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


I Camden Tuesday.
The Comte de Chambord has lef
Frohsdorf !: M. Greyy will declare il
favor of the RepHblic.
The indictment against Broadwell
late tax collector, of Newark, covers
sixty pages of manuscript.
| The heirs of the Sir Francis Drake
estate, to the number of over hundred
met in jersey City yesterday, and pait
their annual dues. .llif. ana ..ur4
| The high tide yesterday morning
flooded number OF houses along the
shore front in Jersey City and overflow
ed the banks of the canal, doing consid
cradle damage.
John McSweeney, who was arrested
on charge OF having set fire to Powers
Il Go. s. oil cloth factory, Newark, s t.
.urday night, was discharged yesterday,
he having proved an alibi.
There were 941, 992 tons of railroad
iron made in the United States last
year, being an increase of 1853, $50 tons
over the preceding year-of this the
product OF steel rails was "a, 070 tons.
Samuel banks of Cincinnati, the in
ventor of the rotary pudding furnace
that bears his name, read a paper on
the subject at the recent meeting of the
British Iron and Steel Institute, Iiege,
Belgium. $50
The workmen in the Southwest foun.
dry, Philadelphia, struck yesterday
against a reduction of twenty p cent.
i'll the wages of the mechanics, and fif-
teen per cent. per diem in that of the
laborers. The Southwest employs six
hundred hands.
A number of female operatives en-
ployed in Campbell's mill at Manayunk,
Pa, have struck in consequence of %
reduction of their wages, with only five
days work in the week. The strikers
are visiting other mills to induce u
general strike.
The mines in Union township, Hun
terdon county, caved in tor the fourth
time, on Tuesday. Nearly hundred
tons of dirt and ore fell in, closing up
the gangway, and placing the lives OF
the workmen in great peril. The escape
was so narrow that the laporers decided
| w WIN ilO IiOlG iutil Il tutGDS
OF egress was provided
! In order to promote economy in the
use of coal for domestic purposes, the
British Society of Arts offers prizes to
the value of twenty hundred dollars
for improved CRATES and for an appara-
tus for cooking by gas the object of
warming and ventilating the rooms also
being considered The prizes are five
in number, each consisting of two hun
bred and fifty dollars and the society IS
gold medal, and the conditions vary in
each case.
| A dispatch from Paris says that in
the Bazaine court martial yesterday the
hearing of Riviere's report was con-
cluded and the documents appended
were read One relates to the des-
patches sent and received by the ac-
cused, and shows that the miscarriage
of those which Bazaine addressed to
MacMahon precipitated the catastrophe
at Sedan.
At Trenton, son Tuesday, Delos E.
Culver, of Jersey City, one of the
wealthiest of New Jersey capitalists,
was adiudged n bankrupt. Mr. Culver
was vice president of the New York and
Oswego Midland railroad company, and
his name is upon all the bonds OF the
company. He built out of his own
capital the seventy miles of the road
lying between Liberty Falls and Wal
ton. His liabilities are said to be eight
million dollars. s2S
The First Controller of the treasury
has given an opinion different from that
of other accounting officers to the effect
that the appropriation made for back
pay and salaries is not indefinite and
permanent within the meaning of the
act regulating unexpended balances ;
that it is only indefinite i'll amount, and
not in time, and consequently that, at
the end of two years, unexpended
balances of salary will revert to the trea-
sury.
BUFFALO, N. Y, October 9.-The
steam canal boat William Newman with
full cargo of grain left last evening
for Syracuse, and the steam canal boat
William Baxter left tonight, also with
a full cargo, for Syracuse, competing for
the State purse of one hundred thou
sand dollars. Several other boats are
loading and will follow.
PHILADELPHIA, $50 October 0. - Mr..
Eugene Howell, representing individual
owners of canal boats, has returned
from Washington, where he laid before
the President certain charges against
the Secretary of the Treasury for refus
ing to accept the decisions of Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, and Maryland dis
trict courts as binding in regard to non
liability of canal boats to license rs
marine vessels
PROVIDENCE, II. l., October 9.-The
evening passenger train on the Worces
ter road, when near the Air Lime Juno.
ton at Weonsocket, about nine clock,
ran into freight train standing on the
track and butted an OIL car, which was
Immediately ablaze. The engine Paw
tucket was disabled by the fire, and the
engineer, named Foss, was slightly
burned. One freight car was burned
and another partially so. The passen-
ger train was slightly scorched. A mis-
placed switch was the cause OF the col
lision wrecking train was sent from
this city, and the track will be cleared
tonight.
BosToN, October9. The question Of
the establishment of fire commission,
as was anticipated, was favorably con.
sidered at n meeting of the Board OIL
Aldermen this afternoon, and in COM
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