The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-11
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW !oRK, may 9.-PreparRtions fol
The pilgrimage Of members Of the Gath.
Ollie Church 70 Rome haYe been perfect
q cd, and those who are 70 take tbe Jour
ney viii leave this city by the steamshir
a Persia on Saturday next. The dlocest
OF Fort Wayne, Ind, viii furnish th(
! largest number, and OF one hundred nil
grims who will compose the party, TWEEN
y-hVe will be clergymen. New York
has a very light representation. The
highest officer ccompanying the pilgrims
VIII be Blshop Devingef, o native q the
state OF Ohio, but now presiding over
| the diocese Off Wayne. On the evening
OF Ascension Thursday, May IA, a receh.
ton will be rendered the pilgrims by the
Xavier Union. On the morning Of Their
departure solemn mass will be held al
SL Patrick's Cathedral. The pilgrims
viii assemble OF 8 r. N. on board the Per.
sia. An altar Is to be fitted up In cab
~ set apart for the exclusive use Of the
pilgrims. gl.HIGTl 10 I'd
Senator Bayard, Of Delaware, yester.
day applied 10 the Surrogate in BROOKLYN
ior the probate Of the will Of his mother.
in'law, Catherine e. Carroll. She lelt a
lafgeamount Of property: r-t. I
a letter from Havana says the Court
Martial Is doing It's work by wholesale;pro.
nouncing epenalty OF death, chain. gang.
ualimprisonment and conhscation Of
property all over the Island. Nine per
sons tried ior treason at Magyar, one at
Santiago De Cuba and five at Havana,
nave oil been condemned to suffer the
death penalty. -Four persons at Puerto
frncipel ior the same crime, have been
condemned to work at hard labor during
me continuance Of the rebellion. Blk
persons at Gaulman have been sentenced
70 Ten years on the chain gang, and one |
from Trinidad has been condemned 10 |
perpetual chains, The American, Fred. |
erick Dockery, was taken from Nueyltas
on the 24th Of April to prison in Puerto |
frincipe Tor security and safety, as the |
Cubans have been so near Nuevitas as TO |
render the capture Of the place not i'm
probable,
The approval Of the decree Of the Gov.
ernor General, In regard 10 the finances.
appears to have arrived from Spain, The
nome government hesitated long before
approving Of them, but Coucha was firm,
and telegraphed to Span that they must
be approved or he would resign.
The lease Of the A. & @. W. Road by
INC Erie Company has been practically
completed on substantially the following |,
basis: The Atlantic 6 Great Western
Road with all its rolling stock and ap.
purtenancee, Is to be taken as 1t stands
Tor lease Of 100 years, and is to be run
by Erie managers ut q total rent oi 80 per
cent OF the gross receipts. Should new
managers, however, succeed In reducing
the running below 70 per cent of the gross
receipts, so as 10 leave q margin Of profit
between that amount and 80 per cent of
the rent, such margin is to be divided In
equal parts between the contracting
parties. Some matters oil detail remain
10 be adjusted. ., iga sEt
Theatrical managers Of this city have
combined to contest the legality Of the
legislative act, passed in 1879, requiring
the payment Of q license fee into the treas.
ury OF the Society for the Reformation Of
Juvenile Delinquents. The license fee
amounts TO $500 annually for theatres,
circuses and concert halls alike, with
The penalty in case oi failure e meet both 10Th
Is 81 900 tor each performance.
This obnoxious license act Is the one
which threatened 70 enforce It's provisions
on the little newsboys' Grand Duks'a
Theatre last winter. i,
Bank statements: Loans, increase $70,-
700; specie increase $26G5 900; legal.ten-l
ders. decrease $500; deposits, Increase
81 1886, 200; circulation, increase $50, 900;
reserve, increase $2,1g3, $50. I'D,
Specie shipments to-day 81 sol 900, Of
which 81 $40 900 Is in gold coin. 70
Five OF the six Danish conyicts who
arrived here few days ago, sailed for
Denmark to-day; the sixth one managed
10 escape,