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Telegraphicalities. The Tuscumbia (Ala.) Banking Company closed its doorsyesterday morning. The Hudson (Wis.) Savings Bank closed it doors yesterday owing to the stringency of the money market. The Manitoba and Northwest railway has been placed in the hands of a receiver on judgments aggregating $8,000,000. The Citizens' National Bank, of Hills. boro', O., has been closed by order of the Comptroller and is now in the hands of a bank examiner. New York Port-Appraiser Manville W. Cooper yesterday evening sent to Presi. dent Cleveland a letter resigning his office and asking that his resignation take effect at once. The Lehigh-Valley trestle and coal storage warehouses, containing 60,000 tons of anthracite coal, at Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire last evening. Loss about $500,000. Insurance unknown. Francis P. King, of Johns Hopkins University, and S. W. McCallie, of the University of Tennessee, were yesterday appointed Assistant State Geologists of Georgia under Professor Yeates. The Louisiana Cypress Lumber Com. pany, New Orleans, went into the hands of a receiver Thursday, the cause being the depression in the money market. Assets nominally $300,000; indebtedness probably $200,000. Six masked men held up the New Orleans express on the Mobile and Ohio railroad at Forest Lawn, eight miles north of Columbia, III.. Thursday night. robbed the express car of $10,000 in cash and valuables worth a large amount. A fire at Fayetteville, Ga. yesterday evening destroyed the drugstore of N. Grizzard, the stores of C. P. Yates, containing the post-office: also the stores of R. G. Kitchens & Co. and S. A. Burks. Loss about $10,000. Insurance small. The Infanta Eulalie yesterday spent some hours sightseeing in the fair upon her own account unannounced and in company with only three or four persons Last evening she met Chicago's Four Hundred" at Potter Palmer's residence. Ira Dumas, a young colored man, was lynched Wednesday night at Gleason, a railway station nine miles east of Dresden. Tenn., for feloniously assaulting the daughter of a farmer living two miles from Dresden. He made a full confession. Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co. state that large deposits have already been made and are still being made of securities of the Richmond Terminal properties under the reorganization plan. This is the last day on which securities will be received subject to the agreement. A special from Greenville, S. C., savs two white men in Pickens county who had been in the habit of visiting a colored woman were waylaid by White Caps. who were white women in disguise, and were terribly flogged. They were warned to desist from their habits or worse would fol. low. Lieutenant William P. Rav. United States Navy, commanding the United States Coast-Survey steatner Arthur, committed suicide at the Mare-Island Naval Hospital, California, yesterday by cutting throat. He was suffering from nervous prostration. He was a native of Indiana, and leaves a family. A committee representing the Commercia! National Bank. of Nashville, Tenn., had a conference with Comptroller Eckels yesterday, but he refused to reduce his assessment upon the stockholders of 100 per cent.. though he agreed to distribute its collection over a longer period than two weeks. The fire in the ruins of the Ville Marie Convent. near Montreal. Can., is still smouldering. Nothing is left but bare walls. It IS now estimated that the loss will amount to about $1,500,000. to meet which there is an insurance of only $100,000. The convent is, however, to be re. built at once.
