The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
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kers have failed
p,,ror. Maine, had another immense
.tGrm on Saturday.
IT,, were slight showers of snow in
uinrresl Yesterday morning
w,,.rl Fillmore and wife left Louis
..".'|,.rerday ",',Id en- route for Rome.
rn. CONGRESSIONAL committee of Nav
I,ion i|o visited the ship yards of Boston
a1II y:riuity, Yesterday.
r.. condition of Admiral Farragut is
H,' % ;,nm,oying. He will probably be
CrI C,'' 70 lave Chicago for home IN few
day..
Tho synod of New York and New
r.,.,y New school, meets III Pough-
Sn.;o Se',,; to-day. and will continne in ses-
AS,!L nee, tLrre days and nights. Two hun
S,oT S1,I diyines are expected to be in at
tendance.
Tn. Executive committee appointed
AIRY out the plan adopted by the
T,n'.riIlr Commercial Convention, for
LL-r.I'inT the Mississippi bottom lands
T.sadi6urued to meet in New Orleans
Oh the 26ih irst'
r.. an, hundred and forty-fye thous-
.,I dollars worth of securities stolen
5.or, SI., the banking house of Collins. ul-
man 4 Co., Chicago, fow weeks SINCE
"., %"ysa,l been recovered through the de-
,rr,,vc force employed.
ra. pastors Of the Evangelical
,1rrchc, OF Boston and vicinity at
rsr,ipr Yesterday appointed commit,
.-sto confer with Father Hyacinthe and
ssstr .nitable arrangements for extend
;rT him a public reception if deemed
advisable
.pOmaha dispatch says Fort Benton
10 hen re-. occupied by Government
rro.ps. The smallpox is prevalhng
,mpns toe Indian tribes near there.
S.yrr.ii " hitys have been killed by the
InJian. between Fort Benton and Milk
rIyrr within the last few days.
AhoYr ole o'clock Sunday morning, a
German named Sturber, while passing
along West street, New YORK, was
seized by Two n'ghwayman who robbed
him OF twenty thousand dollars and
threw him n,5 the dock. He was res
curI Jy the police.
Father Hyacinthe arrived at New
York Yesterday on the Periere and pro-
creded very quietly the house of
friend. R.uort says he will be waited
npon by drputatiOns from various de-
uomina,loual societies and requested to
rypllin bis views on Roman Catholicism
before their congregations.
At Buffalo. on Sunday, the car shops
yf the Lake Shore railroad were burned.
4 large number of passenger and
freight cars, caboose and quantity OF
lumber. car materials and tools were
entirely consumed. The loss is over
S2IJUUJ: fully insured. One hundred
a.d fifty wuTkmen are thrown out OF
employment. The origin of the fire is
uuk nOwn.
The greatest Catholic procession ever
Witnessed in Montreal took place on
Sunday afternoon, the occasion being
rra translation of relics Of St. LenO
from Bonsecours Church to the Bishops
paIlce. Over thirty Thousand people
ipiusd in the procession. Fathers Mar
tiueau and Langcate addressed the
crowd i'm English aud French, explain
inc the ceremonies. The streets were
decorated with flags, arches, etc.
In New York on Sunday, Rev. DR..
Hubbrll preached against the present
Roui,h crusade against the public
schools He said they demand the uh-
conditioned surrender OF the present
system of education. If we give up.
this they will then ask that the press
hrGelyered into their hands and after
that all the privileges that Americans
posses, under the Government and then
one by one will thrift, happiness and
virtue oe among the things that were
and tbs land become one of misery and
p.vI'y similar 10 the nations where
PanIcg has ruled supreme. The issue
must ue met or { may at some time cul-
inmate in o@e Of the worst wars the
world ever knew.
John Swanson, proprietor of an extern
sIye cotton factory near Stockholm,
sweden, has Just purchased 1880 acres
Of land in Dunklin and Stodard cOun-
ties, Missouri, where he will establish
colony and build factory mills, &c,
and carry on the cultivation and manu-
iaCtuTe OfcOtton. Mr. Swanson has 1900
families in his employ, and will bring
them 10 his new plantation. Five hun
drel families are now EN- route to New
York, and will reach Missouri within
4 20 ltaG ]
soon follow. The land selected is we'll
adapted to cotton raising. Dunklin
county will expert this season from
101to 5000 bales, and Stodard county
about 5000 bales.
formidable strike of the mechanics
employed in the shops of the Erie Rail
way Is in progress. Not less than 600
men have refused to work, 400 at Sus-
glehanna and 300 at Jersey City. 1t is
alleged that the scarcity of currency has
prevented prompt payment of the men,
AMI that the company have been com
perd at times 70 pay as high as two
per cent for L. Pay rells are said also
u have been delayed by freshets and
breaks in the road, but it is claimed all
hands We're paid on the 18th, except
those at Port Jervis numbering ITO, and
t4ey were to have been paid Saturday
but struck on Friday and were paid on
The following day and dismissed. The
>n>guthanna hands struck in conse-
glence thereof on Saturday and those
al Jersey CRY to-day and have been
PAID and discharged. 1t is supposed
'eo,e al Buffalo, some 200 more, are
also on strike. The officers of the road
say the strike will occasion no Interrupt
'on to the business of the road, and as
applications are so numerous that they
VIII have no difficulty in filing the
PAGES of the strikers with new men. 1t
appears that the Erie company some
months ago iuaugurated a system of
Consolidation of machine shops, and
t-at hose ut Patterson and Piermont
nave been closed and that Port Jervis
9NoNS will be closed soon. The object
Sine reduction of expenses.