The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-18
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK., January l1.-Thc branch
ol the Attorney Generals office in this
city, Of which Charles OCOnnOr has had
control is discontincd in view Of the fact
that thcprcsrnt Attorney General has an
Ioillcc Of his own here. Mr. CnnnOr, how.
cYcr,cOntinuCS his voluntary aid in the pre-
scnlion oi the ring suits The announce.
mcnt Of this change has given rise 10 AN
lmloundcd report that O'COnn0r ,contcm.
plated Withdrawing the prosecutions.
Iwccd's name does not appear in any VI
the committees appointed in the State
Senate at Albany.
y billiard match for $3.50 WAS played
last evening between Dion and Gates an
amateur player or California, Dion Ills
counting Gates and winning hy score uf
9jO To lSS.
Mayor Hall has not yet resumed his
duties, though his week is up The
C0mprOllcr will have the appointment oi
Mayor If Hall does not return by Fri.
day.
The principal defence which will be
set up in the Stokes trial will be that rs a
bitter encmity existed between Stokes
and Fisk and rs there were circumstances
tending TO establish conspiracy to take
the lite Of Stokes, the latter, therefore,
committed the shooting in sclldcfcnsc.
Stokes intends to claim that few days
before the shooting, men were discovered
to he on the track of Stokes: that they
liad been following him for week pre-.
vlous. An attempt will he made TO prove
at the trial that Fisk was armed when he
was shot; that Il loaded revolver was
subsequently taken from his person; also,
lhat the wounds from the bullets were in.
sufficient To kill Fisk Every effort is To
be made 10y Stokes counsel To have the
trial deferred rs long as possible. There
seems to be no sympathy in the communi.
ty Tor Stokes.
pool.
The HoHd states that Stokes, friends
Affirm that the Fisk Mansfield letters vet
to bc published will establish the COnuec.
ton Of Fisk with the murdcrous assault
upon Dormam Il. Eaton, whom Fisk had
been anxious 10 have put ont Of the way
ON account Of his knowledge of affairs.
Two men were killed on the railroad
between Jersey City and New York, last
night, by Il train.
An Albany dispatch states that flood
Of rcmUnstrlnccS are pouring into the
Legislature against allowing the Erie
ltallrnad 10 he controlled 10y English mo.
nOpOliSts.
The trouble on the New FOundland
wires will delay the cable dispatches to.
day.
j. Reilly, assistant superintendent Of
the foreign mail department in the city
postoiltcc, was yesterday arrested nn the
charge of purlOining moneys And letters
passing through his hands.
Mayer Hall has resumed his Office.
Bank Examiner, Calender, has been
held for trial.
AT the funeral services Of the late Mrs.
Geo. Wood, formerly Miss Eliza Logan,
today, at the ST. Cloud lTOlcl, corner of
I'D and Broadway, Rev. Stephen Tying
read the Episcopal burial service over
the remains. The parlOrs were throngcd
with ladies and members OF the theatrical
profession. The remains We're conveyed
10 Greenwood Cemetery.
Mayor Hall returned tO his office in the
City Hall about | O'Clock to-day. lie
announced 10 the reporters that lie had
nothing new 10 communicate.
Davis, the Receiver ol the Ocean Bank.
expects 10 pay dividend of 81 per cent
To the dcp0Siturs ON the 95th inst, II he
gets the money due from the New York
Printing Company he will pay - per
cent
Another suit for the recovery Of so 900
damages for loss uf lie through the en-.
plosion of the boiler on the Staten Island
icrryhoat Wcstiicld, in July last, com.
mcnccd in u brooklyn court this morning.
1t was supposed that the great sugar
case of the Government against Weld a.
Go. would have been settled by the nav.
ment OF about Sj0O,0OO II is now stated
that the Secretary Of the Treasury has
declined to ratity any settlement or com.
promise thus far proposed, although it is
believed thatas high rs $7OO,OOO has been
offered and present indications are that
Il re.trial OF the case may soon take place
N the L. s. District Court.
Bank Examiner Calendar has been
held 10 await the decision ol the grand
jury.
Sheriff Brennan this afternoon received
an order from Gcv. Hoffman inSlructing
him To send Lawrence Sullivan, now con.
fined in the tombs under sentence Of death
for the murder Of John O'Bricn, to the
state LunatC Asylum at Auburn, hr
having been pronounced hoprlcssly in.
sane