The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY,

at Cozzens Hotel, on Monday night.
The Red Stockings beat the Unions
of Morrisiana, at New York, yesterday,
IA 90.
The Great .Republic landed thirteen
hundred Chinese immigrants at San
Francisco, California, yesterday.
The directors of the Central Pacific
have resolved to push the California
and Oregon railroad to completion.
The Forest City and White Stockings
will play match game OF base ball at
Dexter Park, Chicago, this afternoon.
Hon. A. c. Campbell has proceeded
on mission to England, TO lay the
whole Fenian business before the I'm
perial authorities.
The capitalists OF the country are
warned against purchasing the Florida
State bonds, just issued, for railroad
purposes They are said to he a
Swindle
! Hon. Moses F. Dunn has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Sixth Indiana district. The
Democrats will re-nominate Mr. Noor-
/ hees.
I George Morris, counterteiter, was
arrested in New York yesterday. He
| had $500 in counterfeit twenties on the
CITY National Bank, Of Utica, y. Y,
on his person.
The South Branch Kansas Pacific
! railroad has been completed l04 miles
south from Junction City, Kansas, ex-
tending about half mile in the Chero-
kee nation.
A large and enthusiastic gathering OF
delegates from the various curling clubs
of the United States met on Tuesday
afternoon at the Opera House in Patter-
son, New jersey.
Tuesday night row boat containing
D. Almond, Albert Baker, Miss Maggie
Cade and another young lady, capsized
in the Schuylkill, near the Falls Bridge,
Philadelphia. Almond only was saved
The Maine Republican Sare Conven-
ton Yesterday, was the largest and most
exciting ever held in the State 1888
delegates were present. Hon. Sidney
Perham was nominated for Governor.
The dead body of woman named
Hamilton was found on the grounds Of
Hon. David Davis. Judge of the United
States Court at Bloomington, Ills, on
the l4th. She probably committed sui
eide by taking poison.
There is some anxiety about the
steamship Henry Chauncy, now over
due from Aspinwall She should have
arrived by Friday, at the latest. 1t II
a curious circumstance that her arrival
has twice been reported by mistake in
the ship news columns Of the papers.
Edward DALEY, who keeps the En-
pre garden, corner of Amity street and
Broadway, New York, counterieiter
bv profession, succeeded in getting away
from an officer who attempted to arrest
him for counterfeiting, Monday. He
was assisted in his escape by five men,
who completely used up the officer.
The State Department yesterday IT.
ccived dispatches from Minister Motley
at London in relation TO the pcrsecu-
ton of converts to Christianity in
japan. The British, French and Prus-
sian Governments are in accord with
our own in interposing their good OF
fees for the protection Of those Chris
tians, and will exert their moral power
| to this end.
J. II. Holden, who figured at St
| Louis. some months since, as bigam-
ist, and who has represented the New
/ York Security Life Insurance Com
pany at Kansas City, for some time
past, was arrested there on Tuesday,
charged with forging papers upon which
| he received seven thousand five hun
dred dollars.
Governor Holden, OF North Carolina,
has issued an order to the different
military divisions Of the State for the
! formation of regiment of State troops
for active service, to be made up Of
white volunteers, il they can be OBJ
tanned; and if not negroes. He also
orders the immediate enrolment Of the
military, with instructions to set apart
a special number of minute men in each
regiment for use as a reserve.
4 Cincinnati dispatch OF yesterday
sa,s. Great Numbers have been arriv-
I ING this forenoon to attend the SPnger-
fest. Many societies have reached here
and been escorted to their headquarters,
From present appearances the number
will greatly exceed expectations. Three
thousand strangers will reach here on a
single road. The city seldom, If ever,
was so gaily attired The heavy rain
Of last night and this morning retarded
the progress of the decoration some
what, but good use OF the time has been
made since the clouds cleared away.
There are favorable prospects for q
great procession this afternoon.
Change I'm Vegetation.
A California paper says: The spon-
taneous growth of vegetable matter in
the Sacramento valley changes almost
every season. Some seasors dog-fennel,
fox-tail, thistles and other worthless
weeds cover the country, and for five
wears back have led people to suppose
thew had taken the country. This sea
son, however, the country is covered
with clover and other valuable grasses
to the exclusion of the others