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LATE NEWS!
General.
The Farmers' and Traders' Bank, at Lexington, Ky., has suspended.
The loss by a fire on Fulton street, New York, March 12th was $33,000.
At Marlboro, Mass., March 12th, the Acton powder mill blew up, killing two men.
P. J. S. Trumble, a banker and a large dealer in grain at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, has failed.
Charles L. Wilson, proprietor of the Evening Journal, Chicago, died in that city a few days ago.
The Fall River manufacturers have voted a fifteen per cent reduction of wages, beginning April 1-t.
The main building of the county poor at Roscowen, N. H., burned March 19th. $18,000. No lives lost.
Two men were killed at King's Mountain, Ky., March 14th by the explosion of the boiler of a portable engine.
Joseph H. Marks, St. Louis, a south commission merchant, has suspended, with liabilities amounting to $110,000.
Hiatt, Reed & Co., wholesale dealers in hats and straw goods, New York, have suspended. Liabilities, $90,000.
A collision of coal trains near Pottsville, Pa., March 13th, resulted in the wrecking of 30 cars, and killing John A. Commisky.
The American Brush Company's factory at New Haven, Conn., was burned by an incendiary, March 13th. Loss, $25,000.
A fire at Jersey City, March 11th, made about 100 persons houseless. The breaking of a ladder fatally injured two persons.
Another fire visited Hot Springs, Ark., on the morning of March 15th. Four buildings were destroyed. Loss from $10,000 to $15,000.
On the 14th of March, at Yonkers, N. Y., Theron Marrit shot and killed Mrs. Samuel Leggett, and then shot and killed himself.
Rev. Rrown Coble (colored), was hanged at Winchester, Tenu., March 14th, for the murder of Felix Gardiner (colored), June 23, 1876.
The new silver dollar appeared in Wall street, N. Y., on the morning of March 14th. Buyers paid a fraction above par in gold for them.
Miller, the associate of Richard Green in the murder of Hughes, for which Green was hung at Kansas City, a few days ago, has been found guilty.
A. N. Robinson, who was treasurer at the time of the robbery of the Clermont county treasury, at Batavia, Ohio, has been arrested for the crime.
George Johnson, the murderer of the negro ferryman, Alfred, was hung at Rome, Ga., March 15th. He confessed having committed four murders.
At Harrisburg, Pa., March, 11th, two children named Wood were fatally, and two others seriously, burned by the explosion of coal-oil, with which the oldest was lighting a fire.
The medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, March 15th, graduated 187 students, and conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on John Welsh, U. S. Minister to England.
Miss Mary, Hampton, a prominent teacher in the public schools of Memphis, Tennessee, has been charged with forging the names of the superintendent and other prominent persons to notes, on which she obtained from the banks and private parties $3,500.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., have received an official appointment as organ makers to King Oscar of Sweden. The King is quite a musician, and having obtained one of these American organs for his own use was so much pleased with it that he conferred this honor on its makers.
A bill has been introduced into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives which makes cremation of the human body a misdemeanor, and provides a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, with imprisonment, and makes it the duty of constables, sheriffs, and other officers, to enforce the act under penalty of prosecution.
A run on the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank began March 14th, and developed into a general panic. The commissioners examining the securities, after deducting all depreciation which the assets had suffered, and allowing $167,000 to pay the interest falling due April 1st, reported that the bank would still have a surplus of $420,000.
The Pennsylvania Colonization Society has authorised the American Society to send, at its expense, fifteen emigrants to Liberia. They will leave on the first of May, and will locate at the flourishing settlement of Brewerville, ten miles from Monrovia. It was named in honor of the late Charles Brewer, of Pittsburg, by whose generosity many emigrants have been enabled to make their way to Liberia.
The Cincinnati Gazette has published dispatches from fifty-seven points in southern Indiana and Ohio, and northern Kentucky, from which it appears that the prospect for a large crop of wheat is exceedingly good. The average area last fall is larger than ever before known. Not one report is unfavorable, though from a few points there are apprehensions of a rank growth.
A heavy robbery was committed in the Leichmere National Bank, Cambridge, Mass., about 3 o'clock, March 16th. A small trunk containing $8,000 was taken, and two other trunks, containing $47,000 in government bonds, the property of different individuals, left in the bank. It is supposed from certain facts, ascertained, that the robbery was committed.
