The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-18
THE NEWS.

sion. Its ratification Of the 10Th Amend
ment may soon be looked for.
Official returns from 3s counties OF
Pennsylvania give Geary majority Of
near 1900. The Republican majority
in Allegheny county was only 1900.
Henry Gostwlck, a boarder at the
Salisbury Hotel, In Salisbury, Conn,
shot Mr.. Halstead, proprietor Of the
hotel Saturday, during dispute about
q hotel bill. HalsLead was Instantly
killed. His murderer was arrested.
Professor John Wise made an ascen-
sion In Professor Seacrlst's mammoth
balloon, Friday afternoon, at OrrVille,
Ohio, going In an eaBterly direction,
crossing the Ohio river In the nelghbor.
hood OF Steubenville.
The case OF the swlndling firm, In
New York, who deceive people by pro.
posing 10 furnish them with genuine,
imitation legal tender notes. and send
to the purchaser o lot OF photographs
OF the United States currency, has been
referred to Solicitor Banheld, OF the
Treasury department, and II there is
any authority to suppress the swlndlersI
Secretary Boutwell, will promptly oxer.
else II.
A farmer named David Marsh other.
wise Henry Miller, was sentenced to
four years imprisonment In New York,
Saturday, for having altered certified
check on the Ocean National Bank, de-
frauding a Wall street banker out Of
$4,000 In gold by means OF the opera.
tion.
The RItchIe Coal OIL dIstIIlery, on the
Washington turnpike, a few miles from
Baltimore, was destroyed by fire Fri
day night. Loss $4,000. tgst. 4
Jefferson Davis was o passenger on
the steamer for New Orleans, from Bal
timore, Friday afternoon.
The Steamship Tentonia from Ham
burg has arrived In New York.
The Steamship WestphaliA from
New York has arrived In Liverpool.
Morrissey Ia said 10 have bet heavily
against Packer-one bet with Sheriff
o'Brisn being $4,000, all Of which he
RiAs.
The Wilmington IN, C.) Journal says
that the trouble In relation 10 the North
Carolina State bonds spring not from a
Wish 10 repudiate them, but from the
corruption attending their issue and
sale.' II adds that the people OF the
State will do all in their power to pay
their honest debts, but that there must
be retrenchment and reform, or the
bonds Of North Carolina will never i'm
prove aud the payment Of the interest
will be made only by the utter ruin OF
the people.
Al Columbia City, Ind, Friday,
man named James Cole was choked 10
death while eating piece OF bread, a
part Of which got into his windpIpe.
Before relief could be given him he ex-
pired.
Fort Wayne, Ind, has the smallpox.
The President and Directors Of the
Ohio and Chesapeake Canal adopted
the following order at their meeting In
frederick, Md:
| From and after the first day OF No.
vember, 1860, no trade or traffic will be
allowed on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal on the Sabbath day, and lock.
keepers shall be required TO close the
locks at II o'clock on Saturday nights,
and to reopen them at II O'Clock on
Sunday nights" d sg-.ii j.
A company OF about sixty persons
started from New York Saturday, on
a through train Of Pullman cars for
San Francisco. The railway companies
announce that they will run a similar
through train starting every Saturday
hereafter for the Pacific Coast.
Colonel W. J. Leonard; Comptroller
Of the State Treasury for Maryland,
publishes In the Democratic papers OF
that State, n list OF 26S officers, sherifs,
collectors oftaxes, I&c, . who are detsul.
ters TO the Ssate, not having closed their
accounts.
Many Senators and Representatives
are In Washington for the purpose OF
securing quarters during the next ses.
sion Of Congress.
| New Hampshire will vote on the
question OF establishing a State police
on the 9th Of November. The temper
ance people. Of the State are holding
meetings, hoping to create q public sen.
timent in favor Of such force.
The city, government OF Boston nsed
up one hundred and Bevonty-sI3 bottles
OF champagne wine. besides bottles OF
stronger liquid, and one thousand five
hundred cigars, at q cost OF over two
Thousand dollars, in their Rocky Point
excursion to celebrate the landing OF
the French cable at Duxbury. Pretty
far for the city OF prohibition"
Ex-President Plerce's estate ls eslI-
mated at nearly 500. 900, the bulk Of
which will probably go to a nephew,
who Is at Princeton College.
l. Admiral Farragut's condition Ia
greatly Improved and his phyBiclRnsl
now have strong hope that he VIII fully
recover his health.
During last week the Internal Reve-
niue Bureau received over fifty requests
from dlstlllers for the appointment OF
storekeepers, which means that fifly
additional dlstillerles are to be started,
and that the whisky trade Is looking
up. ;i-....s
The Congressional Committee on the
cause Of and remedies for the deprVs-
sion OF American commerce held lts
second session In New York Friday,
and heard statements and suk kgestions
OF A. @. Sinners, naval engineer; q. F.
Rowland, builder OF the 1rst monitor,
the Dictator, Puritan and other IRON
clads, and q numberCof others. The
Committee held anothermeeting Satur.
day morning, and proceeded to Boston,
where they will hold session to-day,
on invitation of the Board The ses-
sion In Philadelphia Is postponed TIL
the week before the meeting OF Con-
gressl and then, the ship owners OF
Baltimore and Wilmington VIII have
hearing.
JEFF, Davis has disappointed his adj
mIrarsand peraopal friends In WASH
ington, by Fepud1RtinR his sNpromiseito
visit Washington before returning TO
Mississippi. BE will go home via
Charleston, South Carolina, and for
that purpose has engaged passage by
sea on the Baltimore and Charleston
Steamship Line
rA Richmond newspaper having sta
ted, by mistake, that Secretary. Bopt+
we'll had purchased, this month, six
million dollars worth Of bones, instead
Of bonds, the Secretary recently receiv-
ed letter from L. Ling. Sr., asking, in
\ good faith, what was being paid for
bones In bulk, as he had large amount
on hand.
| OHIO AND THE FRrRENTH AMBND.
MENT.-Some doubts have been ex~
pressed as to the status Of the men who
were elected on the Reform ticket In