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Show Kicking Gcruinas. ! Havana, G. Nineteen German merchants of Havaua have been recently embargoed lor their refusal 'topav the 30 per cent, contribution, i The German consul here has received a communication from tho imperial 1 government stating peremptorily that the German residents in Cuba are, according to treaty, exempt from paying pay-ing extraordinary contributions, it ia said that Jovellar has received 'an order from Spain not to proceed against German merchants, and let 'the matter rest for the time. Stock Excifeuieul, Nyw York, 11. Wall street was : again grpatly excited to-day. North-I North-I west and Rock Islaud weakened early, i both stocks flooding the market in aj ! mysterious nianu-jr. which caused , ' numerous rumors. Northwest struck ) i ISA, commencing at 27. Preferred also went to .'H from -17. Rock Inland wna ymp allelic and went from 95 t.i 92J, iho lowest point. Everybody was eager for the dtmcu-ment dtmcu-ment of Kennedy's failure. This respectable re-spectable house will doubtless soon pay in full and resume. After this failure there was a reaction of Northwest North-west to 21 i, and Rock Island to 03J, but lower prices quickly prevailed agaiu. Th a re wab also a general deproswion in coal stocks, but less marked. Pacific Mail went from 171 to loi, and Panama to S9. Coal stocks took a sudden drop late iu the day. Delawaro and Hudson canal sold tn 30, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, from 5G to 50, but though the excitement wag tremendous, tremend-ous, prices rallied when it was authoritatively au-thoritatively denied that Delaware and Hudson had been put in the hands of a receiver. Tno Times says of the tw J panics in Wall street to-day, one of them was entirely causeless and the other almost so. Early in tho morning one of the banks which held a large amount of stock aa collateral became alarmed at the decrease iu the extent of margins re .resented, owing to recent re-cent depreciation iu tho speculative value of shares, and calltd in its loans. This soon became rumored about and, having been confirmed, a scene of mad excitement ensued. The announcement of the suspension of Kennedy & Co. was all that was needed to put the climax to the panic. The Times further soys thai Mr. Tracy is ill in bed, and that W. L. Scott and David Dows deny, that they are indebted to Kennedy. |