The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-19
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TFLEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

The army officers in Washington
are discontented with the late consoli-
dation order, and most of those who
have had permission to visit General
Sherman, in order to have their assign
| ments changed, are heartily diSgusted
with his bluff manners.
Captain Armstrong, ofthe emigrant
ship James Foster, died of the fever at
his residence in Brooklyn, on Wednes.
day evening.
Five convicts ut Sing Sing prison,
New York, gagged two of the keepers
and escaped on Wednesday night. One
of the keepers has since died.
-Ex-President johnson, Mrs. John
son, Judge Patterson and family, and
Robert johnson left Washington for
Greenville, Tennessee, yesterday. Mr..
Johnson accepted an invitation of the
citizens of Lynchburg to partake of the
hOspitHiities of their city, and will re-
main there to-day.
General Sheridan left Washington
for New York last night, and will'start
for Leavenworth on Monday, and
| formally assume command of the Mis-
souri, division In April.
MIR. Jno. Kamabee, City Treasurer
and collector of Gardiner, Maine, and
who has been connected with the city
government for many years. is found
to be Il defaulter to the amount of $780,
600. His father promises to make good
the amount.
The Peabody Institute. of Danvers,
N. H.. has had full length portrait of
Geo. Peabody presented to it by Mr..
Peabody.
Saint Patrick's day was celebrated
at San Francisco by a civic and militia
ry procession and banquets at the Occi-
dental and Brooklyn Hotels. While
firing salute, in the evening, aboard
the steamer ChrysOpOlis, on the occa-
sion of the reception OF the Emmett
Guards from Sacramento, keg OF pow
der exploded. WOunding eighteen or
twenty persons and damaging the boat
considerably.
Depot master Parker, at Concord,
n. H., was nearly murdered by Irish
rOwdies Wednesday.
Peter Neary, William butterfly,
MaItin Duffy and Thomas Dushain
were tried on Thursday, for setting fire
to Rutland (VermonD Town Hall and
another adjoining building in Decem-
ber last. Two OF the prisoners Will
liam Butterfly and Thomas Dushaln,
were found not guilty.
The General Railroad Aid Law
passed the Michigan House of Repre-
sentativcs Monday, and is III the Gov
ernor's hands. 1t will, no doubt, be
signed.
DR.. Garrigues, of East Saginaw, was
appointed Salt Inspector.
George X. Phelps, President of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, died yesterday, the 18th
instant.
-George Harp, a brakeman on the
Grand Trunk Railroad, was fatally in
turned on the mail train at Buffalo,
New York, on Thursday.
DIR. Mudd, who was lately released
from the Dry Tortugas, arrived nt Bal
timOre yesterday.
Senior Morales Icons, has arrived
in New York, fully empowered by Pres
ident Cespedas, AS minister from the
Provisional Government OF Cuba. He
goes to Washington to seek recognition
OF the Revolutionary Government
General McKeever, Adjutant Cen
eral OF tho Department of Missouri, tel
egraphs to Headquarters in st. Louis,
that he has news of General Custor to
March End, nj which time he was start
ing from Medicine Bluffs, in the Wachi.
tn Mountains, to come nsrth. General
Mckeever adds that no later infOrma-
ton could possibly have been received
at Fort Lyon, at which post tho report OF
the capture of CuStOr seems to nave
originated.
The Delaware Senate by strict
party vote Thursday, rejected the pro-
posed amendment 10 the National Con-
BtitutiOn.
On Thursday afternoon about five
O'Clock powder magazine and torpedo
factory, situated in Church Run about
two miles north of TitusviIle, Pa, ex-
ploded, killing three men named A. D.
Griffin, W. S. Bills and Henry Todd,
and fatally iDjuring Col. T. Davidson,
the proprietor of the works.
The overseers OF Harvard College
have nominated Charles w. Eliot for
President of the University and will
submit his election to u future meet
ing OF the corporation. He is son of
Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, and at present
Is n professsr In the Institute of Techu-
OlO9v. Mr.. Elliot is thirty eight years
of age, and was stroke oar of the first
boats crew of Harvard, and represents
Young American element among pro-
ducts and friends OF the College,.
About O'Clock on Thursday morn
ing, Christopher Griggs, of Hamilton,
Ohio, was aroused by some one moving
about his bed room. On inquiring
"who's there" pistol was fired, the
shot from which entered the right side
of Mrs. Griggs and lodged near her
| spine. She is still alive but in preca-
rious condition. The robber had taken
$3.50 90 from nnder Mr.. Grigg's head
previous to awakening him. a man
who boarded in the house has been ar
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