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Miscellaneous.
Rochester, 26.—President Atkinson, of the Commercial Bank, has been appointed receiver of the City Bank, Rochester.
Wm. M. Evarts has accepted an invitation of the joint committee of Congress on the Newburgh, N. Y., centennial, to deliver the oration.
Indianapolis, 26.—The democratic committee of the Ninth Congressional District has nominated Judge Ward congressman-elect to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of G. S. Orth.
Cincinnati, O., 26.—The differences between the manufacturers and employes in the shoe trade, with reference to the schedule of wages for six months, ending June 20th next, is amicably adjusted by arbitration.
East Liverpool, O., 26.—Owing to the disturbed condition of affairs growing out of the potters strike, the mayor has issued a proclamation that all persons assembling on the streets or highways, or unlawfully congregating in buildings, or insulting citizens pursuing their work will be arrested and dealt with. Extra policemen are sworn in.
New York, 26.—The committee on grain, of the produce exchange, gave a decision upon the points in controversy between Lane & Son and Husted & Hazeltine, on the issue arising out of the late corner in grain. The decision states that the deliveries were made in accordance with the rules of the produce exchange, and that Husted & Hazeltine must pay Lane the full amount of the claim, $17,336, with interest from Nov. 29th, 1882, and that the charges of fraud and conspiracy against Lane & Son have not been sustained.
Boston, 26.—It having been reported that the California Southern railroad will be operated in connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, the latter company states that the report is not correct.
Philadelphia, 26.—The suspension of Heidel, London, stock-broker, is announced. Liabilities not heavy.
Toronto, 26.—Patterson Bros., wholesale millinery, have made an assignment. Liabilities are said to be large.
New York, 26.—The match game of rackets for the championship of the world and $500, between Joseph Gray, English champion, and Henry Bookes, champion of America, was won by Gray.
Montgomery, Ala., 26—All quiet at Opelika. The sheriff has a force sufficient to maintain order and sustain the commissioners.
Montreal, 26.—A local paper asserts that Vanderbilt has taken an interest in the Canadian Pacific railroad.
The boot and shoe factories are all at work again.
Washington, 26.—The president has issued an executive order setting apart certain lands in Dakota Territory for the settlement of a band of Chippewa Indians and such other Indians of Chippewa tribe as the secretary of the interior may see fit to settle thereon.
Savannah, Ga., 26.—A fire in Wellman's warehouse damaged 800 bales of cotton about 40 per cent.
New York, 26.—At a meeting of the creditors of J. A. and W. H. Sweeney, suspended bankers, Jas. A. promised that every cent due should be paid.
North Adams, Mass., 26.—At Hartwellville, to-day, while Fred Williams and Marshall Mason were looking at an engine, an explosion took place. They were instantly killed, the bodies being horribly mangled. Thirty tons of rock were removed; a thirty pound rock with the body of the boy were lifted into the air and carried four rods.
Hartford, Ct., 26.—A meeting of about 400 tobacco growers of Connecticut and Massachusetts was held here and organized the New England association for mutual benefit and protection. Speeches were made favoring higher duty on Sumatra tobacco, which is seriously injuring the New England growers of cigar wrappers. Chairman Phelps favored a tax of $1 a pound on foreign tobacco, with rebate or fillers, the aim being to shut out foreign wrappers. The resolution was finally adopted, asking Congress to place $1 a pound on all foreign tobacco imported into this country except the tobacco raised in or shipped from Cuba, and urging Congress to take such action as will either relieve our tobacco-growing industry from the burden of the tax entirely, or so reduce it, as in the judgment of Congress may best appear. The convention lacked harmony.
Bellaire, Ohio, 26.—The republicans of the seventeenth congressional district have nominated Colonel J. D. Taylor, of Cambridge for the vacancy in Congress caused by the death of J. D. Updegraff.
Cleveland, O., 26.—A special announces that the stockholders of the Second National Bank at Jefferson met and voted to go into voluntary liquidation in consequence of the defalcation of the cashier and assistant cashier. Depositors are to be paid in full, and the stockholders will receive about 50 per cent. on their stock. This indicates a defa
