The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Go,l closed IL New York yesterday at
l2O;.
Yesterday was the coolest day expe'
renced this winter at Bangor, Maine.
An assistant in the Newark, New
Jersey, city clerks office has enbezzled
5000 and fed for California.
Owing to an overflow, trsirs on the
Little Eock railroad csunot run this
side of Madison, forty miles west OF
Memphis.
A shoddy factory in Templeton, Mass. ,
owned by J. G. Hill & Co., was entirely
Destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss
$4,000, partially insured.
McFar,aud, the murderer of Richard
SOD, Was visited in the TOombs, Thurs
dav, by Mr.. Roberts, Of Phlladelpbia,
who preferred $500 to the funds for his
d,iousr.
AiorlCn missionaries ara engaged IN
prumul -at:ug their peculiar doctrine
IN Fr,eJo!t. Rockville, Rlverhnad and
Mrdford, New York. They say they
have made may converts
IL announced that at an early day
following tSe official promulgation OF
the Fifteenth Amendment by tho Secre
tlry OF S.atc, the American Antl-Sla
very SJci, " will hold 4 conmemOCial
meeting in New York.
A. the opening If the Newfoundland
Legislature on Thursday, the Lieut..
Governor, in speech, expressed the
hope that nothing woQld occur To pre-
ve,t The c1lony from becoming confed-
Grated with Canada.
The Greeu Limo excursionistS, em-
hraCing delegates from Cincinnati,
Louisville aud other points, returned
from Savannah to Louisville yesterday
af:crnoon, and express much satisfac-
ton with the new commercial route to
tie sea.
On Thursday the Convention of del
egates to the T!ottiDg Congress from
association throughout the United
States met at New York for the purpose
of ofrcceiving the report of the commit
Tee on Rules AMI Regulations. Being
uupcepared tn report, . pestponement
was made until yesterday.
Az Newcastle, Delaware, Jones aud
Carpenter, two cClored men sentenced
10 death for rape, were executed yester-
day IN the jail yard in the presence OF
about six hundred persons. Jones
made a short speech, repeating that
Carpenter was innocent, as he (Jones)
lad urged him t. do the deed. Jones
died instantly, hut Carpenter stIuGg led
for i've OF SIX n;Gutts,
Tie most in epse excitement prevails
ia Clark county, Illinois, in conss-
qacrce Of the discovery of gold on Big
creek, about twenty mics from Terre
Haute, Indiana. A lately returned Cal
ilorriln, miner of eighteen years ex-
periepce, has been for some days pros
pucting IN the ravines along the creek,
anI IN every handful of earth he has
f1Urd god IN paying quantities. The
people of that section are wild with the
god mania, and are leaving all other
business tosearch for the precious metal.
TIE Massachusetts, Supreme Court or
tn. question Of the right to summarily
destroy gambling implements ssized by
iegll process, has decided that the own
e. 81 Sucl articles cannot constitutions
ALL, hs deprived fthem without notice,
actual or constructive Oran opportunity
10 bc heard, aud the Court cannot law
fully cause them t. be destroyed with
out giving reasonable notice to the
owners; a'sD that money seized upon
slch warrant and returned into Court
is not by any statement made subject
20 forfeiture,
The case of Jervy, ct al, rs. Hart, ct al,
came up Thursday in the New York Su-
prcme Court, special term, on motion
for an injunction and the appointment
OF a receiver. This case involves some
yc'y delicate questions of law arising
out Of the late rebellion. The console.
dated steamship company was organized
in 1868 by tho Legislature of South
Carolina for the avowCd purpose Of
running the blockade in and out oi
Charleston, and the question now is
can partnership agreement be enforced
nader such circumstances.
\ Washington sp cill dispatch says
OF the action OF the Executive session
on Thursday in nominating Mr.. HOaI
10 the Supreme Court: 1t is believed
that Southern Senators Warner, of Ala.
hama, and Gilbert, of Florida, voted in
the negative. Mr. Williams, of Oregon,
was the only Senator from the Pacific
Coast who voted yea. Both of the New
York Senators voted nay, as did all the
Democrats. Mr.. Morton was not pres.
cnt, but would have voted yea. MIR
Sherman was also absent. 1t is defin-
itsly known that Mr.. Hoar's present in.
tention is to remain in the Cabinet.
a Memphis dispatch of yesterday
says: A riot occurred at Brookville
Mississippi, ou the twenty-ninth ult
between negroes and whites, growing
out Of youth named Farmer shootips 3
aud wounding of negro who had as
saulted him, which at enc time threat,
ened to involve the whole section il
b.oodshed and strife. The negroes
who were armed, forcibly took the for
Iuer from the constable and threatened
to Kill him and burn the town. A mes
senger was dispatched to Columbus fo
assistance, and fifty armed men re
turned on train, who arrested seventy
iivencgroes; the others fed. At last &C
counts Quiethad been restored.
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