The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-27
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY
Gold closed in New York Saturday


4 negro man named Summers diet
at indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday
from the effects OF the heat.
4 duel between two young lawyers
at Memphis, Tennessee, was prevented
on Saturday, by the arrest OF both par
ties.
Two little girls were drowned at In
dianapolis, Indiana, on Friday night
and their bodies were recovered mex,
morning.
In the neighborhood of Memphis
rcnnessee,.the crops are suffering from
excessive rains, rendering working i'm
possible.
4 fire occurred at Mendotte, Ills,
Wednesday night, which destroyed one
and q half blocks Of business houses.
Loss about S25, 900
The number Of cholera cases and
deaths in Havana are daily growing
less. No fears are entertained Of the
epidemic at present.
The canvass in North Carolina is
about opening earnestly. Nearly all the
candidates for office at the August elec-
ton have taken the stump.
In a game of base ball between the
Red Stockings and Marylands, at Balti-
more on Saturday, the score was 80 to
Is in favor of the Red Stockings.
Solomon Stenbing was arrested at
st. Louis, No, charged with commit
ting a $l4,O 900 forgery ona Philadelphia
bank. He has been taken to Philadel-
phia for trial.
Captain General De ROdas telegraphs
to Havana that he has captured sec
ond cargo landed by the steamer Upton
on her return from Aspinwall. 1t is
more valuable than the first.
a temperance organization has been
formed at Boston, Saturday The Oh
iect is to enrol Sabbath school children
throughout New England to the cold
water ranks. Governor Clahin presid-
ell and Mr. Cough delivered the address.
The recent explosion of 1000 eX-
ploders, at Worcester, Massachusetts,, is
being investigated. The exploders are
Go parts nitro-glycerine, and were dl-
rected to Sharley, of North Adams,
Mass, one Of the Hooslc Tunnel con-
tractors,
An enthusiastic gentleman has devised
Il plan to increase the boundaries OF st.
Louis, Mo, to fifty square miles, giving
eighteen miles of river front north and
south, and six miles east and west, the
whole to be surrounded by an avenue
two hundred feet wide, and a park of
three thousand acres to be reserved.
The fight between the New York
Central and Erie railways on the re-
dction of freights is confined exclu-
sively to cattle and live stock The
freight on general merchandise is not
the Erie road having accumu-
lation of the freight at Buffalo, and
both roads are having all they can do.
An incendiary fire at Newark, y. j.,
Saturday morning, consumed the stable
to Sanfords Hotel, Hill street,
with the contents, including all the
horses. The flames spread to the
Methodist Protestant Church adjoining,
destroying the roof and the whole inte-
rior, including the mclodcon and the
furniture.
\ trial of reapcrS and mowers, under
direction of the State Board Of Agricul-
ture, which had been in progress sew
eral miles from st. Louis, Missouri,
three days, terr'inated on Friday even
ing. 4 large number of machines were
engaged, and the attendance was fair,
The following machines took prizes:
Climax, best combined reaper and
mower; Burdock, best sclfraking ma
chine: Marsh harvester, best harvester;
Acme, hest mower, and the Climax,
hest reaper with dropper attachment
The International Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Associations, in
session at indianapolis, Indiana, passed
the following resolution:
Rcsolccd, That this Convention re-
ceives with great concern the persistent
efforts to undermine and abolish the
civil laws empowering the observance
of the Sabbath, and would earnestly
press upon the Young men of the con-
tincnt the necessity and Importance of
seeking TO maintain the sin
cerity ofthe day hallowed by the dearest
association Of our Christian homes, and
ordained by the direct command Of Al
mighty God.
For several months past quantities
of freight transported by the New York
Central railroad have been abStractcd
from packages and the matter was
placed in the hands OF detectives. -Four
houses in West Albany, " Y, were
on Saturday found to contain large
quantities ot shoes, boots, rubber and
dry goods, hats, caps, fnrs, boxes OF
plug tobacco, ladies' writing desks, &c.
4 switchman named Stephen Manahar
was arrested and made full confession
implicating others, brakemen on the
freight train. The brakemen escaped
but will be pursued. The robberIcs
amount to several thousand dollars.
The L. S. Land Officers of the Boon
Vile, Springfield and lronton Districts OF
Missouri, are now at st Louis IN consul
tation regarding the recent construction
of the homestead graduation law 10y the
general land officers at Washington by
which it is ordered that all parties max
ing entries under the graduation law
since the Sd Of March, 1867, shall be
ousted unless they make proof OF settle
mcnt and cultivation or pay the differ
cnce in price within sixty days of the
date of proper public notice There are
millions of acres OF land in Missouri
which have been entered at l2l cents
an acre and parties making such entries
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