The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-07


on Monday. The mecchants exchange,
courts and of public Offices were closed,
and business generally suspended.
Pic-nics and, railroad and steamboat
excursions were very numerous, and
a large portion of the people of the
city went into the country. The most
noticeable feature of the day was a pic
mic at the fair gl ounds for the benefit
| Of the orphans, at which the Declara-
ton OF Independence was read and an
| address was delivered by John a.
O'Neil, and in the evening there was a
| fine public exhibition OF fire works and
innumerable private displays. The
streets we're ablaZe with pyrotechnics.
and the ebullition Of patriotic feeling
was kept up until late hour. A few
trivial accidents occurred, but nothing
of serious character.
The steamer Fire Fly, which start
ed Sunday morning from Philadelphia,
with a large number of e1cursionists
for Cape May and the fishing banks,
was stopped by revenue cutter and
detained till Monday morning at the
Navy Yard, when the authorities be-
came satisfied that the passengers
were not filIibusters, and she WIS al
lowed to proceed.
"A dispatch from Booth Bay to Port
land. Maine, says a party OF young
ladies and gentlemen, in small boat
rowing from the schooner Josephine
Swanton, to Neuse Island, were run
down and sunk by the schooner, Young
Sultan. Miss Greenlaw and Miss Cas-
we'll were drowned, and two other
young ladies Injured, but 1t is hoped not
seriously.
The Fourth was celebrated by
Americans in the principal cities OF
Europe,
-Thompson's hotel at Lake Maho-
pac, New York, was entirely destroyed
by fi-e yesterday afternoon. All the
guests, numbering about two hundred,
we're removed to the neighboring ho-
tells. A great part OF the furniture and
baggage were saved, but in damaged
condition. Loss estimated at $500, 600;
mostly covered by insurance.
In the harbor OF New Bedford,
Maes., Monday afternoon, the boom Of
seven men into the water, two of whom,
John Snow, OF Mattapositt, and Chas.
Haskill, colored, were drowned.
Great preparations are making in
Baltimore for the proper celebration of
the biennial musical festival OF the
National Eastern Saengerbund of
America, commencing on the 10th and
ending the 10th inst. 1t is expected a
large majority OF the members OF the
one hundred and sixty or more socie-
ties will be present, and also number
of eminent composers from Europe and
representatives of European societies.
The Saengerbund comprises societies
from eastern, middle and southern
States.
The Society of the Army of the
Potomac reassembled in New York
yesterday and elected Major General
Il. z. Davies, treasurer; Gen. Sharp
recording secretary. and Col. ClinCh,
corresponding secretary. Philadelphia
was selected as the place for the next
annual meeting. A committee was
appointed to select the place OF deposits
for the records of the Army OF the Po-
tomac, and the Society then adjourned.
"A case involving the question of
ritualism is before Judge Cardova of
the Supreme Court of New York.
Charles d. Allen, a Low Churchman,
after vain efforts to convert his mother,
who is High Church Episcopalian, or
rftualist, sued out commission Of
lunacy, under which jury found her
unit 10 take charge of either her per-
sonal or real estate. The case came up
Yesterday on a motion for the restora-
tion thereof, and evidence was adducRd
by Admiral Farragut and Wife, Kew.
DR.. Vinton and others, that Mrs. Allen
was of entirely sound mind and pos
fsssed of more than ordinary plain
common sense. The decision was re-
served.