The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-12
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NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

BY TELEGRAPH.
Gold closed in New York on Saturday
at 1861.
The Connecticut Legislature adjourn
ed sine die on Saturday.
On FRIDAY afternoon, during heavy
shower, two conviets escaped from Sing
Sing.
Th, gunboat Narragansett arrived at
Portsmouth, n. H., with six cases OF
yellow fever. Lieut.. Duer died.
There is DO further Indian news from
Wind River Valley. A sufficient force
has been sent there to protect the set
tiers.
AnOmaha dispatch says Senator Har-
Ian and family arrived at that city on
Friday, and left for Salt Lake and Cali
for 1ia on Saturday.
Susan Lamareux, aged 20 years, was
murdered Friday evening in New York
by her daughter-in-law. Rosander
Desne, in a fit ofinsanity. The weapon
used by Mrs. Dea q was hatchet.
Marshal Pacard of New Orleans, Fri
tiay, seized the books of August Con-
terarie & Co., which he examined for
evideuce of fraud in sugar importations.
The court has appointed three aPprais
ers TO appraise the sugar seized.
A Denver special says the United
States Geological Expedition under DR..
Hayden, arrived on Friday, having spent
ten days between Cheyenne and Denver.
They go southwestwardly from here
and expect to be ont all summer.
The will of the late John Clarke, of
Northampton, Massach usetts, gives
$4,000 to various charitable institu-
tions, $50, 900 to his relatives, S40, 900 to
the Northampton Public Library and
$l20,00O to the Clarke Institute for Deaf
Mutes in that town.
An extensive fire is raging in the
mountains near Georgetown, Colorado,
and is spreading with fearful rspidity.
1t will do immense damage in the de-
struction of timber. The fire is visible
fifty miles distant. The mountains are
completely enyelopsd in smoke.
The match between Allen and Nc
Coole has been arranged, articles of
agreement drawn up and two hundred
dollars side deposited. The fight is
to take place November 10th, within
fifty miles of Cincinnati. George
Wilkes is spoken of as the final, stake
holder.
Another murder was committed In
Bond county, Illinois, on Thursday.
Two cousins named Blackburn, got in
to an alteration in the harvest field
and one stabbed the other killing him
instantly. Both parties were sons of
wealty farmers. The murderer was ar
rested and lodged in the Hillsboro Jail.
There now seems to be no doubt that
John Moore is the murderer of Mrs. Nc
Adams, who lives near Greenville, Hill
nois. 1t is also aseertained that he raw
ished her. The excitement is very high
in the community and there is a strong
disposition to lynch Moore but the evil
dence against him is not strong enough
to justify it.
A dispatch from Pueblo, Colorado,
says the Senate Pacific Railroad Com
mittee, consisting of Senators Morrill,,
Rice, Scott aud Root, accompanied by
Edgar Dennis, Attorney of the Kansas
Pacific, arrived this morning and will
visit points of interest and the Hot
Springs at Colorado City, and reach
Denver on Monday.
Frank Blair, in card relative to his
speech at the New York banquet Thurs
day night, says: | did not intend to
wound the feelings of those who had
honOred me by an invitation to be pres
ent at their festivities. On the con-
trary, it was my Intention to compli-
ment our army by speaking of our late
adyerslries as worthy of our steel.
Further kilograms received confirm
the accsunt of great floods in Colorado
Valley, Texas. The water was ten feet
deep IN the Court House square at La
Grange 1t is estimated that twenty
five houses have been seen passing
down stream. The water is still rising.
Staging has been stopped for four days.
The town of Columbus is entirely sur
rounded by water. The BRACES river is
als- very high and is still rising at the
rate Of four inches per holr.
The HcrGlds Richmond dispatch says
Sdubg "a
pressed his qualification at the manner
in which the Virginia election was con-
Quoted, and pronounced-it it one of the
fairest ever held. He says the whole
country has cause for congratulation at
the success of the Presidents policy in
recosstructing Virginia. Under the re.
construction acts Governor Walker can
not be inaugurated until after the State
Constitution has been accepted by Con-
gress.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas, re-
ports unprecedented floods in the Col
orado valley. The telegraph lines are
down west of La Grange, and We can
hear nothing from Bayard. The water
is all over the country, in some places
twenty feet deep, aud still rising. La
Grange is being evacuated. Columbus
also is deserted Houses have been
seen floating past La Grange. The
water is in the tops of the trees in the
bottom lands. The trestling approach
ing the railroad bridge at Colum bus is
gone, but the heavy rise has not yet
reached there. Most of the crops in the
valley were destroyed.