The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-03-04
NEW YORK CITY.
MEMsR1AL. TO coNoarss,

NEW YORK, March ga memorial 10
Congress numerously signed by bankers
and others has been left for signatures at
the Cotton Exchange against the issuing
OF irredeemable paper money as legal ten.
der, and stating that this Is making forced
loan upon the people oEthe United States,
and only excusable by the necessity Of q
great war. That their issue in time Of
peace would be in violation OF all consti-
tutional powers. 1t protests against a
rich country like the United States, re-
sorting to such ruinous expedient when
there Is no necessity to exercise 1t.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL APrEALs TO THE
PEOPLE. ..
A Paris letter states that as the 10Th OF
March approaches, when the Prince I'm
perial will attain his majority (l9Gh year,
and be Of age 10 govern, the postofflce Is
flooded with millions upon millions Of
Bonapartist tracts, handbills, songs. The
provincial electors, both in town and
country, have received visiting cards
bearing the photograph Of the Prince I'm.
perlal, and underneath the words: 10th
March, 1874" g.
One cannot travel twenty miles out OF
Paris without hearing Of Bonapartists
agents at work in every village as pa
tiently and tenaciously as new pioneers.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
NEW YORK, March 3.-This morning
Antonio Bartie and Pedro Fanchini, for
merlY partners, met in Spring street,
while on their way to work and the ior-
mer shot the latter dead then killed him
self. It seems the two men were part
nsrs with one Ticardi at SIS Broadway.
Bartie by neglect ot business was the oc.
casion Of quarrels which led to his retire.
ment from the partnership. A week ago
he and Fanchini had a dispute and as
they met this morning the quarrel was re.
newed with the result stated.
COAL NINE cAvED IN.
A Wilksbarre dispatch states that the
miners who have for the last two months
been fighting the fire at the Empire mine
ceased work, and this evening a most
extensive cave in Of the mine occurred,
exceeding In extent the fall Of the Balti-
more mine a short time since: Great con-
sternation prevails in the neighborhood,
and families were preparing to leave.
The fire has now free escape, and
threatens to ruin utterly one Of the most
valuable possessions ol the newly formed
Wilksbarre & Lehigh Coal Co.
SUSTAINED.
Judge Pealt to-day sustained the Ex-
else Commissioners Of Brooklyn In hold.
ing that ale and beer must be regarded as
contained In the general description Of
intoxicating liquors, and admitted their
Jurisdiction to revoke the license for SELL
ing beer on Sunday.
SOLID SILVER. sl....
There Is now on exhibition in this city
by the manufacturers q solid tea service
intended for presentation TO Capt. Urqu.
hart, ot the ship Trimountain, By the sur.
ylVors Of the wrecked steamship Vile du
HaVre.
SHOT HIMSELF.
August Maddesong, Of Jersey City, at.
tended a masquerade last night with q
young lady to whom he was engaged.
Jealous Of the attention shown her by q
former lover, he went 10 the undertaker's
shop where he was employed and shot
himself. ~
OPERA cLosRD. p
The Grand Dukes Opera has been
closed by the police, owing 10 the ina
bility Of the propnetorS to obtain license
or to pay $500 penalty for giving per-
tormances without license 10 the society
for the reformation Of juvenile delin-
quents. The Grand Dukes Opera was
established In basement In Baxter street,
and the owners and performers were boot
blacks and newsboys, who brought their
play house and its performances to the
attention Of the community by voting the
receipts OF the week ($80) for the relief Of
the poor Of the Sixth Ward.