The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Gold closed il New York yesteru"
at 13S.
Professor John Leconte has beel
chosen President pro TEN Of the Untyer
sity of California. ~ 49, s-a-
A schooner cleared from New Iorl
yesterday for Bahama, with Po"uer an'
rifles for the Cubans.
The practice squadron frem the NaEaI
Academy at Fortress Monroe leaves on
a cruise in few days.
Soldiers for the Cuban cause are be-
ING enlisted in Richmond. The pay
offered is $50 per month.
The North Missouri railroad has com
msnced selling through tickets from
St. Louis to San Francisco lor sioo '''
William Stauber, German inmate OF
the National Soldiers Home at Dayton,
Committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by
drowning. ...
In the prize fight at Cayuga Lake on
Saturday, Mcclure was killed on the
9Th round, by q terrific blow from Don
nelly who escaped to Canada.
Mckinney, the refsree in the MeCoole
and Allen fight, has decided the-fght IN
favor of McCoole, on account OF "a foul
made by Allen in the last round.
The San Francisco Supervisors have
appointed a committee Of their body To
wait on Hon. w. H. Seward and tender
him the hospitalities of the city.
A fire at the Brooklyn Dock yesterday
damaged the Hamilton Mills property,
owned by Abner Greenleaf, to the ex-
tent of $6O,O 900. Insurance Si2,OOO'
The Fifth Annual meeting of the In
diana Sunday School Convention con-
ysned at Richmond, that State, on Tues
day evening. Three hundred delegates
present.
A Wilkesbarre dispatch says that the
miners of the Lehigh Coal and Nayiga-
tion Company and of the WilkesbarTe
Coal and Iron Company resumed work
yesterday.
The New York World says that on
Yesterday considerable amount OF
first. class rifled ordnance was purchas-
ed in that city, which is TO leave within
fortnight with an expedition for Cuba
At a special meeting of the New York
Historical Society on Tuesday evening
Rev. Doctor Thomas Dewitt accepted
the position of Chairman made vacant
by the resignation of Hon. Hamilton
Fish.
The twenty third annual meeting OF
the Superintendents of Insane Asylums
con vened at Stanton, Va, on Tuesday
DR.. Kirkbridge of Philadelphia presid
ing aud DR.. Curwin of Harrisburg, Sec
retary. Nearly all the States were rep
resented.
The Vermont Republican State Con
yention met at Rutland yesterday.
Three hundred and four delegates were
present. General Peter z. Washburne
was nominated for Governor, George W.
Hendle for Lieutenant Governor, and
James A. Page for State Treasurer.
In the Swedenborgiau Convention,
holding its sessions at New York, re-
ports were read yesterday from Maine,
New Hampshire. Massachusetts,, Della
ware. Missouri, Illinois and New York,
and all show progress. The Treasurer
report shows SjU, ,OJO in the treasury.
Captain James II. Pannell, who was
recently tried in the United States DIS
trict Court in Baltimore, on charge OF
having wrecked the brig Montezuma,
and acquitted by the jury, has brought
suit for SlOO, 900 damages for false I'M
prisonmeut against the United States
Insurance Company.
The hundred mile walking match be
tween MCEtley of Boston and Miles OF
California. commenced Monday evening
at Boston, closed at $50 Tuesday night,
the former winning by doing the dis
tauce in % hours 3Oi minutes. Actual
walking time ~ hours % minutes. Miles
was over three miles behind.
The Board of Managers of the Nation
al Cemetery at Gettysburg invite all
the soldiers who were in the battle of
Gettysburg to participate in the cereno-
nies of the dedication of the monument
on the first of July. Senator Morton
will deliver the oration, Bayard Taylor
the poem and Henry Ward BeCcher the
prayers.
4 Conservative mass meeting was
held at Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday
afternoon. Business houses were clos
ed, and about four thousand people as
sembled in the Park. The tenor of the
speeches made was that while negro
suffrage nor even an eXpurgated con
stitutIon were desirable, yet all should
be accepted fhat the State might again
return to the Union and peace and pros
perity be restored. The claims of Mr..
Walker, Conservative Republican can
didate for Governor, were urged and
recognized with enthusiasm by the au-
dience.
About ten thousaHd persons assem-
bled yesterday afternoon at the Cap
itoline grounds, Brooklyn, to witness
the ball match between the Cincinnati
and Atlantic clubs. The day was fine
and good order maintained through the
game. which resulted in favor of the
Cincinnati by score of p to 10. The
betting at tho beginning was even, the
Atlantic being the choice. The fielding
and batting of the Cincinnati club was
yery good, but the Atlantic played far
below their usual standard, particularly
ia batting, and their throwing was
very wild.
The New Eugland Rowing Assoela-
tiOn races took place Tuesday after
noon over the Charles river course near
Boston, before 1000 people. There were
two contests; one single scull race for
the Association gold medal and the
championship of the river, was won by
Walter Brown in l6:4S, Appleton sec
osd, Randall, of Portland, third; seven
started: distance two miles. The foBr
Dared race was won by the Geo, Roach,
the Harvard International crew being
, second by length and half, they car
rying n coXswain. The claim of fOuling
hy the Roach touching them on turning
the stake boat, was allowed and the
Harvard got the prize; time of the
Roach crew 1921; distance three miles.
Admiral Farragut presented the prizes
To the winners.
BY MAIL.
loo much rain in Eastern Louisiana.