The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-07
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Friday. .-------.--- May ''
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterda!
at 1861.
1t has trsnspired that the AragO tool
ne recruits for Cuba.
Baron Goelt, Prussian Minister, sail
ed for Prussia on Wednesday.
The Louisville pSlice raided the gam
blers il that city Wednesday night.
The suspension of work in the Penn
sylvania coal region has been post
poned.
VIM. T.. Dodge has been reelected
President Of the New York Chamber OF
Commerce.
The 18th annual session of the hassa-
chusetts Episcopal Convention met In
Worcester Wednesday.
Eastern men are said to be building
gunboats for the Spanish and making
arms for the insurgents.
The statement is confirmed that the
steamer Perriott has sailed from New
York with Cuban expedition.
jay Gould and Mr. Lane, Erie men,
have sued C.. S. Bushnell for defamation
of character. Damages 100000.
The Schooner Grapeshot, reported as
having sailed for Cuba, with volunteers,
is still lying in New York hsrbor.
The people of Chicago will celebrate
the opening of the Pacific railroad on
Monday next. COlfax and others will
speak.
Mr.. Plumb, our new Consul to Ha- |
vsna, sailed IN the Columbia yesterday.
She carries large lot of Spencer rifles
for the Spaniards.
The Mount Vernon estate of General
Washington is advertised in the Alex
andria Gazette to be sold on the 10th of
June at public auction.
A Baltimore dispatch states that the
steamer Chickamauga left there yester-
day and that her destination was sup
posed to be Cuba. She had a cargo of
war material.
A fire in Philadelphia yesterday dam
aged Mann's printing office to the ex-
tent of $50 900; insured. Harvey i
Ford, bOne-turners, in the same build
ing, suffered a loss of S1OOO.
The Theta Delta Chi Association is
holding its tweAty-second annual con
vention at the Astor House, New York.
Delegates from the South are present
for the first time since the war.
Jay Gould has notified the Postmas-
ter General that uuless the Government
increases the pay for the Erie mail ser
vice, that road would no longer carry
the mails. The Postmaster General re-
fused to accede to the demand.
The New York Herald says that the
Arago left on Monday; that up to the !,
hour the pilot left she had taken on no
adventurers and that she is going into
the Peruvian service by the express
permission of our Government.
The Coroners inquest OF the bodies
of the victims of the recent Long Island
railroad slaughter has concluded, and
the verdict holds the company liable
for the catastrophe, on account of not
keeping the road IN proper repair.
A Key West dispatch says the British
vessel Salv ador cleared Wednesday for
st. Thomas She had neither arms nor
ammunition aboard. Her departure
created great excitement at Havana as |
she is believed to be serving the insur-
gents.
Wincott & Cookies plauing mill, Chi |
cagO, took fire on Wednesday evening; |
a few minutes later the boiler exploded, |
tearing the building to pieces and badly |
iuiuring a number of persORS-none IA
Adjoining buildings damaged to the |
extent of $4,000.
General Lee is still sojourning in
Alexandria, Va lie has had an inter
view with John Janney, President of
the Virginia Convention, which passed
the ordinance of secession, by whom be
was presented with his swSrd in the
name II the people of Virginia. Mr..
Januey is now quite old and intirm.
A committee of the Chamber of Com
merce of New Orleans invite proposals
for deepening the water of the mouth
of the Mississippi. The committee are
also instructed to endeaVOr to obtain
from the Government the dredge boat
now in use with the balance of the ap-
preparation yet unused for deepening
the passes.
1t is stated that the French Atlantic
Cable Company will land their shore
end at Cape May. From the cape three
main lines will deviate, one running !
acress the bay to Washington, another
direct to Philadelphia, and the third
along the shore north 10 New York.
The steamer having the cable on board |
will sail from France in July.
CESAR was an auti-fllibuster. He
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