The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ry TELEGRAPH.

Only one hundred men are now en-
ployed on the new postofnce IN Ne"
York.
new Cotton Exchange was opened
On Monday at the junction OF Beaver
ard Pearl streets, New York.
Tbs safe in the house of J. s. Clark,
New Orleaus, was blown open and
robbed of $40 900 on Sunday night.
Three hundred seanen from the
Charlestown navy yard have been
transferred to the navy yard at BROOK
lyn.
Monday night the store of Cooper &
Copard, corner Ninth and Market streets,
Pbiladelphia, was robbed of 2OOO yards
of silk valued at $4,000.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
have decided to hold the next State
at Springfield during the second
* in September.
A large number of Republicans are in
Nashville to participate in the Conyen-
tion to devise means fer the promotion
and defense Of loyal men.
The regular distribution Of letters in
creased by about 2O, 900 iu New York on
Monday, which probably represented the
number of valentines passing through
the postOtice.
Inasmuch as the Cincinnati Sosthern
railroad bill came up in the Kentucky
Legislature yesterday, q good deal OF
interest was felt in Cincinnati concern
the result.
The Seward will case, in which Hon.
Wm. II. Seward as executor under his
fathers will, appears as plaintiff, was
argued before Judge CaIdozo, Ne"
York, Monday.
The Erie Railroad Company now
transport daily over their road 400 car
loads Of coal, which are delivered at the
Pennsylvania Coal Company's yards in
Weehawken at 81 rs per ton.
Henry Bergh has issued an appeal to
the public against the bill now befors
the New York Assembly, which, II
passed, would effectually extinguish the
50 i-ty for the prevention OF cruelty to
animals.
Two million, two hundred and thirty
ons thousand one hundred and forty-two
CHARS. aud 6S2 ,14O pounds of tobacco
were manufactured at COvington last
year: lO30,95O cigars were manuiac'
tured in Newport.
The b levne Hospital, New York, is
s, crowded with patients stricken down
with the re!apsIng fever that the Board
of Health is taking measures to estao'
lish other hospitals where the disease
eau be exclusively treated.
Ten dealers in counterfeit money
were arrested in Pike county, Missouri
last Thursday aud Friday, under direc-
ton of Colonel Whitley, of the United
States Secret Service, and taken to
Springfield, ILL.,.
Col. Thompson Morris, of the United
States army, was buried yesterday
morning from st. Paufs Church, Ciucln-
natl, with military hOnors. He had
been in the service of his country since
H.! at which time he graduated at
West Point.
The preliminary surveys for the North
eTn Pacific railroad are being pushed
forward with all possible dispatch.
Five parties are now in the field and
another leaves next Thursday. The re-
port that q courier had been despatched
for the survey TO be suspended until
further orders is incorrect.
At the annual meeting of the direct
Ors of the Pennsylvania Central rail-
read, at Philadelphia, yesterday, re-
port was- submitted showing the gross
earnings for the year to be Sl7 ,25O, 600,
expenses over $l2 100000; leaving net
earnings S5,0i7, 900; exceeding those of
lHjS by Sl7,3li.
Postmaster Whilker, of Hartford, Ct,
has received a dispatch from special
agent b II. Camp, Informing him that
he has succeeded in arresting the de-
faulting money order clerk, p. B. Hath
away, IN Iowa, near the Minnesota line,
and tnat he will bring him to Connecti-
cnt as soon as the proper papers can be
procured.
4 bill was introduced into the Min.
nesota Legislature on Monday propos-
ing to give State land in payment of
repudiated State railroad bends. The
people of the State are keenly alive to
the justice of paying this obligation
aud the Legislature must do something
IN reference to the matter very soon or
the people will take measures which
VIII be equivalent to whipping that
body into action in the matter.
1t was reported in New York on Mon.
day that all the fraudulent drawback
claims connected with the alleged guilt
of Samuel T. Blatchford had been re.
turned from Canada, where they were
sent to be used as evidence against
Reed b. Caldwell, and that they had
been filed in the District Attorneys
office. 1t is probable that they will
soon be used for framing the indict-
ment for conspiracy found against
Blatchford.
William Jones, driver ,of the wagon
which takes the mails from the Chicago
postothce 10 the Rock Island railroad
depot has been arrested for robbing the
mails Of over 100000 in drafts. His
habit has been for long time in con-
nection with accomplices to drive to
an out OF the way street and then cut
open the bags and abstract large num-
oers of letters containing drafts there.
rom 1t is not known that be has ever
taken money.
At meeting of the Liquor Dealers
Association of st. Louis, Monday night.
resolutions were adopted instructine
the Executive Committee to petition
Congress to change the internal revenue
law so as to collect all taxes on distilled
spirits at the distillery or distillery
warehouse and relieve distilled spirits
ol all the present form of rectifers'
ana Wholesale dealers stamps rectify-
,.g' tax on sales, aud every other re-
rletiop drawing a distinction between
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