The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-25
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, August ga gang of
thieves numbering about half dozen
young roughs, who have committed
their depredations in Brooklyn for
day, one of their number having been
arrested and thinking he had been be-
trayed exposed the whole party.
A man named Denhoff, while trying
to separate two men who were fighting
in Flushing avenue, Williamsburg,
Saturday night, was struck on the head
with a shovel by one of them named
Phillip Hertling, and so badly Injured
that his life is despaired OF. Hartling
was arrested. ...--
The large mansion of William Wiley,
on 1O9th street, burned yesterday; loss
$50, 600. .Is,I
At ten O'Clock yesterday forenoon,
Officers Rogers and Osborn, of the New
ark police, arrested two men at the
with others, had been insulting a wO-
man on a canal boat, and had thrown
her child into the canal. The officers
were set upon by the prisoners and
three others, and Rogers was disarmed
and felled to the ground. officer Os-
born met with similar treatment, and
the two men were glad to get away
with their lives.
A telegram from White Sulphur
Springs states that General Rosecrans
was there for the purpose OF consulting
with General Lee and other Southern
Generals in regard to plan for the
general reconciliation of the people of
both sections of the country. In ac-
cordance with this programme, pri-
vate meeting was held, at which Gems.
Lee, Longstreet, Beauregard. Ewell,
Echols and Hunter, and A. n. Stuart,
John B. Baldwin, Cows. Stockdale, OF
Texas, Pickens, OF S. c., and Walker,
of Alabama, were present with General
Rosecrans, a long consultation took
place and plan of action agreed upon,
but nothing further has transpired of
the proposed movement. 1t is believed
that an address will be issued to the
Southern people by their former leaders.
Willie Wheeler and VIM. Millikin
narrowly escaped lynching at Wilkes
bare, Saturday, where they accidental
ly shot man. They were sent to Phil
DR.. Howard is critically examining
the deceased cattle at Communipaw,
and nearly all Of the recently sick are
now we'll. r
Five gamblers were arrested Sunday
night at a saloon near Washington
Market.
Edward Jones, after dispute with his
wife, yesterday, hung himselfin BrooS-
A difference of opinion on political
questions, yesterday led Peter McAyoy
10 beat Richard Binnis so badly that
Binnts will die. McAvoy has been ar
rested.
There were three hundred and eIev-
en- deaths in Brooklyn last week, one
half of which were infants.
The Savage wing of the Fenians is
holding a convention here which is to
last ten days. A Fenian soldier con-
vention is also to be held.
About 1900 emigrants have arrived
here today from Liverpool.
Adam Reinhardt, a printer, fell down
| the stairs of the Democrat office, yester-
day, and when picked up was dead.
Mr.. George Scott, who died suddenly
at st. Alban's Church, yesterday, was a
dry goods merchant of SteubenYille,
Ohio, where he leaves a wife and
family. His death was caused by an
attack of apoplexy.
Ebenezer Irving, brother of Washing
ton Irving, died yesterday, at Sunny
Side, aged % years.
Prof. Geo. Adler, a we'll known
author of several German seholsstics.
died here to-day.