Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-10-11

A cyclone occurred at Key West and
Punta Rosa. October 6, the wind blow.
ing ninety miles an hour.
1t is stated that Thomas Scott has
succeeded in negotiating forty-four mil.
lions of first mortgage bonds of the Tex
as and Pacific road. The financial ar.
rangements by which this result was
reached were perfected during the hight
of the late panic.
The Controller of the Currency rep
resents the condition of the New York
banks AS growing better every day. He
reports that nearly all OF them are rap
idly increasing their payment of curren
cy, and that bank officers feel confident
that before the close of the month they
will be able to respond to all the usual
requirements of business.
The Evangelical Alliance met in
four sections yesterday, the main topics
discussed being Principle and rela-
tons of missionary work." Particular
missionary fields" and "Home Mis-
sionary, and missions in nominally
Christian countries" and the speakers,
Rev. Joseph Angus of London, Rev.
Rufus Anderson, d. D., of Boston, Rev.
Narayan Sheshadri of Bombay, Bishop
Schwenitz of Bethlehem, Penn, and
others. A German meeting was held in
the evening.
The Peronelle, the first of life.ship
hotilla, projected by Capt. Hans Busk,
was recently launched in England. 1t is
proposed that the flotilla shall consist of
large, powerful and buoyant steamers,
themselves provided with couple of
ordinary life-boats to keep the sea in all
weathers, cruising vigilantly in the most
frequented tracks, more especially where
vessels are known to be wrecked in al
most every storm.
A British corporation--the Peat Coal
and Charcoal company-has received
certificate from Mr.. Scott of the London
Coal Exchange, that the results of the
trials of their peat coal on board the
steamers on the Thames river and on
locomotives, have, in his opinion, been
most satisfactory, and from the speed
attained and the absence of all smoke,
he is satisfied peat may be expected
eventually to be substitute for coal in
all its uses, and especially to housekeep-
ers, from its heating power and freedom
from sulphur and smoke. ''tA
A few days since five geese, owned by
a man living at Mormon island, Califor-
mia, died from an unknown disease, and
on examining the gizzard of one, grain
gold sufficient to make five dollar gold
piece was found. The remaining four
panned out, each, almost the same
amount OF the precions stuff The gold
was probably picked up by the fowls
near some claims where the miners had
been slut ing, and it is presumed that
the quicksilver attached to it caused
their death.
Miss Lucy Langdon Newell was born
in Alfred, Maine. July 4, l776, on the
day and very near the hour of the sign
ing of the declaration of independence.
When eight years of age she united with
the Alfred Shakers, and has since lived
with them. When eighty-four years of
age she wove thirty-four yards of cloth,
and at ninety-six knit ten pairs of nit
tens. She has never been in railroad
car, and is in excellent health. If she
lives until 1876 palace car will be sent
to her native town to transport her to
Boston. From thence she will be car
ried direct to the Quaker City, where
her presence will be one Of the features
of the grand centennial.
James Ash's wife died in Ireland two
years ago, leaving o daughter seven
years old. James, being sailor. placed
this little girl in charge Of his brother
Matthew, of Paterson. Three weeks
ago James visited Paterson, but his
daughter was not at Matthews house,
and that individual, after some evasion,
said that the child wandered off last
July and had not been seen since. Some
of the neighbors told James that the
child had been cruelty treated by Mat
thew, and that if she had wandered off
she had undoubtedly done SO to escape
such treatment but their suspicious
were that the child had been murdered
and buried. One of the neighbors told
James that the last time she saw the
child she was running off toward the
woods screaming, with Matthews wife
chasing her with a cudgel. Matthew
and his wife were arrested on Thursday
night, but were subsequently released
for want of evidence
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