The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-08

corroborate the previous statements
that that section will be unusually
prosperous this year, by reason OF the
good crops OF cotton, sugar and rice.
MEASURES have been commenced in
New York Tor making Il test case on be-
half of commercial travellers, to secure
the repeal of the oppressive laws OF
several States. A meeting at the A5t0r
Honse Wednesday was largely at
tended.
THE Missouri Legislature expected TO
organize yesterday. The Senatorial
question in point OF interest overshad-
ows all others. Congressman Loan and
Senator Drake are trying hard 10 defeat
SchuIz, but the news from Jefferson
CITY indicates that Schurz will be
chosen.
THE kentucky Legislature met
Wednesday, and about the first thing
done was the passage of II resolution r"
Uuesting the Governor to employ couh-
Sal and 10 take such other steps as ne
might deem necessary i'll order 10 test
the c0mstituIionnlity ofthe Civil Rights
bill.
MIR. BUTLER, remembering his arrest
by Mr. Woolly, in Baltimore, last sum
mer, has introduced bill i'll the Housc
of Representatives to secure the right
oTIransit and delay OF fOrty-eight hours
in every citizen, through every State
other than that whereof no is,A citizen,
without being sued or arrested i'll that
State, unless on affidavit that Ii" is IL
fugitive from justice or from rebellion.
THH House Committee on Public
Buildings has instructed its chairman
to report resolutions granting the neli
ton of the Mayor, Union League and
other Republican organizations in
Washington To occupy the rOtuudG and
old House hall of the Capitol for AN in
auguratiOn ball 1t can hardly be pos
sibie Congress will sanction turning
the National Capitol into dance hall.
THE Republicans 10 the Michigan
Legislature have nominated in caucus
Hon. Xachariah Chandler for re-elec-
ton to the Senate. AS lhe Legislature
is largely Republican this secures Mr..
Chambers reelection. Chandler is n
man of 81 good deal of force though not
of great intellectually. Heis immense
ly rich and correspondingIy popular
with his Legislature.
VICE PRESIDENT WADE has received
the records of the ELECTORAL votes of all
the States which voted for President nj
1. ,IS,Hk TN.Ili
mia, Oregon and Nevada. The elecLOr-
ial messenger from California died on
the IsIhnus, while en- route to Wash
ingiOu. The messenger from Oregon
is on his way, but is temporarily delay
ed Ivy the snow. The Nevada messen-
ger has started for the Capital, but has
not been heard from.
EX GOVERNOR Army, Of New Mexico,
is en- route for Washington with splen-
did specimens OF gold from tho MarenO
miurs, ncnr tho boundary between
New Mexico and Colorado. Ono hun
drpd and eighty. six ounces Orgnld were
taken out in two weeks, and one hun
drCd ounces the next week which assays
over eighteen dollars per ounce. Mr.
Army says: Remove the Indians, and
New Mexico will pay the national
debt.
THERE is considerable excitement
among stock operators i'll New York
over the expected action OF the LeGisla-
ture on VAnderbilt's eighty per cent.
dividend. Several prominent railway
men left for Albany Wednesday even
ing. and are prepared TO expend large
amounts of money to secure proper
legislation. Unless the present legisln-
ture goes back on the practices OF lis
predecessors, these gentlemen will find
ways to expeEd it.
THE Republicans OF the Pcnnsylva-
mia Legislature had 4 caucus Wednes-
day, and nominated for Senator John
Scott, of Huntingdon county. MIR.
Mooreheud, of Pittsburgh, previously
Withdrew from the field. Mr.. SCOTS
experience in public life is limited to a
single term as Representative in the
Legislature; ana he has not been con-
spicuous among the leading politicians
of the State. He stands high, however,
AS a lawyer, and has an unblemished
reputation.
DIR. HARRIS, in his weekly COM
municalion 10 the New York Board of
Health, states that during the past
year, the deaths in that city reached
24,SS9! The third quarter ending Ooto
Der lst, he says, witnessed II mortality
which will be as memorable rs the hot
summer in which it occurred. The SG5S
deaths in New York and 1902 in Brook.
Ign during that period, were almost
double the normal rate of mortality
during the quarter just ended.
A SHOCKING accident occurred mt Ro-
chester New York, w ednesday evening,
by which eight persons were killed and
thirty severely injured. floor in the
school house ofSt. Peters and st. Paul's
Roman Catholic Church gave way,
while crowded With people attending n