The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-02


all ehe brokers were warned, bnt this
nterpgon shoHed that the warning was
tnSEhaed dsssA InMor. was gpta6R by
Alcott d Co., OF Broad street, who had
purc1nsaa q $1,000 bond Of issue of the
New Yofk Central Railroad ffor,aK man
catlihg himself Leonard Brown, carry
Ing on business at No. 113 Broadway.
To-day. Brown called On Alcott & Co.,
and wanted loan on sixteen bonds. It
was found genuine. The bond first
purchased was similar in number to one
ot the bonds OF the sixteen on which
the loan was desired. An examination
was made and the discovery made that
the sixteen bonds were forgeries. The
detectiyes then asoertained that Wooden
Sherman, OF No. 9 Nassau street, was
endeavoring to negotiate loan Of
S25, 600 on S30, 900 worth of New York
Central stock. consolidated issue. with
Thomas Denny l. Co., OF Wall street,
Tor hlr. Brown. A detective at Sher.
mans saw Brown, who appeared impa-
tlent and was walking up and down his
office. Mr.. Sherman entered directly
after. and, handing Brown q bond, told
him he could do no business to-day.
brown left, and was arrested by the de-.
teotlve, who found on him eight forged
thousand dollar bonds OF the New York
Central Railroad, consolidated stock,
aud recovered two similar bonds which
had been left for negotiation with Eddy
u Co., No. 126 Pine street. Brown was
taken to the central Office and locked
up. The detective further succeeded in
recovering sixty.two forged bonds SINH
lar to those found on Brown from two
firms, the names of which are kept
secret. The police say there are ST.
| 600, 900 of forged bonds ready to flood
Wall street, and that $3.50, 600 worth
have already been placed on the market.
Astounding developments are looked for
tomorrow. The public are cautioned
to critically examine the following stock
OF the New York Central Railroad: :
Skies, 1883; skies, 1887; skies, 1876; and
Buffalo, New York and Erie.
WAsHINGroS, August 31.-The Go
vernment sells 81, 500, 600 of gold each
Thursday, and buys $500, 600 bonds
on the third Wednesday of September.
Beau Hickman, noted character
here, was stricken with paralysis yester.
DAY. aud was conveyed to the hospital
PHILADELPHIA, August 81 .-Snowden
clerk of R. G. Hill & Co., insurance
agents, hid $40 under tho desk and hit
himself over the head with dumb
bell. The money was found, and Snow
den confessed and was put in Jail. He
was in debt.
SAVANNAH, August 31.-Jacob N. Car
doza, who has been connected with the
newspapers at this city and Charleston
from the beginning of tho century, died
last night, aged eighty-seven. He was
the Oldest living editor in the South,
and was engaged on papers to within
the past two years.
Sr. LOUIS, August 31.-Deaths for
the week. 204-cholera, 4; cholera
morhus, 16; cholera infnntum, 81.
BROOKLYN. August 3l.-Assistant
Treasurer Rodman, III able to get bail,
was put in Jail.
LITTLE Rock, August 3l.-The last
spike in the Cairo and Fulton Railroad
was driven at Fulton. The road is now
complete from st. Louis to Fulton, 46I
miles.
MILWAUKEE. August 31.-The Demo.
cratic and Liberal Republican State
committees have called State Conven-
ton in Milwaukee for September "a, to
nominate an opposition ticket for Co
vernon and other State officers. They
have adopted the following resolution:
Resolued, That. in the opinion OF these
committees, the time has come when all
patriotic and intelligent electors of Wis
consin, who seek the election Of honest,
capable and incorruptible men to Office,
irrespective Of past political associations,
should unite in our Convention upon
candidates and assist the same candi-
dates, and assert the sacred right of
electing their own rulers, Independent
CT corrupt party power and of the deci-
sion OF oil professional politicians and
political rings allied with or npologizing
therefor.
READING, Pa, September IA boat,
with two men and woman, went over
the falls OF Schuylkiil, near Kissingen
bridge. One man escaped. It is sup
posed the drowned man yowed oyor the
falls purposely, but the motive is un-
known. He had difficulty with the
drowned woman at beer garden.
PAToKA, IND, September l.-BiDg-
ham Bros distillery was burned to-day;
loss $50, 900. including $50 hogs, 5000
bushels OF corn and forty barrels Of
wliiskey.
NEW YORK, September 1.-The post
nlortem examination OF the body OF IN
English emigrant, named Edwards, who
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