The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
nv TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
st ll6t.
The carpenters at Albany, New York,
vest, rday struck against the reduction
of wages.
The Cincinnati and Southern railroad
hill was defeated in the Kentucky Sen
ale Yesterday by . vote OF 22 to Is.
Orders were given to reinstate the
half-discharged workmen at the CharIes
ton paey yard. They resumed work
yesterday.
The Northern railroad elevator at
Torouto, containing 200 bushels OF
grain and 10000 barrels of flour, was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning;
loss S25O, 900.
One thousand men who were dis
charged from the Brooklyn Navy-ysrd
are TO resume work to-day, by special
orders from Washington TO Captain
Strong, in command of the yard.
Judge Spencer on Monday recalled
the order of attachment in the csse OF
Henry Clews & Co. rs. Livermore &
Co. The cause of the action arose out
ofthe gold excitement in September last.
IucsndiaIies made another attempt to
burn the Madison, Ind, Courier priat-
ing Office, Monday night, and the lower
seminary. The fires in both places were
extinguished without much damage.
A fire in Thornton, Indiana, Monday
night, destroyed the large Touring mill
of Mckenzie & Co. Loss $4,000; in-
sured for SIC 900, ten thousand of which
are with the Underwriters of New York.
The German colony that left Chicago
a short time since under charge OF Col
onel Wulsten, started from the cad OF
the Kansas Pacific railroad yesterday,
their destination being Wet Mountain
Valley, Colorado.
The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday
granted the application for the writ OF
error in the Cincinnati BIb'e in the
school case, but ret the case for hear
ing on the second Tuesday in December
This leaves the case so that the Bible
can be read III schools until that t,me
at least.
The latest foreign mail brings details
of the opening of the famous Mardanot
divorce case, in which the Prince OF
Wales appeared on the stand. The wit
nes,es were quite emphatic rs to the
insanity OF the defendent, aud some OF
the mcst extraordinary evidence ever
given in q court room WAS ELECTED Oh
the OccRion.
Letters from St Petersburg state that
never in the memory of man has more
Intense cold been experienced than that
TO which the people are at this moment
exposed, in Russia, Poland and in all
Northern countries. A number OF
deaths from congelation are registered
By Russian journals, amongst them Of
several sentrIes frozen at their posts.
No intelligence has yet been received,
either directly or from the commanders
of passing vessels, either of the City OF
Boston or of the Bremen steamer
Smidt, which latter vessel cleared al
Bremen for Now York, on the Goth ult.,
aud sailed on the 22d and has conse-
suently now occupied thirty-eight days
on the passage.
The case of Judge William Fullerton,
which originated during the investiga-
tion into the alleged whisky frauds on
the the part of ex-Commissioners Rol.
lins aud HertauS, was called for trial
before Judge Woodruff in New York on
Monday, and was postponed until Mon
day next on account of the Illness OF
Charles O'Counor, one of Fullerton's
counsel, who is confined to hisTesidence
with smallpox.
Last Thursday small party of intox-
icated Spekan Indians came to a ranche
twenty miles from Helena, Montana,
and, their demands for whisky being
denied, destroyed most of the furniture
about the premises aud left the three
white men barricaded against the In
dians, who returned in q short time,
but, unable TO enier the house, stole
fifteen head of horses. The whites re-
captured the hsrses next day. The In
dians threaten further violence.