The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-04-28
W'heeliug geeister
Wednesday,.----....- April Is.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yssterda
at 1885,.
Rev. DR.. Paddock has accepted th
rectorship of Grace Church, New Yori
Jas. Brennan, a Fenian Organizer, ha
gone to the Southwest as au emigran
agent.
Desyn's distillery, in New York, burn
cd yesterday morning. Loss SIb,OV'
Insurance $4,000.
A large feet of sehOoners has arriVe'
at Montreal from lower ports. Lake 81
Peter is clear of ice.
The village ofYOu Bet, Nevada county
California, was destroyed by IRE OF
Saturday. Loss $4,000.
The printers, strike in Montreal con
tinues. Competitors have been teie
graphed for from England.
Kuth's cooperage and an adjoining
dwelling in Williamsburg, were burned
Monday night. Loss $1,000.
The Gold Hill Mines in California
continues burning Five hundred men
The police are after the captain aud
mate of the ship Richard Robinson,
charged with cruel treatment of sailors.
Jewett, the missing Skaueateles bank
er, returned to that place Monday night
aud resumed business yesterday morn
ing.
Rev. Geo. A. Durboraw, for twenty
one years rector of the Church of Re-
demptiou in Philadelphia, died yester-
day.
The Wyando:te Street Presbyterian
Church,i Kansas City, was burned on
Monday. Supposed to have been set on
fire.
A collision occurred on Saturday near
Hellgate, between the Sound steamers
Providence and Narragansett. No lives
lost.
The junction of the Union and Cen
trail Pacific railroads will be made near
Promontory Point. Utah, some day
this week.
Charles NJ. Scott, of Cincinnati, was
yesterday fined one hundred dollars and
costs for sending by telegraph bogus
lottery drawing.
The Democratic Convention for Wash
ington Territory met at Van COuver,
April %, and nominated Governor Moore
as delegate to Congress.
The National Sunday School Conven-
tion meets in Newark, n. j., to-day.
George II. Stuart will preside. The ses.
sion will last three days.
The Union League Club of New York
on Msnday presented n farewell address
to John Jay, the new Austrian Minister
aud their retiring President.
Visitors are collecting near Monument
Point to witness the laying of the last
rail of the Pacific railroad, which will
take place Friday or Saturday.
The directors of the st. Joseph and |
Denver K. X. have decided that the |
road shall connect with the Kansas
Pacific at the hundredth meridian.
A German named Charles c. Green, a
collector for the North American Life !
Insurance Company, absconded from
that city Monday night with $1,000 of
the company's money.
Ii has been ascertained beyond doubt
that tue crew Of the bark John Bright,
wrecked in Nautka sound, were murder
ed by the Indians Several muti!ated
bodies have been found.
A main water pipe burst III New York
night before last carrying away part OF
the street car track, and inuudating a
number of shanties, some of the inmates
narrowly escaping drowning.
Rev. J. C. Lovejoy, of the Boston Gus
tom House, has been removed TO give
place to Charles L.. Mitchell, a one
legged negro soldier, and one of the first
two cOlOIed men ever elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature.
A Sioux City special says the first
reports about the sinking and explosion
and loss of life on the steamer Urilda,
above that city were grossly exaggera-
ted The boat was loaded with dlsaO ed
soldiers coming from forts along the
Upper Missouri; when eighty miles
above here she struck snag aud sunk
in 10 feet of water. No person lost, the
troops and crew all getting ashore safe
ly.