Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK.

v ▲ FLURRY IN STOCKS. The week opened with decidedly a buoyant feeling on the Stock Exchange, and, under an active buying movement, tee entire list of speculative shares recorded an advanoe. The Vanderbilt properties and granger shares attracted the chief attention. Lake Shore being especially active and buoyant, and rising over S per cent. The upward movement in this stock and in grangers was stimulated by large orders from the west and from prominent operators at Saratoga WITHDRWN FROM BUSINESS. The Journal of Commerce says the Adriatic Fire Insurance Company, 178 Broadway, has withdrawn from business and renewed all risks in the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, of Liverpool, by reason of the present unprofitable state of fire business.

A BOLD HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Bold highway robberies in this city are becoming alarmingly frequent. Thomas F. Farrell and Robt. Buchanan, when about entering their residence on 27th street early this morning, were attacked by four foot-pads. Buchanan was knocked senseless with a sand-bag. hto gold watch and chain taken ana hto pockets rifled by two of them, while the others beat and robbed Farrell. The shouts of Farrell brought a police officer, and one of the robbers, named Frank McKeou, was captured. The others escaped. 81-METALISM. The State Department says that Germany to disposed to regard favorably the proposals of this Government for the further joint consideration of bi-metallic subjects, and hopes that the present efforts will result in a bimetallic congress, in which all the leading States of Europe will participate. AN OUTGROWTH OF THE HULL MURDER. An inquest will be held in a few days over the body of Catherine Davies, aged 35 years, who became deranged from reading of the Hull murder, and on the 20th of July jumped from her bedroom window, imagining there were burglars in the bouse. THE MILLIONAIRE’S BODY.

The Herald says our reporter at Saratoga was yesterday informed by a gentleman high in the confidence of the head of the firm of Stewart A Co., that Stewart’s body has not been returned. The coffin plate and coffin knobs were expressed here some time ago by a party demanding $250,000 for the body, but Judge Hilton would not pay a cent without seeing the remains. Hilton has been Informed by a representative of the body snatchers that the remains of Stewart are in an excellent state of preservation, and the body, even to day, to easily recognizable to any one who had been acquainted with the merchant prince during hto life time; that though there to considerable disfigurement about the eyes and a part of the lower extremities, the fingers and even feet and toes bad, singular to say, l>een kept remarkably intact. Judge Hilton has said nothing lately about the body. Borne months Ego he said: “When any issue to reached I will be the first to give the facts to the press.” ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS. Five hundred immigrants arrived today, mostly for tee West.