The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
RH TELEGRAfH.


opened Wednesday,
California has experienced arotner
shock of earthquake.
1,;s feared at Memphis, Tennp that
the cold weather has destroyed the lrui'
crop.
cvnr;au named Annie MORGAN alias
80. love. shielded at Memphis on
Thursday.
Cbri,ti.n Church at Washington, ILL.,
u,as harmed ON Thursday; loss $4,000;
no insurance.
lanes Fisk. Jr, has withdrawn his
IibeIsuit against Samuel Bowies, OF the
Springfield Republican.
resolution for the payment OF the
ante war debt in coin passed the New
York Assembly by s5 against ~
The purses for the spring meeting, OF
tbr Cbickasaw Jockey Club at Memphis
ON the % h of April, amount to about
$1,000.
An accidental fire Thursday night de-
stroyed the residence of Assistant POST
mas:er Knowlton at Memphis, Tenn
Loss 5000.
The merchants of Memphis are vtry
mncb exercised by the action OF the
Tennessee Constitutional Convention
taxing them.
Charles ID. Kirke, the well known ed
itor of Louisville, Ky fell dead in the
stTeat Tburseay night from hemor-
rhags of the lungs, aged 81.
The quarterly conferences OF the Con-
pregatlonal Churches of New Iork,
RrookIyn aud vicinity have besn per-
manentIy established. The first was
held Thursday.
Judge Anderson of the Common Law
Court. Memphis, Tenn, has decided
that a county clerk cannot levy dis.
trCss warrant for deuble the amount OF
license on failure to take cut the
same.
Ar the Wooden Manufacturers Asso.
ciati1n in Chica 20, Thursday night, a
resolution was adopted against any
change 10 the present tariff and for the
msintenancs Of the present decline In
wOOlens.
hill passed the Ohio Senate author
izirr manufacturing companies to issue
pr,terred stock. The House Of Repre-
sentatives adopted resolution luVi-
ting the Kentucky Legislature TO Visit
Columbus.
A centennial meeting Of the Univer-
sllists was held Thursday evening at
the chapel of the Poly ytechnic Institute
in Brooklyn, at which speeches were do
livered by Rev. Mr.. Chaplin, Mes'rS.
Bowl, :, and Weaver, Hon. Demas Strong
and Others.
Adam Baire,e, the well.known brewer
whose mysterious disappearance week
ago has been chronicled, returned To
Chicago on Thursday night. lie says
he went to Cairo on business. lie To-
vited his creditors to meet him yester-
day, but no steps have been taken as
Vet towards settlemeHt.
A post mortem examination was held
in New York, Thursday, upon the body
OF Margaret Sheridan, who was muir
dered on Wednesday night by her hus-
band. Powers, the paramount and only
witness of the murder, has been arrested
aud detained. The murderer IS calm
and collected.
Tho strike of the bricklayeTs and
plasterers of Jersey City eliminated
Thursday evening in an attack on the
newly employed workmen. Several
persons were badly beaten. The police
arrested the disturbance and the ring.
leaders were yesterday taken into GUS
tody.
Typhus fever has broken out at Albion
in Erie county, Pa. 1t is professionally
called Core bro Spinal Meningitis. Five
persons died within three days. Death
occurs from ten TO twelve hours from
the time of attack. The best medical
aid from Erie has been called to aid the
local profession in treating cases.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
following nominations: Geo. w. Long
year, of the District Court, Judge of
the Eastern District of Michigan; VIM.
b. Cooper, of Louisiana, Pension Agent
at New Orleans; John +. Delepane, OF
New York, secretary of Legation at
Vienna; John Youngs, of Sandusky,
Collector Of Customs.
4 mass meeting of the colored soldiers
held in New York, Thursday evening,
resolved to get up grand parade OF
the colored men. of New York, and a
demonstration at Cooper's Institute, in
honor of the passage of the fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution as soon
as its ratification shall have been of
fcially announced from Washington.
The Methodist newspaper, of New
York, thinks the report of the majority
of the Book Committee cannot be i'm
plicitly believed. Thepablic, it thinks
will accept the Judgment of the minor
Ity. The majority of the committee
has from an early period been affected
by strong bias. The church is ipjure {
by this evident reluctance to admit
plain facts.
OF the two hundred warrants which
were recently issued by the United
States Commissioners against lawyers
liquor dealers and real estate agents
New York, thirteen were not served OIL
account of parties not being found by
the Deputy Merchants, % were discon
hnued when shown TO have been issued
without cause and the rest settled witt
the revenue collectors.
A New York dispatch of yesterday
says: The Bankers and Brokers' Tele
graph Line was closed this morning by
the sheriff at the suit of the assignees O
W. Fl. Arthur & Co., stationers, Al
bsnkrupts. The execution is for small
amount, and will probably be removed
oy settlement. In the Franklin Lin,
thefe is also some trouble. 1t is said Il
arse from the prosecution of claim o
5000 by the Atlantic and Pacific Tele
graph Company. The main Office ant
branches were last night placed in tn
hands Of Q Receiver, and the business Q
the line Is now conducted by him.