The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-24
wAsHINGToS.
EIGHT HOURS ADAY's WORK.

!. WAsInNUroS, D. C., September 23.-Tht
Department chiefs are issuing orders thai
eight hours shall constitute days work
TO bc paid for the same Us now for ten
hours. Men electing to work ten hours q
day will be paid extra therefor. - "
CoHES's COMMUNISTS. -,,,o
J ioahen3ads paattenpttdslaStO maicl
his mob.
l. Simmes, the negro arrested on Saturday
for striking an officer during the not, was
In tile police court to-day. Judge Smell
! III giving his decision in the case, said he
heltl TINT Cohen Ind excited a feeling oi
riot among the more ,leluded and ignorant
class 1t bat unless checked 1t might lead to
serious results. While Cohen worked up
this sort OF thing, he was sharp enough to
keep out Of the way Of the law, and his
followers became victims. All meetings
and professions similar 10 those helljby
Cohen were riotous and disorderly. Lives
and property ofthe people were endangered
and shoildlleatlT result from dny ofItheSe
proceedings each follower Of Cohen would
be amenable for homicide. 1t should be
stopped, The workipgmen could gain
nothing. Colien was nobody, and could
GV luelApp Boyu' n AHSiSoHvi4uStfg1Sfptp
ipg tlel ACCUSED vas one oi iCohep yc'
tftIts that hdd Become Worked into d fecl.
ing Of riot because Of his teachings and
was somewhat excusable; lie would only
,fne Jlliut ton dollars or jim defGple thirty
days III Ian! u Phe fine was phd' by Cohen.
Cohen called on the Superintendent OF
Police this morning TO inquire II he could
hold a meeting Tonight ,lt City llaltl The
5SSbdip eSdtsit i6i6f@ Sal 6lh5 5haIhe lad
no autlloritytogive him permission to hold
u meeting ASthd City Hall was under
charge OF the rhited Statcs Marshall.
yWhile, Cohen was.i talking MithH the
Superintendent an order came from the
District Commissioner directing the Super
intentIents not 10 allow ahS more noiseor
disorder BY demonstrations anywhere.
The!ofders we're promptly Issued 'and The
police are dispensing crowds wherever
they are found. MIA sHIT>JNI .
DIVIDEND REPORTS or TUE NATIONAL BANKS.
,ss%SThasC Comptroller oii,the Currency has
compiled dividend reports OF National
Banks f1t six months ending March lst
1878, from which IL appears tlle banks
charged Of losses amounting TO SO, ,903, 10
in ttimru0 OF this amount 81 ,9l3,7P con:
sisted 6f premiums on ! v, 81, bonds he'll
foreirGuIaiion, which depreciatel in value
below the cost price TO the banks Losses
charged off By National Banks during the
year ending Scptenb ber' LIST, 1870, were
ilD;TlnO2G, and for the year ending Sep
.tcniber lst, 1877, la,a3S, ,5S7,H making
d total Of more. than fifty and one:
half million dollars OF losses charged otf
during tic past tYoS and one hall years.
Tie .ratio Of earninssof National Banks TO
capital for the year 1877 was 5.62 pcr cont
and II IA estimated that ilig ratio iort1IS
viii not &c greater than for II. The
COMPTROLLER has, also certified complete
divitiend returns from the National Banks
in sixteen prinEipIl g6itiesf6r the, year end
iig, September lst, rs, from which il ap-
pears that elcvenmillion'ilte hundred and
twehtyl thousand and one hundred and
twcntS.nipe dollars Of losses have been
charged of the, banks located innthose
cities during the, present year, of'gwhich
one million six hundred and nine thon-
sand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars
Was for the depreciation in premium in
United States. bonds hold by. banks as
securitH for efculatiopS SLTotll losses by
the banks located in these sixteen cities,
during the three years, ending Sept
IS7s, @ereltlifty- -t,v6 million four hun:
dted an,i, ten thousand inipe huntlred anil
stxk iplfr dollars Tho l4ssestc char9ca off
b. ihe eGbaliks m New YORK City, the past
year, we're five million one hundred and
fOrty-seven thousand three hundred and
nineteen dollars; Boston, two million
four, ,hun,lrcl and ten, Thousand six lnp
dred ami seventeen dollars; Chicago, twp
hundred dnd hiteeH thousand and Eighty.
four dollars; Philaielphla, Ave hundred
and sixty.one thousand six hundred and
seyenty.six dollars;t Pittsburgh, four hun
dollars; Baliimores three hundred and
sxtyseihrtS thousand nine j andred sand
fifeen Blrillafss Now ufitans, sthrea nuns
dred and thirty.eight thousand four hun.
drel aud ninety.six dollars; Louisville,
two h(tdtlfed and thifty4ftel olsIiPl five
hundf6d and twehty.six dollars; Cleve-
t,,r hun1 ra,t nNI ttvnniv.tWD tlOl2.