The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-17
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York Saturday
at ll3I.
The Archbishop of Quebec died Fri,
day of dropsy Of the heart, aged y.
During the past two days there were
thirteen deaths from yellow fever at
New Orleans.
The Democrats of the Sixth Missouri
district have nominated II. Comingo
for Congress.
The corner stone of the Home oi
Destitute Catholic children, was laid at
Bottom, Yesterday.
1t is thought that the frost on We'd
nesday night did but little damage in
the neighborhood Of Memphis.
The Fenians Starr, Maunix and
Thompson have been set at liberty.
Their pardons were received at Auburn
on Saturday.
Stephen Duncan, well known citi-
zen of Naples, Illinois, was shot and
instantly killed in a house Of ill-fame
in that town on Friday.
The French steamer st. Laurent,
which sails to-day, already has on
board $4,000 rifles and as many sabres,
revolvers and bayonets, and 100000
rounds of cartridges.
The match game of base ball Satur-
day at Rockford, Illinois, between the
Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, and the
Forest Citys, of Rockford, resulted: A:
Forest Citys, II; Red Stockings, 5
The village of Orangeville, about
thirty miles from Toronto, was visited
by a destructive fire Friday night, by
which eleven stores and their contents
two hotels and four valuable horses were
burned.
The National Lincoln Monument Asso-
ciatlon, has app ointed S. D. Williamson
it's general Agent. The crowning figure
is to be a colossal statue representing
Lincoln signing the Emancipation
Proclamation. The work will cost
100000.
The New York HeraldS correspond
ent telegraphs that Secretary Cox has
resigned and is to be succeeded by Com
missioner Delano and that Attorney
General Akerman will resign on account
of his health and that Senator Williams,
Of Oregon, succeeds him.
Two men, named Ferguson and
Kawns, engaged in painting building,
on the corner Of Fort and Randolph
streets, Detroit, Michigan, were precipi-
tated to the sidewalk in consequence of
the scaffolding breaking. Both were
killed.
General Sheridan has written let
ter to friend in Washington, in which
he SAYS there is the same per centage of
deserters and shirking from military
duty in the German and French armies
as there was in the United States army
during the late civil war, and speaks of
the fall Of Paris as merely question
Of time.
So far as Governor Morton and the
English mission is concerned his friends
assert that if there shall be Demo
cratic majority in the Indiana legisla-
ture, there will be another vacancy in
the English mission, as Morton would
in no event consent to resign his seatin
the Senate if Democrat could be elect
ed to fill his place As this now appears
to be probable the cabinet makers are
looking about for another successor to
Motley The last one hit upon is Cox,
Secretary of the Interior, who will, it is
said, certainly soon retire from the lat
ter Office.
The trial of William Gage, for mur
der, by throwing a train of cars off the
track of the Pittsburgh, Ft Wayne 4
Chicago railroad, near Lucas, Ohio, in
May last, killing an unknown man and
wounding two or three other persons
was concluded in the Richland, Ohio
Court of Common Pleas, before Judge
G. w. Geddes, Friday night. The jury
returned a verdict of murder in the sec
ond degree. Gage will be sentenced tc
the penitentiary for life to-day. Johr
Sagdon, his partner in the crime, wht
turned States evidence, will be brough
to trial to-day. 1t is thought he vii
plead guilty to manslaughter and b,
sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
A telegram from Fort Bridger, Wyo
ming, Saturday, says: The Yale Col
lege scientific party in charge of Prot
Marsh, returned here yesterday, havini
spent the last six weeks in examining
the geology Of the Eastern Uintal
mountains and the country between tn
Green and White rivers. This regio
was unexplored and proved of mucI
scientific interest. An ancient lax
basin was discovered, containing grea
numbers of extinct crocodiles and otbe
serpents and fishes, with many remain
of other tropical animals, most Of fwhic
are new to science. Lieutenant Wan
and a detachment Of the 18th Unite
States Infantry, acted as escort to tn
expedition. The party are all well an
start tomorrow for Salt Lake City an
California.