The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-27
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NEWS SUMMARY.
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dians who massacred the Peirson fami-
ly few days since in Long Valley,
Nevada. The entire white population
ofthe neiEhbOrhoOd is in arms i'll pur.
suit of the sayages.
The prize fight between Keating
and HOLLYWOOD will take place to-day
at point about fifteen miles below
Cincinnati, on the Kentucky side.
The ceremony of decorating the
red at Cave Hill Cemetery, Kentucky,
Saturday. The weather was quite in
element, but Notwithstanding several
hundred persons were present.
Joseph Bloomgart, who embezZled
S12, 600 from the Government at Louis
vile, some time ago, returned to Louis
Vile Saturday, from New York, under
arrest, and was brought before United
States Commissioner A. j. Ballard.
Bloomgart waived an examination,
and in default of $l5, 900 bail was COM
mitted to Jail to answer to the charge of
embezzlement.
The old Colony, which had gone
ashore in Long Island has been tlOated
and returned TO New York. She will
soon resume her place in the Newport
line.
The weavers in the mills at Sun
cock, N. H., have struck for an ad-
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days.
The Cole murder trial continued
Saturday. The evidence was similar
TO that of the previous day.
Two brick and two frame buildings
on Lake street, Oswego, N. Y, burnt
Friday night, belonging to Allup, King
81 ChIlley and various others. Loss,
$50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
-Jaerbanks' block. Warren, Mass,
occupied by various parties, was burnt
Saturday morning. Loss. $685. 600; in
surance $4,000.
The Massachusetts Legislature
visited Hoosack Tunnel Friday, and
inspected the progress of the work.
BY MAIL.
The second trial of John II. Sur
ratt, charged with the murder of Mr..
Lincoln, has been fixed for the 18th of
May. Jerry Black is one of Surratt's
counsel.
-Advices from Arkansas state that
buffalo gnats are very destructive TO
stock. The DeS Arc Citizen says so
horses were killed In that vicity last
week.
Gen. Sickles is at Washington, and
said to be working very earnestly
against Wade's nomination for Vice
President.
Washington advices say that the
balance-sheet of the Treasury Depart
ment will, at the end of this month,
present much more cheerful aspect
that It did at the close of the month of
March. The drafts upon the Secretary
from the Navy and War Departments,
for the twenty-three days of the pres
ent month, amount to but four million
seven hundred thousand dollars, and
it is estimated that the aggregate of all
drafts for April upon the Treasury, to
supply the demands of the Navy and
War Departments, will not exceed
seven millions of dollars.
The public debt statement for this
month is expected TO show reduction
of the liabilities of the Government OF
about ten millions.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, in response to the House
resolution, will slow that since the
goth of February there have been one
thousand one hundred applications
filed in that department for clerkships,
SC.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that collector of Internal
Revenue, or any other officer of the
Government who holds funds of the
United States in fiduciary capacity,
shall not be permitted to deposit such
ulOueH III any uhuh vi
ton in which the officer is stockhold-
er, or interested in the business of its
banking concerns.
The New York Legislature is ex-
pected to adjourn about the middle of
this week.
The receipts from customs reached
eleven million four hundred thousand
dollars for the three days ending Fri
day. During the same period the re-
ceipts from internal revenue amount
to five million nine hundred thousand
dollars.
"A bill is pending in tho New York
passengers. 1t provides from and
after the first day of September, 1s6s,
1t shall not be lawful for any railroad
company in that State to use, for the
transportation of passengers, any car
in which there is any stove or other
heating apparatus, in which fires are
or can be made, unless the said stove
or heating apparatus is SO arranged
that, in case of accident or otherwise,
such stove or hearing apparatus or It's
contents cannot communicate fire to
the cars or any portion thereof 1t also
provides a penalty of 500 for every
day such car may be used,
1t is proposed in Buffalo to lay
pipes from the breweries to the residen-
ces of citizens, SO that everybody can
have his'own tipple in his own private
room.
Gen. Loughbridge, of Iowa, is pre-.
pairing a speech for delivery In the
House of Representatives against the
right of the Executive to bind Congress
by treaty to pay money for purchases
OF lsnd.
The Republican State Convention
of Delaware met Mt Dover Friday.
the nomination of Gen. Grant, and in
dorsing impeachment.
The Ohio Wool Buyers and Dealers
Association will meet in ConYentlons
in Cleveland Wednesday next, the 29th
inst. A large eattendance is expected.
The Alexander( (va) County Radi-
cal County Convention met Friday
last, a stormy session, nearly half the
delegates withdrew. Those remaining
nominated delegates to the State Con-
vention, which meets in Richmond on
the 6th OF May, and instructed them
to vote for Hawxhurst. They also
recommended General Tucker for Con-
1ress, and nominated one white man
and one negro for the Legislature:
Mr.. Zider, reporter of the ST. Louis
Republican, has announced MS lnten-
ton to sue the Democrat for libel, tnat
paper having indirectly charged him
with perjury in his testimony before
the court of Impeachment.
Exciting developments are expect-
ed at st. Louis, in connection with the
operations of the whisky ring there.
II is rumored that the grand jury have
indicted several leading citizens con-
nected with Illicit distillation. A new
ring is to be formed this week, pro-
viding johnson is impeached.
Philip Phillips has been quite sick
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