The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed IN New York yesterday
at 1894.
The steamship America, from Bre-
men, has arrived at New Iork.eEc.
The revenue, taxes of the First Mis-
souri, District amount to 1851 ,Sl9.
Cotton was quiet ut Nashville on
Wednesday, good ordinary bringing -
cents.
The income return list for st. Louis
shows only TWO hundred and eighty-one
incomes over $1,000.
The dying house attached to the cot
ton factory Of Jacob Thompson Il Co.,
st. Louis. was burned "Wednesday night.
The internal rsveAus collections in
the Louisville district, for the year end
ing April 30, 1869, amounted to $780,
46l.54.
The RAods Island House of Represent
atiyes passed a complimentary resolu-
tion TO General Burnside and the Rhode
Island troops.
Yesterday morning at Atlanta, Ga,
four men, in opening an old shell, lg-
nitsd the powder, when the shell BURST
killing them all.
The 55th annual meeting of the Bos-
ton Tract Society was held on Wednes-
day. Senator Wilson presiding. The
Society expended last year SllS.9O6 and
owes Sl7 ,495.
Kate Fisher, the actress, has been
arrested in New York on q charge of
larceny, preferred by Mrs. Beveres, or
Long Island. The case comes up IN the
Court to-day.
The National Executive Committee
of the Union League, IN session at New
York OH Wednesday, resolved to aid the
"Union men" ia the election about to
occur in Virginia.
Resolutions were adopted at a meet
ing of the New England Women's SUI
frage Convention, held at Boston yes
terday, looking to the organization of
National WOman's Suffrage Association.
The fraudulent transactions of Scott
A. Munson, the abscOnding Wall street
merchants, amount 10 S9l,O 900. Thomas
Seaman, Van NostTand, J. W. Mott and
the Guarantee Indemnity Company are
the heaviest sufferers.
A Baltimore dispatch says that q
prize tight was begun yesterday near
the Maryland line between Hecker and
William Carroll. Four rounds were
fought, all favorable to Carroll, when a
crowd of Hecker's friends rushed into
the ling and broke up the fight.
The remains of Ex-Governor Moor
head, of KeGEgCky, who died some time
ago at Greenville, Miss, were expected
in Louisville yesterday. They will be
placed in ST. PauPs Church, awaiting
religious services on Sunday. On Mon
day they will be taken TO Frankfort for
interment.
4 disgusting case of body-snatching
has occurred at Rochester, \, Y. The
body of Stephen Burton, a respectable
citizen, buried last Friday, was taken
from the grave, horribly mutIlated and
hidden in the woods. Doctor Bront, of
Ontario, and his medical students have
been arrested for the crime.
The engine attached tJ the mail
train east from Cincinnati on WoGnes-
day morning ran off the track, and
while aiding 10 replace 1t, Mr.. A. A.
Stone, master mechanic of the Miami
shops, was struck on the temple by
bowlne ring attached TO rope and his
skaH fractured. He will die.
In the Court of Common Pleas at
Philadelphia, yesterday, Judge Pierce
read an opinion by Judge Allison, sus-
tanning the 27th section of the new reg
istry law, which applies to hotels, tay-
crnS aud sailor boarding houses. The
Assessors are prohibited from register
ing any inmates of these establishments.
4 stock train arrived at Worcester,
Massachusetts, on Tuesday, from Albany
en- roure To Providence, loaded with
Texas cattle which were found TO be in
- horrible condition. Tweuty-nine
large Ueeyss were found jammed into
Our ear. one of which had apparently
been dead for some time. Two others
were dying, others were down and nm
able 10 rise, while ali were evidently
starving and had apparently been with
out food or water for several days, The
cattle were unloaded, fed and exercised,
and then put into fresh cars and sent on
their way.
Ehe grand jury of the Bibb county,
Georgia, Superior Court, have found q
true bill against J. Clark Swszee, a
Macon editor, for high misdemeanOr.
The bill is prcdicated upon an incendia-
~ article appearing in his paper some
weeks ago, and is Qased upon that sec
tion of the Code thdh forbids any person
to circulate any writing that inculcatss
resistance to lawful authority, insurrec-
tlon or conspiracy against citizens.
After the murder of DR.. Ayers, by ne
gro, near Savannah, Swazee published
aul iuham ammatorylarticle calling on the
Union men to organize for self protec-
tion, The penalty is imprisonment in
the pen:tentiary from i've to twenty
years.
BY MAIL.