The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-07
M'heeliug gesister.
bg Market Reports on Thjrd Page.
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.


Subscriptions are being taken up
among the citizens of Augusta, Georgia
for the Richmond sufferers.
The Mozart Hall General committee
have ratified the New York Democratic
State Judicial nominations.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce held its lO2d annual anniversary
meeting Thursday afternoon.
General Thomas Jordan, late Com
mander-in-Chief of the Cuban insur-
cent army. arrived at New York, yes
terday.
The Nashville. Tenn, races begin on
Tuesday, and fine sport is expected.
Many persons are there from abroad,
and nearly one hundred horses are IN
training on the track.
Mary Anna McMahOn, a school
teacher, fell down the stairs of her
school house in New York city, Thurs
aav, and sustained such injuries that
.be died in few minutes.
At Dover. Delaware Thursday, in
response to a call for a White Man :
Convention, the attendance was so small
that it was decided not to organize and
the movement is doubtless dead.
Peter B. Walsh, a wealthy stevedOre,
offer rewards of$l0O0 for the arrest Of
parties who attempted to as7assinate
him near the corner of 18th street and
Broadway, New York, Thursday morn
ing.
The jury in the case of John D. Cur
nv, tried in New York city Thursday,
for outraging his daughter, thirteen
wears old, three years since, failed to
agree, and the prisoner was remanded
for another trial.
Rev. Frederick fremont Lowell, pas
tor of the Universalist church in Essex,
Massachusetts,, and accused of gross
RIGHTEOUSNESS, is reported to have left
his parish and the town under threats
of coat of tar and feathers.
\ disastrous fire occurred at Wilkes
barre, Pa, yesterday morning, which
DESTROYED some half dozen barns and
ont buildings and the extensive livery
stable of ?. Cornitf, inwhich thIrty-onc
horses were burned to death.
4 correspondent from Montreal
writes that Riel is so elated with his
greatness that he has dropped his
scheme for annexation to the United
States. and will be satisfied with moth
ING less than an independent nationality.
Seven dwelling houses were burned
on Calhoun street, Vine Street Hill,
Cincinnati, early yesterday morning.
Loss 10000. Henry Welsh, a mem
ber of Hook and Ladder company,
was seriously injured by falling walls.
1t is understood there is final and
determined secret movement among the
leaders in the present strike at Potts
Vile. Pa, to persuade the Lehigh and
Wyoming men to join them. They are
becoming convinced that unless other
regions suspend they cannot succeed.
The new Episcopal Church Of the
HoIv Trinity. corner of Fifth avenue
and l2jth street. New York, was opened
for religious services Thursday, though
the structure is vet incomplete. Adj
irr,,e. were delivered 10y Rev. Stephen
II. Tvng. .Ir.. and Others.
The case of Jas Fisk, jr., as. the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, the
pending question being whether JurlS-
diction belongs 10 the State or Federal
Courts, was resumed in New York
Thursday. before United States Judge
Nelson and will probably occupy the
remainder Of the week.
The treasurer of the Richmond relief
lund announces that the arrangements
are thorough and complete for distrlb-
utine the funds received The commit
Tee has been so organized as to issue
aid to all the sufferer hy the late ca.
lamitv. The treasurer received S1O,-
nm ON THURSDAY from Northern cities
The last Louisiana Legislature re-
pealed the old statutes for the punish
ment OF crimes, &c, and enacted the
laws now in force, but made no pro
vision for the prosecution Of persons
charged with crimes committed prior to
April lst, 1870, leaving hiatus through
which l25 persons, indicted for various
offenses, will likely escape unpunished.
The steamboat Kepton, from Cincin-
natl to New Orleans, struck a snag at
Trotters landing, opposite Helena,
Thursday, and sunk, She lies on the
bank with her larboard side three feet
ont of water and her starboard twelve
feet under, probably total loss. The
cargo was five hundred tons, principally
pork. lard and whisky. No further par