The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-11
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murderer is conclusive.
BY MAIL.
Rev. Edwin n. Chaplin aud Anna
f. Dickinson are going to Europe.
-Ex-President James Buchanan is
lying very i'll at Lancaster, Pa. His
complaint is said TO be pleuro-pneumo-
mia. He is not expected to recover.
The New York Herald of Thursday,
Is out for Chief Justice Chase for the
Presidency. Ithas at one time or an
ther favored the claims of all the
probable or possible candidates.
Gen. Napier reports that after the
capture of Magdala, thirty guns and
mortars, belonging to the AbyssiniRn
Government, were destroyed, and the
town razed to the rock on which 1t
stood. He also reports that the Queen
and the heir apparent 10 the throne are
in his camp.
Some of the dissatisfied members
OF the Virginia Republican Convention
have gotten up a ticket with W.. 81.
Bourden, of Norfolk, for Governor; DR..
Balm. of Norfolk, negro, for Lieuten-
ant Governor, and 8. b. Bendin, present
Attorney General, for that position.
The movement is not likely TO amount
to anything.
1t is rumored that negotiations ar
pending between the Michigan South
ern and Northern Indiana Railroad
Company and the Baltimore and Ohio
Company, with view TO the crention
of through line from Chicago, via
Toledo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. to
Baltimore and Washington. I...
The Deseret NeiUS has made dis
coyery. The Ku Klux Klan was pre-
dicted in the prophecies of the prophet
Moroni, published in the Book of Nor
mon thirty-eight years ago, and 1t was
there declared that the nation should
be destroyed because of them.
"A Washington dispatch to the New
York SIM, says Senator Fessenden has
Indicated that he will probable vote for
the second article, and expressly sta
ted, without any reserve, that his writ
ten opinion is only averse to the first
article, as he comedies the President
has the power under the Constitution
10 make removals, but not 10 fill such
vacancies while the Senate is in ses-
sion.
"A large meeting of coIored Conser-
vatives was held in Savannah, Ga,
Thursday evening. A United States
flag was presented to the meeting by
white citizens. Speeches was made by
white and colored men, and great en-
thusiasm was manifested.
"A number of Mr.. Forney's news
paper friends, in Philadelphia, offered
TO present hi m with a purse of twelve
thousand dollars, to replace the money
taken from the Senate fund by his
financial clerk. The offer was declin-
ed, Col. Forney having already made
the loss good.
The registration OF Washington
City has been completed, showing a
White, 9,131; colored, 6,742.
The Richmond, Indiana, True Re
publican, says that party of men and
women made a raid on the liquor shops
of Milton, Ind, 1.-TWO in numbor), Tues
day, 18th inst, and in q surprising
short space of time emptied kegs, jugs,
bottles, into the street, taking care to
unfit the vessels for future use. 1t
seems that several OF the best citizens
of the place were being ruined, and as
no law could reach the case but mob
law, that was resorte6 to.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
sent letter to the House, asking an
appropriation of S115. 900 to build a
steam vessel forIAlaska, and SB5 600 to
build another for the coast of Oregon.
The New York Legislature has ad-
journed, after refusing to submit the
new constitution lately framed by a
convention in that State to vote OF the
people. The convention left the matter
discretionary with the Legislature, and
though half million dollars were
spent in making the constitution, 1t
now goes for naught. "
MRS. LanRdon, sister of William b.
Astor, ofNew York, has begun suit
against her brother for the recovery, of
property valued at several millions.
Miles O'Reilly has bet $50 with one
Of the Presidents Secretaries that the
Senate will find a verdict of guilty.
Wheat will be harvestedin Georgia
in fortnight. a fine crop is anticipated
Fred Douglas reports an income OF
$1,000. =
Charles x. Tnckerman. the new
minister to Greece, has sailed upon his
mission. AZ .-e s--s
The Washington Chronicle says il
seems to be conceded that the Hon.
Sayles ]. Bowen will be the Republican
candidate for Mayor of Washington,
the delegates at the primary elections
on Wednesday evening having been
chosen for him by large majority.
Mr.. Bowen is al present Postmaster,
and is Mr.. Forney's acting financial
clerk in the Senate, in place of the de-
faulting clerk Col. Wagner.
On Wednesday night, as the S:45
P. NJ. train from Washington was ap-
proaching Baltimore. some evilly dis.
posed person hurled rock through q
car window, the missile striking with
great force, Mrs. Curry, wife of Rev,
J. L. NJ. Curry, of Alabama, formerly
a representative from that State in the
United States and Confederate State
House of Representatives. The lady
received a severe blow on the forehead
fracturing the skull, and rendering her
insensible. Trz
"A convention of the of Southern
Ohio, Northeast Kentucky and South
4 western West Virginia, was held al
Ironton, Ohio, last Tuesday. The pur-
pose of the assemblage is not stated.
| AT Short Greek, w. Va, Mrs. Mary
A. Workman has been appointed post
mistress in place of John Meadows
resigned.
-Forty-five streets In Chic ago, ag
gregating twenty miles in length, arr
to be paved with the Nicolson pavement
this summer. r-la9 -
The oil business at Parkersburg i,
beginning to assume better aspect
now that the price OF oil has advanced
so materially. The oil produced in thu
principal heavy oil district at Whit
Oak and vicinity, sells readily at 2l 4
go per gallon, delivered in good pack
ages 4. o. b. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
cars, according to quality, 26a2Ss gray