The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-12
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday
at ll03.

Gold closed in New York, yesterday
at ll03.
A New Orleans dispatch of yesterda,
says: Donaldsonville is quiet. But Int
tie damage was done by fire
The President has appointed John A
Minnis. United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Alabama.
Well executed counterfeit twenty dol
lar bills on the Oneida National Bank
of Utica, n. Y, are in circulation il
Boston.
A man named Isaac Albeit tried tc
kill himself at Cincinnati, Thursday
evening, by shooting in the head. He
will probably die.
! Rev. Wepell, OF the Methodist
Church, and former editor of the DaiJ
Sentinel, Raleigh, n. c., fell dead al
the dinner table yesterday.
G. S. alias Count Aliens. whowas ar
rested at Memphis some weeks since, on
the charge of embezzlement was ac
quilted on Thursday night.
Commissioner Wilson Of the General
Land Office, yesterday denied his inten'
tion TO resign. He says if the Presi'
dent don't want him he has the privil
ege OF dismisiing him.
The President, accompanied by Gen
eral Porter, left Washington yesterday
for brief visit to Philadelphia. The
trip will have no reference to public
matters but private business.
A boiler in the Touring mill of Cotton
Bros, Bellefontaine, Ohio, exploded,
yesterday afternoon, making a wreck OF
the building and machinery. Several
persons were hurt, but none killed.
The Methodist Missionary Society OF
the United States met in New GorkNes,
tcrday. Bishop James presiding, and
made an appropriation of some $1,000
600 for work. for the present fiscal year.
A dispatch from st. Charles, Mo,
says that one span of the railroad
bridge building across the Mississippi
river, fell at three o'clock, Yesterday
afternoon, killing six men and wound,
ing nine Others.
The case OF Denning u.s. the United
States was argued in the Supreme Court
at Washington, Yesterday, upon a mo-
ton to restore it to the docket. The
decision was not given, but the Attorney
General gave his consent to restoration.
Charles Gallo, who murdered a man
at Boston on the 18th Of last July was
arrested at Memphis, Tennessee, on
Thursday evening by Boston detectives,
who tracked him from Chicago there
by means ola trunk which had been
shipped to him. The detectives left for
Boston with the prisoner.
An attempt was made in New York
Thursday night to assassinate the noto-
rious Harry Hill by a young pugilist
named Honley, who fired shot at
him through a window. 4 row occur
red, during which Hill and light
weight pugilist named Edwards were
severely cut and beaten.
The libel suit of Paul J. Goodenough
against John Lanahan, growing ont OF
recent troubles in the Methodist Book
Concern, was before the Supreme Court
at New york yesterday on motion
to set aside an order requiring certain
parties at the investigation made by the
Book Concern to appear and testify.
The decision was reserved.
Hon. John Covode passed through
Chicago, yesterday, from California and
Salt Lake. lie says that the recent ap-
pointment Of Vaughan as Governor o.
Utah won't answer, because the posi-
ton REQUIRES man who is firm, sober
and dignitied, and who will properly
support the government and judiciary
so ably represented there 10y Judge Nc
Keon.
A Washington special says that
among the numerous rumOrs atloat Is
one that Collector Murphy, of New
York, has signitied his intention to re-
sign at once and the names Of Judge
Pierrepoint, General f. E. Spinner and
General Pleasanton are mentioned in
connection with the place. Another
rumor sends Senator Conkling to Eng
land and still another contemplates the
transfer Of Judge Allison, now Re lister
of the Treasury, to the office OF Com
missioner of Patents.
About a week since Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Hanson arrived at Marshalltown,
Iowa, for the purpose of visiting some
friends. On the evening Of ..tnc Sth
Hanson commenced abusing his wife in
the most disgraccful name A. Lat last
he seized and struck her sever blows,
whereupon she drew rr."'.-. o"i dis.
charged six barrels at him tree ofwhich
took effect and laid him dcad at her
feet. Hanson was gambler, aul for
merly kepta gambling saloon at Duluth,
Minnesota and was a desperate Of the
most cruel kind.
A Washington correspondent telr'
eraphed, Saturday night Letters
have been received at the White House
from prominent persons in New York,
who have close business and personal
relations with the President, urging him
to make clean sweep of the general
officers. These persons represent tina;
the plan of giving New York city Off.
ces to Radicals from the country has
worked badly both ways. 1t has Sc
cured defeat in the city, and it has alien
ated in the rural districts great mum,
bers OF Radicals, who could see no rea-
son for the selection Of the tavorites
named. There is a move maturing
which will astonish some of the persons
busiest in the recent canvass in New
York city.