The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-04
NEW YORK.
Memorial Against Imitation.

bankers and others. has been lett for
signatures at the Cotton Exchange,
against the issuing Of irredeemable pa
per money ss legal tender. and stating
that this is making forced loar upon
the people OF the United States, and
only excusable by the necessity OF q
great war; that their issue in the time
of peace would be in violation OF all
constitutional powers. 1t protests
against rich country like the United
States resorting to osuch 6 ruinous expe-
dient when there is no necessity to ex-
ercise il.
Fire in the Pennsyivania Coal Re-
gions.
A Wiiksbarre dispatch states that
the miners who have been, for the last
two months, fighting the fire at the
Empire mine, ceased work, and this
evening a most extensive cave.in ofthe
mine occurred, exceeding in extent the
fall Of the Baltimore mine short time
since. Great CONSERVATION prevails IN
the neighborhood and families are pre-.
pariog 10 leave. The fire has now Tree
scope, and threatens ruin utterly 10 one
OF the most valuable possessions OF the
newly formed WIlksbarre Il Lehlgh
Coal Company.
Murder and Suicide.
This morning Antonio Bsrtie and
Pedro Farchipi, formerly partners, met
iu Spring street while on the way to
work, when the former shot the latter
dead and then killed himself. 1t seems
the men were partners with one Cicardi
at No. 575 Broadway, aud BartIe by
neglectipg the business was the occa-
sion OF quarrels which led to his re-
tirement from the firm. About week
ago he and Farchini had dispute, and
this morning the quarrel was renewed
with the result stated.
The Edgar Stewart.
A Baltimore dispatch says the Edgar
Stewart in her trial trip yesterday, was
confined by the government TO point
fifteen miles down the bay where seV-
eral cutters were stationed, to bar the
Stewart if there was any intention on
her part OF putting out to sea She
carried the American flg at her gait,
the Cuban flag at her iore.msst, the
British dag amid"ships, and private
peunant at her msip-mast. Her ar
msmeut consisted OF two brass board
ing swivels and a plentiful supply OF
side arms Tor the crew. The trial trip
is thought to demonstrate that the
Stewart cauuot make more than ten
miles au hour.
The Prince Imperial OF France.
A Paris letter says the approacn OF
March 10Th, when the Prince Imperial
will attain his majority, his 18Th year,
aud be- OF age 20 govern, causes some
upeasiness. For several months past
the post Office has been showering MIL
lions upon millions of Boagparlist tracts,
handbllls and songs over the couOtry.
The provincial electors, both IN town
and country, have received visiting
csrds bearing the Prince lmperieFs s
photograph and underneath it the
words "IGth Mars, 1874, appel au psu'
pls." and one cannot travel twenty
mules ont OF Paris without hearing O.
Bonapartist agents at work in every
village as patiently ard tenaclously as
new world pioneers.
Grand Duke Opera House Siosed.
Ths Grand Dixie Opera House has
been closed by the police, owing to the
inability of the proprietors to obtain a
license or to pay $500. the penalty for
giving performances without license,
10 the Society for the Reformation OF
Juvenile Deliuquents The Grand Duke
Opera was established in basement IN
Baxter street. The owners and pei
formers were boot-blacks and news
hove, who brought their plsy-house
and its performances to the attention o.
the community by devotirg the receipts
of the week, $50 90, to the relief OF the
poor in the sixth ward.
News Iiems.
There is now on exhibition in this
CITY hy the manufacturers, solid s'I'
yer tea service, intended for presenta-
ton to Captain L. s. Guhart, OF the
ship Mountain, by the survivors Of
the wrecked steamer Vile du havre'
August Maddesong, OF Jersey City,
attended q masquerade LAST night with
a Young LAZY to whom he was engaged
and becoming jealous Of the attention
shown her by former lover he went
to an undertaker's office where he WAS
employed, and shot himsel'.
The steamship Wyoming, which let
Liverpool for New York on the 2lst OF
February, was put back with a broken
funnel.
The National Temperance Society
have received heavy orders for books
and tracts from various sections ottbe
country. The Sons OF Temperance
will soon hold a mas meeting IN the
Seventh street II Z Church, as the
trustees OF St. Psups Methodist Church
decline the use Of that building.
Judge Pratt to-day sustained the
Brooklyn Excise Commissioners IN
holding that beer aud ale must be re-,
carded as contained in the general
description OF Intoxicating liquors, AID
A., admitted their jurisdiction to revoke
the license for selling beer on SUNDAY
ST. LOUIS.