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Broken Bank. DETROIT, June 6.-The banking house of Leroy, Moore & Co., of Greenville, this State, suspended to day. They claim as the reason of their suspension that the banks of Detroit and elsewhere refused to further rediscount their paper. It is also claimed that the assets will double the liabilities, but no statement has as yet been made.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS THE Senate was not in session on the 6th. The House went into committee of the whole on the private calendar, with Mr. Wellborn, of Texas in the chair. THE National Republican Convention at Chicago completed its labors on the 6th by nominating on the fourth ballot James G. Blaine, of Maine, for President, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, was unanimously nominated for Vice-President. Robert T. Lincoln declined to allow his name to go before the Convention as a candidate for Vice-President. In many parts of the country where the Blaine element predominated the nomination of the Maine man was celebrated by the firing of cannon and other demonstrations. LEROY, MOORE & Co., bankers, Greenville, Mich., have suspended. AT the London wool sales on the 6th 9,443 bales were disposed of. BEGINNING with July, pig-iron imported into Russia will pay a duty of nine copecks. THE Kennesaw Manufacturing Company, Memphis, Tenn., made an assignment on the 6th. Liabilities, $86,000. A MAN named Leech, charged with embezzlement in New York, was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th, and was taken back to the metropolis. THE militia committee of Louisiana has reported in favor of giving each disabled Confederate soldier 168 acres of land. A DISASTROUS conflagration in the business center of Galveston, Tex., on the 6th, destroyed property aggregating about $100,000 in value. A DECLINE on whisky at Cincinnati is regarded as conclusive proof that the pool has been disrupted. Highwines have also dropped. A LONG standing feud between the Bridges and Barnett families, in Wayne Township, near Indianapolis, Ind., culminated on the 6th. The wives of both parties joined in the fight. The Barnetts were fatally wounded. THE United States Circuit Court in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th granted the application of the receivers of the Wabash to issue certificates for $2,000,000 to pay certain obligations of the road matured and maturing. THE House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report the bill providing for the forfeiture of 85,000 acres of land immediately north, of Sioux City, Ia., which is claimed by the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad Company. THE failures for seven days ended the 6th in the United States numbered 199; Canada, 16. Total, 215. C. W. RICHARDSON was found guilty at Cincinnati, O., on the 6 h of murder in the first degree, for killing Theodore Ingram, his brother-in-law. THE Morton incident will be interpolated in the French Assembly.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL THE Attorney-General of the State Pennsylvania has gone to Pittsburgh vestigate the Penn Bank failure. di THE recent frosts in Canada damage than was at first feared. prospects are encouraging. FOURTEEN members of the ice tranded My, are brig Confederate, in Notre:Dame reported lost. A stranger stricken with paralysis in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 3d, had $4,136 his person wrapped in a Shelbyville (III.) newspaper. DELEGATES to the Georgia State Convention are all known to be for Tilden. Three fourths of the counties 80 instructed. GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, of Missouri, has sent a requisition to the Governor of Illinois for D. F. Scott, in jail at Chicago, charged with robbing a Chicago & Alton freight car at Mexico, Mo. WM. H. VANDERBILT sailed from Liverpool on the 5th for New York. The Montana Territorial Democratic delegates are for Tilden Hendricks. SADIE HAYS, who murdered Police Sergeant Jenks in St. Louis, has been sentenced to be hanged July 18. THREE thousand bales of cotton were burned in a warehouse fire at Liverpool on the 5th. THE American cricketers met the Irish players on the 4th and defeated them. GOVERNOR HOADLY, of Ohio officially recommends that the State be well represented at the World's Exposition at New Orleans. THE Emperor of Germany gave a State banquet to the Czarina, on the 4th, with an operatic performance later in the evening. THE injunction suit restraining the Knights of Honor from removing the headquarters from Louisville, Ky., to St. Louis, Mo., has been withdrawn. ACCORDING to the assignee's report the Penn Bank owes individual depositors $1,466,205.05; amount