Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-30
NEWS ITEMS.

1t is again reported that John P.
Hale is failing fast, and cannot survive
long. His daughter arrived from West
Point on Wednesday, but he was able
to recognize her only by her voice.
His eyesight and voice are already gone.
Rodman, the defaulting deputy trea-
surer of the city of Brooklyn, was ar
rested last evening.
A friendly understanding is said to
exist between the Carlists and Commun-
lists in Spain.
The German government has resolved
to expel foreign emigrant agents from
Germany.
Khiva is reported destroyed by the
Russians.
The ravages of the storm in Nova
Scotia are very great.
The murderer Lowenstein is to be
surrendered.
A vigorous campaign is expected in
Mississippi.
The steamship Lucy, it is sad, was
burned at sea.
Gen. Butler is convicted of misstate-
ments about newspaper correspondents.
A Democratic meeting was held at
Columbus.
William G. Campbell was executed in
Cairo, I'll.
A standing deficiency of half mil
lion, extending through series of
years, was discovered in the BROOKLYN
treasury the sinking fund has been
robbed and the money restored to Re-
ceiver Chauncey, and no further ex-
animation of the books will be allowed.
DR.. J. G. Showalter, who murdered
his wife and then attempted suicide,
died yesterday in Baltimore.
On Wednesday, in Medford, Mass,
Benjamin Bridge committed suicide
by walking overheard near Cudworth's
ship yard.
Mitchell Cogswell, negro, sentenced
to be hanged yesterday in Savannah,
has been respited for five days by the
Governor of Georgia, as it is alleged that
he is insane.
1t is reported that in Arkansas the
Sheriff and his men came up with Mores
and his gang, for whom they had been
looking, and that fight ensued where
in five persons were killed.
Rev. John Moore, who was charged
with stealing horse, was discharged
from custody, yesterday in Greenwich,
Conn.,, the evidence against him having
broken down, and he being deemed in,
sane.
William G. Campbell, colored, was
executed yesterday in Cairo, ILL.,, for
the murder OF Thomas Doyle, the mate
of the steamer Grand Tower, in April
last. He evinced neither regret nor fear
OF the scaffold.
Scotland has rival to George Peabo-
dy in James Baird, of Auchmedden,
who has established trust of 50, $780,
900 to be called after his name and to
be devoted to religious education in
connection with the church OF Scotland.
The new German tactics present some
noticeable features. The rifle instruc-
tons are rapid and marked by a certain
vigorous severity which is very impress
sive. The soldiers are trained to an
almost mathematical precision in their
rifle movements, and the process is gone
through with promptly. An ordnance
officer explains the intention of the new
tacticts to be the removal of the Ger
man soldiers natural tendency to slow
ness, fault which the military theories
OF the nation combat with great persist
ence.
Dispatches from the great corn. grow
ing regions of Illinois and Iowa give
discouraging indications of the crop for
this year. 1t is generally estimated at
from one-half to two-thirds OF the Or
binary yield. The drouth has now con-
tinued so long. that any future rains
would scarcely avail to remedy the da-
mage.
The boiler of flax mill at Hilloroed,
Sweden, exploded yesterday with terri
fic force, destroying the mill and adj
joining shops. There was no loss of life
in the mill owing to the absence of the
workmen, but in the other buildings
nine persons We're killed and large
number injured. The king and queen,
who were at Fredensberg, short dis
lance from the scene of the explosion,
fastened to the spot and directed that
every measure deemed necessary for the
relief of the wounded should be imme-
diately taken.
Late advices from the Fiji Islands are
to the effect that rebellion has broken
out, and that the rebels have murdered
q number of white settlers.
The funeral of the Duke of Brunswick
took place yesterday ut Geneva with
royal obsequies. The ceremonies were
very imposing.
The criminal pedigree which the New
York police give the ambitious gentle
man who, from the San Francisco Jail,
insists that he played second murderer
in the Nathan tragedy, shows him to
have been sorry~sort of thief, too mean
to be wanted here.
Letters report that an instruction
broke out in Khiva and Khokand dur
ing the absence of Gen. Kaufman.
Gen. Vereffkin quelled the rebellion and
destroyed Khiva. Khokand is quiet.
Russian exactions has been levied on
six hundred leaders of the late move
ment
The st. Louis Evening Despatch pub
fishes authentic information from Fort
Sill as late as August 81, which is to the
effect that on the Goth instant Gen.
Davidson left Fort Sill with his cavalry