The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1928.
Amedie Lavern, French Consul at
Richmond, died Sunday evening OF par
alysjs.
The North Adams, New York, Savings
Bank was robbed Sunday night OF s23,-
600 in United States bonds.
The Hudson river was covered with
ice Yesterday from shore to shore from
Poughkvepsie to Albany.
Hon. J. E. Low, Minister to China,
lett New York, on Saturday, for San
Francisco, by the Pacific railroad.
A large brick building on Railroad
souars, Concord, n. H., was burned on
Sunday. Loss $50, 900; half insured.
Nire of the crew of the monitor Mi
antonomah deserted at Boston on Sat.
urday, four of whom were arrested and
returned aboard.
The clergyman of New York reported
TO have e!oped with young lady mem-
Der of his flock, is Rev. Mr.. Cook, OF
West 9TH strest, NJ. Z. church.
The election of Judge Richardsos,
late Assistant United States Treasurer,
as President of the Hartford and Erie
Railroad, gives mach satisfaction to the
stockholders.
The Tarleton county court house, in
Canada, was destroyed by fire Sunday.
A large number of papers were destroy
ed, but many of the most valuable doc
uments were saved.
The Constitutional Convention as
seubled at She Court House in Nash
vile, Tennessee, at u o'clock yesterday.
John G. Brown was unanimously elect
ed permanent President. Adjourned
till to day.
Detroit yesterday voted to loan bonds
TO the amount of $500, 900, payable In
twenty years, to the Detroit, Howell
and Lansing railroad, the road agreeing
to pay back ten years interest and the
principal at maturity.
Dangerous counterfeit fifty cent ma
tional currency notes of the new Lin
coin vignette issue have just been put
in circulation. The backs are very
good, but the faces of the notes look
dark and blurred.
General Fremont publishes lengthy
card in the New York Tribune of Mon.
day defending the Paso g. Pacific rail-
road company, wherein he says that it
is expected to have at least $50 miles OF
the road in operation before the close of
this year.
Rev. Mr.. Chiniguy, who preached in
the French Evangelical Church, Mon
treal, Sunday night, was frequently
interrupted by yelling from without
and hOoting within the building, and
would have been offered personal vio-
lence had not the police taken him
hOE3e.
A dispatch from Rutland, Vermont,
says: 1t is arranged that forty-eight
hours will elapss between the arrival of
the Peabody fleet and the final ceremon-
les, during which the body will lie in
state in City Hall, which will be draped
in mourning. The ceremonies on the
day of departure will be grand and i'm.
pressive. Gov. Chamberlain and staff
will be present. Mr.. Thornton, the
British Minister, is expected.
Logan No. 2 had a great funeral in
New York, Sunday. One thousand men
marched in the procession, headed by
Alderman Crocker, of the Eighteenth
ward, and other well-known politicians,
aud long line Of carriages filled with
female mourneIs followed. The streets
through which the funeral passed
lal 90 y al
able. A handsome hearse with six nod
ding plumes, and drawn by gray
horses, bore the body to Calvary Gem
stery, where the last rites of the Roman
Catholic Church were celebrated.
There was a stormy scene in the New
York gold room yesterday, resulting
from the refusal of Trever and Colgate
to comply with the rules of the clearing
house aud deposit with the Gold Ex-
change Bank certified check for $780,
600 for the balance due the bank, except
in exchange for similar check for the
balance due them by the bank. They
allege they have had trouble enough
with injuDctions, and contend they
have right to do business in such a
manner as will secure them from the
danger of loss. The bank officials final
ly agreed to the terms proposed for yes
terday, but announced that hereafter all
persons having dealings with Trever
and Colgate must accept the risk Offset
ting up with the clearing house. The
affair possibly involves serious derange-
ment to the clearing house system.
The New York Times Madrid CORES
pOndent writes that the news brought
by the last mail from Cnba is of very
serious Importance. The negroes Of
fifteen large plantations in the District
of Saqus La Grande had risen in rebel
lion, and on the 30th of November the
military were shooting all who could
be caught. Nobody there believes in
the hopeful statements of the semi
official organs. Facts continually belle
their assertions. The Spanish treasury
being perfectly exhausted, the Govern
ment can send no msney to Cuba, and
General Cabbslero Do Ros has got to
borrow six million bicestres from the
Havana merchants to provide fer the
war expenses. The news that the com.
mittes on Foreign Affairs of the House
Of Representatives would treat the
Cuban question after Christmas created
much eXcitoment in that city