The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-05-18
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Gen. J. Egbcrt Ferimcn, q tillibuster and
commander Of tho South Carolina slave
ship Wanlerer, and q brilliant soldier In
the Federal army during tho late war,
died In New York city on Monday.
William Pcllins, Of Pittsburgh, o stu
dent in Princeton College, died suddenly
on Sunday,at that Institution, trom nelI'
ralgin OF tho heart Ir rtg vi! 80
The Delaware Republican State Con
vention, 10 nominate candidates for Gov
crnOr, Congressman, &C., Is to be held In
Dover on the 9th Of June. 50 cgil
In tho Tennessee Legislature, Monday,
the Senate passed . bill, on first reading,
prohibiting the intGr.narriugc of white
and cOlOrGd persons.
The famous breach Of promise case,
Amanda Craig o.. Elisha spnlguc, tried
about ono year since In Dupagc county,
Illinois, tho details Of which were album
danIIy garnislled with scandal, is to be re-
pcatcd, the SupTcnC Court having re-
mandcd the case for new trial. Miss
Craig obtained ut that time verdict for
100000, which was afterwards reduced
to $4,000 by persuasion of the plaintiffs
counsel.
A man named Thomas Stewart was
killed in coal mine at West Elizabeth,
Pa, Monday, by the falling Of large
mass Of slate. Six Colored men saw the
accident, and went Immediately To his
rescue. They succeeded in getting him
out alive, but he expired in few minutes.
A man named George Dietrich has been
missing from his home in Allegheny since
April 94th. EIe is about five feet six or
seven inches high, and is sixty years Of
aCc. When he LEFT his home he took with
him two light brown horses, which he In
tended to offer for sale. He started In the
direction Of Finleyville, Washington
county. ......,.....r
ssssThe funeral of the latc Hon. g. $. Ward,
Of Towanda, Pa, took place yesterday, ut
9 o'clock T. NJ.
A telegram from Rome says the canoni-
zation Of Christopher Columbus Is conten-
plated.
A telegram from Florence, Italy, says
the entire reduction and submission Of the
NealNlitan insurgents is reported to the
war office.
The Cable announces tho arrival out
Of the steamers Austrian, Virginia, Tripoli
and City Of Antwerp
Mr.. Garrett, President Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, is spending u. day or
two in Pittsburgh.
The loss by the recent fire in Fincastlc,
Va, is upward Of $SOO,0O0 Every mer-
camille establishment in the town, and in
deed, every business house, went down In
u common ruin. Three hundred persons
were made homeless by the sad event.
On Friday locomotive on the Virgin
in and Tennessee railroad exploded about
one mile west of Lynchburg, killing the
fireman, Mr.. Aiken, and throwing his
body fifty feet from the track, and Il Is
Thought fatally injuring the engineer, Mr.
Callahan.
Nathaniel Gale, Tor many years u clerk
in the Naval Office Is charged with do
irnuling the Government 0llt Of $1,000 in
gold in the collection Of invoice duties ut
Boston. A merchants clerk named lltb'
bard is charged with being an aCcompltce.
Both were arrested.
The Prussinn Rciclstag has passed TO
the third reading the bill carrying into
effect the provisions ofthe postal convcn'
ton concluded between the United States
and the North German Confederation.
The difficulties in the. Dickinson Col.
lCgc, at Carlisle, Pa, has been sAtistaC-
tOFily adjusted The order Of suspension
was recalled, and the members Of the
Sophomore md Junior ClassCs present
have resumed their college duties.
The entire business part of Henderson,
N. e., was destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning. The fire Is supposed to be the
work Of an inCendiary. Loss $4,000.
Small insurance.
Troops are being rapidly pushed for
ward to the Red River. Several COmpa'
MES Of the Goth Rifles lc(t Toronto yes.
tCrllay.
John +. Dunn, II prominent citizen Of
Newton, N. j., has disappeared, and Is
said to bc u GCfAultcr TO the amount OF
$4,000.
a suit for divorce before tho Massachu
sets Supreme Court has been brought by
Mrs. Lewis against her husband, DR.. Lewis,
on allegations Of adultery. The parties
urc the parents of CUrienna Lewis, who
was abducted some months ago by the
father and subsequently returned TO the
mother by M order Ofa New York Court.