The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-11
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, October 10.-At q confer.
ence held last night between the Repub.
licans Of TammAny and Of the Committee
OF Seventy, no candidate for the Mayor.
atty was agreed upon.
Tweed said to reporter yesterday,
have not been ten miles from the city in
year, except TO Greenwich and New
Canaan. ! am not going to leave, and
shall stay perhaps longer than some would
like 10 have me.
The Apollo Hall Democracy held q
primary meeting last evening, and select.
ed delegates to the Congressional, county
and Assembly Convention.
AT a fire In West Thirty. Second street,
last night, Nicholas Matzen, o boy, was
burned to death.
Tho Young Mems Municipal Reform
Association met Inst evening and dis
cussed measures for furthering the inter-
esls OF reform at the forthcoming elee.
tiOns.
The CubAns to-day celebrated the fourth
anniversary Of their Independence by the
firing OF one hundred guns In City Hall
Park and other patriotic festivities.
Al fire In a tenement house on Eliza.
beth street this morning Antonio Forgee,
an Italian, was burned TO death.
Judge James Buckley, of Brooklyn,
who was recently indicted, died suddenly
last night.
Oswald 0ttenderter positively declines
the Tammany nomination for Mayor.
James Brooks was renominated for
Congress to-day by the Democrats ol the
Fourth District.
The annual reunion Of the Army and
Navy Of the Gulf is to be held here on
the 18th inst. Gen. Sheridan presides
at tho banquet.
The yachets Dreadnaught, Palmer and
Magic started this afternoon on race TO
Cape May and return for a challenge
cup.
Count Won Arnim, First Secretary Of
the German Legation, has been recalled
from Washington and Is 10 be succeeded
by Count Andreas Bernstorf, son OF the
the German Ambassador in London.
Rev. Saul Seabury, grandson Of the
first Episcopal bishop in the United
States and formerly editor of the Church.
man, died to-day aged 70 years.
The Presbyterian hospital opened to-
day with the customary ceremonies.
Joseph B. Purdy has given bail in g.
600 on the charge of violating the United
States law by shipping explosive material
falsely marked, on board the steamer
Hearvy Chauncy for Aspinwall.
Two boys, inmates Of the Truants
Home in King county, were arrested ior
attempting to burn the building. Others
arc suspected Of having knowledge Of
the plot.
No damage occurred at the prison at
Sing Sing last night. Some twenty build
ings were burned. The principal losers
are as follows: W. q. Barlow, hardware
dealers, $4,000; Kipp & Son, furniture,
$4,000; ReglSter office, with types, presses,
&c. John Wheeler, engineer, was badly
injured. Tho total loss is about $l00, 900.
The Jersey City police captured some
burglars tools last night in wagon, con.
cealed under lot Of apples, which were
evidently intended TO be used in another
bank robbery. They are the most numer.
GUS and valuable ever captured in this vi
cinity.
In the Court Of Oyer and Terminer this
morning, counsel for Tweed had Tuesday
next fixed tor arguing the motion as to
the time for the trial ol the indictment
against his client. Counsel asked an in
vestigation Of the charge that the Grand
Jury had allowed private pArtiesto con-
fer with 1t respecting its deliberations in
the case OF Fields. An adjournment was
requested on the ground OF the absence OF
OK. Comptroller Connolly, a witness, VIM.
a. Beach, of counsel for Connolly, making
affidavit that Connelly's whereabouts are
unknown to him, deponent or his family.
Court promised an early decision.
Eureka Jones, widow o. the late jailor,
has been elected jallor Of the Hudson
county Jail to fill the unexpired term.
Chief of Police McWilliams, Of Jersey
City, under indictment for completely In
the burglary at the First National Bank
in this city, and who gave bail in SEQ 900
to appear to-day for trial, is believed to
have fled.
Cooper Institute was crowded tonight
to hear speeches by Charles A. Dana,
Senior Cespedes, Major General McMahon
and Algernon s. Sullivan, in favor oI the
struggling Cubans
Hon. Fernando Wood was this evening
unanimously re.nominated for Congress
by the Democrats oi the 10th New York
District. ry.. I.|F|.
VIM. R. Roberts has been re.nominated
for Congress by the Democrats Of the 9th
District.
CHICAGO