The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-23
NEWS SUM MARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Tn, San Francisco hotels were crowd
,d Yesterday by peple from the Interior
n attend the Camilla UIso festival
The flannel mill of AUstin & Taylor,
- North Salem, n. H., was destroyed
by i.e on Saturday. Loss slOO'OOo; In
sared for 1900.
Iodre Knight, of the Circuit Court OF
:, Innis. decided, Monday, that debt
cSntracted by a wife must be collected
Srnm her husband, not from her separ-
ate estate.
Ancw srouting mineral spring was
accidentally developed near Saratoga
ysstsrday. Ii throws water several ieet
b,rh, similar to Geyser's OF Iceland ana
California.
Radical changes are proposed i'll the
Police Department of Boston to the ef-
fact of substituting for the special de.
tscriye system the selection of CHIEF
ofPatromen for special duty.
The Erie troubles have again been
partially revived in an action by Geo.
+ Gray rs Fisk, Belden & Go. IN the
Superior Court of New York to receive
= balance of some $50 900 growing out
Of operations in Erie stock.
The Jumel estate is again up for ad-
iodicati N on an action by George W.
R,rren against Nelson Chase, in the
Sonerior Court of New York. Borren
CLAIMS as the natural son OF Madame
Jumel.
Tb~ro vas no general observance OF
Wa.biupton's birthday in Cincinnati.
Z,uave battalion, an independent
military organization, had a grand par
ade. Many flags were flying, but busl-
ness was not suspended.
In syIlle, Monday night, Early
Smith, negro saloon keeper, shot anu
rr,hably fatally wounded another negro
named Lew 5 Smith. The cause of the
disturbance is unknown Smith was
arrested.
The trustees of the Mercantile Library
Association in San Francisco, CAL, have
decided TO tender Camilla Urso grand
complimentary on the 25th inst, IN
acknowledgement for services rendered
the Association.
The Democracy of st. Lonis county,
No. were in session yesterday at 81.
Louis, for ths purpose of eltctlng
C-rtra, COMMITTEES for the ensuing year
aud the adoption of resolutions to the
wrmory of George Washington.
The insurance on Hill, Lennon Il
Co'Ssiw mill, ST. Louis, burned Sunday,
was $4,000 in each of the fJllowing
Security, NV York; Republic, Chicago;
NarylaId, Baltimore; International and
Excelsior, New York; Phoenix, Pacific
aud Commerce, ST. Louis.
Business was entirely suspended in
New York ye,teaday, and Washlngtoh's
birthday more generally observed than
ever before. Appropriate celebrations
are reported at Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Boston, Providence ana
elsewhere.
Cont Otto Won Delow, tho bogus
Prus,ian Count and cousin of Count
Bismarck, who succeeded in marrying
Young, rich woman, daughter OF re-
sp,c'able citizen of Elizabeth, n. D.
aud svndling the family ont OF s2me
$4,000, was arrested Monday morning
and is now confined in Jail to await eX-
animation.
4 band of regularly organized ooun-
t.rfrIters in Pulaski, WAYNE and other
adjoining Counties of Kentucky have
been engaged for some time In circu-
aing several thousand dollars OF bogus
ten dollar and fifty cent United States
notes. A clue has been obtained as TO
their headquarters, and an early arrest
OF the gang is looked for.
Considerable testimony was taken in
the United States Commissioners office,
New York. Monday, in the case of Mar
TN X. Cook, of the firm of Jordan, Eel
lows X Mcmillan, Wholesale liquor deal
ers, charged with having aided and
abetted an ex gauger named Harrington
in committing frauds on the Govern
ment.
A steamer from Brazil brought back
10 New York, Monday, a cargo of ex-
Contederates who went off after the
close of the war TO settle in Brazilian
territory. After suffering terrible pri
yations they were shipped home by the
Imperial Government. Several cOmpa-
MES of Southern emigrants who located
themselves i'll other portions of Brazil
are doing well, aud will remain.
The United Express Company has
signed the agreement with the Adams
and American Merchants Union Com.
plnies for q redistribution of routes
Tie delay in affixing the signatures was
owing to dispute as to the proper
equivalents for the Office in Chicago
Representatives of all the companies
were in New York, Monday.
Mr.. w. J. Jasper Blackburn publishes
card in the New Orleans papers rela-
tive 10 charges of bribery in procuring
cadet appointment, in which he says :
believe the sum promised was $1,000,
but | am very certain but Sl400 was
ever paid. There was no secrecy or
fraud intended or thought of on my
part, aud all insinuations of the kind
are false and slanderous.
letter to the ST. Paul Press, dated
Pembina, February 10th, brings iutelli-
gence from Winnepeg of the Hudson
bay Company. DIR. Cowan, q promi-
neut officer of the Company, was detect
ed In tamperiDg with the members of
the Provisional Council in order to de-
ieat the final adoption of the Bill of
Nights, whereupen General Refill had
~, nun arrested and placed in confinement.
Ihe letter also says that D. j. Bannog.
Sster, leading Canadian who, it will
% remembered, took the oath of allie
glance to the Provisional Government
ana was retained in his former office of
postmaster at Winnepeg, endesvored to
gam access to the prisoner, and being
Ioiused, threatened to raise a force to
hoerate him, whereupon he was also
arrested and placed in confinement. A
private letter says Reill is not yet de-
iunct, and the agents of Canada persist
in attempting to corrupt the represen-