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NEW YORK. Bank Matters. NEW YORK, August 16. The excitement continues over the suspension of the Long Island Savings Bank. John C. Perry. counsel for the bank, has issued a card this morning, declaring the solvency of the institution. Aid for St. John. Sheridan makes report of $550, the receipts of the entertainment in Union Square theatre, for the benefit of the St. John sufferers. Suicide. Jarvis Woolmad, a prominent Trentou mer" chant, blew out his brains yesterday. He leaves a wife and four children. Political. A Columbus despatch says the anti-Hayes committee are receiving a vast number of letters commending the movement. Gen. Beatty says 20,000 republicans will refuse to vote for the Ohio State ticket. Grain Markets. A despatch from the United States minister to Greece asserts that the United States can now and henceforth control to a large extent the grain markets of Europe. Russia has been our only competitor in this trade. British capitalists are now building six large sized iron vessels for the transportation of breadstuffs from our shores, on English account. We should not only strain every nerve to meet the increased demands of Europe for breadstuffs, but should also supply ships to carry the same. Gold. Gold opened at 105 1-4. An Assault. James Weldermott was terribly cut with a knife last evening, by Honora McComick. She charges that Weldermott ruined her. She subsequently married happily in San Francisco, but some one revealed her former intrigue with Wildermott. Her husband deserted her and she came east to kill her betrayer. A later despatch says Mrs. McCormick states that she cut him in defence of her honor, he attempting rape. She denies the paramour story. Wildermott will probably die. Vanderbilt's Gift. The auditor of Vanderbilt's roads says he is busy dividing Vanderbilt's $100,000 gift. It will be distributed early in September to the men connected with the running of trains on all branches of the New York Central Railroad, except the Harlem division, and not including station masters and freight house workmen. About 8,000 will share in the money. The Turf. UTICA, August 16. Jennie Hatton won the 1st race to-day; best time, 2.22. Three heats of the second race were trotted. Comee, Prospero, Hanna, May Bird and Slow Go started. The latter was the favorite. Comee won the 1st and 2d heats and May Bird the 3d, when a shower compelled a postponement. Time. 2.20 3.4, 2.21, 2.21 Arrested. Rev. John Matthews, head waiter at the West End hotel at Long Branch, who led the religious exercises there Sundays for the servants, and several other waiters have been arrested for stealing bed clothing, table linen and goods belonging to the guests at the hotel. Most of the stolen property was recovered. Destructive Fires. The Davis mill and elevator burned to-day at Topeka. Loss, $26,000. The oil works of Denslow & Bush, at the foot of 25th street, Brooklyn, took fire to-night from some unknown cause, and beforethe flames could be extinguished a damage of about $7,000 was done. The burning oil made a great conflagration, and about one thousand empty kerosene barrels were consumed. Indicted. Wm. E King, an employee of the city finance department, supposed to be intimately connected with the ring transactions, has had four indictments found against him by the general sessions grand jury, for defrauding the city. King is in Brazil, where he fled at the time the frauds were discovered. Court Matters. Judge Van Brunt has ordered the Dominion nuns to give up an 11 year old daughter of Mr. Healey to her father, she having been placed in the nunnery by her mother, unknown to her father. Cholera. There was a case of Asiatic cholera in this city, last night. Sentenced. Justice Maurice Marshall of Jersey City has been sentenced to jail for thirty days, for beating his wife. Death. R. T. Daniels, Attorney General of Virginia, died at Richmond, to-day, aged 72 years. Fatal Railroad Accident. The seven year old daughter of Pat McCarty was killed by a train on the Conn. River road, at Northampton, this evening. Suicide. John Stone of Claremont, N. H., committed suicide by hanging, to day. Fatal Accident. By the falling of a safe, to-day, one negro was killed and three whitemen and four negroes injured at Savannah. Work Resumed. The Atlantic & Georges Creek Coal Miding Co. resumed work to-day, at 55 cents. Also the Swanton Co., at the same rate. CUBA.
