The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-18
at'heeliug Register.
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

On saturday.
Navigation opened on the lakes on
saturday last.
=, inches Of snow fell in Indianapo.
II. on Saturday.
American silver will be received by
,he Canadian Government to April 25th
,at 5 per cent discount.
The Ohio Legislature closed its ses'
sion on Saturday last. 1t commenced
On the first Monday in January.
The Canadian House of Commons al
OTTAWA. WAS in great danger from fire
on Friday. It escaped uninjured, how,
ever.
1 fire in Nashua, y. H., on Satur,
3av night, destroying the Congregational
Church and the Postoffice block Loss
$lOO,OoO.
The International Convention Of the
Yonng Mems Christian Association will
meet in indianapolis on the I'D. 23d
9th end 9th of June
The Canucks are volunteering against
III, Fenian>, and they are required to
drill two hours each day. All quiet on
m. Canadian border, a. yet
An expedition Of 10000 picked men,
rclulins State battery, rocket brigade
and 2WN Indians, left Ottawa, Canada,
on Friday, Tor the Red River country.
verdict for $l5,000 was given
against Adams Express Company, In
New York, on Saturday, for damage
done to fruit left at Fortress Monroe in
$50.
The Schooner Emma, from New
York To Galveston, took fire AMI wa:
burned To the waters edge. Her crew
va, picked up hy the English ship Kate
Prince.
\ German ST Reading, Pa, shot hi,
wife and another German on Saturday
dangerously wounding the man. AL
lc,cI familiarity between the parties
was the cause.
Information received at Buffalo state,
that 4 contract has been made To carry
New York wheat by rail from Buffalo
10 New York, lighterage off. for !:
cents per huSheI.
The steam tus Raven from st. LOul'
L, Pittsburgh with three harges of iror
exploded her boilers at Fulton, on Fri
dav evening. Three persons are know
10 have been killed. ten wounded anC
several are missing.
The hill to provide for selling th'
grounds and ruins of the Ohio Contra
Lunatic Asylum, at Columbus, and au
tIIorizius the Governor, AttOrney-Iien
yra ami State Treasurer to purchase
farm Within four miles of the capital
became law on Saturday.
The hondsmcn of Thomas q. Gerrish
tho drfaulting CITY Treasurer of Lowell
Mas, on Saturday paid $4,000 into
the City Treasury as a compromis'
with the city. This with the amount
previously paid in makes upabout two
llini- of the defalcation. The city
loU-r~ the balance
Governors Fairchild, of Wisconsin,
and AnStin, of Iowa, are in Washing
tom pressing on Congress the project OF
uniting the waters of the lakes ana
Mississippi river 10y means of snip
canal through Sac and Fox rivet to
Grtrn Bay, Wisconsin. The wdk' 1t
i, estimated, will cost S4,0O0,0O0.
4 freight train going east on tie New
York Central Railroad was Mown
from the track near Rochestf, by a
broken shaft, Friday evening Shortly
after train from the east rarlnto the
wreck smashing the engine nd killing
forty or fifty cattle. The eglneer and
a hoy on one of the trains wre injured
There was a regular royin the Ohio
legislature ON Saturday A protest
wa- entered in the Hous of Represen-
tatiyes against the actio of the house
in ratifying the FifteeSh Amendment.
This protest the Speak, pro tenn. ruled
ont of order An apFal from the De
cision of the chair cdsed the greatest
confusion. Liar was called anu
blows exchanged. in the Senate an
attempt was madd to defeat the uov-
ernor's appOintmers. The Republicans
sent n Xenia for ne of their absentees.
On his arrival III, Democrats bolted in
a body, breakint quorum. Ohe Oh
the boilers wa captured by the Ser
geant-at-Arms Al taken to the Senate.
lie making squoriim, the appoint
ments were cdfirmed.
FOREIGN.
All Englsd is going to Brighton to
see the rey;E Of the volunteer militia
Havanalispatches state that seventy
sir insurents have surrendered at
Canano.
Great jritain and Russia have agreed
&c propSe to Prussia general disarm
mentI