The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-18
OUR NEW YORK. LETTER.

NEW York, Nov 10.
ALL THE CHURCHES.

ALL THE CHURCHES
large and small were crowded Sunday and
the preachers were singuarly happy in the
selection of themes which were practical
and sensible, and we'll calculated as guides
in the paths Of every day life. Mr.. Beech.
ers subject was Original SIM" The ser.
vices at Trinity church were unusually i'm.
pressivc, and the sermon Of DR.. Dix. who
OBLIGATED for the first time since his arrival
from Europe, was greeting TO his PARISH
toner's. Bishod Cummins preached in the
evening, at the Reformed Episcopal church,
a very aggressive sermon, in which he re-
viewed the action and pointed out the
shortcomings of the general convention OF
the Protestant Episcopal church,
BANK DEFALCATIoN.
The season has come round for bank de-
falcations. 1t opens with the theft of
$4,000 by a bookkeeper in the Pacific
bank. Charles Wightman, nephew of
the president of the institution, Is the cul-
prit. 1t is the old story. varied only by
rather more than the usual ingenuity of
double entry in the falsified accounts
There is, of course, woman in the case.
The circumstances which most lulled the
suspicious of the bank officers during the
long period of the populations was the reg
ularity with which this bookkceper took
his vacation, defaulters being usually afraid
to indulge in that luxury. The president
of the bank says Wightman's bonds will
reduce the loss of the bank to less than
$4,000, which is small when compared
with the banks surplus of S3cS, jJ4.
Wightman is thirty-eight years Old and has
a wife. His father has lons been a trusted
messenger in The bank
HAMMATT BILLINGS,
the well-known Boston artist and architect,
died at the residence OF his brother IN this
city Saturday evening. He was one of the
best known of his profession in the coun-
try, having been engaged in nearly every
city in the United States.
A GENERAL STRIKE
among Western locomotive engineers and
tiremen is threatened to proposed reduc-
ton of wages. The Erie railroad employees
have not been paid for some time past,
some defaults extending over a period of
four or five months.
TEN THOUSAND LONGsHoREMEN.
employed on the river fronts of this city,
have struck because of insufficient wages.
1t Is to be regretted that a strike should
happen now upon the verge of winter, for,
no matter whether right or wrong, it can
not but result in suffering to the abOrers
and their families. Thousands will be idle.
They will consume their reserve, get in
debt perhaps, and after all the chances are
against their being able to force wages back
to the old standard. The police reserves
have been ordered for duty.
hpCrrC RELICS nrscovpnp~
A despatch from Dundee to the London
Telegraph says Captain Kilgour, of the
whaler Polina, which has just arrived here,
brings a number OF relics of arctic explora
ton. When the crew were on shore at
Battery Bay, on the Goth of July, IN search
of a suitable watering place, they discov-
cred a cairn. Judging it had been erected
by some party belonging to one of the
various expeditions sent in search of Sir
John Franklin, they pulled it down, and IN
the interior of it found a tin canister with
the lid soldered on.
1t was found to contain reports deposited
on the 10th of August, 1852, by Captain
Kennedy, of the Prince Albert, Lady
Franklin's vessel. A sledge, stone, two
ice knives and various other articles were
picked up where it appeared the Kennedy
party had encamped. The records dis
closed the fact that Captain Kennedy went
into winter quarters in Battery bay, in the
autumn OF 1851, and it was not until the
10th of August, 1862, that the ice broke
up and liberated his vessel. 1t is obvious
that Battery bay had not been visited since
1859. The records are in an excellent state
of preservation.
ADyIOES FROM CHINA
say that the Imperial government is at last
taking preliminary steps towards opening
the mines in the northern part of the EN-
pirr. The experiment is to be tried in the
province of Chilli, where there are rich
beds of coal and iron. Foreign machinery
is to be used II.