American citizen., 1881-11-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IMMEDIATELY following the adjourn
ment of the Senate the President appointed
Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va, in
place of Wilson, suspended.
MIR. BRADY assumes to be so confident
Of establishing his innocence of any COM
plicity In the alleged Star-route frauds that
he is said to be preparing to bring suits for
libel against Postmaster General James and
Attorney-General Macveagh, whom he
charges with giving out much of the def
amatory matter that has been published re-
garding him.
JACOB ECKHERDr, ex-member of the
Wisconsin Assembly, dropped dead in the
street at Milwaukee.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR went to New
York on the Sd, to remain until after the
State election.
THE late Governor Wilt, of Louisi-
ana, left his widow and five children in pow
erty, and committee Of leading citizens has
appealed to the people Of the State TO pro-
vide fund forthem.
CHARLES j. FoLGER, the newly-ap-
pointed Secretary of the Treasury, was born
in Massachusetts in 1918. His first office
was that Of Judge of Ontario County, New
York. He served eight years in the State
Senate, was Sub-Treasurer of New York,
and now holds the position of Chief Justice
OF the Court Of Appeals.
The State of Guatemala sent special
envoy to Washington to personally convey
to our people and Government the sympathy
and coincidence of that Government upon
the death of President Garfield.
Mr. ]. P. LINDSAY, Chief Head Clerk,
has been placed in charge Of all mail routes
in Texas.
HERR j. Won SCHOONER, at present
Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of
Austria at Alexandria, has been appointed
Austrian Minister at Washington.
The argument on the motion to set
aside the criminal information in the star
route cases began in the District Court at
Washington on the Sd. The Government
was represented by District-Attorney
Corkhill; Brewster, of Philadelphia; Bliss,
of New York, and Cook, Of Washington; !;
the defense by Totten, Wilson, Shellabarger,
Robert G.. Ingersoll, Sypher, and Jefferson
Chandler, of st. Louis.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
LATER developments regarding the
failure Of the Mechanics National Bank
of Newark, N. j., confirm the report that
the institution is hopelessly wrecked. Stock
holders will be called upon to pay dollar for
dollar for the full amount OF stock held by
them. Depositors will get about fifty cents
on the dollar. 1t has been ascertained that
Baldwin, the Cashier, speculated some in
Wall Street, but 1t is not known that he met
with any serious losses there. The firm of
Nugent & Co. protest against being made
the scapegoat for Baldwin's deficiency.
They claim that Baldwin was their paid
financial manager. receiving one per cent.
commission for negotiating their paper, and
nt their Indebtedness to the bank Is moth
ing like the amount claimed by Baldwin.
w. S. BROOKS, a well-known mer-
chant of Wheetley, Ark, has suspended
with liabilities of 1900, placed chiefly in
St. Louis and Memphis.
DECREASE of the public debt during
October, $l3,321, ,45s.
THE Executive Committee of the
Missouri River Improvement Association
have called . Convention to be held at st.
Joseph on the 18th of November.
THE London Times in its financial
article s.xs that purcbases of Confeder.te
bonds are believed to.be entirely due to the
action of a clfoue prepared to run nm the
price of anv rubbisb II tbev thjpk tbara :.
the faintest chance of allurino the nub,Ic in.
To Joining in the venture. There has been
, decline I'm the nrices offered
~ovv.,vyr i on ct . Al.
- A wv "n.ons 'no
=, ons,.,iona ] sor ,s,., County %.n TO =, ;nu, aown
that wheat Is now held at Speculative prices.
and also that the supply of flour on hand
largely exceeds the demand. both of which
wrongs, in the views of the millers. can he
rieh,ed by the Temporary suspension of
milling operations.
The annual report of United States
Treasurer GIlfIlsn shows an increase in re-.
ceipts over the previous ve.r "A foIlow,.
Customs, $1I .637 ,61I; internal revenue. SIR
255, no; sales of public lands, 81. Is5. 358:
miscellaneous sources, "a, ,I77.7 .7o2: increase in
surplus revenue, S34, 1856, 15I.
>"D o1AooAHIiES.
RUFUS mcrHhhsoH walked into the
himpaii house, al Atlanta, da-, on the I'd,
ana aiter taking snort time with number
OF gentiemen' moved TO the middle OF the
uoor, drew PISTOL and raising 1t over his
mead, saioS I'st tnere now, and now It's
nere, WIN Wnlcn EXCLAMATION ne placedthe