The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-12-29
new YORK CITY.
NEW YORK, Dec, %,

A very Important case to stock bfoks
ers was decided In the Court OF Ap.
peals, yesterday. The subject OF the
deceSaion was that OF brokers who sell
out hlA customers stock after his mar.
gin Ia gone, hut without giving him
notice Of time and place OF sale, ls lIa.
BILE TO the customers for the highest
price OF stock down TO the time OF the
trial, because the customer owns the
stock and the act Of the broker 10 q
wrongful commission. This was test
case selected by the Brokers Board.
A theatrical SquAbble broke out at
the Grand Opera House yesterday.
Alice Dunnlng applied TO Judge Dodge
for warrant OF arrest, against her
husband, Vim. Needham, alias VIM.
Horace LIngard, the well known comic
singer and mimic. Mrs. Needham
Lingard Dunnlng alleges that her hus-
band hRbltuAlly y abuses her and that
yesterday he threatened 10 blow out
her brains with pistol. Justice Dodge
Issued u warrant. They both sang rs
usual last night.
A statement to the effect that the lr-
regularltieH which have been discovered
In the Merchants Exchange National
Bank prove 10 be true. The Committee
now In session have discovered 10 far
deficiency OF $50, 900, and the amount
will probably prove much larger. So
far no names OF the delinquent parties
have been made known. The Bank
claims to be fully equal 10 meet the
defalcatlon.
A rumor was In circulation yester-
day afternoon, that irregularities
have been discovered In the Mercha nts'
Exchange National Bank, on Broad
way; the bank officers neither admit
nor deny The truth Of the report, but
say that committee Is examining the
accounts and that II II should be dis.
covered that deialcalion has been COM
mitled, Information OF the fact will he
given 10 the public.
MaximllllAn Shelter one Of tho gang
who have been perpetraling heavy
robberles along the llns OF the Erie and
New York Central Railroad, for many
months, WAS arrested yesterday and u
large amount Of goods found In his
possession.
The European steamship lines refuse
to carry the mails after the lat OF Jam
uary for the sum offered by the Post.
master General, viz: two cents per let.
ter. Mr. Cresswell Is here endeayoring
to arrange matters.
All the conspicuous persons impli-
Gated In the drawback frauds, the
Times says. with two exceptions, have
been taken as Government witnesses.
The latest additions 10 the humber IL
Samuel r.. BIatchford.
The Star says there Is great distress
among the cigar makers Of this city.
One OF the heaviest manu- featuring
firms has discharged at least 1000
hands within the past three weeks.
Other trades are suffering In like pros
portion,
Owing 10 the unsettled condition OF
the gold market the wholesale clothing
firms whose employees are numbered
by tens ofthousands, have almost en-.
tlrely ceased manufacturing goods for
future sales. The same Is true of car
penters, brlcklayers, laborers, coopers
and others, thousands OF whom have
been obliged to leave the city In quest
OF work In other localities.
1t is understood that Mayor Kall-
feast OF Brooklyn, In his annual mes>
sage, will unfold some facts relating to
the unGaithful police justices. In at
least one cRse there IL very remarka-
BILE discrepancy between the actual
amount received In fines &C., and that
returned 10 the city treasury.
The officers OF Rings Aims House
pronounce the report thatthey expelled
disabled soldiers because they voted
the Republican ticket, Is sheer false.
hood.
The Evening Post places the loss OF
the Merchants' Exchange Bank by ir.
reRularitles Of cashier Oakley, ut $780,
900.
Collision Between Fisk and Could
GOnId Runs into Fisk AnlidHh Ipa.
The Erie ferry-boats, Jay Could and
James Fisk, Jr., collided with terrible
force this morning, midway OF North
River, between TWenty-Third street
and jersey City Slip. The Gould run
into the Fisk amldshlps, crushing In
her sides and hull. The Gould was
badly stoved. The Fisk was tOwed in
al almost sinking condition TO Alll>
sons ship yard, where she now lies,
md the Gould Is moored at the ferry
wharf at Erie Dapot. None OF the pas,
sengers were injured. The damage Ia
estimated at $4,000.
A-S htAth HRtAIubt
Butler.
A motion WAS made to-day In the
case OF Rowena Lawrence Us. Benjamin
Il. Butler, brought TO recover the value
OF the Twlggs swords and other proper
ty, seized by General Butler In New
Orleans. The motion " 10 vacats the
order OF arrest against General Butlcr,
on the ground that the taking was un-
der orders OF the United States, and
that there was no conversion Of do
clsiOn reserved.
Remarkable RcHtItuti0n.
A bundle containing 100000 worth OF
bonds. stolen l5 years ago. was left at
one OF the Pelin stations, this morning,
byR boy who escaped arrest.
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