The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-01-31
News Of the Day.

A letter from Rome, says on Christmas
day, Bishop Whealan was greeted by
friendly telegraphlc message, transmitted
TO him by hisbeloved flock in Wheeling
AbiIl has been introduced In The 0htc
Legislature, inhicting imprisonment fol
life instead Of capital punishment. ''"
The Ohio Senate has indefinitely post
poned the bill increasing the salaries O.
Judges Of the Supreme Court, from s. OOC
to $1,000 "a similar proposition passed
the Senate last year but failed In Tho
nOs.Se' o,. tux HhG,3i Igntl :n;s -,
Tho Ohio Senate Saturday passed q bill
repeating the law Of the last general as
sembly, which prohibited the soldiers al
the national asylum at Dayton from vot
ing. II
The remains Of General Rousseau and
Watkins reached Louisville Saturday
morning from New Orleans, and were
conveyed to the court house under mill,
tary escort. They lay in this state until
yesterday afternoon when they were In
TERED with civil and military honors,
Efforts are now making TO erect q mona'
ment over ROusseau's grave
About /, 100 men employed in the Navy
Yard at Philadelphia, received notice Of
discharge, to take effect today. They
were employed in the steam engineering
department. Orders have also been re-
ceCelvcd ut the Charleston (Mass) Navy
Yard for the discharge Of 1900 men In
the naval construction departmentAaa 81
Hon. Geo. Il. Peldleton has been In.
vited to deliver an address before the
students Of the Virginia University on the
4th Of July. next; and has accepted ii,
VIM. H.;Keith, Of Cleveland, prominent
in the coal interest and President Of the
Pittsburgh Gas Coal Company, died last
night from injuries received by il runaway.
The Cincinnati County Solicitor has
given an opinion to the County Commits.
sioners that they haye no authority 10 apT
point County Clerk in placc Of General
McGrOarty, elected last full, but who died
before the time 10 enter upon his duties.
This leaves Tie, incumbent in otfiCe,lintil
after the. October election. ;4ti,!h-.
Somebody at Cleveland, (doubtless. with
an eye to some fit takc) sent d black span.
iel dog to President GrHnt as a present,
The express company presented the anil
NAL, Friday, witla bill Oslo for charges.
They were sent up to the President, but
he sent back word that he kept no dogs
and did not wRnt.onr ,'.4.a.
Mr.. Ashley continues to write letters to
Washington, ayerring that he has mot
gone back on the negro" ~.
Tho shOemakers at Albany belonging
to ST. Crispins society are on a strike =
A portion Of the delegates to tho work.
ingmcn's AsSemhlytat Albany have held o
meeting and resolved to form a, labor
reform party. Measures have been taken
to organize a party union in every ward
and distriCtitl the Statc, ~
Only two Of the Virginia members Of
the House Of Representatives, Mr.. Kenzie
and Booker have been kept ont oil their
seats. They have been charged with dis!
loyalty and tile Committee on Elections
will look into Z 40 3T@a Z
Tho Republicans have d majority III
both Houses Of the Georgia Legislature,
We may, therefore, look for an early ratt-
ticaticn Of the XVIII Amendment. BY
Georgia. ~, ~ r.. =, n-..a- a,.t ". /.
Those who voted In tile House Of Rep
resentatives against the bill TO repeal tho
itankfng privilege were Messrs. Briggs,
Boles, Butler (TeunesSee), Griswold, Hal
denlau, johnson, Reeves, RidgCway,
Rogers, Roots; Sherrod, Stone, Wood and
Woodward.
The Rhode Island ,senSte has lust pass
cd a bill to abolish imprisonment for debt.
A New York telegram says the arrange
ments for tho Construction Of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railway have been con-
cluded, and loan Will ibc put on the mar
ket about the 1st ofFebruary, to raise the
money, for prosecuting the, work. Some
Of tho contracts have been lot, and opera:
tions will beginimmediatGly. - t7s@