The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-24
,E'Aeelina Realstsr.
....August 2f. q.
NEWS SUMMARY.
uy TELEGRAPH

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at l2. ,,,
,,. .Is been sold for -, ,Ooo'
r,. xsather has been extremely hot
ln2er"Isnd Inc for the last few days.
~. rate of freight from New York
wLt nc il now understood to be 40 cents
per cwt'
,r.,m Wslbridgs .has resigned the
nnH;Ssney hlaS of the Mediterranean Steara- :
ship Company
rbs lawmakers beat the Forest City
~ ofCisyelaud in q game OF base ball
vest yesterday, score 34tO2l'
Tho Knights of st. Crispin had pro-
I'm l5GO strong in New York yester-
S.y, terminating in a picnic
Tn. appdry of w. r. Kelly, Bristol,
lHV ras burned on Saturday. Loss,
i;GOoO; insured for 10000.
3sath from yellow fever occurred in
- street. New York, on Sunday.
Tsa nary was recently from the South.
william H. Halleck, of the JoarsGI Of
c,amsyc,. starts new evening paper In
~ York this week called the RepH0itc'
Ths Northeastern Seugerbund and
c.naT.i Srugerbnnd have resolved to
o'r,,cinate in the Humboldt celebration
S.ntamDeT lIth. A
C,r,.lins Kelleber died in New York
S,,Jsy in terrible agony from dose OF
.,Lacco mice and ale given him by an
'Ij Iady named MOnohan, for fever and
sgHe.
C,Ionel Oue,ala, bIother of the Gene
,Iin.Cbiet. arrived in New York Sat
10 on a diplomatic mission, and as
tbs bearer of important dispatches from
the Cuban authorities.
pbilsdelphia dispatchof yesterday
..r. The weather is cool and pleasant,
WsIer is growing scarce, and the City
Conncil meet to-day to devise measures
t"r raising wafer in the city reservoir.
In the trot at Saratoga, yesterday,
Maintain Boy beat Lady Thorne three
'traivbt heats in 2:27, 2:24t and 2:25t.
Commolore Vanderbilt and wife were
on tho ground, attracting much atten-
ton.
C,ntajn Shaw, of the London fire
hriyads. has left New York for tour of
the Iarge southern and western cities,
and viii probably on his rePrn home
recommend the adoption OF many of
the best features of the American sys-
ten.
Accounts from all sections of Mary
l,pd represent the draught as prevail.
inc. No rain has fallen for weeks
in some counties. Farmers despair OF
having even half crops of corn. Potato
vines have become parched and dried up
before maturity.
The President of the Irish Republican
Association of Pennsylvania issues sa
card declaring the Irish Convention
lately in session in Chicago elected no
President Of the Irish Republican Asso.
citation Of America, nor did it select any
newspaper as special organ, and that
sll claimants Of such positions are i'm
posters.
dispatch from Camp Supply, Indian
Territory, says: The Peace Commits
si0ur:> on Saturday had most import
ant mr,;iug with the Chrycnues and
ArapanOes. y large number Of chiefs
We're present, and tull 2GOO men, women
ana children outside on ponies. The
cOnncil lasted two hours aud the result
was considered satisfactory
Copies of the will of Andrew ]. But
Ter and Of the inventories aud schedules
filed 10y his brother and executor, Ger.
eral Il. +. Butler, are published in New
York. The schedules show that the es.
tate Is insOlvent aud that no money re-
mains to be divided among the heirs,
who are General Butler, Mrs. Butler,
wife Of the deceased and George II. But
Ter, his son.
Two New York undertakers, of the
Eleventh Precinct, are engaged in a
quarrel as to who shall bury the corps
Of woman named Sutton, who died
Saturday. One of them was sent by
the cOrSner who made the Investigation
Of the case, but the other was called
inst by the woman's relations. The cor
Olers man insisted on his right to dc
the burying, but the police were called
10 and the matter referred to Inspector
Walhng who referred it to the public
administration. Meantime the body i
uuburied.
A telegram from Philadelphia, yester
day says: Not drop of rain has falle
IN this city since August 4th, the nigh
OF the great whisky fire, nor have an
accounts of rain been received frOI
the interior, except of short thunde
storm OF Saturday last of about thirty
minutes up the Schuylkill. All reportt
agree as to the great damage to cor
from the drought IN this State. A spe
GIa meeting of the City Council wa
leld to-day 20 consider the water fam
ine. SO 600 was appropriated for th
ismIles of destitute canal boatmen VIII
land upon the Schuylkill river. Powe
LAS been given to the chief engineer {
TAKE any measures he may dessi Prope
20 raise the water into the basins a
tairmOuut. An experiment was trie,
Ials evening of raising water by mean
OF steam fire engines. The hill a
fd'rmoHnt is ninety-six feet high, an
II IL doubtful whether the hose wi
stand the pressure. The result has NJ