Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-02

{ The Democratic State convention met
in the opera house at Utica at 123 p. m,
and was called to order by Hon. A. G.
Beach, vice-president of the state COM
mittee, who addressed the convention in
few appropriate words.
A Washington dispatch says the finan-
eial outlook there is nowL bright and
cheering,
The report that the public debt state
ment for September will show an in
crease is a mistake. On the contrary
there will be a considerable decrease.
The financial situation in Chicago is
much brighter to-day.
Capt. Buddington and first engineer
Schumann's published accounts of the
death of Capt. Hall of the Poiaris do
not vary from those already published.
The suspension of Henry Clews & Co.
was officially announced in the stock ex-
change of New York yesterday.
Northrop g. Chick, bankers at No. 6
Wall street, suspended yesterday.
Heavy calls from western depositors
was the cause. The house had no deal
ings with the stock exchange.
A fire broke out yesterday afternoon
in the armory of the Twelfth regiment,
Fifty-fifth street and Broadway, in New
York. At last accounts the fire was
still burning, and fears were entertained
that it would be a large one.
During the panic the telegraph busi-
ness of New York increased fully three
field, as shown by the receipts of various
companies. ..-....
The decrease of the public debt during
the past month has been 81, 901, ACT. Is !;
decrease of the debt since March list,
1878, 81, S5S, 682. So; decrease of the
debt from March LIST, 1869, toMarch 1st,
1873, e3G8, 082, 55948.
The Cummings car company Of Jer-
sey City has been Obliged to suspend,
although its assets win more than cover
its liabilities The trouble is a large
amuunt of debts due from railroad com
panies which cannot be collected
The American Bible: union, for the
revision of the Bible, met to-day. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Rev Thomas Arulitage; aecretarys;
Rev. W. H. WicSoff and w. II. Pen
dleton; treasurer, Thomas Walker. Toe
board managers reported satisfactory
progress in revising the Bible, and ex-
pected it to be finished this year.
Conductor Wesley L.. Breese Of the
European and North American railway,
while leaning out from the steps of a car
to look at heated journal, was struck
by bridge and instantly killed.
The quarrel between Jay Gould and
Bischoffsheim, growing out of the sale
of fifteen thousand shares of Erie, was
amicably adjusted by their respective
representatives at Gould's residence on
Monday evening, and the heavy litiga-
ton about to be begun by the latter,
stopped.
\ Halifax dispatch says the missing
schooner Three Brothers of Petite river,
Lunenburg county, was picked mp and
lowed into Little river, Newfoundland,
on the 2ed of September. She is COM
plete wreck. Seven bodies were found
in the cabin. The remainder of the
crew of fourteen are supposed to have
been washed overheard.
The Postal Department of Washing
ton reports an accumulation of postal
cards ahead Of orders for the first time
since their introduction.
A dispatch from Madrid announces
that dissensiens in the ranks of the Car
lists are increasing. The leaders, Dor
regarry, Rada and Lizzarago, have left
their commands and arrived at Bay
onne. ~.
The President has appointed Edward
C. Negley postmaster at Pittsburg, Pa,
vice John Ii. Stewart, suspended under
the tenure of office law