The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-08
NEW YORK.
THE GAsMEN's sTRlKE--A PORTION OF THE CITY
IN DARKNESS.

New YORK, April THE gasmen's strike
continues. Efforts to ill their places with
Italians from Wards island are futile. The
city below Grand street is In darkness, the
newspaper offices and business places having
to resort to candles. In the Staadt Theatre,
where the performance had commenced, the
audience was left in darkness.
No disturbances have occurred at the Gas
Worksswhich are guarded by large num-
Der of policemen, with reserves In rcadl'
ness. @-
Those who have been employed to I'LL the
places of the strikers seem totally untit for
the work, being unable to speak English or
understand what is required Of them. The
receiying.tanks are level with the ground,
and unless others than Italians are substi.
tuted the strikers must win. Ill.,
Two Of the men taken from Wards island
to supply tue places Of the strikers preferred
death to that kind of industry, and drOwned
themselves. Others clamored to be returned
to the island, to await less eXhausting labor.
Andrew Casey, striker, assaulted Robert
Bloom as the latter was going home from
the Gas-Works last evening. Casey was
promptly arrested.
Second Dispatch.
THE DANGEk AND lNCUNN ENl6SCE hLSCLllNu
FROM LACK OF LIGuT.
New YORK, April THE failure of the
New York Gas Company to supply with
light the section of the city in which is CEN
tered the most important interests Of the
banking, insurance, and wholesale trades
causes great and deserved indignation among
business men.
The vaults of banks and bankers within Il
radius ola quarter ola mile of Wall street con-
tain millions upon millions of dollars worth
of securities and cash. When it is remember
ed that one of the chief instrumentaitieS in
guarding these vaults at night is gas-light, it
will be seen what immense interests are
ieopardized by the action OF the company,
to say nothing of the Inconvenience. The
question has been raised whether the gas
company, by contracting. to furnish light,
may not make itself responsible for losses
incurred by reason of its failure to keep its
contract. Business men are disposed to hold
the gas company to strict accountability.
Later.-T'here is a full supply of gas in
the downtown districts tonight. No dis
turbance has occurred to-day, and all the
men are at work except those discharged by
the New York company.
A committee of the worknen now EN-.
ployed by the Manhattan company waited on
The leaders Of the strikers Of the New York
company to-day to mike arrangements for
Joint meeting this evening to consult relative
to the strike of the former.
SEVERE UPON THE usuRBRs.
New YORK, April TN the opening OF
the April term of general sessions, to-day
Recorder Hackett charged the jury in strong
terms to deal severely with offenders against
the usury laws. He said: 1.-The theft Of in-
dustry and regular profits by means Of the
unlawful and immoral Vaccinations of CAPT.
talists or nloneyed institutions ought to com
mand your attention much more than the
ordinary larcenies of the prison calendar"
THE EAST METHODIST CONFERENCE.
New YORK, April THE East Methodist
Conference has appointed committee to
make arrangements, i'll concurrence with
committees in other sections of the country,
for the proper celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary OF the first Methodist
Conference in America.
In the Conference to-day Rev. a. S. Hunt
was chosen president OF the Conference
Board on Church Extension, with full list
OF officers md managers. ,.
..- VARIOUS ITEMS, -...
A +, Stewart Is reported better, though
visitors are excluded. -
Robert Miller, young mail, IN Williams.
burg, maddened with rum, attempted to XIII
bis father yesterday, when the latter nearly
dubbed his son to death in self-detence.
r. i, said the Brooklyn gasmen are about
to strike for eight hours. !.
Speriais say the HerGld'S correspondent
U,KelIy came into Manzanilo with documents
from the insurrectionary diStric'. court
Of inquiry Is progressing, and it is stated the
Captain- General has given orders for Okel-
ly's expulsion.
,rbe counsel for Robert Bleakley, charged
with the murder OF Maude Merrill, to-day
apDlied for delay, in order to obtain proofs
OF the prisoners insanity. The decision was
reserved. ~ :.
The trial of John Van Syckel, a butcher,
charged with poisoning bis wife last October
was begun in Brooklyn to-day.
The general term of the Court OF Common
Pleas today decided in the suit. of Isaac
Edelmuth against Alexander McGarrenn
that under the law of this State the lottery
business is unlawful; that any contract which
has the effect Of lottery is void; aud that
the lease OF place of business for the pur-
I5ose of selling lottery tickets is invalid.
Judge Tappan to-day, on an application for
the release Of Mrs. Myers, the witness in the
Goodrich case, granted writ Of habcas cor.
pns returnabie tomorrow.
United States Marshal Harlow to-day
seized In Brooklyn the schooner Emma A.
Law, the propeller Pigeon, and the bark
Ruth, under process Of the United State:
Court.
The Atlantic and Great Western Cnnal.
Ar .rrA Aprii T-Goyprnor Smith to.