The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-31
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK.
NEW YoRK, Dec. So.

~ ..,,, -. ~. New YoRK, Dec. so.
a sleighinE party at Jackson, Penn
sylvania, last Thursday, while going tc
an entertainment iendeavored to cross 6
4 pond on which the thick ice had been
| cut. The thin ice Immediately let the
sleigh through, and thirty people are
reported to have been drowned, none
but the driver escaping.
Prince & Bacharack's distillery on
4Sth street, WAS burned last night. Loss
| $50, 900. ..lI asss .-sr,---L-y BE- .t'
AN Irishman named Patrick Pieman,
ASSAULTED and stabbed a German named
4 George Craving. last evening. a
broke away and staggered into a neigh
boring store and died in few minutes.
\ He had been stabbed to the heart. Gra-
l wing has been arrested. rs.
1 The failure OF HiRds, Allen q Co.
hop dealers, of Richfeld Springs, Otse-
go county, New York, is reported.
Their liabilities are placed at $500, 900.
| It is thought that their assets are large
enough to pay the greater part of their
debts, ftime is giventhem to wind up
their affairs without great sacrifice.
a meeting of the Commissioners OF
Fisheries, appointed by the different
States, was held last evening at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. The attendance
was very large, and addresses were de-
| livered nom each State on the subject
of fish culture, showing that the fish in
our rivers, are being rapidly depleted by
over seining during the spawning sea-
son. " .t.'r 10
The Board of Councilmen yesterday
adopted an ordinance subscribing one
million i've hundred thousand dollars
to the capital stock,of the New York
and Brooklyn Bridge Company.
The rumors yesterday relative to the
failure of an uptown National Bank
were unfounded. Tr.-.s -sHi-ua .s. .
A statement is current that General
Grant mas received q, letter advising
him, as "A peace measure, TO appoint
jeff. Davis as his Secretary of War.
The Gistillery case in which large
amount of distillery property is con.
cerned, will be tried to-day.
The steamship City OF Baltimore,
has arrived. ...s.g, ,-e. -. ....... .
The Herald considers that several
failures reported here, may have been
the result ofeXtraVaganCe and SpeCuln-
tiOn, as much as the effect of business
mismanagement. The profits of bust
ness with many are so neBrly con-
sumed to keep up this display, that lit
tie is left to the firm wherewith to pro-
vide a margin for bad debts, and like
contingencies OF trade.
meeting.took place last night, of
tho National Institute of the letters,
arts and sciences. Two new Academies
were created; that of natural sciences
and that of mechanical, physical and
mathmetical science. Officers were
elected for both academies. l!lgI II.
at the auction sale OF coal to-day,
prices were from a dollar to a dollar
and half per ton lower than last
month. i'ft ~ - "f't Zoo . .'.+
@ The commercial travellers held an
other meeting today, at which It was
stated that Attorney General Evarts
had expressed himself to their commit
tee, as opposed TO the present state OF
the municipal license laws, as conflict
Ing, and also that fifteen thousand dol
lars had been subscribed TO test the said
laws before the United States Supreme
Court.
| The annual convention OF the Zeta
Psi fraternity, secret College Associa-
ton, is in session in this city, with del
egates present from all parts OF the
| country. ..... .-.t