Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-26
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The national banks of Nashville have
suspended.
The Dollar savings bank of Atlanta
suspended yesterday.
Secretary Richardson says that be
You'd the purchases of bonds which
have been made to aid the banks he has
nothing to recommend.
There is run on the savings banks
of Detroit, and they all insist upon
thirty days notice of intention to with.
draw deposits.
The report that Secretary Richardson
had advised temporary suspension OF
all of the banks is denied.
The steamer Scandinavian left Liver
pool for Quebec yesterday with five
hundred thousand dollars in bullion.
There was great excitement in In
dianapolis yesterday and several private
bankers suspended operations.
There are large quantities of cotton
in Augusta, but no money to move it.
The run on the banks of Augusta has
been heavy, and they have nearly all
suspended.
The banks of New Orleans have re-
solved that they will not pay any checks
for more than one hundred dollars.
The Charleston branch of the Nation
al Freedmen's Savings bank exacts six
ty days notice of desire to withdraw
deposits.
There was run on the banks in ST.
Louis yesterday, and shipments of flour
have been stopped.
The Mutuals beat the Philadelphias
in Philadelphia yesterday, s to 4.
The Newark Democrats have nomi-
mated Nehemiah Perry for Mayor,
Adolph Schalk for Water Commissioner,
VIM. A. Schmidt for Tax Commissioner,
and George Peters for Trustee of the
Reform School.
A. J. Hine, cashier of the National
Bank of Ansonia, ten miles from New
Haven, Conn, has been using the funds
of the bank for speculation.
The surplus of forty thousand dollars
is all gone. Hine also loses his private
fortune. The full extent of the losses
is not as yet ascertained. The bank is
supposed to be solvent.
The Dean of Canterbury has been vi
sitting the public schools of Albany,
much to his surprise and pleasure. He
was particularly astonished at the large
proportion of feminine teachers in all
the schools, and the perfect success with
which they governed their masculine as
well as feminine pupils.
The session of the American board of
foreign missions at Minneapolis, MINI,
has a curious significance when it is re-
collected that this association organized
while Minnesota was yet bowling will
derness. The board of foreign missions
was formed more than sixty years ago
now it holds its convention in what was
by no means far western city yet its
journey westward is over territory OF
which large part was untrayeled when
the association was born.
Mrs. Henry Il. Irwin returned from
a weeks visit to Red Bank to her home
in Lincoln street, near Summit avenue,
Jersey City, on Wednesday afternoon.
Her husband had promised to meet he1
on Saturday and go home with her, but
he did not, and she went four days after
ward without him. She threw open the
house and found her husband in bed.
thinking that he was sleeping she did
not disturb him, but went quietly down
stairs and prepared supper. Then a
premonition seized her, and she called
the neighbors. They found that Mr..
Irwin was dead. The body was decom-
posed. The county physicians exam.
nation showed that he died ofapoplexy.
On Wednesday, the New Jersey Mid.
land railroad are to resume control Of
the road between Jersey City and the
state line at Unionville. Possession is
claimed on account of the failure of the
New York and Oswego Midland railroad
company to comply with the terms Of
their lease, which called for payment
of about two thousand dollars per day
for three months, or until the floating
debt, about two hundred thousand do.
lars, should be paid. This contract
might have been kept but for the pro
ceedings of the 18th instant, when the
New York Midland was thrown into
bankruptcy, and Abrah S. Hewitt was
appointed assignee. This virtually tool
control out of the company's hands
The New York company retain the
Montclair division, which gives then
an ingress into New York but to form
through connection to Oswego thu
cars must pass over that portion of til,
New Jersey Midland lying between thu
state line and Bloomingdale.