The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
By TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at l22t.
TIE Exec 'sior lion Works, l4th street,
yow York. were burned Sunday even
;cg Loss 100000. Many workmen
we're 7 thrown out of employment.
Young man named John F. Purck,
i,nrnal clerk in the State Savings
R,nk. in Chicago, committed suicide
re,ts!day morning in house of i'll
fame.
The los, of Mills, LOnghead & Co., Gin
einpati. by the fire sunday night, is es
mated A. $50 900. No account is given
of The origin of the fire. A private
va,chman was in the building.
4 san Francisco dispatch says the
srra,e and Assembly chambers of the
new California Capital building are
nronouuced decided acoustic failures.
Eyperts say the Supreme Court room In
the same building as still worse.
The election for United States Senator
from Lentucky takes place at Frankfort
today. 4 Louisville dispatch says that
all accounts are to the effect that Me-
Crr.rv. the present incumbent, will be
reelected, probably on the first ballot
An engine attached to wood train,
on m, Little Miami railiOad, blew up
md 10 I'D down an embankment, two
mills west of Columbus, yesterday.
Brakeman Conklin was fatally inJured,
sad me clgineec and fireman slightly.
The proposition to build a railroad
from San Francisco to Los Angeles, San
diyro. is meeting with success. The
pr0p of the southern counties have
signed memorial to the Legislature to
a low their counties to subscribe to
wards the construction of the road. The
route designated is through San Joquin
and Lutcra Valleys. Los Angeles, San
Bernardi.o and SandicgO.
A Columbus dispatch dated yesterday,
SAYS: "The Commissioner of Railroads
ofOhio, TO day, received complete re
nor, ofthe dOings of the Atlantic Il
Gr,a, Western Railroad Company, for
the wear ending June both, 1879. The
earnings amount S5,097 1861; operating
expenses s.. .459, ,29S; balance, 81 l,63S, ,O69;
total number of passengers carried, o62,-
sJl; total number of tons of through and
lDcal freight, 2,745,3li."
4 party OF Ottwenty-six ge.tlemen and
I've ladies, from Massachusetts, are at
81 LOu.s. en- route for jerome, on the
South Pacific railroad, to ascertain the
adaptlLI.Ity ot that place for manutac-
tuning psrpo-cs. II is their Intention
to erect large PAPER and wooden mills
aud propose To take large amount OF
caIItllro Missouri. Another party OF
fifty is expected there from the same
State in few days on similar visit.
At MuScatine, Iowa, on Sunday, a
stranger named Tanncyhill, about fifty
year, of age, took laudanum, walked
into the Mississippi and died in three
feet Of water. whether from the poison
or drowning IS not known. His body,
When found. was i'll STOPPING position
with fru,h coming from his mouth, indi-
Dnu- that the laudanum had taken
effect. The deceased had n certificate
n. admission to the bar ut Mount Pleas
ant Iowa. in November last. The sui
car Was undoubtedly caused by want
%. "mP'oymcnt.
special dispatch from Houston,
irNl>, SAYS: Returns from - counties
Received show lTamilton's, Conserva.
tive, majority in 81 counties to be 500
Davis, Radical, majority in ~ countle:
Is l2,322 Davis in 81 counties is 4
ahead There are 40 counties to be
heard from. The registered white vote
is 1864 and the colOred registered
vote 1888 Davis leads the colored reg
istered vote by one sixth. The Legis'
.ature as it now stands is: Senate, Con
servative l3; House, Conservative Al
Senate, Radical ~; House, Radical 81
The vote for Governor is still doubtful
bat with that exception the entire Rad
ltal ticket is elected. Hamilton's friends
claim his election for Governor by 2OOt
majority. Armstrong and Conners,
Conservative, are believed to be elected
TO Congress.