
There have been more thunder storm
in the vicinity of Salt Lake city within
the past week than ever before in tn,
memory of the oldest inhabitant.
The detective department of Phila
delphia have become so thoroughly in
censed at the repeated expositions O
their nefarious schemes that they nov
waylay and arrest reporters whose dut,
it is to travel the streets at late hou
and prefer charges against them of ,
trifing character that they may be sub
jected to the ignominy Of prison con
finement This was instan ced Wednes
day night by the incarceration of th,
reporter of the Age, who has beer
prompt in his revelations concerning
their doings.
1t is reported in Union Hill that thu
town treasurer is defaulter in the sum
of ten thousand dollars. The rumol
is based on the fact that there is nc
money in the usual bank to deposit
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