The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-23
WASHINGTON.
Grants Friends Weakening on Their prs.I
DENTAL soOm-su Supreme Court DscIslons
One Of Local Interest,"
scARcIrY OF oRERNnAcKs.

i SCARCITY or GRRRNRACHS.
WASuINGToN, D. O., December 22,-
Owing to the scarcity OF greenbacks In the
Treasury, the new U. s. notes can no
Longer be furnished from the Washington
office for bankers drafts.
A TOBACCO DECISION.
1thas been the custom for years for Ger.
tain tobacco manufacturers to pack in
hogsheads and bales for the foreign trade
abroad, OF leaf tobacco, known as "Black
Fat" A decision was rendered by the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue to-day
In releasing quantities OF such tobacco
which had been seized in New Orleans
holding that this tobacco, II intended ior
consumption, must be put up in legal
packages in tobacco mandatory, and
properly stamped.
Frank Hutton, editor and proprietor OF
the Burlington, Iowa, HawEsye, has been
appointed:P Postmaster OF Burlington.
rHE LOTTERY CASES.
Counsel for NJ. A. Dauphiu, wishing
to amend the bill in equity against The
Postmaster General for retaining letters,
the Court dismissed the bill without pre-.
Judice, and in few minutes thereafter
ga amended complaint was filed by
senator Carpenter, counsel for D4uphin.
BILL APPROVED.
The President has approved the bill
authorizing an allowance for the loss by
leakageor casualty OF spirits Withdrawn
from distillery warehouses for expectation.
A WHOLESOME FEAR.
Two Republican politicians, who went
from here to Philadelphia for the purpose
of learning the private feelings OF those
who gathered there in regard to the expe.
diency of nominating General Grant, have
returned with tho statement that they
were greatly surprised to find that some
OF those who are everywhere known as
friends of General Grants candidacy were.
beginning to seriously question the expe.
diency of nominating him. This feeling
was based mainly upon growing fear
that he might not carry some of the closer
States, among them Ohio. A few Of his
more intimate friends were found to be
privately OF the opinion that the General
ought to take into grave consideration the
possibility of defeat, and the effect that
such defeat would have upon his record
in history.
A GERMAN ORGAN on GRANT.
The following announcement in the
Sentinel, the Washington organ of the Ger.
mans, is an indication of the feeling of
this class of voters toward General
Grant:
AS matters look now, there can be hard.
ly any doubt that Grant will be the candi-
date Of the Republican party.
As our hopes regarding his rehabilita-
ton OF the Democratic party are exceed
ing small, and as we are quite sure that
the election OF Grant means Presidency
for life, we will support any other decent
Republican candidate, il the Republicans
will only drop Grant. We are ready to
bring any sacrifice, It thereby we can save
the republic-and that the latter Is in
danger, no sane man doubts any longer.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
No. 80. ]. ]. Kain, bishop, &c, appel
liant, vs.. E. G. Gibboney, executor, &c.
appeal from the Circuit Court Of the Uni
ted States for the Western District OF vir-
ginia. This was suit to enforce bequest
made in the last will and testament Of
Malvina Mathews to the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Wheeling, or his successor, to
be by him held in trust for whatever re-
ligious community the testatrix might be.
long to at the time Of her death. She died
member OF the Roman Catholic Sister,
since the bequest In controversy was not
made to the Bishop Of Wheeling person.
ally, but 10 the bishopric, and since the
community for whose benefit It was in.
tended is incorporated and has no legal
existence, the validity Of such bequest can
only be sustained on the ground that it is
gift for charitable uses. This, however,
does not clearly appear to be the case, and
courts OF Virginia that chancery courts
have no jurisdiction to uphold charities
where the objects are indefinite and un-
certain, the decree of the Circuit Court
dismissing the bill Of plaintiff below is
affirmed, with costs.
No. 1922 Florida Central Railroad
Company, appellant vs. ]. Fred Schultz
ct al. Motion 10 vacate supersedeas bond
on account OF fraud, granted. Motion for
leave to file new supersedeas bond, denied.
Motion to dismiss denied upon certain
conditions to be fulfilled by appellants.
A motion was submitted by Senator
Edmunds in the Supreme Court Of the
United States this afternoon, 10 advance
upon the docket the case OF Augustus D.
Juillard vs.. Thomas Greenman, which
now stands No. 10. This is a test case
brought in order to obtain the opinion
OF the Supreme Court as to the validity OF
an act OF Congress OF May 81, 1873, for
bidding the further retirement Of the so.
called United States legal tender notes,
and requiring them to be reissued and
kept In circulation after redemption. The
motion 10 advance is made under the pro-
vision OF rule 90, of the Supreme Court,
and counsel urge in its support that the
case is one so special and peculiar in its
circumstances as 10 justify this application
for speedy hearing; that it raises a vital
question as to the currency, in reference
to which all the commercial transactions
in the United States are necessarily made
and involves the whole subject OF Con-
gressional power to maintain the legal
tender quality Of United States Treasury
notes in time Of peace.
AS evidence Of the importance oi the
case counsel called attention to the
weiShty declarations Of the President Of
the United States in his recent annual
message to Congress, to the reports OF the
Secretary Of the Treasury and Comptroller
OF tho Currency 10 the pending measures
relating 10 the same subject in both Houses
OF Congress, to the daily expressions OF
public opinion IN the press throughout the
country, and to the common experience
Of all civilized nations which declares the
necessity OF permanence aud stability in