The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-20
NEW YORK.
News Items.

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Next week the gallant Captain visits
the public institutions, accompanied by
the mayor, aldermen aud other civil
functionares.
Captain Lemsire. OF the abandoned
steamer Europs sailed to-day for
France.
A Philadelphia disprtch says that
Joseph Patterson, President of the
Western Bank of that city, has been Of
fered the position OF Secretary OF the
Treasury.
A Bankrupt Orphan Asylum.
The statement was published this
morning that the Roman Catholic Or
phan Asylum Society Of Brooklyn is on
the verge of bankruptcy. They have
liabilities for over $4,000. with no
perceptible means of payment. BY
reason OF these liabilities the property
of the society can be at any moment
seized and a thousand helpless orphans
turned homeless on the street. In order
to avert, il possible, so dreadful a calam-
it,, the bishop has taken decided action
and invoked the aid of his co-religion.
lists in the matter. 1t seems that
the society fell into the management
of ring of members of which
were also OF several social political or.
carnations, and by means Of these
outside associations annually secured
their return to the directory OF the or
phan asylum society. Among the ex-
penditures last year is $l46,SA on ac-
count of the building and repairs.
This sum together with mortgage, in
terest, and increase Of floating debt
added to the total expenditures up TO
1873 gives the total amount paid Tor
building new male asylum up to date as
1888 276 55, the original estimate being
$l25,000. The greater part OF these
expenditures, il is stated, were distrbu-
ted among the needy relatives OF the
ring. The last finance committee in
cluded two men who could neither read
nor write, and Sister Baptiste, in charge
OF the asylum. says the society's &C.
counts are never correct.
Two Of the directors and one OF the
officers Of the orphan society deny that
there is any danger OF bankruptcy, or
that there has been squandering of the
funds alleged.
| The German American Bank.
Emil Ssur has retired from the pref
idency o. the Germau.American bank.
He says he could have settled the diff
Guilty satisfactorily If he had not been
pressed aiter the irregularities had been
discovered; as it is he believes that the
bank has ample security for the amount
he owes them and says his present d.
lemma is the result of ambition and en-
nifty TO the other officers OF the bank.
A clerk in the institution ID implicated
and il Is said be will be eremoved.
Rank Statement.
Loaus. decrease s20l 600; space, de-
crease $62l 500; legal tenders, decrease
S4O9 900; deposits, increase $l47 200;
circulation, increase 42,j00 reserve,
increase $l07 ,9l2.
Temperance.
Daily prayer meetings in the interest
of temperance are being held in the
parlors of the Young Mems Christian
Association building. At the close Of
the meeting yesterday the rain did not
prevent several of the ladies from yIs-
| iting the liquor saloons in the vicinity
and pleading with the proprletors to
abandon the sale OF intoxicating bev-
erages. They also distributed num-
ger Of tracts.
passengers or the Steamer L'Ameri-
que.
A Herald special from Paris dated
April 18th, says few OF the passen-
gere of the ill-iated steamer IAmeri-
one have arrived here. Their nara
tives of the disaster are incoherent.
The following is a substantial sum-
mary: The weather continued fine
until the morning OF the 18th when
a strong westerly breeze sprung up and
veered at two o'clock TO the
northwest. finally blowing a gale
from the west. A heavy sea
struck the roof OF the wheel house
when about one hundred miles from
Brest. The Captain ordered the ships
head turned to the wind. The gale in
creased and at P. NJ it was blowing
a hurricane, fIliug the engine room
with water. During the night the
weather thickened and the vessel rap
idly filed with water, putting out the
fires three times. The engineers sue
ceeded nevertheless in keeping up
steam. On the morning OF the
18th the sea went down for q
short period, and everybody work
ed at the pumps till ten o'clock, when
the engines finally stopped working
The heavy seas shipped at various
times could not have so filled the holds
with the large amount OF water IN
them, and it became evident that the
vessel had sprung a leak, The car
eeuters yainly endeavored to discover
its Whereabouts. The donkey engine
was set to work, but It's efforts TO leseen
the water were futile.
English Laborers' Strike.
a London letter says that IN the
eastern counties OF England very Bit
ter conflict has broken out between the
farmers and their laborers. The latter
have joined union which was started
a couple of years ago with its head
qusrters in Warwickshire, and have
demanded an extra shilling q week
This has been refused and the laborer'
h ave consequently struck on one or two
farms The farmers generally have