The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-29
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The strike OF the journeymen plas-
terers at Washington city has been in
progress for six weeks, and they are
now no nearer solution of the diffl-
Guilty than they were when they star
ted. Meanwhile they are receiving
substantial aid from different sections
OF the country.
-Richmond papers state that prepa-
rations were made in that city, on
Saturday, for the commencement of the
trial OF JEFF. Davis on the 4 tn of May.
1t is expected that Mr.. Bingham
will make his closing argument in the
impeachment case on Friday. -
Judge Curtis, OF the Presidents
counsel, has gone home, to return no
more during the trial; Mr.. Buffers
active connection with the trial has
also ceased, and we notice he was re-
creating with his family at Mount Ver-
non day or two since.
Marcus l.. Ward, Governor of New
Jersey, is now in Washington making
arrangements, as Chairman OF the Re-
publican National Committee, for the
transportation of delegates to Chicago,
&c.
Members of the House Committee
on Roads and Canals intend to take up
the question of regulating, by act of
Congress, the safety of the lives of pas
sengers on railways, 1t is urged that
under the constitutional power to regu-
late commerce between the States, Con-
gress has the right to make appropri-
ate regulations which 1t enforces now
by law on all vessels propelled by
steam.
THE foundation stone of the new
Odd Fellows hall in Richmond, Va,
was laid with ceremonies by the Rich
mond lodge, Monday evening. The cor
ner-stone proper will be laid on the 4th
of July next.
The boiler in the Penn Treaty
Rolling-mill, Messrs. Leibert q Co.,
Philadelphia, exploded Monday after
noon, demolishing the building. John
McGin, Frank Smith, and John Davis
were killed. -Four persons were
wounded seriously, and many others
slightly. Up to Monday evening IL of
the wounded had been taken from the
ruins. 111 80
On Saturday night a boy named
Henry Hellwig, fell into vat of boil
ing slops at distillery in Chicago, and
died from his injuries last evening.
The hope that the Ohio Legislature
would adjourn on Friday has been dis
sipated. The prospect now is that as
soon as the appropriation bill Is dis,
posed of, and II the impeachment trial
is not completed this week, recess OF
one week will be taken, when they will
return. ..f -
Lieutenant General Sherman Issues
call for q joint meeting of the socie-
ties representing the Armies of the
Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio and
Georgia, in Chicago, on the 18th and
lie says, "is purely social, and designed
to preserve the memories of the war,
and to cherish the friendships formed
during that period of our national his
tory. All are cheerfully invited to be
present and to participate"
During the last day or two the
Maryland Conservatives are known
to have been quite busy. A private
dispatch received at Washington from
a WeIl-informed source in Baltimore,
says that prominent Democrats there
are busy making preparations for a
grand procession In escortinR johnson
through the city on his way to Gaines
Vile, Tennessee.
Brown, the murderer of The child
Angie Brown, at Canaan, New York,
has been sentenced to be hung at Hud-
son on the 18th of May.
I'm boring an artesian well in
Chicago, Al the depth of about 200 feet
a vein of water about eight feet deep
was found with q strong current pass
ing from the Northwest. This fact
was ascertained by lowering into the
bore, by means of q fine wire, long
lead plummet. The weight would de-
scend steadily until 1t reached the
stream of water, when it would In
stantaneously be snatched or jerked
cut from the perpendicular line from
| the directions indicated. The current
of water Is suficiently strong and
rapid to snatch the heavy lead, and
bear it away, as a fish would snatch an
insect, and carry it beneath the sur
| face OF the river. The daily discharge
| is 600 600 gallons.