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

Gold closed in New York on yesterda.
atl35.
Boodgood's woolen factory, nca
Railway, n. j., was burned on Monday
Loss $4,000.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention
held its first public meeting at Buffalo
n. Y, on Monday.
The Richmond negroes held politicaI
camp meeting all day in the Park NJ
that place On Monday.
At Wilmington, N. c., on Monday, a
steam tug exploded, killing Colonel
Mears and two Others.
The champion match between the
Yale and Howard mines at Williamsburg
on Monday resulted "a for Yale to Il for
Howard.
One hundred special policemen, fifty
blacks and as many whites, were ap-
pointed to duty in Richmond on cleo
tion day.
The officers of the army of the Poto.
mac held q reunion banquet at New
York on Monday evening. Gen. Sheri'
dan presided.
W. Cookies mill and large quan
tity of lumber, in Whitehall, n. Y,
were destroyed by fire yesterday morn.
ing. Loss from So, ,OeO to $4,000.
John McCabe and Morris O'Brien had
n shooting affray in the City Park, New
York, on Monday. McCabe was slightly
wounded in the hand. Both arrested.
A Chicago dispatch says that John a.
Risdon, who reported the loss OF Major
Powell's exploring expedition, is liar
and a thief and has served in the Peni-
tentiary.
II. II. Meals dry good store, Louis,
Vile, Kentucky, was damaged by hire
on Monday night to the amount OF SO,
900 or $50 900. Insurance S25 200 Il
$50 900. The fire was caused by Ro
man candle.
No public celebration occurred a
New Bedford, Mass, on the fifth. Ii
the afternoon, in the harbor, the boor
of the Yacht Therese jibbed over, sweep
ing seven men into the water, two o
whom, John Snow, of Mattaposett, ant
Cherries Haskell, colored, were drowned
A dispatch from Booth Bay says thu
a party of ladies and gentlemen in {
small boat. rowing from the schooner
Josepheue Swanton to Neuse Island
were run down and sunk by the schooner
Young Sultan. Miss Greenlow and Miss
Caswell were drowned. Two Other
young ladies were injured, but it ii
hoped no. seriously.
A meeting of the labor reform agita.
tors was held in old Harmony Grove in
Framingham, assachusetts, on Mon
day. Numerous speeches were made,
aud resolutions were adopted denounc-
ing the Republican party and the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, and favOrlng the
immediate payment of the national
debt by direct assessment.
The steamer Fire Fly, which started
on Sunday morning from Philadelphia
with a large number of eXcursionists
for Cape May and the fishing banks, was
stopped by a revenue cutter and de
tanned till Monday morning at the Navy
Yard, when the authorities became sat
isiied that the passengers were not fill
busters. and she was allowed to proceed.
Two women arrested in Atlanta, Ca,
lOl lhN luR Il ldl 70 hillOuhO VI S1AASANy
i'm their possession stolen from the
Treasury Department at Washington,
have implicated Turner, the negro post
master AT Macon, in their operations.
He has been arrested. An investigation
il now in progress, but efforts are being
made to keep IT secret
Great preparations are making in Bal
tmore for a proper celebration OF the
biennial musical festival of the North
eastern Sangerbund of America, COM
mencing on the 10th and ending on the
10th inst. 1t is expected that a large
majority of the members of one hundred
aud sixty or more societies will lie pres
ent, and also number of eminent COM
pos.rS from Europe and representatives
OF Fu,upcau societies. The Srngerbund
comprises societies from the Eastern,
Middle and Southern States.
A Richmond dispatch of yesterday
says The election as far as progressed
is the Uuetcst ever held in Virginia,
aud the city presents the appearance of
Sunday. 4 body of troops bivouacked
in the public park, and the ambulanceS
of the two parties, covered with nation
al flags, driving about after sick and
iulirm voters, were the only unusual
scenes of the day. A Number of blacks
have opculy voted the Walker ticket
without any of the hostile domonstra-
tfOns which characterized the last cleo
tion. The whites, up to 1870 o'clock, had
il3 majority in three wards.
A case involving the question of rit-
ualism is before Judge Cardosa, of the
New York Supreme Court. Charles ID.
Allen, low Church man, after n vain
effort to convert his mother, who is a
high Church Episcopalian or rtualist,
sues ont a commission of lunacy under
which jury found her unfit to take
charge of either her person or estate.
The case came up yesterday on a mo-
tiOn for the restoration thereof, and
evidence was adduced by Admiral Far
ragut and wife, Rev. DR.. Ninton and
others that Mrs. Allen was of an entire
IL sound mind aud possessed of more
than ordinary plain common sense. The
decision was reserved.