The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-09
NEW YORK CITY.


NEW YoRK, August S.-0ne hundred
guns were fired in the City Hall Park to.
day by the Republicans, In the presence
Of large crowd, In honor Of the victory
in North Carolina.
There were twenty.seven bids for gold
today amounting to $685. 900, at from
114.69 10 1896. II the government sells
the q, ,00O 900 as advertised 1t will 60 At
Superintendent Kelso offers a reward ol
$1,000 for the capture Of Steiner, the
treasurer Of the French band concerts at
Chicago. 4-i
The Police Commissioners have decided
10 commence suit against anti.cruelty
TO animals Bergh, for causing the blocking
up OF streets by the stopping Of cars,
wagons, &c. f = - 81 d - -4L---'
A Boston special says: Gen. Butler
says he viii make no particular effort To
secure the nomination for Governor, but
II the Labor Reform or Republican party
see fit TO nominate him, he will not de.
cline.
Gen. Banks delivers an address in Wall
street next Tuesday. ,
AT meeting Of the Marble Manufac.
turers Association It was announced that
the workmen, after three months useless
struggle for the eight.hour regulation, had
returned TO work upon the old system
and at the same rates.
Foreign mail advices say that the Pope
has instructed the Catholic Bishops Of
England and Rome TO protest against the
determination Of the British government
to prosecute the priests concerned In the
Galway election proceedings.
1t is said that Napoleon and Eugenia
are to visit Scotland about the 10Th Of
August
A committee ives appointed at meet.
ing Of tho guardians Of the New York
Hospital, 10 investigate the charges
against the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum,
report charges of violence to patients I'm.
founded.
A Saratoga specialize Dun, says; there
Is authority for the statement that the Re.
publicans mediate the nomination for
governor Of prominent Democrat, with
the view OF check mating the Liberal
movement. ....-
In the United States Court to-day the
case Of U. 8. Paymaster OahoOn, against
whose bondsmen suit was begun by the
government in 1871 for the recovery OF a
deficit of $4,000 in his accounts, came
up on q motion Of his counsel to overrule
the demurrer OF the government TO the
second and third counts of his plea on
the grounds that he was imbecile at the
time of the execution Of the bonds and
The occurrence Of the dedication. The
motion was granted.
The Treasury awarded 100000 gold
at 115. .26, all taken by one clique.
The coroner's jury exonerated Charley
Rogan from blame in the killing of Rich
ard Coleman, the evidence showing self
defence.
Six young Germans returning from the
Hoboken Schutzenfest were Injured by
the upsetting of their carriage, one seri-
ously. ,,rT....
A mad bull.while being chased through
Brooklyn to-day turned several times on
its pursuers, injuring boy named George
Donohue. Then a man named Peter
McDermot subquently shot at it, one OF
the stray balls fired at the animal penetra.
ting the back of Ed. Chapel, the Superin.
tendent Of Roosevelt street ferry. The
wound is probably fatal. Chapel was
himself shooting at the animal at the time.
A copy Of the indictment for libellinR
Fitzpatrick against the editor Of the Times,
was sent to the District Attorney to-day.
The auction sale OF the Stadt Theatre
property was stopped by an injunction.
A call has been issued by the Republi.
can Executive Committee for State Con.
Vention OF New York veterans, at Utica,
on August Goth. The call is signed by
Generals G. H. Sharpe, P. Fl. Jones, Stow.
art L. Woodford, James Jourdan, Dennis
+. Burke, Max Weber, Charles Carter sc.
John Thompson, who in company with
another man not in custody, committed
a burglary in May last at Mr.. Charles H.
Phelps, jeweler, in 9th avenue, shot Mr.
Phelps in the breast and fired at another
man but missed him, was convicted OF
burglary in the first degree to-day and
sentenced by Judge Bedford to 20 years
hard labor in the State prison.