The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-24


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Vice President Colfax will visit tn
Connecticut Legislature to-day.
The Universalists of Maine held thei
State Convention at Augusta, in tina
State.
Twelve thousand dollars have beeI
raised in Chicago for the benefit OF th'
Newsboys' Home.
Seth Z. Sprague, for twenty-five years
Clerk of the u. s. District Court al
Boston, died yesterday of consumption
The City Council Of Quincy, Illinois,
have voted $3.50, 900 to the Qdincy and
Nebraska railroad, and private parties
have subscribed 100000.
The vote on tho annexation of Dor
chester TO Boston resulted as follows ::
Boston, 342O to 565; Dorchester, 92S to
726. The act takes effect On the first
day of next year.
A grand trial of mowers, reapers and
hayIng machines, under the auspices Of
the New England Agricultural Society,
commenced yesterday at Amherst, Mass.
Twenty-seven machines were entered.
A. s. Mitchell, President of the Mis-
sissippi River Railroad, advertises for
grading the same from Memphis to Gov
ingUon. Indications are that the work
will be pHshed forward at an early day.
A prize fight at Springfield, Mass, on
Tuesday, between King and St. Law.
renee, was broken up by the police.
Three hundred spectators, one third OF
whom were women, witnessed the affair.
The Fredericktown (N. b. Farmer
says that twelve men engaged i'll lum-
bering on Fish river, IN the northern
part of Maine, were recently poisoned
to death by drinking tea i'll which a
lizard had been boiled.
A Convention of the citizens of West
Tennessee, North Alabama, Mississippi
and Arkansas is called TO meet at Mem
phis, July 18th, TO take measures to Sc
cure the introduction of Chinese elni
grants.
General Meade accepts the invitation
to perform the ceremony of unvelliug
the monument at Gettysburg on the first
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Baltimore National Union Singing AS.
socIatIon will also be in attendance.
The Connecticut Senate yesterday
defeated the parallel railroad project,
which was to make a railroad line from
New Haven to New York, competing
with the New York and New Haven
read. In the House the bill Tepealia <
the present usury laws was defeated.
The second of series of match games
was played at Baltimore Tuesday after
noon between the Maryland Club of
Baltimore and the Olympics Of Wash
ington, for the championship of the
South. The Marylanders won by q
score Of 81 to l3. They play the Red
Stockings to-day.
The iewelry house of VIM. & j. D.
Mayo, on the corner of Madison and
State streets, Chicago, was robbed, on
Tuesday, of @ case of diamond rings,
fifty-six in number. The rings were IN
the show case aud were not missed until
the hour OF closing. One thousand dol
lars reward is offered for their recovery.
At Franklin, Va, an affray occurred
on Tuesday evening, in which negro
was mOrtally shot by a white man
named Holland. Some negroes collected
and attempted to force an entrance into
Hollands house but were driven off. a
few hours later they fired and totally
destroyed the saw mill aud lumber yard
of Neatly Bros, whose loss is estimated
at $50 900.
The Cubans who have been arrested
were before Commissioner Osborn at
New York yesterday, and he having
received Information that they had
been indicted by the Grand Jury for
violation Of TIE neutrality laws, de-
clared the cases at an end before him.
The defendants were again arrested
under the new Indictment by Marshal
Barlow and bailed to appear for trial.
The Executive Committee of the
Peace Jubilee Association have decided
to repeat the grand popular programme
of the 18th of June for the personal
benefit of the protector, Mr. o. S. Gill
more, at the Coliseum on Tuesday
next. The full orchestra and chOruses,
ADELAIDE Phillips, Psrepa Rosa, Ole Ball
and others will be present, This is
done in obedience to general demand
and in appreciation of Mr.. Gilmore's s
great services TO art and to the city of
Boston.
A convention of delegates from the
National Banks of the country assem-.
bled in New York yesterday, at the St.
Nicholas Hotel; Hon. f. G.. Spalding, of
Buffalo, was elected temporary Chair
man and Hon. Theodore NJ Pomeroy, of
Auburn, permanent President. A COM
mittee of - was appointed TO take such
action as they may deem necessary for
perfeCting banking laws, securing sound
and legitimate banking, and to attend
TO all matters of material tut crest to the
public. The convention then adjourned.
Fifteen States were represented.
The st-amship Arizona has arrived ut
New York from Aspin wall with Sl23, 500
i'm treasure. She brings the following
news: Accounts from Tacua, Peru, rep
resent the place depopulated by yellow
fever. Earthquakes and small p0x are
fearfully raging at the town ot David,
Chiriqui. A storm at Valparaiso dam
aged Government buildings 10 the eX-
tent of one hundred Thousand dollars.
NJ. Valcent, representative OF the Cu'
bau Republic, was mach feted at Lima
Henry &. Brent is acting Charge d'Afairs
of the United States at Lima during the
absence of Minister HOvey.
A meeting of commercial travellers
was held at New York yesterday, at
which the secretary announced the
receipt of subscriptions for the defray-
meut of the expenses in procuring the
abolition of the license law amount TO
1864 Mr. Wood, chairman of the Execu-
tive committee ofthe Chicago orgsniZa-
tion, stated that he had succeeded in
getting the law repealed there, and
sixty-fOur towns and villages in Illinois
had followed the example. A resolu-
tion was passed appointing a commit
tee to wait on Richard O'Gorman, the
corporation counsel, in reference 10
Their grievances, and o committee ap-
pointed on permanent organization.
The Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany have Invited the Railroad commit.
tees OF the Senate aud House of Con-
m ID