The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-21
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Friday..,---...-...--.may 2I.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at l43s.
Dayton had another serious fire yes
terday morning.
The miaer's strike in the neighbor'
hood of Scranton, Pa, is about over.
An unknown man was foand drowned
in the Ohio river at Cincinnati on We'd
nesdsy.
The st. Louis delegates for the New
Orleans Commercial Convention leave
for the latter city this afternoon.
An old man named Sloane sought re-
lief from business difficulties, at Car
thage, Ohio, by suicide on Wednesday.
The Baptist General Association of
Kentucky opened yesterday, with an
unusually large number of members
present. .E
Twenty-seVen barges are now at Car
ondalet. below st. Louis, loading or
laden with iron for Pittsburgh and
other points.
Hon. John L. Thomas, Collector of
Customs for Baltimore, yesterday ap-
pointed two negroes to positions In the
Custom House.
The second trial of Mulhall at Cleve-
land for abettiug the murder of Skin
ner, resulted yesterday IN verdict OF
murder in the first degree.
Stanton, of Boston, President Of the
Wills Valley railroad, from Chattanooga
70 Meridian, Miss, was to lay an import
ant proposition before the Committee
on Southern Railroads, at Cincinnati
yesterday.
The canal boat NJ. G. Wethertree, of
the White Hall Transportation Com
pany, went over the dam across the
Hudson river near Fort Miller, n. Y, on
Wednesday evening. Capt. Classes wife
and child drowned.
The American and Foreign Bible So
ciety has formed union with th'
American Baptist Publication Society
The latter is in fourishing condition
and its receipts the past year were
nearly S35, 900 above the previous year
A Boston dispatch says that Senator
Wilson addressed the Charlestowr
Eight Hour League last evening on d
recent law of Congress, arguing that II
was made with the understanding that
men were to receive full pay for eight
hours work per day. He further cOnsid
cred the relations of capital and labor
and spoke in favor of CO. cooperative assO'
Citations, which, though they might
sometimes fail, wosld generally succeed
and prove benefit TO working classes.
The following is partial description
of portion of the property stolen from
the Harnden Express on Wednesday :
T. S. coupon bonds of 1865, numbers
liz, 2,O66 to ll2 ,OG9, each inclusive, of
$1,000; No. 74jS. letter +, 4th series, May,
1862, of $500; No. 23,9O9, letter ID, No
ysmber lst, 1864, of $500; and four reg
istered bonds of $1,000 each, with checks
and package of mutilsted notes of the
Western National Bank sf Baltimore
containing 1854, and 5O6.5O in gold
coin. A reward of S2500 is offered by
the company for the capture of the rob
Bers and receiver of the money.
At Louisville, yesterday, about 1000
persons assembled at Cavehill CeneteTy
To engage in the decoration OF the
graves OF the Confederate dead. A
beautiful poem, written by Mrs. Pres
ton, of Virginia, was chanted by the
cheirs of the principal churches of the
city in a most touching and impressive
manner Then the immense assemblage
distributed their offerings upon the
graves aud many of them were rare
eXOtics. All the graves were decorated
alike, and when this was done with
prayers were offered for the repose of
the dead. The scene was imposing.