The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-30
TELEaRAPHIC ITEMS.

| nv the Boston 0ankS Oh Lue QueSIlOn D
the expansion of the currency, there
are now twenty-six banks opposed tC
such expansion, to fourteen In favor.
"A disturbance occurred in New
York, Sunday, in the synagogue in
Irvinton street, in consequence of the
trustees endeavoring to prevent per"
sons from leaving the synagogue be-
| fore close of service. Mr.. Moses Michael
a member of the congregation, was ar
rested on q charge of dlsorderly con-
duct.
Payne and Weston walk to day for
a purse of $500 90. They start from
Walnut Creek, ten miles above Erie,
Pa, and walk to Buffalo, one hundred
and three miles in the time specified.
The first man in wins the purse.
The Canal at Buffalo, is almost en-
tirely clear Of ice and navigation will
open early.
Omaha dispatches say that Henry
Hickman, prominent member of the
First Baptist Church, is under trial for
falsely and maliciously assaillng the
character of Mrs. Vermate, wife of the
pastor, and was found guilty.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany laid six miles of track Saturday.
They continue pushing the work west
OF Ogden, and also expect soon to finish
the permanent lines through the tun-
neIs at Echo Canon. The work on the
Missouri river bridge at Omaha, ts pro-
gressing favorably. The engineers ex-
pect soon TO commence work on the
centre pier.
The Erie and Niagara Extension
Railroad Company, and the Erie and
Niagara Railroad Company have given
notice that they will make application
to the Dominion Parliament for powers
authorizing both or either these COM
panies to construct bridge over, or
tunnel under the Niagara river at or
near Fort Erie, to cooperate with any
similar powers existing within the
State of New York, or created by the
Congress of the United States.
A. IE +. Amos, leather merchants
of Montreal, are reported to have sus-
pended with heavy liabilities.
AT the Episcopal Church, Thomas
ton, Me-, Sunday evening the flooring
gave way owing to the dense crowd,
precipitating hundred and fifty per-
sons into the unfinished basement.
and many slightly wounded.
The American House and adjacent
buildings in Hillsboro, N. H., were
burned Sunday night. The furniture
was saved. Loss $4,000; insured for
Sc. 600.
The Rev. Ambrose O'Neil died at
the Cathedral residence in Albany,
Sunday evening.
The ico in the Hudson River is
strong and heavy yet. The weather is
mild and showery.
Rev. Dewetrius Moragna, a promi-
nent Catholic priest, formerly Prior of
ST. Vincent's Abbey, Westmoreland
county, Pa, died at st. Paul, Minn.,
on Saturday. There is no signs of the
ice in the river breaking up at st. Paul
yet.
The President yesterday afternoon
sent TO the Senate the nomination of
George Earle, as First Assistant POST
master General in place of General
Skinner.
The passage of the Stickney rail-
road bill is about to nullify the lease OF
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton to
the Atlautic and Great Western road.
The bill provides that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton shall pay the con-
tracts OF the lessees.
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A DECK HAND INHERITs HALF A
MILLION OF DoLLARS.-Henry Murty,
many years ago a deck hand employed
on steamers about Pittsburgh owned
by the Poe family. has recently fallen
heir to half n million of dollars at St.
Louis. A short time previous TO his
sudden good fortune he was employed
on st. Louis and New Orleans packet,
commanded by Capt. Tom Rogers, of
this city. About two years ago an ac-
count was published in the st. Louis
papers of the discovery of decompos-
ing corpse in lonely room of large
building in that city. The corpse was
that of man named Sullivan. Henry
Murty was this mans cousin and his
heir. Sullivan was an old citizen of
unsociable disposition and habits, and
was possessed of great wealth, as the
sequel shows. Murty, as heir OF the
deceased, though the agency of his law
yer, Mr.. Brodhead, was lately handed
the sum OF one hundred and ninety-fve
thousand dollars, and the real estate,
lands and stocks which accrue to him,
will raise the entire amount of wealth
now possessed by this lately friendless
and seemingly contented Irishman, to
four or five hundred thousand dollars.
What'll he do with it?
THE BUFFALoEs' LUxURY.-The buff