Middletown transcript., 1873-10-04
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Edward REYNOLDS.
Items Of News,

Alleged D,ldrdtoH ~ W' t"sHteF'-
The announcement that the State Bank OF
New Brunswick. n. j., had suspended
created stir Gu Friday. The suspension,
II is alleged, was by the dofalcation of the
cashier, q. W. Appleton, to the extent Of
$500, 900 to $500, 900. |, is charged that
ho was interested in carpet mandatory.
uud allowed the concern to ovcrdraw
$500, 600 The carpet company is also
greatly involved. Appleton is native
Of New Brunswick, and, it is alleged, has
fed to New York, and that Governor
Parker, of New Jersey. has made requisl-
ton on Governor Dix, OF New York, for
him. Some reports say ,ha, Appleton
has fed To Europe. Almos: up to the
last moment the depositors implicitly
trusted the bank, aud its trouble has
thrown the tc~n into fermcnt. A mum
bor Of the stockholders pledged themselves
TO pay the deposi,ors in full. The re.
liaecc Of the officers i. in Mr. John i.
Ford, the president, and Mr. Christopher
Never, a stockholdrr Mr. Ford has just
returned from Europe, and tho directors
say that il he will advance $50 900 in
currency paymcn, will be resumed
Tng NATioxaL BASss.-Thc Secretary
Of the Treasury docs not think there l.
any authority in the national banking law
to warrant the interference Of the govern
ment in the case OF any national bank
which may suspend payment ~ its drp,si-
tors. That is something he says, which
the government, has nothing to do with
Unless a bank refuses to give legal ten
ders for a note Of its own issue they will
not interfere. In the case Of the First
National Bank in Washington. when th"y
wanted a receiver appointed, he says he
had great trouble to lind one Of their own
notes to protest. aud that the bank could
lust rs we'll have gone on aud lqlila'cd
its debts aud saved its charter for when
he once appoints a receiver the bank Is
like dead man. who cannot be brought
to life again by the payment Of the debts
against his estate.
One hundred and twenty new coaches
have Just been completed by the Pullman
Palace Car Company. There are now
seven hundred Of these coaches running
on one hundred and ffiy-two roads
Every car costs from seventeen to twenty
thousand dollars, aud Que of til m on
the New York and Erie broad gauge cost
moro than $780, 900. Twelve million dol
lars have lust been Invested in the organi.
zation
DgAril or PniLApgLruIA EniroH ASp
SOLDIER. Colonel Charles j Biddlc, one
of the proprietors Of the Age newspaper,
in.PhiladcIphia. died, Sunday last, after a
brief illness He served in the Mexican
war as a major, aud AS n colon ! Of a
Pennsylvania reserve regiment in the
rebellion lie also represented the second
PENNSYLVANIA district in Congress.
SUSPENDED WonR A dispatch from
Jefrersonvilc. Indiana. states that the
Ohio Falls Car aud Locomotive Works
have ceased work in all their shops except
the foundry, and discharged 400 men
The number Of workmen in the South
western Car Company's work., and II
the ship yards of Dawes, Howard X Co.
has also been reduced.
Telegrams from Mexico reeapitnla'
reform victories in the new constituted
now being made and progress Of l'hera
ideas \ banquet was given cx. Ninlsie
Nelson on the 18th September at whicl
the President Of Mexico was present
A, Southampton, England, recently,
whale followed a German ship about
mile up the river Itchen close to Nuriham
l<idge A number Of workmcn went ou
in boata and drove it into shallow water
whcro it was harpooncd and killed.
There is a revolutionary movement i
the State Of coahuila. Mexico, but Pres
dcu, Lerdo does not consider it OF sui
i'm
saying the country is ut peace, aud urgin
fho construction Of railroads.
An appeal to the Cincinnati merchant
Saturday for food for the Shrcvepo
sufferers brought five ear loads of prov
sions. Txo ear loads were forwarde'
aud more will 90 immediately The con
,nitee are soliciting further contribution
An armed body Of United States soldie
is reported to have crossed from Tex
into Mexico forty miles above Ma,amora
and is giving some alarm, while revolt
ton in Monterey has caused the abandon
meut Of the annual fair in tina, place.
Mrs. Patterson. a daughter Of Auc
johnson, aud who kept house for hi
while he was President, took the preniu
for the best butter at recent ken'uci
fair.
Tho Trsdegar Iron works, at Richmon
Va, haye found il necessary to carts
operations. and have thrown out OF er
ployment abou, seven hundred workmc
II 10 said that the Forthcoming pub
debt statement will show an increase
September. The customs receipts ha
fallen OF more than so per ceu,. since t
beginning Of the panic.
At Paterson. N. j.. on Monday aft'
noon, 115 men were discharged from I
Grant Locomotive Works, aud 100 fro
the Daufor,h Works.
A large metal button on the dress Of
vom.n n Portland. Me-, saved her