The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-23
NEW YORK.
Death of Two Centenarians-The Anti
Chinese Bill-Lease Of The A. and G.. w.
Raiir0ad-Q -Quarreling Over An Old
Mans Money.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-Sarah Gallagher and
Mary Brock, both Irish women, have just
died at the home for the aged, the first beng
1O5 years old and the second 102. Neither
had any friends in this country, and both will
be buried in Potter's Field.
The German Republican central committee
adopted last evening, but not unanim ously, a
resolution requesting the PRESIDENT 10 veto
the Chinese immigration BILL
Recent reports that the lease OF the Attain
tic and Great Western Railway had been
offered to the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Company are renewed In another
form and prove now to be well founded
There seems to be little doubt that the lease
will be accepted by the Erie road, inasmuch
as it is regarded by the management aS
highly advantageous.
Counsel for the Erie Railroad says that,
seeing the wisdom OF forming new connec-
tion, the English trustees OF the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad mortgages
have agreed upon the terms for lease of
ninety-nine years of that road to the New
York. Lake Erie and Western Railway Com
to Hugh Jewett, president OF the latter COM
pany. The lease is to go into effect after the
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad is sold
under the pending foreclosure proceedings
and the reorganization have been effected.
The details of the proposed lease are given
by one OF the Erie directors and the action
of the English trustees Is confirmed by jew
EFT. Hodskin, counsel OF James McHenry,
announces that Jewett opposes the lease in
the courts.
John Sullivan, aged thirty-one years, de-
mented drug clerk at Wards Island took a
large dose of carbolic acid yesterday and
died shortly after. He was well educated and
formerly In good circumstances. Drink
ruined him. He will be buried In Potter 8
Field.
In 1874 an aged grocer named Neil Dough
erty, bachelor, without relatives. died,
leaving a fortune of 100000. After giving
| $4,000 to an orphan asylum and several small
legacies to friends, he directed that the bulk
of his estate should go to founding school In
Ireland. Dougherty, while sick and dying,
was attended only by hired help, as no one
who haA known MIN suspected that he was
incorrect in his assertion that he had not a
eyinced over the Information that cousins and
nephews from almost every quarter OF the
globe are now being heard from. Many are
on hand already, and a large company ol
lawyers are employed In the case
The Sun says that 1t cost Jonathan Ire
maine Wells, the rich and eccentric MaideI
Lane straw merchant, several thousand dol
lars to prove that he was not lunatic. The
late Thos. Lord proved that he was not 9
| lunatic, but he had to surrender his property
| for the benefit of his children. To have toe
much money and too many relatives ls nul
Sance.
Yesterday evening, at Jamaica, Long
| Island, Sam johnson, colored, aged ffty-tWo
| bit off the fingers and fatally beat Edward
| Snney, his employer. johnson is six fee
three inches, and twenty-five years ago muir
dered his mistress and underwent twenty
| years imprisonment. He was 80 strong tina
| he could handle a steer without any tackle
whatever.