The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-12
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House Thursday, during Logan's speech
on the bill to reorganize the army, and did
not rGlish It all.H'1Iogan showed that Shcr-
mans present salary amounts, including
Ills allowances, to SO, 800 year, cash, de-
ducting. only the income tax. and that
Sheridah's Is but little less, Tho bill re-
duces Sherman's SALARY 10 $4,000 u year,
ind Sheridan's TO $4,000, and others In
proportion, down 10 Second Lieutenant,
who arc to receive 81, 400 year. '
William II. Harper, Of South Boston,
who was under arrest on q charge Of set
ting fire to HArper's. Hotel in Sandwich,
in January. Inst, cut his throat in the
BarnstablC Jail Thursday morning.
The Norfolk journal says that the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee railroad Is still carry
Ing out every day numbers Of colorcd
hands from tho South.sidc counties ofVtr-
ginia, into States further South. One day
last week three cars went through Lynch
burg, so full that persons who tried to get
on lad to wait until the next train.
A caucus Of tho Republican Senators
was held Thursday, for tho purpose Of
coming to some conclusion in relation to
the House Georgia Bill. It Is understood
tho caucus was called upon the suggestion
of the President, who Is deSirOus oEllNvlng
tho subject settled with as little delay ms
possible. The discussion was general.
The particular point was as 10 whether
tho Bingham amendment, which was put
on the House TO restrict the tenurG-of:otEiCe
Of Bullock anl Company, sh0uldbe strlck'
ell out, and which Messrs. Morton, Drake,
Cameron and others, favored, while Trum-
bull yEdmunds and others, opposed. Sew
eral Others declared that they were oppOs-
cd TO the bill as it stood, but rather than
delay its passage by sending It back 70 the
House, and thereby prevent the proclama'
tion announcing the ratification Of The
Fifteenth Amendment from coming out
noxt week, they wOuldVOte forito
Tho information of leading TCnnesBeans
in Washington, Is TO tho effect that as the
legislature Of that state adjourned without
taking any notice of Governor SentGrs
message in relation TO mob violence, he
will call upon the President 6Et military
assistance in suppreSsing disorders, and
there seems no doubt that such request
would be granted TO tho full limits OF the
resources at the command Of tho Var De-
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The general impression at New York,
Is that tho bcar movement is ended, unless
there istayQrable legislation st&ashlng-
ton.
Forty families passed through Colum.
bus, on one train Wednesday, night, bound
for KANSAS. Travel westward. Is very
heavy.
A school teacher near Greenfield, Indl-
ana namedi Dunn, struck one ofhiS sChol-
ars, q Young man named Godat, on the
head with nm iron poker, on Wednesday,
from the effects. Of which he died the same
night. Dunn has been arrested,
The following arc the officers renomi.
mated by reclamation in the Rhode Island
Republican Convention Thursday Seth
PedClforl for Governor; Pardon w. Ste
vcns for Lieutenant Governor John Il.
Bartlett for Secretary Of State; Willard
sayles for Attorney General, and Samuel
A Parker for General Treasurer iYtIf
Tho Chicago Tribune has d dispatch
from St, Paul, Mimi, which announces
TINT negotiations for the sale Of Northern
Pacific Railroad bonds have been conelud-
ell with q leading German banking house,
and that half q million dOllaB will be
advanced Immediately for the prosecution
Of tho enterprise. The Northern Pacific
and the Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad Companies have matlG arrange
ments for the Establishment Of extensive
mills at Daluth, MINI, for tho manuIaC.
turc ot railroad iron.
There Is q troublesome statGl qf afhiIS
| in SCbttSYilla, Kentucky on. de TennDsSe See
border, growing out Of tho operations Ola
band Of maraUderS. RObberics and at
tempts nj robbery in that section have
been so frequent Of late that the. citizens
keen d sharp look out. and succeeded in
arresting one man q fcw days since whom
they suspect Of being connected with the
thieves. As soon rs this arrest was ac'
complished, word was conveyed from
Tennessee that ap armed force intended
to attack the jail, but whether for thGpur'
poso Of setting the prisoner free or giving
him long rope and q short Sllitt, It i
NOT positively known. Tho citizens art
IN In arms, and patrol tho place day ant
night, The utmost excitement prevails
and il tho place Is attacked, there will b'
bloody work.
Senator Wiley attended the President
State dinner Wednesday evening, VI =
Mr.. Seward has gone to Auburn.
A consignment Of Arabian eQfee, m
the Suez Canal, was received At NcV
York on Wednesday, by thestsamer stbe
III L is rrported that Queen Victoria Ia