The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.


at 1911.
The funeral of Townsend, who was
murdered by Reyonlds, took place In
New York yesterday.
MARYLAND, Virginia, West Virginia
and North Carolina comprise the De-
partment Of Virginia.
The New York Tribans says the public
debit will bs reduced this month be-
tween three aud four million dollars.
The organisation, in Paris, of the new
company fer the canal through the
Isthmus of Darien has been completed.
An attempt was made to rob the Ma
tional Bank at Coxsackie, New YORK,
Monday morning, but euded IN failure
A resolution was introduced in the
lower House Of the Ohio Legislature
Yesterday looking toward the amending
of the State Constitution so as to permit
women 20 vote
The Jury in the case Of Perry, tried
for the murder of the watchman frlce,
in Brooklyn, again disagreed and were
discharged by Judge Pratt at an early
hour on Sunday morning.
The employees Of the Philadelphia
Navy Yard about to be discharged, nave
sent a petition to Congress, asking
leave TO continue work and allow the
wages TO accumulate until the passage
of the approprition bill.
The U S.Supreme Court yesterday were
equally divided on the case of Frank p.
Blair, Jr., thus sustaining the Missouri
State Courts in denying him the
privilege of voting without taking the
test oath prescribed by the Missouri
State Constitution.
There is information from Topeka to
the effect that evidence of a startling
character in reference to Senator Pome-
roy will be produced before the commit
tee of the Legislature 10 investigate
the charges of corruption against their
Congressional Delegation.
Mrs. Cooke, wife of the scouudrel
who eloped from New York with Miss
johnson, received dispatch from Chi
csgo signed by Mr.. Horace Cooke, say
ing: "b, have left for parts unknown.
You viii never see me again"
REYNOLDS, the murderer of the uufOr-
innate grocer in Hudson street, New
York, William Townsend, is locked up
in the Leonard street station house, aud
having recovered from his drunken
orgie, Is inclined TO be defiant. He says
hanging for murder is played out in New
York.
Gonzalo Ca,atavan, editor of the jGs
De Cuba, while standing on the porch of
his hotel, was attacked by several Gu
bans, who opened fire on him with pis-
tolls. He returned the fire, and wounded
three OF his assailant5, when he received
a shot from which he died in fifteen
minutes Several arreIts have been
made.
The last span of the Ohio river bridge
at Louisville was completed yesterday
afternoon. The length If the bridge
exclusive of approaches is one mile. 1t
has two main spans, one of $40 feet and
tie other of 400 feet and draw over
the canal. The time occupied in con-
structiOn was two years aud six months.
II will he ready for the passage of trains
in three or four days.
At two o'clock yesterday morning q
kerosene lamp exploded in the house of
Nicholas Bliss, Buffalo, New York, set.
ting fire to the furniture in bed room
occupied By the family, consisting of
Mr. Bliss, his wife and two children.
All were burned in dreadful manner.
One child died Immediately after the
flames were extInguished, and the other
is in q very critical condition. Mr..
Bliss and his wife will recover, bat they
will he much disfgured.
lIaytiea sdvices state that the revOlu-
tiunists have expressed the determine
tion to crush out Salnave's party. In
the principal towns of the South the
shooting of Salnavists is going on at
quite a brisk Iate. At Jeremene
large number of them have already been
disposed OF in this summary way, and
~ Jacmel there are no fewer than forty
six in prison, most OF whom, if not all,
will certaialy be shot. In Port-au-
Prince plenty of work has been cut out
for the military tribunals.
The funeral of George Peabody is
officially announced to take place at
Peabody, Mass, Thursday, February lst,
In South Church. On the arrival of the
funeral to-day the remains will be es.
corted to the Peabody Institute from
the railroad depot by battalion of
United States troops and the Sutton
Guards OF that town, the latter fur
nishing a guard of honor. While the
remaius lay in state the doors of the
Institution will be open daily to visitors
from the ID to the eth of Februarv in
elusive, Sunday excepted.
The New York Tribune's Hamburg
correspondent writes: Emigration to
the Southern States opens very favor
ably for the Mississippi steamer to New
OLeans, and nearly two hundred Swedes
sailed for the water valley of Missis.
sippi to people plautation-some in.
dustrial enterprise of A. n. Berglund,
one of their own cohDtrymen. He ad-
vances every cent of the cost Of the
journey Of these people from the north
OF Sweden to the center of Mississippi.
They have all been poor, although de-
cent, and are generally able-bodied.
Advances made to them will be repaid
through their labor in Mississippi. Dur
ing February and March of this year,
6O0or 800 persons will be sent by the
same gentleman. under TIE same terms,
to Mississippi. These Swedes are not as
numerous as several papers report.