The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-21
NEW YORK.
The.pnily Llst OF FnIIures.

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NV YORK, January "a Powers,
CASTOR & Co., extensive jobbers in boots
and shoes, on Duane and Church streets
have made an assignment. Liabilities
$260,000 Nominal assets Sl66, 900, real
S150000.
George L. Matrouse & Co., jobbers in
hats, iurs and straw goods, on Broadway,
have madei an assignment Liabilities
100000. Assets not known. .a..
At a meeting Of the creditors Of John
Thomas Murrig, stock broker and late
President Of the Queen Of the West
Mining Co., yesterday, schedules were
presented showing liabilities Of $s6, 900
aud merely nominal assets.
REMoNsrRAScE Against SILVER.
AT The Marine Exchange yesterday the
following memorial to congress was signed
by many merchants and bankers and rep.
resentatives Of the leading marine under
writers, steamship companies and shipp-
Ing houses Of the city: ave, the under
signed members OF the maritime associa-
tion Of the port Of New York, feel II 10
be our duty TO demonstrate against any
legislation that shall make silver an un-
limited legal tender, as, in our opinion,
such legislation would unsettle values,
disturb confidence, retard resumption in
gold and impair the national credit
THE WAY OF THE TRAsseREssoR Is HARD.
II Is reported that Owen Murphy, the
fugitive excise commissioner, is danger
ously III at Ottawa, and that his wife Is
insane.
THE COAL coMBtNATfoH PUTTING UP
PRICES.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company hn
issued a circular announcing that for the
present the following will be the prices
for their coal per ton, delivered on board
Of vessels at Perth Amboy, N. j.: Spring
Mountain Lehigh, lump, 1875; broken,
$3.50; egg, $3.50; stove, 1875; chestnut,
sS,25. Spring Brook Lehigh lump, SS,75;
broken, $3.50; egg, $3.50; stove, SS,75;
chestnut, S3,25. Jeddo Lehigh, lump,
1878; broken, $3.50; egg, $3.50; stove,
sS,75; chestnut, 1925. Highland LIE.
high, lump, S3,75; broken, $3.50; egg,
$3.50; stove, S3,75; chestnut, 1926. Phil.
adelphia Coal Co.'S Iehigh, lump, 1875;
steamboat, $3.50; broken, $3.50; egg,
$3.50; stove, 1915; chestnut, 1925. Wy.
oming, steamboat, $3.50; broken, S3,25;
egg, SS,35; stove, S3,75. Franklin,
Wilkesbarre, broken, S3,25; egg, 1885;
stove, 1915.
THE CHARTER OAK TROUBLES.
A Hartford, Conn.,, special says: A
new effort is making to save the remain.
ing assets OF the Charter Oak Lille Insur-
ance Company, by keeping it out Of the
hands oil a receiver, and reorganizing il
as purely mutual company, the stock to
be merged and wiped out, and the poll.
cies 10 be scaled. Legislative interven.
tion is necessary in order to effect this,
and, therefore, q new charter has been
asked. It Is thought that most OF the
policy holders will cooperate with the
managers in their efforts.
THE PRESENT INDIAN POLICY.
A Lawrence, Kansas, special says: A
city reporter held m interview to day
with Dr.. Wm. Nicholson, late Central
VI lnuluH aHdirS III tHlb
city. In reply to various questions, DR..
Nicholson states that the superintendent
cy was discontinued because it is the pol.
icy OF the present Commissioner OF In.
dian Affairs to require agents to report
to Washington.
TtLpEs's FIRST INCOME TAX VICTORY.
New YORK, January 19.-Argumenls
in the case OF the United States vs.. Saml
J. Tilden, to recover $1,000 as an annual
income tax for the year 1861, with inter.
est from The SOth Of June, 1852, were be-
gun this morning in the United States
District Court. There are nine counts 10
to all OF which the demurrer
is made on technical grounds. The mer.
its Of the case not being gone into, It was
decided 10 take up each count separately,
The frat count charges $1,000 back tax
for the fiscal years 1s6l-'62. Tilden's
counsel claim that the laws passed about
that time were recognized as necessary
war measures and annuled the law re-
quiring the payment Of income tax in
that year. Judge Blackiord sustained
the demurrer glying Tilden the first vic.
tory.