The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-27
NEW YORK CITY.

and northwest mails, 1o'uRy inc Weatl
or is clear and pleasant.
When the condemned Foster returned
to his cell after sentence yesterday, he fel
down and wept. The other prisoners II
the Tombs were tearlully diSmsyed by
Fosters sentence. Stokes and Fost0l
now occupy adjacent cells.
Arrived, the steamship City Of Antwerp
from Liverpool.
The Board of Supervisors, yesterday
ordered the removal of all janitors, engi-
neers and cleaners Of the new court house
and the neighboring public buildings and
the selection Of others in their places.
The Cuban privateer fitted out at Eliz-
abeth, has been towed back disabled, her
crew having deserted her.
At a meeting, Thursday night, OF the
NiObrara League, an association lately
in the Episcopal Church in be.
halt Of Indian missions, Bishop Hare and
others delivered addresses. Mrs. John
Jacob Astor is President Of tho assOcia'
ton. Its present object in New York
is the raising Of money for the support o.
the ladies engaged in Indian missions.
A special from Raleigh, N. O., says q bill
was introduced in the Legislature there
Yesterday, granting amnesty and pardon
10 oil offenders under the act Furnishing
them with felony, they going in disguise
under which members Of the Ku Klux
had been apprehended.
The steamship Moro Castle Of the At
lantic Mail Line was seized on arrival
from Havana this morning, for debt.
The other steamers OF the line are still
under seizure. 1t is rumored that the
Company is financially embarrassed.
Arrived, the Algeria, from Liverpool.
Owing to the non.srrlval of Judge
Boardm8n in town today, the bill of ex'
ceptions in Stokes case did not come up
before the court.
1t is rumored that ex-C Collector Murphy
will soon succeed Comptroller Green.
A Herald special, dated Londen, says !:
There Is much uneasiness in consequence
Of tho English note 10 Russia regarding
the disputed boundary question in Central
Asia. In the settlement Of the relations
between the two powers a few years ago
on the Forsyth understanding, England
only required Russia to abstain from the
of Afghanistan; but the bounda-
~ of that territory was left underlined.
The present note declares that the north.
,rn boundary Of Aighanistan COM
neuces at the lake Of Siri Kal,
u the Primar Steppe, thence follows the
Oxus to Kajah Saleh, and from that
point westward to the Persian frontier.
The note further states that England
las informed the Emir OF Atghanistan
hat he may fight the Russians II they
,rOss this line.
The Russian reply declares that the de-
ire OF Russia is 10 maintain good rela-
ions with England, but 1t refuses to &C.
.cpt the indicated boundary, because It
includes countries which mover belonged
O AIghanistan, but were always inde-
PENDENT.
RusSia's object in taking Khiva is ap-
,arently 10 establish dGpets and hold and
occupy the whole Valley ef the Oxus.
England draws this line TO Interfere with
purpose, and to enable tho for
ner power tho better to hold Linder
Iusk as the line Of defence when the day
If fighting comes.
NEW York, January 28.--A. B. Stock
veil, President OF the Pacific Mail Steam
hip Company, was yesterday elected
President OF the Atlantic s. Pacific Rail
'oad Company, which company some
ime since leased the Pacific Railroad
Company Of Missouri.
The London papers say that from the
,ost mortem examination Of the case OF
Napoleon, that while death was the re-
ult OF the shock from the operation
vice undergone, 1t added to the severe
ufFering which followed on each occa-
ion, and all acting upon the con-
titutional state, already desperate,
t was not due to any miscarriage OF the
operation ITSELF The disease Of the kid
leys was pronounced to be Of such ma
ufe and so advanced that it would in any
,ase have shortly determined the fatal
esult. Death followed within twenty
minutes from the time the Emperor was
eized with fatal symptoms, he having
,een unconscious throughout and Of
,UuTbG1 blAU luaGudlDlO " pom 0AA SPSAASN
rom the pangs Of death.
May Garvin, daughter Of the late Dis.
rict Attorney, was badly burned about
he lower limbs Friday evening, by her
clothing taking fire while dressing for o
party. Her father was severely burned
IN the hands and arm in endeavoring to
the flames.
The owners Of tho steamer Erie, lately
'eported burned at sea, have received o
dispatch from the purser OF
# the vessel.
Arrived, steamship Italy from Liver
oool. i.- p
Accounts of the ravages Of the late
CO foes and floods in many tributrries
u the Delaware river, show that large
amounts of lumber have been carried
way, dams destroyed and roads OBJ.
Itructed by immense deposits OF ice LETT
1Y tho receding water.
DR.. o. B. Maynard and wife, Of Ian.
Iingville, and Mrs. Jemima Darlington,
II Hamden, were drowned by being
Iwept from bridge over the Littlo Del.
aware river, near Hamden. All had
been attending donation visit at sHam.
len, and were returning to the Doctors
house in sleigh at the time Of the ca:
amity. The bodies Of the Doctor and
Mrs. Darlington were recovered.
This evening Richard Kelly, a colored
boy II years Of age, in passing through
Park st., was assaulted by an Italian
named Chancey Levi, without provoca'
lion and stabbed in the right side. The
Italian Immediately ran away and ten
minutes afterwards stabbed another boy
in the breast, both are injured badly.
The lads were sent to Park hospital and
Levi arrested.
AT 1890 o'clock tonight fire broke out
in Pratrs Astral Oil Works, North 18th
ST., Williamsburg, and is extending rap
idly.
Probable Suicide.
San FRANCHco, January 26-Several
weeks since Geo. W. Bailey, prominent
lawyer OF Martinez, CountIa Costa
county, was missed from home. His