The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.


The demands OF the carpenters in New Yorl,
city for an increase Of wages have been quito
generally complied with.
VooEL BRoTHERs, Hong Kong (China) firm
are charged with swindling Boston merchants
out of about s5OO,0OO by shipping what pur-
ported to be cargo of hemp worth $50 bale,
but which upon inspection proved to be largely
made up Of Canton mating worth only IS a
bale. English and French merchants are said
to have been swindled by the same concern out
OF s4,OOO,0OO, the method in their case being to
forward bales made up of fourth grade silk and
shavings valued at $40, while the orders were
for first-grade silk worth $500 bale.
JOHN f. SLATER, of Norwich, Conn.,, one OF
the leading manufacturers of the country and
the wealthiest man in his State has decided to
give s1,000000 for the education OF colored
people in the South. 1t is proposed to have
the fund for that purpose put in the hands Of
trustees, under the laws of New York,
and an act of incorporation has been
introduced in the New York legislature
The trustees are to be Rutherford b. Hayes
who is to be first president of the board; Chief
Justice Waite President Gilman, of Johns
Hopkins university the Rev. DR.. Phillips
Brooks, of Boston; Governor Colquitt, of
GeorRia; James P. Boyce, of Kentucky VIM.
A. Slater, of Norwich, the son of tho giver of
the fund.- and John A. Stewart, William E.
Dodge and Morris X. Jessup, of New York city
4, TwESTY-N1NE horses were burned to death
fire in New York.
CHARLES NJ. DAVENPORT, thrice the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of Vermont, died
few days ago at Brattleboro, aged fifty-one
years.
SEVENTY survivors of the First Virginia In
fantry, ex-Confederate soldiers, came on from
Richmond to Trenton, N. j., where they were
the guests of Wilkes Post, 90, G. A. R., and
were handsomely entertained.
The late DR.. Edward S. Beadle, Of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, left 100000 to various chari-
table and other institutions.
The attorney-general of Pennsylvania has
brought suits against 213 mutual insurance
companies, comprising nearly every company
in the State, on the charge that they have no.
complied with the law by making annual state
ments.
The libel suit brought by the Rev. Samuel
D. Hinman against Bishop William H. Hare in
the New York supreme court ended in verdics
for the paintiff for SO, 900. The sum sued for
was $4,000, and the long trial was watched
with great interest by many clergymen and
laymen.
FIRE at Titusvile, Pa, resulted in the
destruction of the opera house and the Parshull
house and serious damage to other property.
A colored man was burned to doath, fireman
was seriously injured and the pecuniary dam
age inflicted is about 100000.
The First National bank, of Buffalo, N. Y,
has suspended. 1t had capital of 500, 900,
and the cause of the suspension is said to be due
to mismanagement.
THE great New York dry goods house of A.
T. Stewart & Co. announce that they have de-
termined to discontinue their dry goods and
manufacturing business, and offer their stocks
Of merchandise and mil properties for sale
Various causes are given for this action, one
being that Judge Hilton and Mr.. william
Libby, who constitute the firm having plenty
of money, do not care any longer to be bur
dened with the details of such vast business
JUDGE HILTON says that the firm of A. T.
Stewart 4 Co. was retiring from business be-
bauSc tIle pdllllClS were tHcu Ol lne uedNy
responsibility; that the firm was doing large
business and was solvent. 1t is estimated thl t
at tho death of A. 7. Stewart in 1876 s22, 000,-
600 were invested in the concern, including
stock, warehouses, mills and about 49, $780,
900 in ready cash. Leading New York dry
goods merchants declare that the house has
been declining ever since Mr.. Stewards death;
that the management was not good; that the
removal of the wholesale house uptown was a
great mistake and that Stewart & Co.'s trade
was seriously affected by the loss of Hebrew
patronage, occasioned by Judge Hilton's an
nouncement few summers ago that Jews were
not wanted as guests at the Grand Union hotel
Saratoga. Judge Hilton denies, however, that
any Hebrew patronage was lost by the firm.
R. j. S. THOMPSON, president of the Wash
ing Pa.) Savings bank, and Ruth, the cashier,
were arrested on the charge of conspiracy and
robbing the institution, and gave bail.
FIVE men were digging tunnel at Fishers
Ore bank, near Leesport, Pa, when the whole
mass of earth caved in. Two of the men were
killed and two others seriously injured.