The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York on yesterday
at 1901.
Caracas, Venezuela, dates of Sep
tember 2Sth, states that General Mona
gas is still at Porto Cabello.
President Grant, General Sherman
and Post Master General Cresswell were
at Frederick, Maryland, yesterday, at
tending the Fair.
Archbishop Purcell left Cincinnati
Wednesday night and on Saturday will
embark from New York for Rome,
whittier he goes to attend the Ecumeni-
cal Council.
A meeting of persons opposed to hav.
ing the Bible read in the public schools
will be held in Cincinnati, Saturday,
and will be addressed by Charles Reem-
elm, Judge Stale and Reverend Thomas
Vickers,
The Federal steamers continued to
blockade the port of MaracaibO. A
rising against the Federal authorities
in Core, on the Gulf of Maracaibo, and
in Barcelona, at the mouth of the Rio
Neori, recently took place, bat was
speedily quelled by the troops.
1t is stated that Higgins, command
ing the Cuba at Wilmington, telegraph.
ed to the Secretary of Treasury to know
if he had any objection to his hoisting
the Cuban flag and firing salute
Mr.. Boutwell, being absent his request
was denied by Acting Secretary Hart
ley.
Three robbers plundered the store oi
Jas. Oakley in Huntington, l.. l., We'd
nesday night. Oakley discovered them
when they beat him almost to death
and set fire to his store, his barn and
dwelling and escaped. His property was
all burned and his life is endangered
Loss $4,000.
A dispatch from Bangor, Maine, says
Captain George Wentworth, whose ar
rest for rape on the high seas was ne
ticed a few days since, to-day had a
hearing before United States Commits
sioner Carr. which resulted in fully
committing him for trial before the
United States District Court in Apri
next, the penalty being death. The Of
fence is not bailable. A heavy south
east rain commenced this morning anC
has continued all day. An immense
quantity of water has fallen.
A dispatch from Schenectady, New
York, says that all the acqueducts hay,
been repaired, but the rain, which i
still falling, has increased the damage
at the culverts, and it will be impossi
BILE to resume navigation by the l6tl
inst The water is still rising in tn
Mohawk river. There has been a lanC
slide on the Boston road, carrying tw,
hundred feet of the road bed away q
Schodock. The delay to passengers
however, is slight. Other roads hsv
also suffered slight detention, but ar
now all right.
!, Yesterday morning the warehous
|, building No. 6i9, Baltimore street, il
Baltimore, few doors east of Eutaw
was discovered 10 be on fire. The base
ment and first story were occupied b
, Moses Gutman, wholesale and retail
clothier. The stock was badly dam
aged by fire and water. Loss estimate
at S25, 900; partially insured. The sec
ond, third and fourth stories were occu
pied by Richard Mann Il Co., wholSsal
and retail dealers in boots and shoe:
Loss about $50, 900; partially insured
damage to the building, $4,000. Tn
) flames communicated from the roof {
the warehouse to No. 347. The uppe
portion of the building was occupied b
;, Ammidon & Co., lamp and coal oil dea
ers. Loss $500; fully insared. III
7, fire is said to be the work of an incer
y diary,