of over-drafts, $1,250, 953.90. THE Democrats of the Seventh Ohio District have nominated Hon. George E. Seney for re-election to Congress and declared in favor of the "old ticket" of 1876. AT the annual election of directors of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, the Vanderbilt people were defeated by the Cable party. EARL GRANVILLE is preparing a note to Washington relating to the collection of conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United States. THE liabilities of ex-President James D. Fish of the Marine Bank are placed at $4, 230,281 in the schedule filed; nominal value of assets, $4,178,392; estimated actual value, $582,594. THE French parliamentary committee has made a favorable report on the importation of salted American meats after minute inspection. The importation of fresh meats from countries where trichinosis exists is prohibited. GENERAL WM. T. SHERMAN, spoken of as a "dark horse" at Chicago, on being interviewed, declared that he would decline not only the nomination if tendered him, but would not serve if elected President of the United States. THE six people murdered near Pleasanton, Kas., have been identified as the family of John H. Anderson, an improvident farmer. Officers have a clue and are after the perpetrator of the crime. THE United Presbyterian Assembly, which met in St. Louis, Mo., adjourned sine die on the 4th. Those opposed to the use of organs in the churches are to meet in Xenia, o., to discuss the feasibility of seceding from the Church. THE Democrats of the Fifth Pennsylvania District have nominated Paris Haldeman for Congress. RAILROAD COMMISSIONER FINK announces that an agreement of advance in freight tariffs will be made as soon as all pools areperfected and all questions relating to the maintenance ofrates are settled. THE chief dynamiters in Paris declare that the authors of the recent London explosions have escaped and are now safe, Another outrage is being planned. FRANCIS J. CARSTANT, aged fifty-four, janiter and porter of the Mechanics' National Bank, New York, was shot the night of the 4th by Edward H. Brickerhoof, aged fifty-seven, night watchman of the bank, The and probably mortally wounded. shooting was the result of an old feud. JOHN T. EMERY, ticket broker; Columbus, O., committed suicide on the 5th. THE American cricketers easily defeated the Irish club at Dublin, on the 5th. THE Cincinnati News-Journal was sold atauction on the 5th to Edgar M. Johnson for $25,000. MR. LOWELL, United States Minister to England has intimated his intention of resigning. MULDOON, the wrestler, won a match over Martino, at Cincinnati the evening of the 5th, the purse being $1,000. A TWO CENT morning daily called 'the Sun, and independent in politics, made its appearance in Cincinnati on the 5th. THE Grand Lodge of Masons at London, Eng., adopted resolutions expressing regret at the recent anti-Masonic encyclical letter of the Pope. THE net earnings of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for the year amounted to nine per cent. on all outstanding common and preferred stock. FURTHER returns from the Oregon election indicate that the Republicans have a good working majority in both branches of the Legislature and the member of Congress. COLONEL THOMAS BUFORD, the Kentuckian. who shot Judge Elliott, has been returned to the asylum in a dying condition. THE Parliament of Great Britain reassembled on the 5th. The matter of communication with the United States Government in reference todynamite.outrages was brought up. THE Indiana, Bloomington & Western round-house at Columbus, O., suddenly fell on the 5th, severely injuring five men, but killing none. Loss, $2,000. an THE one hundred and thirty-se venth nual meeting of the Evangelical atheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent States met on the 5th at Reading, Pa, Four hundred ministerial and lay delegates were present. LEROY, MOORE & Co., bankers, Greenville, Mich., have suspended. AT the London wool sales on the 6th 9,443 bales were disposed of. BEGINNING with July, imported into Russia will pay a duty of nine coo pecks.