Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-10-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The Spanish governments fleet has
arrived off Cartagena, and was fired on
without effect
Capt Young testified ut the Bazaine
trial that the accused said, August IS,
1870, of his demoralized soldiers,
"What can be done with such troops"
A demonstration in favor of amnesty
to the Fenian prisoners took place yes
terday at Blackheath, London.
The Memphis mortuary record for
last week shows one hundred and sixty
nine yellow fever deaths, decrease of
seventy-nine as compared with the week
before.
Official returns show that the Cover.
nor is the only Democratic candidate
elected on the Ohio state ticket.
The Mississippi house passed a bill
postponing the State election till next
year, bnt the Senate took no action.
Rumored deficiencies in the treasu-
ries of the Lake Shore and Toledo,
Wabash, and Western railroad, and the
alleged embarrasements of the Ohio and
Chesapeake and New Jersey Southern
railroads caused renewed depression in
Wall street.
Henry Fredericks was fined one dol
lar in Jersey City yesterday for painting
his house on Sunday.
The coroner's jury in the case of Ann
Ridgeway, who died at Weehawken q
few days ago under suspicious circum-
stances, rendered verdict at one
o'clock yesterday morning against her
husband, and he was committed to jail
for trial.
A spark from passing locomotive
fired an Erie railway oil tank at Wee
hawken yesterday. The prompt ap-
pearance of the fire department saved
other oil tanks from destruction, that in
which the flames originated being total
ly destroyed.
The new chapel of Glace Methodist
Z. church, at Paterson, was dedicated
yesterday. DR.. Dashiell officiated, and
Prof. Butts and others participated.
The formal opening services of the
Second United Presbyterian church in
Jersey City were held last night.
In Tenafy yesterday the corner stone
of new Catholic house of worship was
laid. The sermon was preached by
Father McGlenn. Father Paginni is to
be the pastor.
Isaac Nesbitt, aged seventeen, while
hunting on Saturday near Paterson,
shot and killed himself with pistol.
Catharine Butler of Newark had been
missed since Monday last Her body
was found yesterday in the Morris
Canal.
All the laborers on the cut through
Bergen Hill have been discharged by
the Pennsylvania railroad company be-
cause of hard times.
The registry for the state election
closes next Thursday. 1t is necessary
to appear in person to be assured that
your name is on the list.
D. W. Beach, boy living in East
Haven, Conn, fell from chestnut tree
on Saturday afternoon, and dashed out
his brains.
The trial of Nathan Britton on q
charge of numbering John A. Kane, in
Jersey City, ended on Saturday with q
verdict of acquittal. The jury found
that the shooting was accidental.
The Hoboken Savings bank mana.
gers have prepared report in which
they say that the chief cause of their in
ability to resume is the suspension OF
Fisk and Hatch, who havo ninety-foul
thousand dollars of the banks money
This money they think will be PAID
within six months.
Henry Eckert, German, of eros;
street, Paterson, attempted to kill G
barkeeper, his child, and then his wife
ON Saturday night, but was prevented
by neighbors. He was crazy with
drink. Then he locked himself in his
room, put the muzzle of heavily load
ed shot gun in his mouth and pulled
the trigger with his foot. The load and
n part of Ecker's face flew out of the
, window together The whole of hi
upper jaw, part of one cheek, and al
eye were blown away. He will probab
ly die.
In consequence of the heavy rain
: and the destruction of the cotton crop
J by the army wolm, great destitutioI
exists in several counties in Alabama
especially in Sumter and Marengo. Ii
some places there is actual starvation
and unless help is rendered during thu
} winter months many persons must per
ish for want of food.
, A dispatch from Central Asia bring
intelligence of frightful scenes in Khiva
Upon the evacuation of the capital o
the Khanate by the Russian troops un
: der Gen. Kaufman. the Youmeds re-
VOTED and piundered the town, aftel
which they destroyed it. In addition
to these excuses the Usbeks slaughter.
ed one thousand six hundred Of tbs
Persians who were emancipsted from
slavery. The Khan sent to Gen. Kauf
mann, asking for assistance to euablt
, hila to restore order. but it is not known