The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-10
R'heeliug gseistsr
Monday.. May 10.
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEG GRAPH.

Gold closed in New YORK satufdSS
at 1879.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroads have consolidated
Richard Mauley, one. Of the Oldest
Odd Fellows in the United States, died
in Baltimore on Friday, aged 70 years
General Mitchell, Governor OF Ne"
Mexico, and General HAGEN, from the
Indian Territory, were in st. Louis Oh
Friday.
A long pending suit involving the
title to Barnum's Hotel in Baltimore
was decided on Friday. The property
is to be sold.
The Washington authorities deny
that the Arago carried out CUBAN ex,
pedition. 1t is not doubted that inc
PerriOtt did.
About ten days ago one hundred
Sioux attacked abont forty Snake ana
Bannock Indians, and killed twenty
nine of them.
Boutwell, has ordered the Assistant
Treasurer at New York to buy one mill
lion of United States bonds weekly un-
til further orders.
sub-Treasurer Vandyck, of New York,
has advertised for proposals for the sale
TO the Government of 5-2O bonds, IN
sums not less than $4,000.
II is rumored in New York that
the steamship Quaker City is being re-
modelled and will soon take trip IN the |
II, H.,ha N
Secretary BOutwelPs announcement
that he intended TO pat the SINKING
Fund act of 1862 into operation caused
considerable comment in Wall street
on Saturday.
A Commercial Convention is to be
held at New Orleans ON the 24th inst
Delegates have been invited from over
a hundred towns on the Ohio, Mississlp-
pi and other rivers.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has granted to Mary Eliza Jones di-
vOrce from her husband, George Jones,
alias Count. Johannes, for alleged de-
sertion and non-supPort.
George Walker, President of the Third
National Bank of Boston, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Cla1in, Special
Commissioner to negotiate the Massa.
chusetts State loan in England.
An Atlanta special to the Tribune says
that Radford c. Rhodes, prominent
Republican of Warren county, was kill
ed at his residence, near WarrentOn, on
Wednesday night. Letters from that
vicinity report that there are continued
outrages by prOwling bands of the Ku-
Klux.
Representatives ofvariOus routes com
peting flor the Southern railroad TO be
built from Cincinnati TO Chattanooga,
we're heard before the Railroad Commit
tee of The Cincinnati Council on Satur-I
day. Advisory committees were present
from the Cincinnati Board of Trade and
Chamber of Commerce.
A letter from ProInOntory Point, dated
MAY LIST, says the Union and Central Pa
cific railroads have built tifty-three
miles of road each parallel to each
other, that the men have had frequent
fights, but settlement was made by |
parties at Washington on that date, the |
Central taking the grading of the
Union.
In the Massachusetts, Legislature, on |
Friday, the Senate committee on female
suffrage reported in favor of striking
the word "male" from the State Con-
stitution. The ladies in the gallery
were hardly restrained from cheering.
The report will be considered this week.
But one member of the committee, a
Rev. Mr.. Dodge, dissented.
The livery stable of II. b. Mills, St.
Louis, was burned on Saturday. About
forty. five head of horses and mules
were consumed. Loss from ten to
twelve thousand dollars. Dr. Popes
Medical College, containing the muse
um of the ACADEMY Of Science, was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000. The
neighboring houses were also badly ln-
juTed.