The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
py TELEGRAPH.

York.
riep.euans General Sheridan left
ysT York for his headquarters at Cni-
csgo on Friday
Counterfeit twenties on the Market
,y,.,oral Bank of New York were put In
cycu'a,ion Friday.
Grand musical festival closed at San
rra6cisco Saturday. The gros' receipts
are estimated st $50 900.
Havana advices say the murderer OF
c,.snwaldth is one of the De Rodss
,oid.s named Bars or Bart.
The schooner Benjamin Butler run
dawn and sunk off Watch Hill, Thurs
dsy night, aud four lives lost.
The National Tobacco Association,
ubicb had been in session in New York
for three days, adjourned sine die Fri
day.
Priyat. dispatches from Washington
rsport the debt statement for March
likely TO show a reduction of four or five
millions.
Aro,her ocean steamship is missing,
the Bremen steamer Smidt, which left
Bremen January Goth. She had 29o
passengers.
Work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
will be recommended with vigor. About
one thousand workmen will be engaged
4 by tomorrow.
A. San Francisco the flags on the pub
lie buildings and shipping were at halt
mast Yesterday in respect to the mem-
ory of Minister Burlingsme.
A forged check for $4,000 was paid at
The Ualted States Quartermssters Of
fee at Louisville, supposed TO have
been presented by an employe.
In the Maine Senate, Ss'urday, the
resolution for the payment In coin oil
the debt Of the State, contracted prior
to February -, 1862, was tabled,
Ore hui dred and forty doctors grad
uated, Saturday, from the Bellevue Hos
pItal Medical College, New York, repre-
.suling twenty-four of the States.
TwoseGvant girls, named kastar aud
Ear, employed in the City Hotel, Mil
yankee, were fatally burned yesterday
morning in kindling fire with kero-
s-De.
The civil suits instituted in the Ma
rine Court of New York against Captain
Peabody, of the ship Neptune, were
dismissed Friday, the plaintiffs not
appearing.
It's reported that Messrs. Fisk and
Gould. on Friday, accepted the resigns-
ton of X. ID. Rucker from the office OF
General Superintendent of the Erie
Railroad
The bill for the repeal of the old
usury laws passed the Georgia House OF
Representatives without opposition, 1t
allows parties to agree upon the rate
OF interest.
Nearly thirty prominent firms of New
York are accused of selling smuggled
oils, causing large loss of revenue to
the Government. An Investigation Is
progressing and arrests have been made.
An English ex-sssistant of Calcroft,
the famous London haugman, has made
application to the master of the Toombs
at New York, TO be permitted to hang
Reynolds, alias Breen.
The shirt factory of II. B. Tanton, at
Dauhury, Ct., was destroyed by an in.
CeDdiary fire Saturday morning. Three
hundred wOrkmen were temporarily y
thrown out of employment.
The Temperance Committee appoint
ed at the great meeting in Chicago will
this afternoon present to Mayor Mason
apetition bearing 10000 signatures, in
favor of closing liquor saloons on Sun
days
The New York Sunday Neus reports
that Nathan Kingsley, Sr., of the tirm OF
Kingsley & Co., vinegar manufacturers
OF that city, has absconaed with thirty
thousand dollars, leaving his son and
partner in the lurch.
Letters from Ottawa report stirring
debate in Parliament, in which Sir A.
/. Gait spoke in favor of change of
the Government to independence or an.
DsGstion, and Hon. Mr.. Huntington op-
posed annexation, but favored canfeder-
alton as great step toward independ-
egce.
Robert d. Bogart, the defsulting
naval paymsster clerk, applied to Judge
Benedict, of New York, lately, for leave
TO make motion for anew trial on the
ground that new evidence in his favor
has been discovered. The Judge di-
rected that the necessary papers should
be prepared and submitted to him for
inspection.
In the confusion attending the sdmis,
sion Of Senator Revels to a seat on Fri
day, Senator Wilson withdrew his mo.
tiOn to reconsider the vote by which
was passed the bill removing political
disabilities from about 5000 persons in
the South. The bill DOW goes to the
PRESIDENT for his signature.
Nessrs. Starr, Morrissey and C. A
lB6yrne, late managers of the French
theatre, wsre brought before the Police
inspector, New York, Friday evening
upon charge of swindliDg preferred
against them by two former attachei
W Tue Iheatrs, named Wright and
uerard' The charge was not sus
'".nea aud the managers were released
~ Ihe corner stone of a magnificent
Masonic Temple, corner of Third street
anu anu sixth avenue, New York, is to bf
Moao ;S.u On tns lst of June. By June, the
O"s w;,S VIII have SEC, 900 cash on hand
Tbstoo".n "nich to commence operasions
Sam NON VI Tue building is estimated al
mated at $780, 'n''' 10 '''i
Nanio..a uGe trial n, Of GeOrg. vandsrpool Al
Esee, EsrhsIe l., Miehigan, for the murder o.
thn etoere Ield, was concluded Saturday
the verdict being guilty. of murder Il
the first degree. On being asket
%ny sentence should not be pronounced
tne prisoner spoke ten minutes, csllini
God 10 witness his innocence Of tn,
crime. He was seutenced TO solitar,