The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-18
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elected Directors of the Harlem Rail
road
The funeral of the late c. l.. Ward
of Towanda, Pa, takes place there to
day at o'clock p NJ.
John f. Dunn, prominent citizen
of Newton, n. j., has disappeared, and
is said to be deiaulter to the amount
of SIG, 600.
A large meeting was held in Charles,
ton, $. c., Monday night, .seall parties
and cofors, TO inaugurate reform in the
State Government.
The entire business part of Hender,
son, North Carolina, was destroyed by
fire yesterday morning. 1t was the
work of an incendlary, Loss, $4,000
small insurance.
General J. Egbert Farnum, filibuster
and commander of the South Carolina
slave ship Wanderer, and brilliant
soldier in the Federal army during the
late war, died in New York on Monday.
The difficulties in Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa, are satisfactorily adjusted.
The order Of suspension has been re-
called, and the members OF the sopho-
more and junior classes present have re-
sumed their college duties.
In the billiard match at San Francis
CO, Monday, Matt and Little tied They
played last night, the winner to take
the championship of the Pacific coast
and the silver cue McClury challenges
the champion.
4 New York dispatch of yesterday
says the election was quiet and the vote
light. The Tammany ticket will un-
doubtedly have an overwhelming ma
jority The colored citizens cast their
votes without interference.
Messrs. Hickox Il Spear, bankers Of
San Francisco, were victimizcd yestcr-
day to the extent of 10000 on an erased
check. The perpetrators were arrested
and portion of the money recovered.
The rascals were from New York.
\ serious break in the Erie canal
occurred yesterday morning, one mile
above Whitesboro, New York. One
boat was carried through the tow-path.
One hundred feet of the Central rail
road was carried away. No trains can
pass until the damage is repaired.
The proceedings in connection with
the contested will of John Addington,
deceased, who upon his death devised
his property to the Cooper Union, were
concluded in New York Oh Monday,
before Judge Hutchings, the respective
counsel summing up the case. The
Surrogate reserved his decision.
Nathaniel Gale, of Boston, for many
wears a clerk in the naval office, is
charged with defrauding the Govern
ment of $4,000 in gold, in the collection
of invoice duties. A merchants clerk,
named Hibbard, of the same place, is
charged as an accomplice. Both were
arrested.
The 54th anniversary Of the New
York Sunday School Union was cele-
brated yesterday. Meetings were held
in thirty-two churches, at which were
appropriate exercises and singing by the
children. At the annual meeting last
night addresses were delivered by Henry
Ward BeeCher and Rev. W. T. Sabine.
To day the Hudson River Amateur
Boating Association, comprising the
Clubs along the river bank from New
York city TO Troy, will assemble for the
annual review before the fleet Of Com
modore Benjamin F. Brady. The pro
cramme embraces, beside the review, a
single race, open to every Club, after
which the Association will sit down to
the annual dinner.
Tom Allen, who signs himself cham
pion of America by permission Of Mr..
James Mace, champion of the world,
has issued a challenge to all professional
bruisers, except Mace and Heenan, 10
fight for 5000 or less, and is particu-
larlv anxious that Coburn will accept.
Mr. Allen admits the defeat he re-
ceived at the hands Of his antagonist
near New Orleans.
4 suit for divorce before the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court has been
brought by Mrs. Lewis against her hus-
band, DR.. Lewis, on the allegation of
adultery. The parties are the parents
of Corinne Lewis, who was abducted
some months ago by her father and sub
seouently returned to her mother by
order of a New York court.
4 Swiss, named Guinears, was arrest
ed in New York yesterday for SNUG
Cling 100000 worth of diamonds from
Rio Janeiro and held to bail for exam
ination. $4,000 worth was found on
his person and an additional amount
in the house where he was stopping.
The prisoner is said to have been the
agent of Wheeler Il Wilson at Rio