The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-07
THE NEWS.

MtASiSsIppi Dent gives a glowing &C.
count OF his prospects. He Is now en-
gagged In the canvass with his opponent,
Gen. ,Alcorn, and writes to Washington
that there is no doubt whatever OF his
own election, and the success OF the en-
tire National Republican ticket. He
says that the antecedents Of General
Aleorn, the Radical candidate, being
those Of q rampant and uncompromlG :.
Ing rebel, will bring 10 his (Dent's) sui D.
port q large body OF the most radical
Republicans, and o very large negro
vote. He further says that lie does not
believe that Alcorn will receive q
thouAahd white votes In the State.
In Judge McCann's court, in New
York city, Tuesday, q man named Tai.
bar appeared and said that nearly two
weeks ago he came 70, the city from
Minnesota with his wife and three
children, and on his arrival he sent
them to i boarding house while he 70
mained at the depot TO attend to his
baggage. On receiving the baggage he
proceeded to the boarding house, but
heard that his family were not there,
and after searching the city eight days
for them he found that they had been
oonvicten Of petty larceny and sent to
the penltertiAry for three months.
Judge McCAnn Immediately ordered
the production Of the parties In court.
About half o million dollGrs worth OF
properly was destroyed by The flood In
and about Philadelphia.
W. D. Reynolds and Asa BIggs have
been appointed by the Board OF Trade
at Norfolk, as delegates to the Louis
Vile Commercial Convention. g-,,,,
James McMullen, son OF Rev. j. W.
McMullen, Of indianapolis. was accI-
IDENTIFY shot and killed this morning,
while out hunting near Cicero, Ind.
The little boy, Eddie Loos, reported
as killed by accident by the sxplo-
sion loi q pistol cartridge, In Pitts.
burgh, was shot by his brother. nine
years Of age. His brother confessed 10
1t yesterday morning, and says he shot
him accidentally, and threw the plstol
In . vault. -'.... ..,.' 4
All the Judges Of the Supreme Court
ofthe United States, were present yes.
terday, at Washington, except Judge
Field, and The business OF the Court
commenced With the arguments OF
cases pending At the late adjournment.
A .colored church In Carandolet, NO.,
six tnilea below st. Louis, was burned
Tuesday. Loss $4,000, no insurance.
The hre was undoubtedly the work oi
an inGeudlary. "A ~ y
A case has been brought up In the
United States District Court, Ut 81.
Louis, against Ex-Governor Fletcher,
OF Missouri, and Bacon Montgomery,
by Mr.. Berry Freeman, for personal
violence and destruction of his printing
ofaco in December, 1866, at the time
Montgomery was In command OF the
State militia, In Lafayette county,
whom Berry criticised in his paper.
Berry claims 5000.
On Saturday evening the car OF the
American Express Company, between
Erie and Cleveland, was discovered BY
the messenger to'be on fire. IT was
packed full OF freight, the bell.rope had
been passed over the top, and the mes.
senger had no means OF signaling the
engineer. and no way OF egress TO or
communication with the other cars,
while at the same time the fire was
rapidly spreading and the heat and
smoke were threatening sutfocation.
At length, however, opening one Of the
doors, he wheeled one ofths iron Hafes
to the edge and let 1t fall This, strik.
Ing the step Of the baggage car, alarm
ed its occupants with the conclusion,
the engineer was gignaled and lhetrain
was stopped, when the oanse Of the
alarm was discovered and the FIRE ex.
tinRuished, -