The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

ofcoaL
Mr.. Seward and party have sailed for
Baltimore.
The west side of the elevated railway
in New York will be opened to the pub
lie March lst.
The billiard match between Randolph
.od Deery, for the championship OF
America, is postponed to March 9Th.
Senator Crimes, now in Europe, is
said TO be failing fast, and it is proba-
HE that he will not survive the journey
home.
General David Atwood, of the Madi-
son. Wis State Journal, has been elected
10 Congress in place OF B. +. Hopkins,
deceased.
The faculty of the College of New
York dismissed eighty-six students last
week for proving deficient at the exam
nation.
The St. Louis Board of Trade yester.
day passed resolutions expressive of
great sorrow at the death of John J.
Roe, and will attend the funeral to-day.
Hugh Johnston, who was attacked in
company with Greenwoldth in Havana,
is out OF danger. Foster is also improv-
ing and the physicians think he will
recover.
Theduestion of sectarian schools ex-
cites much attention in New York. 1t
is under scussion in the Legislature,
and much opposition is shown to the
taxation of citizens for their support.
William Harper, of Baltimore, has
sued the Northern Central railroad for
$4,000 tor injuries sustained by ar
accident in crossing the road in q car
riage 10 1868 His wife will commence
similar proceedings.
Alta meeting, Tuesday, of the credit
ors of Holstead, Stiles & Co., WOODEN
goods importers, of White street, New
York, they unanimously agreed to ac'
cept a compromise Of % per cent, paya-
bic st three, zine and twelve months.
tits said that the bankers, brokers,
Insurance companies and business men
in all parts of the North have sent word
to the Southern lawyers and business
men that they shall not take advantage
Of the recent decision of the Supreme
Court relative to contracts and mott.
cages.
A Byron banquet is to be given in.
New York on the 18th of April next, the
anniversary of Byron's fiual departure
from England, by large number OF
bankers and lawyers, who propose by
this homage to the poet, to testify their
rrprobatiCn of the ISLANDERS heaped upon
his memory.
The friends of prohibition held q
convention az Boston, yesterday, Whit
ing GrswOld presiding. Speeches We're
made by several prominent temperance
men aud resolutions in favor of pro-
hlbtOry Law and looking to the forma
on of a third political party were
adopted. The convention was not
large.
Havana dispatches state that %
CuUans and Americans have been MUIR
dertd in the streets of Havana since the
flErral of Castanos. The appointment
OF General Jordan as commander-in-
chief # the Cuban armies is fully con-
'''hiNAs ut SuOdl NCh ROoSN
10 a great part of members chosen at
the election last fall, made the change.
The case of Rosauna Rogers was con
c.uded on Tuesday in the Essex Court
hY averdict of manslaughter. The jury
was out twenty-One hours. In the ver-
diet the jury made strong recommend
alton TO the mercy of the Court. The
.4TN Of
prisoner was remanded. She is said to
have expressed her resolve to commit
suicide if the trial resulted in her con-
yiCtiOn.
\ Holland family namen Brakeman,
residing at "A Lake street, Chicago,
composed of husband, wife and two
children, were poisoned, Tuesday night,
IN some mysterious manner, but sup
po ed from eating from a kettle of mush
which was found stasding on the stove.
When discovered the wife and one child
were dead. 1t is pretty certain the
other child will de. The man will
probably recover. The case will be in
veStigated.
The Syracuse, New York, charter
election on Tues lay was closely con-
tested. The Republicans reelected the
Mayor Clark by $50 majority, and one
oyerSeer of the poor and one justice.
The Democrats elected one justice, one
oyerseer of the poor and two assessors.
On supervisors the Republicans carry
hve of the eight wards, aud on aldermen
the DemscTats carry five of the eight
wards. The Common Council stands
i've Democrats to three Republicans.
At a special term of the Supreme
COurt, held in Brooklyn on Tuesday by
Judge Pratt, tho recent decision of Chief
Justice Chase, holding that the princi-
pal and interest of all contracts entered
INTO prior to the passage of the legal
tender act of July IL, 1862, are payable
IN gold, was practically applied in the
case ofJshnston Locke Ss. Alfred Dow
ieday and others. The plaintiff sued to
i3reclose mortgage for $4,000, dated
July !, 1857. Judge Pratt gave judg.
ment IN favor of the plaintiff for the
principal and interest to be paid in gold
or the equivalent of gold in green
packs, acting under the UOited States
supreme Court decision above refer
red to.
1t spretty certainly ascertained that
ADAM Baierle, well known brewer of
Chicago, whose mysterious disappear
auce has been the subject of newspaper
paragraphs the past three or four days,
aas a6sconded. He ostensibly started
IGE Calumet to pay off the hands en-
Ployed In his brewery there, but did
not stop. 1t is ascertained that he was
IaooIing under financial embarrassment,
shd he has absconded to escape their
responsibility. His liabilities amount
70 aoout SO 900, held by various bank
es, brokers, &c. His assets are said to
iooI up about 100000. His wife took
let three children and left Tuesday
but whittier she went is mt knawn