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ON the 6th Leroy, Moore & Co., bankers, Greenville, Mich., suspended. ONE Leech, charged with embezzlement in New York, was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th, and was taken back to the metropolis. THE London Times regards Blaine's nom ination a strong one for the party, but other journals there think it decidedly weak. OVERTURES have been made by Bismarck to Granville, British Foreign Secretary, regarding the cession of Walfish Bay on the west coast of Africa. LANGE and O'Donnell, of Cleveland, O., and Moriarity, of Toronto, Ont., charged with prize-fighting, were arraigned in Toronto on the 6th. Lange was fined forty dollars and costs or forty days imprisonment and the others were discharged. COURTNEY failed to put in an appearance against Ross on the 7th, and the latter rowed over the course. ON the 7th General James Watson Webb died in New York. JOHN W. MASON, of West irginia, has been elected temporary chairman of the National Republican Committee. THE President of the Red Cross Society, Miss Clara Barton, reports vast tracks of country along the Lower Mississippi still under water and much distress among the people. THE firm of Donnell, Lawson & Simpson have received replies from over one-half in amount of their creditors accepting their proposition, and "confidently expect to resume" shortly. WADDINGTON and Granville have come to an understanding concerning the conference on Egyptian affairs. THE noted song writer and composer, Henry C. Work, died the evening of the 8th of heart disease. "Marching Through Georgia," "Grandfather's Clock" and "Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now," were written by him. JOHN R. MCLEAN, of the Cincinnati Emquirer, has taken possession of the NewsJournal property, the court having confirmed the sale to Johnson, trustee. The Sun succeeds the News-Journal. INTENSE excitement prevailed among the Orangemen of Ireland over Earl Spencer's proelamation forbidding a counter demonstration to the Nationalists at Newry on the 8th. Thousands of Orangemen arrived at Belfast from England, determined to hold a meeting. ARCHBISHOP RYAN, it is intimated, will go to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. PRINCE BISMARCK will send his son Herbert to direct the German Legation at the Hague. ON the 10th the California delegation to Chicago visited Mr. Blaine at his home in Main. THE treaty prepared by Admiral Hewett has been accepted by King John of Abyssinia. JOHN HALL, United States Marshal, was arrested at Washington, Pa., on the 9th, charged with making false returns. ON the 9th General Abe Buford, of Kentucky, committed suicide at Danville, Ind. Cause, depleted pocket-book and family troubles.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS THE Senate was not in session on the 6th. The House went into committee of the whole on the private calendar, with Mr. Wellborn, of Texas in the chair. THE National Republican Convention at Chicago completed its labors on the 6th by nominating on the fourth ballot James G. Blaine, of Maine, for President, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, was unanimously nominated for Vice-President. Robert T. Lincoln declined to allow his name to go before the Convention as a candidate for Vice-President. In many parts of the country where the Blaine element predominated the nomination of the Maine man was celebrated by the firing of cannon and other demonstrations. LEROY, MOORE & Co., bankers, Greenville, Mich., have suspended. AT the London wool sales on the 6th 9,443 bales were disposed of. BEGINNING with July, pig-iron imported into Russia will pay a duty of nine copecks. THE Kennesaw Manufacturing Company, Memphis, Tenn., made an assignment on the 6th. Liabilities, $36,000. A MAN named Leech, charged with embezzlement in New York, was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th, and was taken back to the metropolis. THE militia committee of Louisiana has reported in favor of giving each disabled Confederate soldier 168 acres of land. A DISASTROUS conflagration in the business center of Galveston, Tex., on the 6th, destroyed property aggregating about $100,000 in value. A DECLINE on whisky at Cincinnati is regarded as conclusive proof that the pool has been disrupted. Highwines have also dropped. A LONG standing feud between the Bridges and Barnett families, in Wayne Township, near Indianapolis, Ind., culminated on the 6th. The wives of both parties joined in the fight. The Barnetts were fatally wounded. THE United States Circuit Court in St. Louis, Mo., on the 6th granted the application of the receivers of the Wabash to issue certificates for $2,000,000 to pay certain obligations of the road matured and maturing. THE House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report the bill providing for the forfeiture of 85,000 acres of land immediately north of Sioux City, Ia., which is claimed by the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad Company. THE failures for seven days ended the 6th in the United States numbered 199; Canada, 16. Total, 215. C. W. RICHARDSON was found guilty at Cincinnati, O., on the 6 h of murder in the first degree, for killing Theodore Ingram, his brother-in-law. THE Morton incident will be interpolated in the French Assembly.