The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-09
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passed an ordinance providing LOT
paid fire department.
The Senate committee on Foreign
Relations have agreed to report taVor,
ably on the nomination of Genersl
Sickles as Minister 10 Spain.
II is rumored that General Doyle will
shortly proceed to Montreal as Com
mander. Chief, to be succeeded as
Governor of Nova Scotia by DR.. Tappen.
Surgeon General Hammond, Mr..
Reach and other physicians examined
REYNOLDS, the murderer of MIR. Towns
end, Monday, aud pronounced him to be
perfectly sane.
Mrs. Amelia Hobbs has been elected
Jns,ice of the Peace of Jersey Landing
township, jersey connty, Ills, by ma
iority of 20. This is the first woman
ever elected to office in Illinois.
A laborer named Snyder was cut In
two by tCaiu, at the Mellburg, Ohio,
station, of the Lake Shore Railroad,
while attempting to crawl under the
train from side to side, Monday night.
Alta public meeting in CovingtOn,
Ky., Monday night, resolutions were
adopttd instruclIng the Republicans
IN the Legislature 10 vote for the South
,rn railroad bill, and a committee was
appoiuted to visit Frankfort to present
the same to the Legislature.
Mr.. Jay Gould received credit a few
days since for contribution of SlO,OOO
70 a professoiship of mathematics 10
Pricceton College. 1t is probable that
the donation was from Mr.. Jay Cooke,
If Philadelphia, through his friend
Judge Field, of Princeton.
The half-breeds in from the Indian
camps, at Fort Benton, report the In
dians diving at the rate of twenty five
psr pay of small .pOx, begging the whites
10 spare their lives. They report that
Mountain Chins band aud Others de-
clared on the war path proves wholly
untrue.
The Cincinnati colored people have
,l .terInined TO celebrate the adoption Of
the Fifteenth Amendment by daylight
parade and public meeting at night TO
hear addresses. A celebration is to be
held one week after the official publica-
ton bv the Secretary of State that the
amendment has been IA i6td
In the Ohio Legislature, yesterday,
the House bill giving Cincinnati the
Board of Aldermen passed the Senate,
and the same is now law. A bill has
PASSED the House making teachers
certificates obtained in one county
valid in all the counties of the State.
Two Strangers, from the West, were
kin,d, yesterday morning, in Corks Ran
tunnel, on the Pan. Handle road. A
freight train had just passed through,
aud the men are supposed to have been
bewldered by the smoke, and crushed
by passenger train. Names unknown.
The liabilities of D. w. King, COM
mission tobacco merchant, Of Hartford,
Conn, who made an assignment recent
iy, will, it is thought, reach nearly
100000. 1t is said that one of his cred
IturS will bring suit against him soon
oa rhe charge Of false pretenses.
The Virginia Legislature met at noon
Yesterday. The House by vote of lO9
To 10 adopted resolution asking Con-
gr,ss to remove all political disabilities
OF the people of Virginia. The colOred
members voted for the resolution, the
negatives being white members of the
parted extreme faction.
The adventurous ladies who have
started a brokerage office in Wall street,
New York, are attracting large share
OF curiosity, if not business. All sorts
of rumOrs are afloat as to their credit;
one TO the effect that they have brought
100000 iato the street, and another
that they are backed by Commodore
Vanderbilt.
In the Supreme Court at Hudson City
y. j., Monday, the case Of W. II. Wood
agent of the Erie Railway Company, to
recover Sl4 go for materials and labor
IN the construction of the ferry slip at
the foot of 23d street, New York, came up
for a new trial. In the previous trial a
Judgment was entered for the plaintiff
for Sll 800.
1t is stated that Brazil has established
amilitary station at HigDevitas, which
is at the mouth of the river La Plata,
and is position commanding all the
Internal river commerce of the South
American Republics The attention of
our Government has been called to this
fact.
The lower branch of the New Jer-
sey Legislature, yesterday, passed a
resolution asking its representatives
in Congress to urge The acknowledge
ment of Cuban independence, and di-
recting them TO demand the liberation
OF prisoners imprisoned in England for
seeking the independence of Ireland.
Att meeting of the defrauded so!-
dier's association, in New York, Monday
evening, the President announced that
their test case, Finally Yandyke, is to
be tried in the Usited States District
Court either this week or early next.
The association now numbers about $50
members, and at each meeting new
names are added TO the roll.
special committee consisting of the
Rev. DTs. Osborn, Foster, Wiley, King
and Lodge, of the New York conference
of the NJ. E. Church, met Monday morn
ing. for the purpose of preparing a re-.
port in reference to the ministry, which
will be brought prominently before the
Conference at its session to be held in
April next. The preliminary points of
the report were agreed upon and the
document will be put in shape in the
course of few days.
The funeral obseqnies of George Pea.
body took place at noon, yesterday, at
Peabody, Mass, and were carried out
according TO programme. The attend
ance was large and the services were
solemn and imposing. Mr.. Winthrop
occupied about three quarters of an
hour In his address. Prince Arthur, Ad.
mlTal Farragut. Governor Claflin, Min.
ister Thornton, Captain Commerell, and
GoVernor Chamberlain, of Maine, were
ent. -I- :