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auf UT waons DUE '000'0cz$ TO umor avenworth, Lawrence and Galvesn railroad company for $500,000. is constitutes the entire assets of el debtor. The case was referred to e register for adjudication. waukee Special, 7th. The Milwaukee rolling mills were la to-day, pursuant to an order of e United states court. The comttee first mortgage bonds, nsisting of Messrs. David Ferguson, tt Keenan, and C. D. Nash, offered 80,000 in behalf of the holders of the nds. The committee on the second ortgage bonds, consisting of Messrs. ttt K enan. J. W. Tweed and S. P, rt, offered $180,000 in behalf of the Iders of the second mortgage bonds. e total bid was therefore, $360,000, which price the mills were sold. e talk is that the mills are now rtually the property of the Chicago, lwaukee and St. Paul company. w York Telegram, 4th. Merchants are growling loudly over e dullness of trade. The freight ubles have caused much uncertainty 1 retarded trade generally. Some ge sales are made through the ction rooms, but the prices obtained , low. Domestic wolens are in high nand. In foreign dry goods a slow vement is reported, but prices are 11 sustained. If aid does not soon ne to the suffering poor of Hoboken, ny will perish of starvation. There , five hundred and ninety-six destie families, with a total of 2,682 ils, entirely dependent upon charity support. Poormaster Lewis says knows of forty families in the ird ward, only two heads of which ve employment, and that for only ree days in a week at 85 cents a day. he suffering is great now," says he, ut it will be terrible if means are not ickly taken for relief. Last Thurs, in the driving storm of snow and nd, over two hundred poor people ne begging for relief. Barefooted men and starving children came. I 1 all I could for them, but at present : hands are tied. The cause of this treme poverty is the absolute stagtion of business. We have no nufactures to speak of; there is no ilding going on, and there is no rk doing on the docks." The legature has been applied to for imdiate relief. NORTHAMPTON Mass., Feb. 9.-The aydenville Savings bank, of which el Hayden, recently failed, is presint, has suspended payments on call depositors, requiring thirty day's tice. The announcement of Joel ayden's failure and his connection th the bank caused a heavy run. BOSTON, Feb. 9.-The Dorchester vings bank, of Dorchester, and the ekport Savings bank are both joined from doing further business. e Dorchester bank has deposits of 40,989, which will probably be paid time and the same may be said of e Rockport bank. which has deposits $192,060. Their suspension is due the gradual decrease of business and el decline in the value of real estate. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.--The credrs of C.J. Fell & Bro. met to-day d appointed a committee to investite the accounts of the firm. The bilities foot up $173,112 as follows: Ils payable, $25,580; open accounts, 47,531; assets, $228,076, as follows: nk accounts. $25,685; merchandise, 4,488; real estate, $157,922. The editors expressed considerable surise to bear that Wm. M. Clark.