The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-21
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u,otcber. the English Consul at
vIdJo and Yokohama, died July 7th.
Tho first bale of new cotton was re-
I'D in Cincinnati by a commission
merchant on Thursday.
The races at Springfield, Mass, will
- next week. Several noted horses
Iii be in attendance.
Samuel Ramsey, brother of General
psm,., of the Union army, suicided by
.bootiag at Jersey City, yesterday.
Tho President and family, returning
s,om the Pennsylvania trip, passed
tSropgh New York yesterday on theiI
wsy 10 Newport.
Numerous letters have been receiv ed
f,om southern Generals accepting the
;nyitation 10 participate in the location
of the Gettysburg battle field.
The articles of consolidation of the
wabash and Lake Shore Railroads was
signed Yesterday and will be submitted
to tb. stockholders in thirty days.
The Erie Railway Company have
ofsred to carry tine Southern base ball
cInL from Cincinnati to New York at
half rates in case of visit being decl-
ded upon.
The Office boy in the employ of W. H.
Whitney, of Bedford Row, Brooklyn,
was arrested Friday for attempting to
,oisou the family by placing opium In
their coffee.
James Collins was stabbed in Pendle.
ton. OuiO, on Wednesday night, and
died of his wounds on Thursday night
William Battley, who did the stabbing,
has been arrested.
The firm of Taylor & Bliss, large
Vool.n manufacturers in North Adams,
Mass, stopped their mills on Monday
niyBt, owing to the failure of Bowers
Be.kman il Co., of New York.
II was expected in Cincinnati yes
terday that +. d. Mansfield would be
nominated by the Republicans to-day
for The position of representative from
Butler aud Warren counties, Ohio.
The Erie Railway Company have Oc'
cupied new quarters in the grand opera
house, corner Sth avenue and 23d street,
New York, where superb accommoda-
tious Tor passengers have been pro-
Ylded.
reported that Ramsay, President
OF tLe Albany and Susquehanna ran
road, James Fisk, Jr., and their asso-
ciates, had d conference on Thursday,
and settled substantially their contro'
versy.
RM. Stimson, editor of the Marietta
Etgistsy, has been nominated as State
Senator from the Fourteenth Ohio Dis
tr,ct. Peter Odliu is the Republican
candidate for Senator in the Third Ohio
District.
The first conviction under the new
prOhlbi;Ory liquor law was made yes
tegLay in the superior court Of Massa-
chusetts The jury were out five hours.
The defendant Was fined fifteen dollars
and costs
Officer Stall of Rochester, New York,
was III buildlOi luuASAdN' IOOnAAc 'N@
the perpetrators OF patent right swim
die. Farmers on the frontier and some
iu the interior OF that State have been
swiudled on: of SO, 900
The Consolidated Western Railroad
directors have been in session in New
York fer several days, considering an
advance on western freight. They havo
not come TO an agreement yet, and it is
doubtful if rates will be advanced. as
competing lines cannot yet harmonize.
An emigrant, who conceals his name,
was arrested recently on his arrival in
New York, on suspicion of being an
English Counterfeiter. He was carried
from station to station to avoid a writ
OF haLhds corpus. 1t now turns out that
be Is not the man wanted.
At the inquest over the body of Mrs
Niekerson, of Havestraw, Rocklan(
cOHnty, New York, Wednesday, tn,
Jury's verdict exonerated Mr.. NickersoI
from the charge of poisoning her, aui
declared that the complaint was brough
by DR.. John Heugler through malice.
The sentence of Thomas Mulhall, VIII
was to have been hung at Cleveland o
the 26th Of August, has been commute
to Imprisonment for life. Mulhall wa
twice convicted Of aiding and abettin
the murder of David Skinner.
Last Wednesday. in Cincinnati, th
wife of Reverend Francis Lobdell, lat
rector of the Church of the Advent i
Cincinnati, died very suddenly. H
had Just resigaed on account of hi
health and accepted call to st. Paul.
New Haven, Conn.
A New York dispatch of yesterda
says: The heat has been most intens
to-day, and has probably caused NOR
suffering than that of any other da
this summer. Several cases of sunstrok
have occurred in some instances AM
mails have dropped dead in the stree
from the effects of the heat.
The New York Times of yesterda
says that every person connected wit
the difficulties of Chancellor LANSING
forty years ago. is well known to his az
quaintances now living. The secre
was conided to him by dstinguishe
citizen of New York State, now decea
ed. The survivor was enjoined to pul
llsh the circumstances when certai
persons were dead. This condition hG
been fulfilled, and it is probable narr;
tive, calculated to startle the worl'
will yet be given to the public. Thel
will then be no longer room for sing
doubt in reference to Chancellor LaI
sings fate. Ii will be we'll identitie
and will form one nf tho most renar L
able pages ia the history of the publ
men OF this country.
The National Labor Congress Assem-
Died In Philadelphia yesterday. Th
committee on Organization made a rt
port with amendments, but after debat
.Ge matter was laid on the table an
she committee discharged. The con
uliStee on Female Labor made repor
T5cn was adopted, as follows:
1'So,rsd That this Congress recon
msS; Sl lhat all Trades Unions make i'll
Van;s G'a'- effort to secure thorough ol
fhSuon fha OF female labor, and deman
don aIne IN pay for work equally as we
syenn? women as by met; that ever
pbys;oaTUt VI labor for which women al
otf.rsJ eapacitated, should be freel
condi,i'o " her on the same terms aa
borer. ", as allowed to any class of Ia
portun;,i". we ask for women equal OF
enternr;ses and rights in every field {
inc u''On was adopted annoint