The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-25
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY,

| leNer IN New orleans on Sunday.
The six million dollars suit OF til
Erie company against Vanderbilt wa
yesterday set over to next week.
The messenger, of National Stat
Bank was few days ago robbed in Ne'
York Of $4,000 in gold certificates.
The dedication of the new chapel O
the National Soldiers Home, at Dayton
Ohio, is TO occur tomorrow at o'clock
The steamer Key West, from New
York for Charleston, went ashore nea,
Hatteras. She will he a total loss
Crew saved.
The General Association Of Congre
gationalists closed its session at st
Louis Sunday after several days o
earnest and profitable work
The annual report of the Board o
Missions Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, which was presented yesterday
shows receipts Of s135 900 and deficit
of S2S,2l7.
E. L. King, the Liberal Republican
candidate for Congress in the Fifth
Missouri, District, has Withdrawn in
favor of George r. Smith, Of Sedalia
also Liberal Republican.
A lad aged seven years, son OF Colonel
John C. Bundy, of st. Charles, Illinois,
was killed on Saturday by being struck
with base ball in the stomach. He
lived only few minutes after being hit.
There was splendid display of Au,
rora Borealis at o'clock yesterday
morning at Cincinnati. The sky few
degrees east of north was deep Grim
son, resembling light from immense
fires.
The latest rumor, at Washington, is
that Senator Morton has declined his
English mission, and that tits to be ten
dered to Cresswell and should the latter
accept, Colonel Forney will be made
Postmaster General
A numorously attended meeting was
held in twenty Catholic parishes of New
Orleans. Sunday. Resolutions were
adopted protesting against Victor En-
manuers action regarding Rome and
the temporal dethronement of the
Pope. sH, ar s~-
General Butler, Secretary Robson,
Senator Conkling, General Babcock and
others had a lengthy conversation in
New York, Yesterday, with the object
of concocting measures for carrying out
the Congressional election law and to
prevent fraudulent voting and registra-
ton. -7-e
The nomination of John Morrissey
by the Young Democracy Of New York
has alarmed the Republicans sympa-
thizing with that party, while many Re
publicans view the action Of the State
Committee in interfering in divisions
upon local issues with disfavor. 1t is
now probable that a straight Republican
county ticket will be nominated.
A fire was discovered in the propel-
lor Schickbure'at Port Colbourn, yester-
day morning on entering the lock,
water was Immediately turned on the
flames, but without effect She had to
be abandoned in ten minutes. The
cargo consisted OF $1,000 bushels OF
wheat, which is a total loss. The
purser lost his books and papers; and
the crew had only time to escape.
John Gentry, aged sixty-fve years,
and United States Express agent at
Middletown, Ohio, was killed Yesterday
morning about one mile above Hamil-
ton, by falling between two cars in at
tempting to pass from one car to
another while the cars were running.
He was on his way to Cincinnuti when
the accident occurred.
BENJAMIN Wisewells, an Englishman,
twenty-five years old, was stabbed at
Worcester, Massachusetts, by his wife s
brother, Francis Doran, an lrishman,
and died before he could be reached by
physician. Both men were drunk.
The murder is said to be the result Of a
long standing quarrel. Doran attempted
to kill WIsewells once before.
The fact that citizens Of Covington
have been summoned to appear before
the United States Grand Jury, now sit
ting at Louisville, has given rise to the
rumor that an attempt is to be made tc
show that Governor Stevenson, Of Ken
tucky, accepted Colonel S commission
in the rebel army at the beginning o.
the war, this with the view of disquali
fying him for the office of United State:
Senator.
The following are details ofthe terrible
storm which desolated Cuba last week
From one thousand to two Thousand
people were killed or drowned; 12,00(
head OF cattle were lost; vessels were
wrecked, and'in Matanzas alone, ovel
four hundred houses were destroyed
Among the most terrible features OF tn,
calamity was the uprooting and sweep
ing away Of cemetery and the scatter
ing of the corpses through the sur
rounding country.
Hon. John Quincy Adams, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, Of Mas
sachusetts, having received a commu
nication from the strong minded wo
men, in reference to his opinion oil
female suffrage, has responded b.
calling the attention of the inquisitor
10 a resolution of the Democratic Stat
Convention in which is declared tha
the proposition to extend suffrage t
women involves too many social cor
siderations to be summarily treated as
mere political question.
The American Positivists at thei
meeting in New York city Sunday a
ternoon passed resolutions protestin
AGAINST The war in France, denouncin