The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-27
NEW YORK CITY.

affair grew out Of an attempt OF Craw
lord TO get the officers 10 release the com
modores colored coachman, who wa.
/. forcing white woman into the commo
dore's stables.
The wheelwrights and blacksmiths, Il
Is announced, will strike about the 1st o.
June. The big pipe men will hold Q
mass meeting on Monday and demand ar
advance of wages. Their present pay Is
two dollars.
A man, said to be relative Of Commo.
dore Vanderbilt, shot and mortally
wounded Detective Henderson last night
while at his station on 4th and Mercer
streets. The affair grew out Of remark
OF Henderson's concerning two persons
arrested for dlsorderly conduct, whom
Henderson's assallant desired to have re.
leased. He fled to Vanderbilt's stables,
and has not yet been arrested.
Several Of gang Of laborers who at.
tempted to burn the villages along the line
Of the Port Jefferson Railroad, on Long
Island, have been arrested. They had
been discharged for disorderly conduct,
and took this method to avenge them.
selves. Several thousand acres Of timber
land were burned. -., III
Mary Ann Gallagher, 90 years Of age,
died Yesterday at Bellevue Hospital, in
consequence Of brutal attack on her by
q ruttian named Clifford, on the 11th Of
May last, because she declined 10 accom-.
pany him tc disreputable house. s.
The Stock Exchange Committee to. day
exonerated e. P. SelInser OF completely in
the late frauds with his partner Mr.. Nell.
waine. ..1
There Is wonderful increase in the
business OF naturalization at this time
here, principally among the Germans.
At a meeting Of the Cabinet Makers
Protective Union to-day, telegram was
received from Pittsburgh, stating that tho
guilders there would strike on Monday.
It is reported that all the Brooklyn shops
have organized for q strike tomorrow.
The men believe the strike will end next
week. ~
A post mortem examination Of the
bodies OF two children, who died on
board the ship Athena, shows that their
deaths were caused by diarrhea. A full
investigation will be entered into next
week.
Twenty thousand immigrants landed
at Castle Garden during this week, the
largest number on record.
Judge Leonard admitted Crawford to
bail, this afternoon, in the sum of 5000,
on the statement Of the physicians that
Henderson's wounds would not necessarily
prove fatal. Crawford had been refused
bail at the Police Court. Agustus Schell
and Horace A. Clark are his bondsmen.
Vogt's council, this afternoon, after the
dismissal Of writ of habeas corpus, by
Judge Blatchford, in the United States
Court, obtained similar writ from the
State Court. Argument on it was post
poned until until Monday.
Some excitement was occasloned 10.
day in the common market by
the reported embarrassment OF several
firms and failure OF commercial house.
The latter requests all their creditors to
cover their contracts at market prices.
They state their suspension as only tenn.
porary, and they will ultimately be able
to meet their obligations in full. The
cause OF the embarrassment Of this and
other firms Is said to be due to sudden
rise in the price Of cotton, caused by the
operations Of ring of spectators. The
names OF the houses arc not given.
The strike Of the various trades has
every indication of success. There are
new concessions every day.
In November, 1872, the steamship City
OF Brussels came from Queenstown to
Sandy Hook in s days and 3 hours, which
was the fastest voyage ever made across
the Atlantic. Her time has lust been
beaten by the Adriatic, which arrived at
Queenstown at $3.50 this morning, having
left New York last Saturday, thus max
ing the ocean transit in Z days and 10
hours.
3 The famous schooner.yacht Sappho,
which lett Sandy Hook at noon on the
gath Of April, arrived at Cowes on the
18th instant, after a stormy passage. All
New York, May GA call will ap.
pear in to-morrow's papers for meeting
OF free traders at Steinway Hall, in this
city, on the 30th inst, at which, W. G.
Bryant will preside, and addresses will be
delivered by David A. Wells, Edward
Atkinson and others. The call recites
that the reference by the Cincinnati
Convention OF the tariff reform to the
Congressional districts was an evasion of
the issue, and has absolved the free traders
from any obligation to support the nomi.
nees Of that convention, and leaves them
at liberty to support any other ticket.
The call leads directly 10 organ.
ization for the accomplishment Of the
tariff reform in the coming Presidential
election.
The sensation at Jerome Park, yester.
day, wasthe receival Of q proposition from
@. W. Woody Of Cincinnati to match Long.
fellow against Harry Bassett, for two miles
and half, on the last day Of the spring
meeting at Jerome Park, June 10Th. Mr..
Jerome submitted the proposal to Colonel
McDaniels, who stated that he would
run Harry Bassett against Longiellow
two miles and half on the last day Of
the spring meeting, for $4,000. Mr..
Jerome was to telegraph Mr.. McDaniel's
answer to Mr.. Wooley. It is not known
on whose authority Mr.. Wooley made the
proposition, as he is in Cincinnati, while
Mr.. Harper, the owner, and his horse,
Longfellow, arc quietly located at Long
| Branch.
The excitement over the eight.hour
movement has considerably abated, but
many societies will meet on Monday to
take measures 10 make the strike success.
full.
The marble cutters met last night to
arrange for strike, but reports were re-.
ceived showing that nearly two.thirds Of
the shops in the city had acceded to the
demands OF the workmcn. A resolution
was passed that oil workmcn whose em.
ployers refused to give in, shall suspend
work.
Nearly oil the boss plumbers have
agreed 10 the eight-hour system, and the
men have mostly resumed work,