The daily gazette., 1882-10-18
MORNING SUMMARY.

John Wa ldron has been arrested in New
York city for selling counterfeit coin.
Judge Reynolds, First Auditor of the
Treasury, left Washington yesterday for
Alabama, to take part in the political
canvass.
A. & C. ]. Hope, iron importers OF Mont
real, failed yesterday. Their liabilities are
stated at $3.50, 900, their assets at about
$500, 600.
General Sherman will leave Washington
next Saturday for Leavenworth, Kansas,
to attend the army rifle contests on the 25th
inst. and two succeeding days.
The Secretary of the Treasury will prob
ably issue another call for continued five
per cent. bonds. The amount and other de-
tails have not been decided upon.
Up to October l there was paid into the
State Treasury at Albany for taxes on cor
porations the sum of 81 ,53S ,439, against
$9SS, ia for the corresponding period of
last year.
Messrs. Merrick, Kerr and Wells held a
secret consultation in Washington, yester-
day, regarding Star Route matters, from
which sfimportant proceedings" are expected
to result in few days.
An address passed by the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Canada congratulating the Queen
upon her escape from the assassin Mclean,
has been forwarded to her Majesty, the
Patroness of the Order"
The President is expected back in Wash
ington at the close of this week. The pro-
motions in the army, consequent upon
General McDowell's retirement, will not be
announced until after the Presidents return.
The American Public Health Association
began its tenth annual session yesterday
morning in indianapolis, with an attend
ance of about 200 delegates. X. q. kedzi OF
Lansing, Michigan, the president, occupied
the chair.
Mayor Debevoise of Long Island City ap-
peared yesterday in court and was ar
raigned ON indictments charging him with
embezzlement and malfeasance In Office He
| was given until Thursday to plead and fur
| nished bail in $15, 900.
The Federation of Labor Unions, at a
meeting in Washington last night, in
| structed its President to invite Mr.. Henry
George to visit Washington at his earliest
convenience and deliver an address to the
working men of the District of Columbia.
| A Mormon named Hintze was arrested in
| Salt Lake City, ON complaint Of his neigh
| bors, on Monday night, for violation of the
Edmunds law, it being alleged that he was
cohabiting with more than one "wife." He
| was about to start on a mission when ar
rested.
| Yesterday was the ninth day of the trial
| OF Colonel Hougnton, COllectOr AT fefLn
| Amboy, on the charge of making false re-
turns. The Government rested its case and
Houghton was called to the stand by the
defense. After several other witnesses had
been examined the case was closed on botl
sides. Arguments by counsel will begin to
day.
The Grand Jury at Freehold, New Jersey,
has indicted John H. Cook, editor of the
Red Bank Register, and Henry Clay and
| William j. Kellett, reporters, for libel and
conspiracy, in sending to New York news
papers the false statements about the typhoid
fever epidemic, which, they claimed, was
raging In Red Bank. These reports greatly
injured business in the town, and nearly
ruined several of the summer boarding
house proprietors.
At a meeting of the Common Council o
Newark, New Jersey, last night, the repor
of the expert who examined the finances o
the Police Department was received. L
shows "a known deficit of 81 ,136 in the
police courts during the past twelve years.
The report was referred by Council to thu
grand jury, which is now in session. Th.
Finance Committee submitted report upoI
the statement of the former experts showing
additional stealings by ex-Auditor Palme
and ex-Clerk Hall amounting to $l1 900
making the total stealings of those official
100000.