The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-15
THE NEWS,

1ue uhIo IOE Attorney GenefAl nOAf'e
resignation Is fixed for January lst,
when he will be appointed 10 fill the
vacancy on the Supreme Bench.
The Cabinet meeting Friday was
without special interest. Members stat
ell that most OF the annual reports were
completed, and abstracts OF the same
would he submitted for data to the
message by the last Of this week.
Secretary Boutwell,, II Ia said, has In.
dicRted that bis report would express
the opinion that specie payment could
be resumed al the commencement oil
the next fiscal year, July lst.
A portion OF a self.conatituted dele.
CATION from Canada favorble 10 an.
nexatlon to the United States had
an interview with the President Fri.
day, and talked the matter over In
general detail, but there Ia no prospect
that any step looking 10 the annexation
Of the DomihiOn Will be taken, as the
proposition does not seem to have
strength enough 10 warrant any thing
more than preliminary discussion.
Judge Dent, OF Mississippi, will re.
turn home this week. He had con.
NNASNhAoA WIN SuG L ANaluBub
which the correspondent OF Demo.
cratic paper says was mutually salts.
factory, US 1t appeared the latter had
not misrepresen!ed the Presidents
views regarding the Mississippi cam
plign, Judge Dent. however, did not
ind the President willing 10 give Gen.
eral Ames any additional Instructions
rs TO The election on the 30th.
Special Commissioner Wells, Is un-
derstood to be busily engaged on his
annual report. II will be largely de-
voted to the discussion OF the tariff, and
further additions to the free list.
A member Of the House, who has inst
returned to Washington from visit to
most OF tho cIiles on the lakes between
Milwaukee and Buffalo, reports that
Illicit traffic is very active at present
along the whole frontier.
The following distinguished gentle.
men LEFT Washington by special car
Saturday morning for the Georgia fair
al Macon: From Pennsylvania-Ssn-
ator Cameron, Judge Waits, VIM. Call
der, Coleman SharpIess, Col. Knox,
Judge Woodward and Z. A. Knapp.
From New York-Messrs. ElWanger
and Barry. From Rochester-Charles
Braydon and Solon Robinson. From
Washington Commissioner Capron
and Professor Henry, Commissioner
Delano, DR.. Nichols, ], w. Forney and
Judge Porter, OF Chicago. The car goes
via OF Knoxville and Chattanooga.
]. D. Vivert was shot Friday morn
ing at Links Hotel, Nashville, by Ben
ton Snowder. BE IL InortalIy wounded.
Snowder was committed for trial.
The boiler o! small engine, usetf
with q threshing mAcpine, exploded
al Concord Station, Eric county, Pa,
Friday, and boy was blown to pieces.
lis now deemed probable that the
difference existing between the Line
and Staff OF the navy, about their res
pective rank, will bs amicably settled
without an appeal to Congress.
Both Allen and McCoole announce
their Intention TO retire from the prize
ring. ,t-.r.
The Committee OF Conference 10 set.
tie the disagreement In the Tennessee
senate and House on theConvention bill
could not agree. and new committee
was ordered. II was thought the uues-
tIon will be adjusted Saturday.
The st. Louis Council has ord cred the
Mayor to lose no time In completing
the purchase Of the gas works for the
city.
Minister Low Is hard to please, It's
said he will not start for China until aE-
ter the meeting Of Gongl esa. He was
aVerse to accepting !he mission at all,
aud II IL now ASSERTED hat II he fails In
having the mission ok Hltei 10 one OF
the tirst-cIHss, early In the session OF
Congress, he wIil resign and return to
California.
The total number Of deaths Ia st.
Louis lust week wits one hundred and
one, OF which fourteen were from cons
sumption und ten from pneumonia.
A carriage CuntHinIng two ladies,
crossing the Central Railroad near
Greenville, Ohio, Thursday evening,
was struck by locomotive. Oae OF
the ladies, a Ms. Weaver, WAS killed,
and the other slightly Injured. The
carriage WAS tornit0 pieces. ......
President Grant recently offered 10
sell his thres hundred hcre farm, near
Carondelet, Mo-, to the County Court,
for seventy -tiye thousand dollars. The
Court had previously decided to pur-
chase new county farm. The Court
did not like the location OF Grant,s
land, and purchased The EIhert farm.
on the Pacific RIilrnad, thirty.two
miles from 81. Louis. It'5S
II Is stated that the Post Master Gsn.
eral will soon issue an order prohibit.
H..
The cIrcnIars aotIsn % nn no "e sSimd,in" iaiiT o,
nrms for the purpose or datrauding the
public. Some twenty OF these firms
are on tho black list Of the Government
detectives.
/ AT the medical lecture In the Penn>
sylvania Hospital at Philadelphia,
Saturday morning, class Of 80 ladies'
were present, with l40 male students.