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# NEWS. IN BRIEF
## GENERAL FORHIGN NOTES.
THE official report of the investigations into the affairs of the City of Glasgow Bank, Just Issued, is worse than the most gloomy forebodings, The loss shown in the balance sheet is £5,190,983. This loss, with the addition of £1,000,000 capital, the shareholders will have to make good. A call for £500 per share is anticipated, which it is thought half the stockholders will be unable to meet. The remainder of the shareholders will thus ultimately be compelled to pay double.
THE glut of cotton goods in Lancashire, England, is simply unprecedented. At Preston, Nimpio's mille with 30,000 spindless and Sharples baill with $2,500 spindles, have cessed running. Herrocks, Miller & Co., the best known firm in the north of England, have adopted measures to restrict production in their mills.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is endeavoring to raise a religious war among the Mohammedans of central Asia, against England.
DIFFERENCES have arisen between the English and Russian delegates on the Servian boundary commission.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the presentation of his credentials, the Ottoman ambassador to Vienna was ordered to declare to Count Andrassy that the porte would be compelled to oppose, by arms, the advance of Austrian troops upon Novi Bazar.
A LONDON dispatch of the 14th says: Heugh, Balfour & Co's. liabilities are now estimated at over $10,000,000. Six of the largest firms of Blackburn are creditors and lose from $25,000 to $100,000 each.
AN understanding has been reached regarding the reduction of the Austrian army of occupation in Bosnia. Eighty thousand troops will be withdrawn from Bosnia. The remaining divisions will be reduced to a peace footing.
## THE EAST.
AUSTIN C. WELLINGTON, coal dealer, Boston, Mass., has failed, liabileties, $174,000; assets $57,000.
ADMIRAL PAULDING, senior flag officer on the retired list of the navy, son of the capter of Major Andre, and last surviving officer of the battle of Champlain, died on the 20th inst at Huntington, L. I.
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO., have received their discharge in bankruptey
THE two-mile sculling race for a purse of $2,000 between Edward Morris and Fred Plaisted, was seulled over the Fuiton course, at Pittsburg, Pa., on the 18th inst., and won by the former who crossed the line about three lengths ahead of his opponent. Time 13:45.
IT has been ordered that work in the mines at Pottsville, Pa., be commenced. Additional allottment to the Philadelphia and Reading companies being about 170,000 tons, it will give miners another week's work for October. After finishing the extra allottments, it is likely work wiil be continued without interruption until the November quota of 343,500 tons is fiiled, requiring two weeks wo
QUITE a sensation was caused at Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 16th, by the resignation of assistant district attorney Hoxie. He accompanied his resignation with a written confession that he had lost in Wall street moneys entrusted to him as a government official. The amount of his defalcation is supposed to be large.
THE Vermont legislature on the 15th inst. re-elected Justin J. Morril to the United States senate.
ARTHUR CHENEY, manager of the Globe theater, Boston, died at South Manchester, Conn., on the 15th inst.
THE defaulting mill cashier, George T. Hathaway, was arraigned at Taunton, Mass., on the 14th, and sentenced to, ten years in the state prison. The prisoner wept profusely.
THE First National bank of Tomaqua, Pa, has suspended, owing to the failure of Chas. T. Schoener, of Phila., who was a principal stockholder. Assets $150,000.
## THE WEST.
THE exposition which closed at Chicago on the 19th instant, was the most largely attended of any previously held.
ROBERT HARRIS, a well-known Chicago railroad man, has been appointed general manager of the New York, Lake Erie and western railroad.
Naws has been received from Malad, Idaho, that 40 or 50 persons, sentenced to fine and imprisonment for cutting timber for the Utah and and Northern railroad are pardoned by the secretary of the navy, and fines remitted; the railroad company to pay for the timber.
THE California constitutional convention at San Francisco, on the 16th inst., adopted a memorial to the president and senate of the United States, to so modify the Burlingame treaty as to prohibit Chinese immigration.
FATHER R. C. CHRISTIE, a well-known Catholic priest, who made an enviable war record as chaplain of Pennsylvania troops, died at St. Francis Hospital, Columbus, O., on the 16th inst. His remains were taken to Edenburg, Pa., for burial
S. H. BURKE, a stockholder, has entered suit against the Consolidated Virginia mining company and the Pacific mill and mineing company, to recover $26,000, alleged to -have been wrongfully diverted from the stockholders of the Consolidated Virginia by manipulation of ore and retention of tailing of the company.
A SEVERE storm prevailed west of the Rocky mountains on the 13th and 14th inst., interfering with business communication. Snow fell at Virginia City, Nevada, and rain -fell throughout California.
A GANG of thirty tramps who encamped uear Terre Haute, Ind., and were committing depredations, was scattered by the authorities on the 12th inst., after a desperate fight.
## WASHINGTON,
GREEN C. CHANDLER has been appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi.
THE secretary of the treasuary has appointed a special committee to visit the bond paper manufacturing establishments, with the view to obtain the fibre paper for bonds and notes at cheaper than present rates.
GEN. HOWARD telegraphs from, Fort Vancouver, that'a Umatilla Indian was murdered on the 29th ult. by white men, and that the Umatillas have within three weeks lost 500 horses taken by whites. He asks: "Cannot the United States district attorney be
