New Orleans Republican., 1873-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Brooklyn Trust COmpaDy'S AGatFs-
The Kidnappers OF Gordon Held for
Trial-RailrOad Robbers Not Arrested
Fire Mt Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania
Yellow Fever at Halifax-Protest OF
Cigar Mauufacturers-Financ COndi-
tiOn Of south CarOllna-Suit Against
the City of Observation-Disclosures
Schooner sunk in Chesapeake Bay.
The Prisoners Mt Fort Garry - The
Troops Strengthening the Works, AM
ticipatiug Raid from nlinnesOta-Firo
as sidney, Ohio.
BROOKLYN, July 2i-A private meeting
of the stockholders of the Brooklyn Trust
Company, to devise the best means for
disposing of the Georgia bonds, was held
ment that the receiver will be able to pay
the deposivors fifty per cent.
ST. PAUL, July M.-The ManitOban au.
thorities have decided to hold the alleged
kidnappers of Lord Gordon for trial.
There is no foundation for the report that
Davis was unfairly nominated for Governor
of Minnesota.
DEs MONIES, July 2i-The railroad rob.
bers have not yet been captured. Their
p!under amounts to over $4,000.
MOUNT CARMEL. Pa, July M.-Fifteen
buildings, including the telegraph Office,
burned yesterday. Loss $4,000. Thirteen
families are rendered hOuseless.
HALIFAX, July pa Spanish bark from
Cuba for Liverpool is here short of hands.
Three deaths from yellow fever have oc-
Cured on board. and the mate is down
with the disease.
PHILADELPHIA. July 24.-A meeting Of
cigar manufacturers was held tonight to
protest against the enforcement by the rev.
enue department of the use of the patent
cigar box which the department proposed
to introduce. The innovation was con.
demned strongly, and a committee was ap.
pointed to meet Commissioner Douglass in
Washington.
C1sCINNATl, July 2l.-E. Roberts & Co.
have commenced Shit against the city, to
| recover 100000 for lumber destroyed by
the great coal oil fire in June, on tho
ground that the oil was stored in violation
of the city ordinance, and that they repeat
edly requested the city to enforce the law.
The directors of the Board of Trade to.
| day adopted a resoutiO deprecating the
| injury done to commerce by the delay in
! turning over the Louisville canal to tho
| United States, and asking the transporta-
| ton committee to open col respOndence with
the Secretary Of the Treasury with refer
ence thereto.
! in driving threshing machine, four miles
ives, of Rushville, Indiana, yesterday after:
noon, Archer Downey was instantly killed
| and Miliard Anderson and George w. Ward
SO in Injured that they lived but five or Blk
hours. Four or five other persons were
hurt.
| A fire at Sidney. Ohio, tonight. destroyed
| ". ". Robertson's residence. Roger Muir.
rav's confectionery and j. K. Fry Il Co.'S
| drv goods store. The damage and loss is
| estimated at $4,000. The heaviest losers
| are J. r. Fry & Co., dry goods; insured
for $4,000: their loss is not exactly known.
I A ruruor prevailed that the fire was caused
| by coal oil. and j. X. Fry has been arrested,
| charged with incendiarism.
| BALTIMORE, July 24.-The schooner John
Post, Captain Almond, of Yorktown, Vir.
ginia. hence for Norfolk, was sunk last
night off Poplar Point, in Chesapeake bay.
| thirty-tive miles below the city, by a COLI.
sion with the steamer Highland Light.
| Captain Almond, his wife, and daughter,
aged twelve years, with the crew were res.
cued by boats from the steamer before the
! schooner went down.
CHARLESTON, July 2i.-State Treasurer
| Cardoza, in an interview with the cor.
| respondent of the NeUs and Courier, pub.
| lshed to-day, gives full statement Of the
| financial condition of South Carolina. He
| says he hopes the suit of the taxpayers to
have the s., 100000 of conversion bonds de.
| clared null aud void will succeed, and that
he will give the government whatever aid
| he can. He claims also to be the originator
OF the suit, inasmuch as it is founded
almost entirely upon facts published by
him last year, showing that at leat $6,0O0.
900 of the conversion bonds were issued
without any authority of law.
In explanation of the emptiness of the
State treasury, Mr.. Cardoza said the appro.
priations for the year, including old claims.
were $2,5OO,000, and the receipts of the
year only 81 600. 900, go that the next fiscal
year will begin with deficit of at leas
$75o, 1000.
SAN FRANCIsco, July M.-The Demo
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