The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-15
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Thursday,........-......July1 10.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELE GRAPH.

The communion service OF Ty "o1'"
Church, Brooklyn, was stolen Monday
evening by sneak thieves.
VIM. Fl. Seward and party sailed for
Sitka, from San Francisco, Cal, yester-
day. on the steamer Active.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention met at Harrisburg yester-
dav and nominated Hon. Asa Packer for
Governor.
BENZ. W. Foster, of Springfield, Mass,
has been tried and sentenced 10 state
prison for life for rape on girl eleven
years of age.
The Congressional committee OF ways
and Means visiting the cities OF the
Oregon ports and Pugets Sound VIII
return to San Francisco next week.
The German citizens Rights Society
petitioned Gov. Claf1in 20 stay the en-
forcement Of the prohibitcry liquor law
until vote of the people can be taken.
Fulton, of the Psris crew, won the
scull race at st. Johns, New Brunswick,
Yesterday, beating Morris with nearly
four minutes TO spare. Distance four
miles.
A disease has appeared among the
silk worms of Sacramento Valley. Two
of the largest dealers lost the first broods
of French worms, nearly million, by
death.
The bark Onward arrived at Portland,
Oregon, from Hong Kong, with three
hundred Cinnamon. The small pox
broke out on the voyage. The vessel
Quarsntined.
The hotel at Point Clear, Alabama
burned Tuesday night. The main build
ing was entirely consumed, with the
furniture. MANY boarders lost all their
baggage. No lives were lost.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
panv was held at Sacramento, Califor-
MIA, Tuesday. The former board OF
directors were reelected and the Old
officers again chosen.
Azariah Boody, President of the To-
ledO and Wabash road was In New YORK
on Tuesday, on the suit of j. FISK, by
order of the Supreme Court, fer con
tempt in not producing the books OF
the company and bailed for trial.
A dispatch from st. Joseph, Mo, says
Prof. J. ID. Whitney, of the Howard
Scientific College, with fourteen scien
tifc students. arrived there Tuesday
evening, via Lake Superior mining re-
gions They go from that place to visit
the Colorado mining regions.
Mrs. Cox, of Nashville. Indiana, aged
eighty years, died yesterday from the
effects of injuries received while getting
off of one of tho trains in the Union
depot, at Indianapolis, Tuesday night.
The accident was the result of gross
recklessness on the part of the engl-
neer.
Joseph j. Bates was convicted in the
L. s. District Court of Massachusetts OF
manufacturing stills without paying
tax and sentenced to one years lmprls.
onment and fine of $1,000. Bates seld
only old stills for Illicit distilling and
then informed on the distiller making
money both ways.
The first prizes for singing, in Balti-
more, was awarded to the LiedercranZ,
of New York, and the Mgnnerchor of
Philadelphia; and the second prizes to
a Hoboken club and the Washington
Sengurbund each received piano.
The Societies proceeded TO Shutter
Park to hear addresses and sing.
j. Sanford, the oldest passenger con-
ductor on the Erie Il Pittsburgh rail-
road. while looking from the platform
of car at Greenville, about l. o'clock
Yesterday, was struck on the head by
the switch target and knocked off the
train, breaking his skull, and right leg
in two places. His injuries will prob
ably prove fatal.
While attending to queries from a
confederate, thief quietly walked off
with LoX of the cashier of the Sea-
mans bank. Monday afternoon, and
both thieves escaped. subsequently
the box was found in an entry with
S25 900 of bonds not negotiable, while
$4,000 i'll governments and available
bonds were gone. No arrests.
An adjourned meeting of the Ameri-
can Tract Society of Boston, after n
lengthy discussion of the propositions
to dissolve the Society, dividing the as
sets among the three denominations in
branch or sustain its present independ-
ent character, finally tabled all the
propositions and adjourned.
The Chittenden will case was before
the Surrogate Court, New York city, on
Tuesday. Mr.. Spencer, the special
guardian of Miss Lucia Chittenden, in
timated that he should continue against
her wishes to contest the validity of her
fathers will. He asked that q further
hearing of the case be postponed to the
second Tuesday in September, but the
Surrogate decided to grant the contin-
uance and set the case down for the 10th
of August.
new Express company has been
organized in San Francisco to do busi-
ness in all parts of the world, with a
capital of eight millions. Among the
trustees are ID. O. Mills, President of
the Bank of California, Josiah Stanford,
of Stanford Bros, Lloyd Lewis, and
other San Francisco capitalists. 1t is
reported that the Central Pacific Rail
road Company has decided to form an
Express business and appointed this
company its agents.
Tic HtTUtU hlCumOnu ulSpalCu says.
When General Candy commanded in
North and South Carolina, in 1867 the
Ieconstruction elections were held, and
9e not only inaugurated Governor Hol-
Gen immediately but directed that the
usul9ers elect Of the Legislature be di-
.ec.eu TO their seats without taking the
.ess oaths. 1t is new claimed according
~ ~, niS own construction that Governor
va s'Het OF Virginia should be inaugura.
eeu immediately and the test oath for
AemOeFs OF the Legislature suspended.
Mrs. b. A, ormshee, a widow ,ivir,
on East High street, near GrSsD Morns
Cemetery, Springfield, o., was shot 10 So.S a
by a burglar at half,past fonr % n,oieaTt Jea
Yesterday morning, in broad davIinSt
She was shot from the outsiSS ns 81 M NJ.
building, she falling dead and nv Se tho
window, the ball passing into bSr ras. u
breast and into her lungs. The mDr IOr'
derer was seen by a boy, son of RI.
murdered woman, from a window Of tbe I
house. He was short, thick set and
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