The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
BK FELEGRAPH.

Jem Mace.
The steamship City of Cork, FROM
Liverpt oil for New York, arrived at
Halifax yesterday. Shs made the
southerR passage in search Of the City
of Boston without success.
The annual dinner of the alumni of
Brown University, Boston, was held on
Monday, Judge Theron Metcalf presid-
ing. About seventy graduates of the
University wele present.
A LIST Of some twenty buildings in
New York damaged by Sundays storm
unpublished. Four soldiers were carried
dowu tho bay in small building swept
off Governors Island but were rescued
by tug boat.
The War Department rejects the col
ored youth proposed by Ben utler for
appointment 10 the Military Academy
on the ground that he is not of the re
quired sgs.
Saturday night three men and women
attempted to cross the YOughiogheny
at Alpsville. Pa. The 1It. leaked and
sunk, dtowning Gilbert Stewart and
wife. Two men swan shore.
The mills of the Hampden Paper
Company, at Holyoke, Massachusetts,
were burned on Sunday hight. Loss
S25O,OOn; insured for 100000. One
hundred and fifty hands are thrown ont
of work The conpaay will rebnild at
Once.
Accounts have been received at Des-
moines, Iowa, of the freezing of twelve
men in the northwestern part Of the
State during the severe storm Of the
18th. Six others are missing in Sac
county ard it is feared they have met
the same fate.
Judge Barrard has denied motion
to dismiss the complaint in the case OF
the Erie Rsilroad Company vs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt The suit involves five mil
lion dollars alleged to have been OBJ
tanned from the company by the defend
ant through fIaad aud cOlluslon.
The family of John Long, residing at
Ithaca, n. Y, have been poisoned.
Three have died and tho fourth is at
the poiGt of death. Mrs. Skinner, whose
dauehter was one of the victims, is sus
pected, as is also Mrs. Allen, as the
authors of the crime, and are to be ar
rested
Joseph Medill and j. Young Seaman
left Chicago on Sunday evening for the
purpose of laying before the committee
of Ways and Means of the House of Rep
resentstives the views of the Chicago
National Banks and the Western bank
ers geaerally on Mr.. Sherman's funding
bill.
Ten cars of special tea train, bound
from San Francisco TO New York, con-
signed to A. A. Low & Co., was thrown
from the Northwestern Railroad, nine
miles west of Cedar Rapids, Sunday
noon. Very fortunately the ground was
soft, and none of the packages were in
iured. Had the ground been frozen,
the loss would have been very heavy.
R.P. Curry, of Memphis, Republican
candidate. is elected Sheriff by l73 ma
iority. The Republicans also elect Tax
Collector and Clerk of the first Circuit
Court. Curry, Sheriff elect, was Col
onel in the Federal army; Wright, his
opponent. was a Brigadier- General in
the Confederate army. 1t is said the
election will be contested.
The annual report of the Missouri
Pacific railroad shows the gross earn
ings for the year ending February 2sth.
to be as follows; Passenger, 81 ,397,-
545 16; FREIGHT, 81 l699, 307 66: express
company, S62.640 IS; mails, $50, 06 81;
total, $3,211,53I 19; increase over the
previous wear, Sll1 ,93o 66; net earnings,
1896, ,l53 80. Ths road has now in use
I'LL cars Of all Ta criptions, and "a
locomotives; also, al locomotives which
are being changed from broad toinarrow
gauge. ..
It Is stated that trustworthy informa-
tion has been communicated to the
President TO the effect that the Virginia
Legislature is preparing to abrogate it's
ratification of the fifteenth constitution
al amendment by q coup d'etat and that
members intend to rush the repeal
through both houses on some day with
ost notice aud without debate. The
President has declared that he intends
to issue proclamation announcing the
adoption of the amendment as soon as
Texas is admitted and that he will not
wait for the admission of Georgia.
Undoubeed information, has been re-
ceived that leaves DO question "a to the
personal safety OF ex-Collector Bailey.
George Pleasanton, the present Col
lector, has received . letter from Bailey
without date or post mark, in which
the writer expresses his qualification at
General Pleasanton's appointment. of
which he was advised by the New York
papers. He also requested the present
Collector to retain as many of his old
subordinates as possible; that they were
all honest man, and had no part in or
knowledge of his. own conduct. The
letter was written in his (Bailey'sl own
handwriting, aud was dropped in the
New York postoffice. 1t is believed
that Bailey is in Canada.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, In reply
to a letter from Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay
asking him to accept the position of
Vice President of the Cuban Aid So.
oiety of New York, says he does not con-
slider IL consistent with the public duty
rs Governor Of one OF the United States
to aid insurgents against the authority
Of O Government with which we are at
peace, and further. he has no evidence
that the so-cslled Patriot party in Cuba
has decreed the abolition Of slavery.
and the fact that the leader is General
r Jordan, who was for years in arms
against eur free government to perpet-
uate slavery, Affords no satisfactory ey-
therefore anWiliink to assiss shen o. o.
80 aak others to do 90.