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# NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To show the very age and body of the Times."
A sad affair happened in Montgomery county. Md., some days ago. John H. Nichols, of Howard county, went over to his brother in-law's, in Montgomery county, who keeps a store midway between Laurel and Sandy Springs. Some altercation took place between them on Thursday night, which resulted in Simms firing two shots from his pistol, one of which took effect in Nichols's side—the other passed through his wife's hand, and also his hand. Nichols was taken home, and died on Saturday night following.
The dead lock in the financial circles of New York, consequent upon the struggles of the preceding days, continued yesterday. The Gold Exchange Bank has yet made no settlement, and its affairs are further complicated by injunctions which have been laid upon it to prevent its paying over deposits and checks. The courts have been appealed to, and Belden, McKinney and Hooper are in demand by the officers armed with writs, who are anxiously looking after them.
Application will be made at the next session of Parliament for a charter for a Union Pacific railway, to be constructed from a point on the eastern boundary of British Columbia, with power to improve navigation leading to and from Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. Also for a charter to run a railway from Pembina, via Fort Garry, to appoint on Lake Winnipez or Sasketchewan river, with power to improve navigation to Sasketchewan.
A side wheel steamer named the Helen Brooks, built of iron, and but sixty five feet in length, has arrived at Chicago from Baltimore. It came through the New York and Erie canal to the lakes, and thence around to Chicago. It will leave Chicago for Bayou Teche, Louisiana, via the Illinois and Michigan canal to the Illinois river, thence to the Mississippi river and its place of destination.
We stated yesterday, that Griffin, the man charged with being the cause of the Mast Hope railroad disaster, had been acquitted. On Saturday the Judge administered to the jury a severe rebuke for allowing him to thus escape, and in closing his remarks said: "I trust that the spirits of the dead, dying, bleeding and burnt victims of Mast Hope will haunt you as long as you live."
All applications for clerkships or appointments in the several Departments must hereafter be sent to the Departments direct, and not to the White House as heretofore. They will not be considered at the Executive Mansion or forwarded thence to the Departments. Applicants will facilitate their business by attending to this notice.
The case enjoining the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore from hypothecating Baltimore and Ohio railroad stock to the amount of one million of dollars, to aid in the construction of the Western Maryland Railroad, will be called for argument in the Md. Court of Appeals, at Annapolis, on the 5th of October next.
The public debt statement for the 1st proximo will show a further decrease of several millions, though the precise amount cannot yet be given. The receipts of internal revenue for September will reach nearly $13,000,000, or about three millions more than in the corresponding month of 1868.
A fortnight ago Wm. Anderson, the veteran comedian, died, in the eighty second year of his age, at the almshouse in New York. Although unknown to the present generation, Mr. Anderson was a veteran in the theatrical profession, and in his prime occupied a prominent position as an actor.
The town of Worcester, Mass., voted on Monday on the question of subscribing $200,000 to the stock of a railroad which is designed to extend the connection of that place with an adjoining railroad. The vote in favor of the subscription was surprisingly strong, more than twenty to one.
The business of Messrs. O. Ames & Sons, the great shovel manufacturers at the North, having suffered from drunkenness among some of the workmen, a rule has been adopted to discharge every man found drunk unless he will disclose and testify in court where he obtained his liquor.
The suit in the alleged $600,000 defalcation of General Steadman, ex-Collector of Internal Revenue in New Orleans, is declared by his friends to be not for the purpose of a criminal prosecution, but to enable the Government to post its books.
Bowen, the confessed author of the Carr's Rock slaughter on the Erie road, for his share in that horrible disaster, was, on Saturday afternoon sentenced to a fine of $10,000 and an imprisonment for ten years. The former expiation he certainly cannot pay, the latter he probably will.
In pursuance of an act of Congress, the property of the U.S. at Harper's Ferry and vicinity is to be sold November 30. It includes musket and rifle factories, the Shenandoah ferry, houses and lots in the town, lands, water power, the right to dig iron ore, &c.
The financial squall that swept New York at the close of last week is bringing specie to this country from the banks of France and England as well as from private treasuries. Our dispatches specify large sums, without furnishing an aggregate.
Advices from St. Thomas state that three shocks of earthquake occured on the 17th. Stores were closed and business suspended throughout the city. No lives were lost so far as known. General alarm prevailed.
John D. Culver, a broker of St. Catherines, Canada, absconded Saturday night, taking with him from $20,000 to $25,000. Several banks are sufferers, as well as numbers of business men.
Official information received at the Navy Department, shows that the damage done by the recent storm to the shipping and buildings in the eastern navy yards amounts to $30,000.
Alexander H. Stephens passed through Knoxville the other day, closely wrapped in shawls, although the thermometer stood at eighty-five degrees.
The natives about Plover Bay, on the North Pacific coast, have plundered and destroyed
