The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

on the 18th.
Tb, grand opera ball in New York
Thursday night, was failure
The Ohio Women's Suffrage Conven
tinn ia still in session at Columbus.
The Snp,ri Court, Cincinnati, viii
decide the case of the Bible in the pub
lie school on Monday.
There is no discrimination to be made
in The salaries of the teachers in Mis-
sonri, or account of sex.
The Adams Express Company have
5.clarel a dividend of two dollars pei
share, payable March 18th.
The Vile De Paris put into Halifax
ON Thursday night, short of coal, hav
ing been prolonged by storm.
4 special session of the U. s. District
Court will meet in Montgomery, Ala.
ON the 18th, Judge Busteed presiding
Don Antonio Floris, Minister from
Ecuador to the United States, arrived
in New YORK by the Alaska on Thurs
day.
The Artists reception at tie Opsra
House, Chicago, Thursday evening, wa,
the most successful affair of the kind
ever known in that city.
Governor Butler, of Nebraska, will
convene the Legislature of that State
on the 18th for the purpose OF ratltylng
the 18th amendment.
The representatives of the Life lnsHr'
ance and Trust Company, New York
met Thursday, in furtherance OF the Pc
tition to have the Legislature investl-
gate into the company's affairs carried
on openly.
Several European steamers are now
overdue at New York, and have un
doabtedly been detained by the severe
storm. They are the Atlantic, Iowa
Cirv of Washington, Manhattan, Java
Vile De Paris and Angela, new
steamer.
4 fire al Logansport, Ind, Thursday
night, destroyed the boot and shoe store
of George Lika, two livery stables con-
uected with the Eaton House, and sew
eral other stables. 1t is supposed to be
the work of an incendiary. Loss S3OOO
partially insured.
Commissioner Delano received a tele
gram Yesterday morning announcing
the seizure of large distillery, rectify
ing house and vinegar factory of j
Kerchopf & Co, in Chicago. The tele
gram states that the frauds are heavy
aud the proofs complete.
It's stated that all the papers aga inst
the draw backer Blatchford have been
sent to Canada to be used in the prose
cutiOn of Caldwell, and nothing can be
done with the prosecution of Caldwell
till they are returned. 1t is regarded
doubtful that this will ever be done.
At a called meeting of the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, tc
consider tie tariff and revenue bills
now befora Congress and also Commits
sioner Wells report, the whole matter
was referred to q committee of six with
Instructions to report at an early day.
Collector Bailey, of New York, insti
tu;ed q suit on Thursday against the
TIans Atlantic Telegraph Company tC
recover penalties in one hundred case:
in which the company are accused o.
giving uustamped receipts for money tC
their patrons. The fine for each viola
tIOn is $50.
Edward A. Beasley, an accessory o.
William +. Howe in the we'll knowr
forgeries upon the Williamsburg City
Bank, Long Island, and the Natioua
Park Bank, was on Thursday sentenced
by Judge Troy to imprisonment in thu
penitentiary for four years, clever
months and twenty-nine days.
Considerable excitement prevails il
Harrison county, Indiana, over the re
ported discovery of geld and silve,
mines, near the line of the proposed
Louisville and s.. Louis railroad
Twenty-Five miners have been delvinl
in good earnest for the past four months
and it is believed they have met will
success.
On account of the annoyance to which
lady students from the Women's Meai
cal College have been subjected ut the
hands of their masculine female sta
dents attending ciiincs at Bellevue
hospital, New York, the commissioner
OF charities and correction have EN-
powered the warden to cause the arres
of any person guilty of such conduct il
future.
The Kansas Senate passed the Hous
concurrent resolution memorialiZin!
Congress to provide for an investigation
of losses by Indian depredations sine
1854. Also House resolution asking
Congress for speedy settlement of tn
rebel raid claim. Also protestin;
to actual settlers Also asking Congress
TO build Court House at Topeka an
canal to connect the waters of th
Ohio and James rivers.
Application was made to the Cour
OF Common Pleas, Cincinnati, by th
dlstillers of the Second District to re
strain Collector Pullan from collectin
by distraint the tax assessed under th
rule requiring forty eight hours fermer
tauon instead Of seyenty-two as hereto
lore. The distillers claim that tbi
assessment is in violation of the prov
SION of the constitution that no on
shall be deprived of life, liberty @
property without due process of Law
a temporary restraining order was a
lowed until May, when an applicatio
Will be made before Judge Murdock.
The New York Sanitary committe
nave made a report to the Board {
4 Health upon the Fisk concrete pave
ment on Fifth avenue. They submit
evidence that the fine dust to which th
pavement has been ground is maxim
SICKNESS and death to the residents an
visitors on the avenue. Cases are give
wnere 1t has produced sore eyes an
enronlo catarrh and has FASTENED col
sumpnon. 1t also penetrates the wiz
vows and doors of houses and ruins ful
nst1re and decorations within. Remoyi
VI tne pavement has already commence
Oy q large ferce Of workmen.