The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-01
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Policeman j. Gassat, of New Orleans
was shot and killed, Sunday.
: Senator Morrill's health is improving
=. very slowly. He is still confined to hi
room.
{ Snow fell in various parts OF New
. Hampshire and Maine on Sunda.
r night
j. Bidleman's ;annery was burned a
, Dayton Ohio, Sunday Loss $4,000
Partially insured.
The suit of the Erie Company to re
cover 81, 100000 from Vanderbilt, hai
gone over till December.
The colored cadet, Smith, has beer
honorably acquitted by court-martia-
recently held at West Point
John G. Whittier has been nominated
for Congress by the Liquor Prohibi
tionists of the Fifth Massachusetts Dis
trict
| Smith j. Stencils oil factory, at Gin
Fcinnati, was partially burned at 2 o clock
yesterday morning The loss will ap.
proach $4,000
A fire at Calvert, Texas, Saturday
night, destroyed twenty-five buildings
and one hundred bales of cotton. The
principal merchants are the sufferers
Brentlinger, the wife murderer, of
Lima, Ohio, has been arrested and con-
fesses his guilt. He claims that his
wife was too intimate with neighbor.
The ships Deutchland, from Bremen,
the Columbia and Iowa, from Glasgow,
and the Malta and Absynnia, from Liv-
erpool, all carrying passengers, are over
due
A. B. Long, U. S. District Attorney
of Louisiana, was found dead in his
office, yesterday morning with his throat
cut 1t is supposed he committed sui
eide. Fa
The gale on Sunday night and yes
terday occasioned no material damage
to property, but several lives were lost
in New York bay 10y the swamping Of
boats.
DR.. Porter, agent of the Methodist
Book Concern in New York, will soon
give to the public complete statement
OF the management Of that establish
ment.
The number of immigrants that ar
rived at New York the past week was
1851 a smaller number than has ar
rrveu III any Poi. ----.-----.-.-
months.
Advices from Aspinwall announce
that the Panama and West India cable
expedition had sailed. At last accounts
the paying out was going on successful
" and the signals were perfect.
The Southern Trans-Continental Rail.
road Co, was organized yesterday, at
New York, General John c. Fremont
was elected President but declined i'll
favor OF Marshall q Roberts.
There was a pleasant parting inter
view between the officers Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau and Commissioner
Delano, at which mutual and kind
wishes for the future were exchanged.
A flihustering schooner from the
United States has been captured near
Neuvitas, by the Spanish authorities,
laden with arms and clothing for the
insurgents. Four Of the crew were cap
turel
Great fears are entertained for the
safety Of the steamship Naruna, from
New York to Galveston, Texas, now
seven days over due. She was last
heard from of Key West, on the 10Th.
4 number of prominent citizens of Gal
weston were among her passengers.
Late advices from Martinique an
nounce that the French authorities
have already shot twenty Of the ring
leaders in the recent insurrcction 100
more have been arrested and are liable
to be shot. The opinion is gaining
ground that the rebellion was instigated
by the Prussians.
About ! o'clock yesterday, fire was
discovered in the stable of r. c. Hics,
No. 6, Nassau street, Boston. The
building was completely destroyed, to-
gether with twenty-five horses and a
number of carriages and harnes, and
also the lager beer saloon and boarding
house OF Charles Weber and John
Kuhn, in the rear of Broadway and
the hack stable of Howard Il Haekett
At one time the Boston Theatre and
Adams House were in great danger.
At meeting of the Board of Trus.
tees on Saturday, General G. W Lee,
second son Of General r. E. Lee, and
professor in the Military Institute, was
unanimously elected to succeed his
father as President of Washington Col,
| lege. The Board also changed the
name of the College to the Washington
Lee University. The family OF General
Lee have come to the final determine,
ton TO let the remains lie where they
are, in the chapel designed and erected
bv himself, at Lexington.
The Supreme Court met at Washing,
ton Yesterday. All the Justices were
: present except Chase and Nelson, and
Justice Clifford presiding Comms,
sions of Attorney General Akerman and
Solicitor General Bristow were present
ed and read, and oath of office admins
tered to Clement II. Hill, the new As,
sistant Attorney General. Resolutions
from Philadelphia, relative to the death
of Judge Grier. were presented and or
dered 10 be placed on record, and, in
, further testimony OF respect, the court
adjourned.
Advices from Csrdenas state that tht
, loss of life in that city by the recen
: hurricane was quite small, but that th'
2 destruction of property was very great
: All the warehouses were destroyed, ant