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Abbreviated Dispatches. The corner stone of the first homeopathic insane asylum in America was laid at Middletown, N. Y., Saturday. The Hamilton (Cal.) stage was recently stopped by six highwaymen and the treasurer's box taken. The passengers were unmolested. Chief of Police McWilliams of Jersey City, on trial for complicity in burglary, was tried yesterday, denying point blank all the burglars Dennan and Proctor had sworn to. The race between Occident and Lucy, which was to have taken place in California, Saturday, was postponed on account of the rain. Notice will be given when it will take place. The intended unveiling of the Scott monument at New York has been postponed until further notice on account of the unpleasant weather. Charity Litts, on trial at Monticello, N. Y, for the murder by poison of her husband in September, 1871, has been acquitted. John Davis, indicted as an accomplice, was discharged. The convention of the general Christian missionary society at Louisville, Friday, appointed the evening of the third Wednesday of November as a day of prayer throughout the churches for the prosperity of missions. A Puerto Principe private letter announces the successful arrival of a small expedition which left Puerto Plata with a few arms and a good supply of powder and lead for the Cuban insurgents. Sunday morning, a passenger train on the Reading railroad, near Bridgeport, Pa., collided with a coal train. Edwards, the engineer, jumped from the engine, and was killed. No other casualties. Cross & Co.'s cotton mills at Bolton, England, were destroyed by fire Friday night. These mills were among the most extensive in the town, and employed 41,000 spindles. A large number of operatives have been thrown out of work by the conflagration. The flues of the steam boiler at Graves' ship yard, Norfolk, exploded Saturday, killing Peter Evans, colored engineer in charge, and Peter Tynes, who was passing along the street. Several were injured. A dispatch was received at Washington from Montgomery, Saturday, which said that troops were being stationed throughout Alabama. On inquiry at the war department it was ascertained that not more than two companies have been distributed at the three or four points in that state. The accident at Elizabeth, Friday, was more serious than at first reported; passengers were thrown from their seats, several injured, and many of the cars were smashed. The trains Saturday morning were delayed in consequence of the accident. Wm. Teller, paying and receiving teller of the state bank of Virginia, is missing. He left the keys of the bank and a note intimating suicide, but was seen at the southern depot yesterday morning and left on the train. An investigation at the bank shows that he had certified checks which were not good. The amount of the defalcation is not known, but will probably reach $40,000. The card of M. J. Wicks, president of the Memphis savings bank, in Saturday morning's papers, announcing the suspension of that bank, was the all-absorbing topic yesterday, as that institution has been regarded as one of the safest in the country. Its reported liabilities are $175,000, though they may exceed that amount. The heaviest losers are the Southern Railway Security company and Carolina Life Insurance company, the former's loss being nearly $150,000.
