The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
IN TELEGRAPH.

Cold closed in New York yesterday
at llS5.
Alice Carey lies dangerously i'll al her
residence in New York.
Chief Justice Hcnmen died at Ches-
hire, Connecticut, yesterday
Tho Indiana Republican State Con-
vsntion meets at Iudiasapolis to-day
The Royal River paper mill, at Var
month. Maine, was burned on sunday
The lumber mills of James & Pierce,
at Norton Mill, Maine, were burned Oh
Friday night.
Washington's birthday, to-day Will
Ia observed in Chicago by suspension
of bnsine'S.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned yes,
tsrsay until Tomorrow, IN honor Oh
Washingtou's birthday.
The Executive Department at Wash
inpton will be closed from noon to-day
tx honor of Washingten's birthday.
Senator Morton will deliver an ad-
d,eSs on the finances of the couatry ut
Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana,
- day.
The extensive saw mills of Hill, Lem
mon a. Co., ST. Louis, Mo-, was burned
on Sunday. Loss, SjO,OOO; insurance,
$4,000.
The 2OOth anniversary Of the South
Cgngre satioual Church, Hartford, Con-
pecticnt, will he celebrated on Tuesday
and WCdu sday.
A bill was introduced in the Ohio
House of Representatives. yesterday
providing for the inspection OF steam
boilers lis provisions are similar to the
limited States statute relative to the
inspection of steamboat boilers.
The United States steamer Nantucket
has notified the authorities in Haytien
ports that st. Domingo is under Amer
lean protection. At the same time Gen.
CaCc?as, son of Blez, went with 5OOO
men 10 the Haytien frontier. The ru'
mor is that he will demand satisfaction
of the Haytiens for their late occupa-
tion of Drjabon, on the Dominican Ter
Il;ory.
The Mormons held services as usual
in Williamsburg, n Y, Sunday, and
there was large attendance and con-
siderable enthusiasm. The assembly
was addressed by newly arrived ennis
saiies frOm Salt Lake. The proposition
TO build Mormon church on Grand
street, Williamsburg, excites cOnsideTa-
bic Indignation among the inhabitants.
Gentle correspondence from Salt
Lake City reveals the fact that the pas
sage of the act to give women suffrage
in Utah was the act both of MormOns
ana GcUtilcS, the Legislature which
passed il being Mormon aud the Gov
ernOr who signed it being a Gentle.
The two parties entertain different
views of thu way in which it will work.
A Nashville dispatch of yesterday
says: A convention of colored men rep.
reStnting every part of Tennessee, met
IN this city to-day. Nothing beyond
organization was done. The object Of
the convention is an investigation of
the condition of the colored people, end
the adoption of measures for improve
ment. 1t is very respectable assem-
b,age. The Constitutional Convention
concluded its labors to day, and will
adjourn tomorrow.
THO annual session of the Newark
Methodist Conference, which embraces
portions of New York and Pennsylvania,
and nearly one-half of New Jersey and
Staten Island, will convene in New
jersey on the 23d of March. The New
Jersey Methodist Conference will hold
It's session about the same time at Long
Branch, aud it is reported will meet the
union IN jersey City, locking TO the
Consolidation of both bodies, which dt-
vided in 1851. Five hundred clergymen
are expected to participate, and lmpor-
tant deliberations are anticipated.