The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-29

Gold closed in New York yesterda,
at 1884,.
The Conservative State Convention
met in Richmond yesterday.
The steamship City of Manchester ha
reached New York from Liverpool.
The National Sunday School COnven
tion met at Newark, N. j., yesterday.
Perry Fuller is explaining and de
Tending himself through the New Ut
leans papers.
Henry McCloskey, late editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, died at the Brooklyn
Insane Asylum on Tuesday.
Bella Clay won the sweepstake trot
for $500 on Fashion course, Tuesday,
beating Henry Clay and Belle Of Allen
town. Best time, 2:47i.
Rufus C. Nash and Charles H. SquierS,
two of the most expert counterielters
in the country, escaped from jail at
Albany, n. T., yesterday.
A girl named Reilly, 13 years of age,
was outraged by negro near New Ha-
ven, Connecticut, on Tuesday evening.
The negro is still at large.
Judge Johnson, of Centreville, lndi-
ana, accidentally poisoned himself at
Cambridge city. in that State, yester-
day. He died in thirty minutes.
AQuebec dispatch says that the Grand
Jury has found true bill against Chal-
oner for the murder of Ensign Whitaker,
his sisters seducer. His trial is fixed
for Saturday.
At Rye, New York, Gilbert Robinson,
O jeweller, was found murdered in his
store, on Tuesday night. His skull had
been crushed in with gun-barrel, and
500 taken. No arrests.
A fire in Watertown, N. Y, OH Tues
day night burned Pratt's cotton mill
and Kimball's pump factory. Bah
cocks pump factory took fire, but the
flames were extinguished.
On Tuesday afternoon a young man
named Edward J. Martin, son of the
York, shot and probably wounded NOR
tally lady bOsrder at the Hotel, named
Mrs. Matte Brienslove.
The Erie men are in trouble with the
property owners along the Passaic river.
A party of the roads employees took
possession of Alderman Stewards water
front on Tuesday, and drove piles of
their own into the ground. The owner
has instituted legal proceedings.
A dispatch from Peeksville, New York,
says that Martha Sprague (white) and
Alexander Cornell (cOlOred) were arrest
ed there, charged with numbering an
infant belonging to the former The
woman states that Cornell took the
child alive, sewed it Hp in a bag and
carried it away from the house. The
body was found in the foundry pond on
Monday evening partly encased in bag
OF sheet
The New York Herald says it is un-
derstoed in Washington that General |
Robert Z. Lee has been invited to call |
upon President Grant at the White |
House, in order TO confer in reference TO |
the reconstruction ofVirginia. General |
Lee is now in Baltimore with q delega- |
tiOn fYirginians interest ed in the Valley |
railroad, but iRrends visiting Washing |
ton, where he will be the guest of Mont |
gomery Blair.
The New York Herald states that it
has now come TO light that Secretary
Seward, while the government was in a
posture of strong opposition TO the
French intervention in Mexico, had au-
thorized General Butler to furnish their
army with all the mules it needed. IT.
also states that the House committee on
Foreign Affairs will probably visit st.
Domingo before long, at the invitation
of the Dominican authorities. At pres
ent they are engaged in taking testimo-
ny relative to the Bliss aud Masterman
troubles in Paraguay.