The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-24
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saturday.
NEWS SUMMARY.
nv TELEGRAPH.

Geld closed in New York yesterday a
1855.
TX Governor Grape, of Flint, Mich.
died yesterday
Tbree warehouses were destroyed b.
FIRE at Pekin, Illinois, Thursday. Los
so, 600.
Risbop Whitehouse has postponed tn,
,,i,I of Rev. Cheney. in Chicago, til
fine 10Th of July.
The French Cable expedition arrived
oA DuNbury at noon yesterday. Th'
.bor. end will be laid to day.
Eli, c. Scott, an Ohioan, y years o
age, died yesterday morning from fal
down ight of stairs at Erie, Pa.
Harry Stafford, the Sunday Schoo
n;onaer of Ohio, died at his residence
IN GAINESVILLE yesterday afternoon, ageo
- years.
Hon. WIN. A. Galbraith, of Erie, Pa.
hos declined the chairmanship of the
democratic State Central Committee oi
Pennsylvania.
r. C.. Caperal, of Toronto, addressed
the Oswego, \. Y, Board of Trade, yes,
terday. on the subject of the Huron and
Ontario ship canal.
The report Thursday night of strike
for wages at the Dayton Ledger office
!. erroneous. The difficulty was OF
JifF.r..t character and has been settled
All the prisoners confined at Fort
Iafayette charged with being concerned
IN ,he Cuban expedition have been re-
leased. No particulars are gwen, but
il is supposed they were released on
their own recOgnizance.
The commencement exercises of Yale
College were concluded Thursday night
bv reception at President WOolsey's
mansion. At the Alumni dinner Gov
erpor ,Jewett donated five hundred dol
lars 10 the scientific schools.
Atameeting of the Boston Council
on Thursday night, on the recon-
incubation of the Mayor to provide for
a proper celebration, on the part OF the
CITY, of the successful laying of the
French cable, committee was appoint
ed 10 arrange the details.
The Pullman palace car Wahsateh,
which left San Francisco on Monday
morning loaded with passengers, arriy-
ed at Chicago on Thursday evening via
the Chicago Il Northwestern railroad,
and left for New York via the Michigan
Central, Great Western and New York
Central roads. This is the first car
from the Pacific carrying passengers
thro4gn without change.
An international industrial exhibi-
zion. under the management of the
Mechanics Institute, will be opened IN
Buffalo on the 9TH of October next and
continue during the month. The spa
ciuus lire proof skating rink and ADA
cent grounds, covering an area OF ttty
thousand square feet, have been secured
for the purpose. The different rail
ways, steamboats,, &c, have agreed TO
return free of charge all goods on ex-
hibitiOu.
1t is rumorcd in New York that a
number OF recruits for the Cuban army
are about to bring suits against the
Janta to recover the $50 per month in
gold offered them at the time of enlist
ment. The Junta appear to refuse to
pay any except those who enlisted at
their own headquarters. The recruits
will also sue for the $500 bounty in gold
offered them and for the value of their
clothes, &C., lost in the attempted ex-
pedlti OBS.
:. T. Webster, of Chicago, Western
Agent of the National Steamship Com
pany, leaves on Saturday in the steam
ship France for England, for the pur
pese of cultivating the through ship
ments from Chicago and the Western
States to Europe. His theory is thai
inasmueh as the West is the producer
and throggh rates of freight to Europe
can be used in the West daily the same
as from New York, Chicago and the
West is the point where orders from
Europe should be sent. lie will visit
the large cities and explain his views t.
the several Chambers of Commerce.