The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-21
,sheeliua Reaister.
r,esday,........September 2l.
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

c,,d closed in New York yesterday
ll%t.
II. u. Townsend. a well-known phys
Ion of Boston, died on Sunday, aged 76
years
uoratis Seymonr has been selected as
iiJsgat. TO the New York Democratic
Convention.
The heat in New York yesterday was
.-tansa for the season. A case of SUR
stroke is reported.
Tba New York paper -stainers struck
a,arday. One hundred men, employed
,welye establishments, went out.
Tommauy delegates we're chosen yes.
.,ISar 70 the Democratic Convention,
te,S yea ;IcInde w. NJ. Tweed, s. j. Tilden,
Cox, George Law, A. Oakley Hall.
In Rochester, New York, yesterday,
the Empire hotel, Fuller's hardware
tore Headley's drug store and several
otSsr stores were burned. Loss $4,000.
The Royal Insurance Company con-
,sst the payment Of policy OF SlO,0o0
:" the second wife of a deceased policy
holder. on the ground that the policy was
Id ont in the name Of the first wife
anI not changed on re marriage after
her death. Decision not given.
The oil dock Of Lombard, Ayres &
20 caught fire Sunday night, and was
SsI;eyed to have been extingnished. 1t
sS.in broke out at midnight and de-
.,rnrsd tank containing 0,000 gallsns
81 crpde petroleum, which, together
with the oil previously burned, entailed
a loss of $4,000.
The Captain of the ship Southsmp-
ton which arrived at New York yester'
Say morning from Tehuantapec, west
soast Of Mexico, reports that between
latitude % and 50, S. longitude 46, he
saw one hundred large icebsrgs. One
was from seven to eight miles in length
and from three hundred to four hun
dted feet in heighth.
New York dispatch dated yesterday
,avs. The managers of the Varlons
Wssterp competing lines to-day received
ordars 10 continue their contracts this
week for general merchandise to Chi.
cago Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati
snd Memphis at the same cheap rates
adonted by the Pennsylvania Central
and Erie and New York Central several
months since.
Il is stated that early in the coming
session of Congress Butler will deliver
sneech on the extravaganza of Con-
crsssional committees. His remarks are
sxpected to apply particularly to the
Wavs and Means committee, of which
Scbepch is chairman. Schenck is pre-
pared, having secured some of the most
damaging facts against Buffers connec-
ton with certain manufacturing instl-
tuti0ns.
A Buffalo dispatch says that on Satur-
day morning last, man who had regis
tered at tho Cataract House, Niagara, as
Carl Schurz, New York, proceeded to
the Table Rock at the Falls, placed his
monev, watch and coat in charge of
boy who was standing by, and walked
iniothe water few feet from the brink.
He was soon carried over the precipice
and dashed to pieces in the whirl pool
below
Aparty of eight persons, consisting OF
Y.C T. Chafiee, wife and wite's sister,
aud FIVE children, tho youngest II years
Od, were found on the road near Baltl-
more, on Saturday, in a most destitute
cpdition. They were without money,
starviEg and almost naked. Chatfee
stated they left home in Leavenworth
county, Kansas, III February last, for
Philadelphia, where they have friends
and have travelled the entire distance on
foot, living by charity on the way.
They were provided for at Baltimore and
liberal subscriptions in money raised
for them. They resumed their journey
to Philadelphia by boat.
A remarkable sermon was preached
by the rector of the s.. Albans EpiscO-
pal Church, New York, Sunday, where
10 the reverend affirmed that the Epis-
copslIan and Roman Catholic belief is
positively alike. although the members
90 Dot Commune together, owing to the
IntrIgueS at the court of Rome at the
Time OF the reformation. The preacher
boldly asserted that the churches re-
ferred to are actually but one, and that
the members are all Roman Catholics,
aud be hoped to sea the day when both
should be united under the latter name
and unite in communion. The sermon
created much sensation among the hear
ers, many of whom were Protestants
from other denominations, whose beliet
be attacked, utterly denying their faith
as a religion based on Christ.