The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
By TELEGRAPH.

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The Bp ,cie in the Bank of France
has decreased eleven million nine hun
dred thousand francs.
The New York Herald states that
Colonel John Warren, the Fenian pris-
oner recently released from an English
Jail, had an interview with President
Grant, Thursday, and received a letter
from him 10 Secretary Fish, directing
an investigation into all the cases OF
Imprisonment specified by Warren.
The Journeymen House Carpen-
ters' Association, OF Washington, D. c.,
Thursday night. inserted the word I'd
"white" in their constitution, 80 as to
exclude cOlored carpenters from men,
bership.
The heaviest storm for many years
passed over Utica, New York, Thurs
day. SanQuest creek reached higher
point than for fifty years.
AT the Amherst College commence
ment, Thursday, the degree OF Doctor
OF Divinity was conferred upon Rev.
Edwin E. Bliss, of Constantinople,
Turkey, and Rev. E. P. Goowtn, OF
Chicago.
The monument erected to the mem
ory of Fitz Greene Halleck, at Guilford,
Connecticut, was dedicated Thursday
with appropriate ceremonies. About
80, 600 persons were in attendance. The
principal features of the exercises were
the reading OF Oliver Wendell Holmes
poem, written for the occasion, and an
Grafton. Masonic delegations were pres
ent.
Thomas Mullhall, twice convicted
OF aiding and abetting the murder of
David P. Skinner, was sentenced on
Friday, at Cleveland, to be hung on the
26th OF August. John Kilfoyle, con-
vlcted Of being accessory to the plot to
rob Mr.. Skinner, was sentenced to 10
years imprisonment.
The Morocco Manufacturers Ma
tional Exchange met at Capt May on
Thursday and organized. About forty
associations were represented. Among
the business discussed were those of
wages OF workmen, apprentice system
and transportation of good skins:
The lager beer dealers of Boston
have formed permanent organization
for vigorous political action to repeal
the liquor law. The Germans through.
out the State are invited to form local
societies for the same purpose.
The New Hampshire Legislature
adjourned sine die yesterday MOI ming.
ALL the Cabinet were present at the
meeting yesterday.
The President, in a conversation
with several prominent Mississippians,
Friday, said it was his desire, and he
should accordingly instruct Generals
Ames and Reynolds In their prelimina-
ry arrangements for the elections In
Mississippi and Texas, to observe en-
tire fairness and impartiality.
-Goodwin's tobacco factory, In
Brooklyn, was seized yesterday by
revenue officers.
No warrants have yet been issued
against brokers or money lenders in
New York, but the grand Jury Is taking
evidence on the subject, a large num-
Der of we'll known brokers being sum-
moned to testify.
The smallpox Is materially de.
creased In New York.
up to Thursday noon the steam
ship Great Eastern had run 1854 knots
from Brest, and paid out 1877 knots of
the cable. The officers of the expedi.
ton on board the steamer, expected to
reach the shOal by yesterday noon.
The Board of Directors of the Get
tysburg Memorial Association, have
passed resolutions to designate with
plain but permanent granite nu-
neral positions of different divisions Of
brigades and companies OF each army
during the battle. The Secretary Of
the Association was directed to invite
the Generals who commanded armies,
corps, divisions and brigades, to fur
nish the information required in the
order, truly to designat 9 the positions
and events to be perpetuated and to
make arrangements for their reunion
on the field on the first week of August,
to confer together and determine the
points to be commemorated.