The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

The latest Cuban advices sre favorable
to tue Spanish troops.
The telegraph strike in New YORK Is
considered about at an end.
The Stanton Ifund has reached SlOo,-
OOO and promises to grow larger.
Eight of The telegraph strikers at
New Orleans have returned to duty.
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
the bill repeating the gambling law
The town of Laporto, California, was
nearly destroyed by fire on the llth OF
January.
The Mississippi Legislature has rati-
fed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments.
The Erie railroad strike holds out
and the company are advertising e1-
tensively for new hands.
Jimmy Hamill, of Pittsburgh, pro-
poses TO row Walter Brown, Coulter,
and others, in regetta, in that city.
A strike is probable on the Long
Island railroad Ill consequence of the
reduction of wages of the employees.
The election for United States Sena-
tor takes place in Mississippi to-day.
R.G. Eggleston, r. U. Flower and
Major General Ames are candidates.
The old Brattle Square Church, Bos-
ton, took fire yesterday evening from
su over-heated fue. The relics Of rev.
olutionary times was fortunately saved
from extensive damage.
During the past year over $4,000
worth of goods have been stolen from
the Hudson River railroad by thieves.
who broke into the oars along the route
and plundered right and left.
A train Oh the Boston and Albany
railroad ran Tito a team crossing in
Beckel, Mass, Friday. Baxter HOckell,
of MiddleGeld, was killed and Samuel
B. Allen, of Holyoke, was seriously In
jured.
Rev. DR.. James Blanchard Of the
Kirk street Congregational Church,
Lowell, Mass, and settled clergyman
in that place for forty years, died FIJI
day evening of heart disease, at the age
of 63.
John Hayt sand John Long, who were
discharged from the New York State
Prison on the discovery of their inDo-
cence after four years Imprisonment,
have applied TO the Legislature for
compensation.
A cable dispatch of Friday night con-
yeyed to Parepa Rosa the announce
af Of
London. In consequence, another op-
era was substituted tor the one ia which
she was to appear.
1t is reported from Europe that Mrs.
James Gordon Bennett has bought a
beautiful villa on the Lake of Como,
where she purposes to reside hereafter
during the summer season, and where
Mr.. Bennett is to join her in May next.
Thomas J. Campbell, convicted Of the
murder of his wife by beating her to
death, at Pittsburgh last November,
has been sentenced to eleven years, nine
months and twenty eight days in the
Penitentiary, being the longest term he
could be imprisoned.
Tue Boston Post says there has Eeen
a clerical error or defdlcation OF some
fifteen thousand dollars discovered In
the City Treasurer's office, and that the
employees of the Office are held under
arrest until restitution is made. No
names are mentioned.
At Bryant's Station, Kentucky, on
Thursday morning, farmer named
Casper Gregg shot and killed Albert
Lore, colored, for an alleged attempt at
assault while intoxicated. Gregg was
arrested aud will doubtless be tried be
fore the United States Court, there be-
ing no other than negro testimony.
IceIin the Maumee river broke Satur'
day afternoon carr ing away portion
of Cherry street bridge, at Toledo, Ohio
The railroad bridge, at the same place
sustained no injury and no isjury was
done to the docks or shipping. 1t is
reported that a large quantity of corn
was destroye ed on manure fats ten miles
above Toledo.
The official investigation into the
irregularities alleged to have been dis
covered in the revenue returns of sew.
eral distillers and whisky dealers in the
sd Collection District of New York j,
still being conducted in Collector
Bailey's office, but no result 10 likely tC
be arrived at for some time.
A special dispatch says the ratifica
tion Of the Fifteenth Amendment By
Ohio, is the subject of much congratu
lation among Republicans in Washing
ton. To all objections of Democrats
that it is illegal, they simply reply thai
ifNew York can repeal one way, they
can offset by her repeal another, anc
that the case virtually stands as it die
before New York attempted to repeal il
In the suit of the United States Mai
Line against the insurance companie
for the loss of the steamer America
burned on December 4, 1868, between
Cincinnati and Louisville, at the tim
of the collision with the United States
which has been on trial before Judg
Storer of the Superior Court at Cincin
natl all week, the jury rendered yer
dict in favor of the Mail Line Compan,
after thirty minutes consultation.
General AlcorD, in letter to Genera
Ames, declining the Provisional Gov
eInorship of Mississippi, says: "CominI
from military authority and subjec
for support to the military power, tn
fitness of things appear to me to forbi
my acceptance of it while hold imme
diste prospect of the position of Civi
Governor by that sanction most &C
ceptable TO my instinct as an America
citizen, that of popular choice. may
perhaps, be INDUCED in@the frank con
fession that under the fellowship, erro
and chastisement by which am boun
to the Southern people am constraine
by an irresistible force Of my heart t
draw back from lot or part in the Gov
srnnent by any other right than that Q
sastr own conscience. iss.