The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-08
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Dayton elected its entire RepublI-
can municipal ticket Monday.
Several Cincinnati iron foundrys
failed to open Monday morning on ac-
count ofthe strike of the iron moulders
for forty per cent. Increase OF wages.
Two firms acceeded to the demand,
and the men went to work.
Mrs. Cady Stanton, who has been
cRnvassing among Congressman at
Washington for her new paper, says
she is surprised to learn, on the best
authority, that probably two.thlrds OF
the set speeches read from manuscript
are not the production of those who
deliver them, but are prepared by
newspaper reporters, and the literary
gentlemen at Washington.
Civilization Is advancing with rapid
strides In the young Territory OF Mon
tana. They have just selected grounds
for Penitentiary at Deer Lodge City,
and the necessary buildings are to be
erected at once. 1t is now costing $780,
600 year to maintain the convicts.
After the Erie Railroad bill was
voted down In the New York Assem-
bly, the other day, member offered
the following which was not adopted:
" "ReSoLved, That the use of the Assem-
bly, Chamber be given to Mr.. Wander
blit, this afternoon at half-past 8
O'Clock, in order that he may declare q
dividend upon the result of the vote
upon the Erie Railroad Bill"
The st. Paul (NIinnesota) Dispatch
says the wages likely to rule in that
city the most of the season are as fol-
lows: Masons. per day, SS; carpenters,
g so to s.: stone cutters, 50, plasterers,
SS so to 81; laborers, 81 80 to SO; black
smiths, 81 so; painters, 50.
The municipal elections through
out the State OF Michigan show no
especial change from last year.
The city debt Of st. Louis has in
creased, since January, from $7,sOo. 600
to $l2, ,65s, GOO, or nearly s55 to each man,
woman and child in the city.
The friends in this State of NJ. B.
Hagans, Esq, of Cincinnati, will be
interested in learning that gentleman
was elected Judge of the Superior
Court, at the election of Monday last.
The McConnellsville Herald an
nounces the death of John Gray, sup.
posed to be the last surviving soldier
of the American Revolution. It occur
red at the residence of his daughter,
near Hiramsburgh, Noble county, Ohio,
on the 29th ult. Mr.. Gray had just
completed his 1O4th year, having been
born early In 1764.
The town elections in Ohio and Indi-
ana yesterday, SO far as reported, show,
with few exceptions, decided Republi-
can gains,
John Hayton, formerly highly
respectable citizen of Chicago, commit
ted suicide at Minneapolis, Minnesota,
on Friday last. He had been i'll with
the consumption for the past two years
and moved to Minneapolis last August,
In hopes OF restoration from the effect
of that climate. At the time he COM
miLted the fatal act, he was very near
his end, and could not have lived but
few days at the best. He requested
his wife to go into a neighbor's on
some errand, and shot himself with a
pocket Derringer during her absence.
Mrs. E. widner, aged 81 years, of
Rutland, Illinois, was brutally MUIR
dered on Friday evening last, by man
named John Furness, who was work
ing the farm of her husband on shares.
he had lawsuit with Mr.. Widner at
Elgln on the same day, and killed Mrs.
Widner in revenge for his defeat in the
trial. Furness has been arrested.
Information from Washington Is
that Senator Yatea Is continually In
toxicated, and entirely neglects his
duties, and that, unless he mends his
ways at onee or resigns, the Senate
will expel him.
The corruptionists in the New York
Legislature have so managed the
charges OF fraud against members that
1t is not probable there will be fair in
vestigation. 1t is considered more
corrupt body than any ever assembled
In Albany.
since the fact has become known
that it is the intention of the Presidents
counsel to summon Secretary Stanton
before the Court Of Impeachment, as Z
witness, some fears have been enter
tained that, during the time he would