The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
gY TELEGRAPH.

flom 81. Paul.
+ A. Clark, Sheriff of Limestone
county, Arkansas, has absconded with
the assets cflhe office.
Palm Sunday was celebrated with
snecial services in all the Catholic
Churches n New YOGk.
Tnn receipts OF grain at Milwaukee
for l-69 were nearly ~, ,000. 900 bushels;
shipments, IA 100000 bushels.
The colored people of st. Louis cele-
brs, d the ratifieation of the Fifteenth
Amepdment in grand style, yesterday.
The National Academy of Science
holds It's annual spriRg session at Wash
ipgton this week, commencing to-day.
Tue Fenian Congress assembled in
Chicago yesterday. About one hundred
Delegates were present. The meetings
are private.
The President, General Sherman, Sec
retarics Belknap and RObeson returned
10 Washington yesterday. Mr.. Bout
well is expected TO day.
General Rust, formerly member of
Congress from Arkansas and during the
war Confederate General, died on the
ith OF congestive chill.
Tie Lincoln House Block, at Lincoln,
Illinois. was burned yesterday morning,
with several buildings adjoining. Loss
about $4,000; no insurance.
The argument in the pending legal
tender cases in tho Supreme Court at
Washington has been postponed until
Monday next, owing to the illness of the
counsel.
At Apollo Hall, New York, Sunday
evening, a crowd assembled to. hear
Wendell Phillips, julia Ward Howe
and William H. Charming speak on Re-
formed Christianity.
Two new three story buildings fell
at Schenectady, N. T., yesterday morn
inE and are complete wreck. Six or
Sven meu were iu the building. One
'"aS killed and three injured.
IL seem, To be settled On the reOrgan-
ization of the Police Board of New
York that Superintendent Kennedy will
tender bis resignation, and Captain
JOAN Jourdau be appointed TO the
vacated office.
The national banks of Chicago have
employed counsel aud will contest the
assessment Of their stock for State aud
county taxes, on the ground that they
are unequal and excessive, being more
than three times as large as other per-
sOual property.
4 collision occurred yesterday morn
lag at JChnsville, on the New York
Central railroad. A fireman of one of
tine trains named Sanborn, of Schenec-
tady, was killed. The engineer, Isaac
Dec'erg, ald a brakeman named
LecAell, were injured.
The ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment was cominemurated ip
Brooklyn last evening by demonstra-
tiou at the Academy of Music, at which
Senator II. K. Revels, Lieutenant Gov
error WoodfOrd, Theo. Tiltou, Bishop
Campbell, the Rev. II. G. Garrett and
other were advertised to speak.
In the ST. Bernard Catholic Church,
New York, Rev. Gabriel Heally, pastor,
prayers were offered on Sunday for the
rcplse of the soul of Jack Reynolds, ex-
Ccutee on Friday. at each mass the
officiating clergyman asked that the
PRAYERS of the congregation be offered
ior the repose of his soul, and the re-
quest was responded to devoutly.
The liquor shops were open generally
throughout New York City on Sunday.
In the vicinity of Central Park the
lager beer saloons were driving brisk
business. 1t needed only a walk
through fsw of the principal streets
To satisfy aIy observer that the pro-
hibitory liquoF-law was dead.
Rev. Mr. HepwoIth, of the Park ave-
nue. Unitarian Charch, New York,
preached upon tho corruption of the
tunes, and alluded to the hanging OF
Reynolds as au evidence that justice
could really be done on the criminal
provided he had no friends, vetes or
money 10 buy bis. way ont of the
clutches Of the law.
A mau calling bimself Augustus
Latterbeok, a Prussian by birth, and
mailing from TeXas, was detected AT
Toledo, O., yesterday as Masonic
swindler by Messrs. K. E. Richards, ID.
. Wsggoner and others, Of the Masonic
Board Of Relief. He has recently been
operating in Chicago, Milwaukee, De-
tioit and other cities, in all of which
be- obtained small sumsof money of
Masors. .-
A meeting Of the American Coloniza-
ton Society in behalf of African coloni-
zation, was held ut the Brick Church,
New York, on Sunday evening. 'Ad-
dresses were made by Rev. MIR. Orcult
and Drs. Porter and Gsus, who urged
the people to belp-the migration Of the
Africans to their native shores. Dr.
Packard said that there were more ne
groes ready to go to Africa than means
could be furnished to send them.
The English stockholders represented
by Heath. s. Co., Raphael u Co. and
Chas. ii. Burt, of London, who own
stock in the Erie railroad. in the Circuit
Court of New York, in which they PEI
titiop the Court to remove Gould, Fisk
and Lane and move for IN injunction
restraining them from issuing more
stock and also for the appointment of q
receiver to wind up the affairs of the
company. ~
A Montreal dispatch of yesterday
says: The First Cavalry received or
ders on Saturday to hold themselves in
readiness for active service. 1t is under
stood they will proceed either TO st.
Armand or Huntington. Volunteers
have been called out along the eastern
frontier, and have been under arms
since Saturday. Probably all the city
corps will be ordered out at once. The
government received information on
fhpEsday and Friday of the time ap-