The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-12
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday


Dover yesterday bound East.
Virginia was visited with heav
frost on the night of the 9th inst. /.
j. w. Simonton, General Agent G
the Associated Press, is in Chicago.
The Cabinet session yesterday wa
attended by all the members, for tn
first time in three months.
Five men were killed yesterday morn
ing by the explosion of boiler in al
lens saw-mill at Middlesex, Mass.
Arnold, Nausbaum g. Gurdlinger
wholesale clothiers, in North ThirC
street, Philadelphia, have suspended
The agents of the Bremen Line 4
not intend to despatch any more vesssl'
until they hear Of the safe arrival out
of the Hermann
An improved steam fire engine made
by Ahrens & Co, Cincinnati, exhibited
at the fair at St. Louis, has been bought
by the city of st. Louis.
DR.. Cochran, of Huntington, Pa,
died at the Olive-street Hotel, st. Louis,
Monday, from an overdose Of Prussic
acid, administered by himself.
A semi-weekly German paper, in the
interest Of the Government, McClurg,
and the regular Republican ticket, is to
be started at st. Louis, Mo, oday.
The official census gives Kansas City,
Mo, 80, ,296 inhabitants. This shows
an increase Of about 1000 since 1865,
and makes Kansas City the second city
in the State
Margeret Waters, the notorious baby
farmer, was hanged at London, Eng
land, yesterday, for the murder of
the Cowen infant. She died protesting
her innocence.
Robert Lurdler shot himself through
the head, at his boarding house, in st.
Louis, Mo-, Monday Bad health and
inability to work seems to have been
the cause Of the act
General Garibaldi has exhorted the
people of Nice and Savoy to discon-
tinue agitation at present, as it does no
good, and only embarasses France in
her struggle against Prussia.
Pardons for most of the Fenan pris-
oners, twelve in number, will be signed
this week. That of General ONeill
will head the list. The fines imposed
in some cases will be RENTED.
Georgiana Mcdowell, cyprian, com
mitted suicide at house Of ill-fame, on
Fourth avenue, Chicago, Monday night.
She was the mistress of well known
musician, who deserted her for an
other
The bale of cotton which took the
sweepstake premium of $1,000 at the
fair, at st. Louis. was donated by The
owner, VIM. B. McShane, to the South
ern Orphans Educational Society and
sold on Change yes erday noon at 32
cents per pound.
The Comptroller of the Currency on
Monday authorized the following new
banks to begin banking at once: First
National Bank of Ottowa, Kansas,
capital $4,000; Jacksonville National
Bank, jacksonville, Illinois, capital
100000. He also authorized the Or
ganization OF a new bank at Burlington,
Iowa.
The postmaster at New York having
asked the Postmaster General whether
he should dispatch mails to Eu-
rope by the Hamburg steamer,
which left yesterday, the Postmaster
General said that he considersit unsafe
and inexpedient to send mails by the
German steamers at present, on account
of their liabilities to capture by French
cruisers.
Nearly all Of the magnificent collec-
ton of Colorado gold and silver ores
exhibited at the Fair at st. Louis last
week have been transferred to the
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company, and
will be placed on permanent exhibition
at their Office, corner of Fifth and Elm
streets, ST Louis. They comprise the
largest collection Of precious ores ever
brought from the mountains and are
open to inspection to all capitalists and
scientific men desiring to see them.
At meeting of the stockholders Of
lions Cooperative Mercantile lnstitu-
ton at Salt Lake, Monday, the business
shows a satisfactory and hourishing
condition. A dividend of ten per cent
was declared on six months BUSINESS.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Brigham Young,
President; VIM. H. Hooper, Vice
President; Jennings, Smith, Eldridge,
Conner, and Tayler, Directors; Il: B.
Clayton, Superintendent, and William
Clayton, Secretary.
The oil charters at New York Mon
day, were vessel with $500 bbls pc
troleum hence to the Continent. on pri-
vate terms; also brig to Barcelona
with 1900 bbls petroleum, at 6s; bark
to Rotterdam, with 2600 bbls petro-
leum, at is cd; bark from Philadel-
phia to a direct port in the Mediter,
ranean, with $500 bbls petroleum at IS (;
bark from the same port to port on
the Continent between Havre and
Hamburg, with 1900 bbls crude.
There was meeting of negroes in one
of the rooms of Cooper Institute, New
York, Monday night, to consider the
subject of their exclusion from hoteI
tables, sleeping-car berths, steamboat
state rooms, theatre parquette seats
first class liquor saloons, and othe'
choice places frequented by white peo
pie. Speeches were made denouncint
| the spirit of caste, and resolutions were
passed calling on Congress to enac
laws to enforce social equality between
the races.
A difficulty between james Barbour
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