The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

The Danish Minister, Mr.. DeBellt
was married yesterday TO the daughte
of Chancellor Seabriski, of Jersey CltS
The Cuban Insurgents are reported I
be negotiating for the purchase OF ID
Peruvian monitors now at st. IbOha'
The tobacco factory of E. T. Pilkento'
IL Co., Richmond, Va, was burned yes
terday. Loss. $4,000; insurance, s2o,
600.
The Canadian House of Common
Yesterday voted to recall the license
issued to Americans to fish in Canadian
waters.
General r. +. Lee arrived at A,exan
dria, Virginia, yesterday, en route TO hI
home in Lexington, Virginia. A larg'
number ofcitiZgus called on him.
John Dorsey, an Irishman, living il
williamsburg, Mass, murdered his wife
Mary Dorsey, on Saturday night, by
beating her brains out vii club.
Frank +. Ceny, fifteen year old BoS
ton boy, shot himself dead on Monday
because his father required him to
apologize 10 his teacher for trHancy
Municipal elections were held at
Stockton. California, and Virginia CITY
and Gold Hill, Nevada, on Monday, IN
all of which the Republicans were sue
Cessful.
A fire in Pearl street, New York, on
Monday night, burned the premises OF
Allen & Co. and G.. b. Lathom, and the
hop warehouses of Blossoms and Smith
* Minor.
William c. Ross, Chief Assistant En-
gineer of the Baltimore Fire Depart
ment, died yesterday of injuries receiv
ed at fire in McChillan's alley on the
llth Of April.
A heavy snow fell at Binghampton
Pennsylvania, on Monday night. 10 IL
feared that the vegetation in the Sus
quehanna and Chenango Valleys, which
is quite forward, has been severely 'u
iuIed.
The expiration of the license law IN
Massachusetts, and the enforcement OF
prohibition occasions great excitement
among the Boston liquor dealers. One
went crazy and the Others propose a
new political party.
Lees oil refinery, in Cleveland, was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
Loss Sl5, 900; no insurance. The Forest
City Varnish Company's works adjoin-
ing were damaged to the extent of Sl5,,
600; partially insured.
George w. Reed, at present in Belle
vue Hospital, New York, arrived recent
ly in the steamship Alaska, states that
on the trip from Aspinwali the small
pox broke out and seven deaths occur.
red in two days Some Of the bodies
were thrown overheard.
At Davenport, Iowa, on Monday, a
Young man named George ClaytOr,
while out riding with a young lady,
took a pistol from his pocket, and while
handling it carelessly il was discharged,
the ball entering his head aud intiicting
wound which caused his death in a
few hours.
In the trot over the Fashion Course,
New York, yesterday, between Lady
Thorne and American Girl, mile heats
10 harness, for $1,000, the for ner won
the first. second and fourth heats, the
third being dead heat. Time, with a
heavy track and high wind, 2:l6, 2:29t,
2:@o+ aud 2:29s.
A Boston dispatch says that Bent
Drake, alias Benton, was arrested IN
Worcester, Mass, on Monday, ana
brought to Boston, charged with obtain
ing SI2OO5O from the First National
Bank of St. Clairsville, Ohio, by forgery.
The accused will be sent 10 Ohio for
trial on the requisition of the Gov
ernor of that State.
A detective in charge Of the house of
Kindt. in State street, Brooklyn, who IS
implicated IN the rObbing of WheeleTs
watch case ISauufaCtOry, accidentally
displaced some wood work on Friday
and found three gold nuggets, sixteen
gold watch cases and two seal rings,
the whole property being worth $1,000
Kindt has since confessed.
A railway tie of polished California
laurel, mounted at either end with solid
silver, accompanied by a spike OF solid
gold. costing 5000. was forwarded from
san Francisco on Monday to the end Of
the Central Pacific railroad. This is
the last tie, and will be laid by Leland
Stanford on Saturday next, thus com
pleting the Pacific railroad.
In the New York Assembly, yesterday,
a resolution 10 submit the proposition
of enlargipg the canals to the next Leg
islature was lost The bill in relation
to the Central, Harlem, Hudson and
Erie Railroads, which authorizes the
classification Of the present Directors of
the Erie Road $50 that only one-ffth shall
go out each year was passed.
The New York Express says that L. 5.
Marshal Barlow has received reliable
information that steamer left that
port Monday night for Cuba with 300
men, each provided with rifle aud
uniform; that the vessel also took a
large quantity of light clothing and
provisions to last q month or six weeks
The Express adds that another expedi.
ton is preparing. The Marshal is in.
Vestigating the matter.
Joseph Holmes, colored. a member o
the late Constitutional Convention o
Virginia, was killed at Charlotte COur
House on Monday. A personal diticul
ty occurred between him and John Mar
shall. son of Judge Marshall, of who's
family Holmes was formerly body ser
want. Both parties drew pistols anC
the firing commenced, which was par
ticipated in by Marshall's friends. Afte
being shot Holmes walked into the cour
house and fell dead.
A Richmond dispatch says Governor
Wells is ont in a letter saying he ha:
never been satisfied that the disfran
chisement clause would accomplish the
object for which ii was framed, and i
majority of the people vote against
il all Ought to assent to their decision
He adds: Il believe that whichever
sections of the constitution the Presi
dent prefers To have stricken out ht
will submit separately. and the proba
bllities are that the weight of his name
will be such that the provisions so sub
mitted will be defeated