The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-08
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The Welland CaOal VIII DC opeueu Oh
June 10th.
Jacob Stoufftr, an o'd citizen of Day
ton Ohio. committed suicide Wednes-
dav, by taking strychnine.
s. Randall, for thirty years Super
int,ndcnt of the Public Schools in New
York city. IS about 10 resign.
Tn. negroes are making great prepa-
ratinns 10 celeb ate the premulgarion of
the Fifteenth Amendment at Louisville,
Ky, to-day.
The President oa yesterday sigaed
the Joint resolution to authorize the
Secretary OF the Navy TO investigate
the Oneida disaster.
The extensive dry goods house of
Howell, Wood and Read, of Memphis,
have been forced into bankruptcy by
Philadelphia creditors.
Senator Yates, who has been danger
ously i'll from hemorrhage ef the bowels,
is fast recovering and will soon be in
his pace in the Senate.
The postmasters of New York city
ard of Williamsburg are defendants in
suits brought by fictitious firms and per-
sous to recover letters detained by order
OF the Postmaster General.
The Senate Naval committee agreed
not 10 act on any petitions for the re-
storatiOu of naval officers from the re-
tired list 10 active service unless on re
COmmeudatiOn of the Secretary of the
Navy.
Sheriff Kcnworth, of Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, yesterday served another attach
ment Iairst the Boston, Hartford aud
Erie Railroad Company to satisfy a
claim of $4,000 This makes 81, 104, 900
worth of claims made by the sheriff.
The trustees of the Peabody estate in
England communicate with the Gov
eminent Of the province of Quebec as
TO the advisability of founding village
in Lower Canada; building farm houses,
a church, court house, &c, for emf
grants, to be hel leafter sent.
Bishop Ames presides at the sessions
of the East New York Me bodist Epis-
COpal Church during the present sit
ting Rev. Horace Cooke, the eloping
parsOn, will be tried on the charge pre-
ferred sgaipst him. 1t ls understood
that Cooke will make defense on tenn
poriry insanity.
Returns f.om all towns except Berk
Island in Rhode Island give Padelford,
Republican candidate for Governor,
1925; Pierce, Democratic, 6024; scat
tering, 2S2 Providence gives Padel-
ford 40l7, Pierce 1543. The Republican
Assembly ticket was elected in PIovi-
dence by 800 over three opposition
tickets.
The steamer Richmond ian into the
bank opposite Rusht0wn bend, twenty
five miles below st. Louis, Mo-, at half
past ten Wednesday night, and Cap,
tain Green was throwing freight over
board at last accounts to keep her from
sinking. The Bismarck went from st.
Louis TO her assistance.
Hon. Jas. Nelson and Judge john
Meredith, in behalf of Ellison, and ex-
Governors Wells and Wise, in behalf of
CIhOOn, have arrived at Washington
and will argue the Richmond municipal
case before Chief Justice Chase in the
Chambers. The question turns on the
Jurisdiction of Judge Underwood ard
premises, and affects, relatively, other
parts of Virginia.
A st. Louis dispatch of yesterday
says: The tide of immigration from the
east has set in and large numbers of
emigrauts are arriving by river and rail.
Some 300 arrived Wednesday by the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad bound for
southwest Missouri and Kansas and
abOut fifty cxeursionists from Ohio and
Kentucky passed through to examine
lands in Kansas.
A strike occurred Wednesday among
the wOrkmen 10 one quarry on the
Bloomfield turnpike. near Newark, n. j.,
because of the reduction of 25 cents O
day on the wages Seine went to work
at the reduction aud the strikers stoned
them, rendering the interference of the
police necessary. 1t is thought the
strike will spresk to other qusrries, but
nothing serious has yet occurred.
The ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment was celebrated yesterday
at Detroit, Mich, on q grand scale by
the cOlored people Of that city and
vicinity. Ia the evening they had a
grand jollifcstion meeting at Merrill
Hall, with speeches by prominent men
OF both races, The day was beautiful,
everything passed off satisfactorily and
the utmost good feeling prevailed.
1t having been announced that Presi-
dent Grant would attend the obsequies
of General Thomas at Troy, Governor
Hoffman addressed him o note extend
ing him the hospitalities of the Execu-
tive residence as he passed through Al
bany. The President replied, thankiRg
him for the courtesies, but saying that
his stay would be too short to accept,
as he had arranged to attend the Army
of the Potomac reunion on Saturday in
Philadelphia.
The colored people of Chicago cele-
brated the Fifteenth Amendment yes
terday by a procession and other. exer-
cises. At 10 o'clock the procession was
formed, and when under way, proved to
be one of the best displays of the kind
ever gotten up in that city either by
the white or colored people. The mill
tary, Knights Tenplar, Masons, Odd
Fellows, Good Tenplsrs and many other
organizations were well represented.
Everything was dsne decent1y and in
order. The procession was over Q mile
long and must have contained 1000 to
5000 people. The sidewalks all along
the line of the procession were lined
with people, who witnessed the move
ment Of the newly enfranchised citizens
with interest. In the evening o large
!, crowd gathered in Farwell Hall, where
addresses were delivered by both col
X<pd and white crators- Includod in ths
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