The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

1893.
Tho navigation of the Hudson is
completely opened.
meeting of the Cincinnati bar was
hold Yesterday morning with reference
IN the death of General McGroarty.
The Conservatives have carried Knox
willie. Tennessee, eleciiug Mayer by oOo
majority and carrying all the "arus Vi
the city heretofore Radical.
In view of the probable suspension of
the public schools, the Germans OF
Nashville, Tenn, intend 10 organize an
English free school of their own.
The body of William Schwitzaebele,
of Cincinnati, missing since December
9th. was found in the canal at that city
ON Monday. No clue TO the cause.
The number of bales of cotton ship
nod on the Louisville & Nashvi'e rail-
road from September to December 81,
was II &c, against 20,39O last year.
Dispatches from General Reynolds re-
csiyed by the President yesterday morn
inc ST ,tes all but four of the counties IN
Texas heard from giving Davis rs ma
jority.
The residence of ex United States
Senator D. X. Atchison, near Platts-
burg, Clinton county, Missouri, was
burned on Monday. All the furniture
and large library were consumed.
Loss about $4,000.
The first bill introduced into the New
York State Senate, on Tuesday, was
for the repeal Of the excise law. MIR.
Tweed introduced resolution into the
Senate repeating the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment.
The French opera at the Theatre Fran
caise. in New York, Monday night,
was largely attended by the demi-monde
and ward politicians, but up to two
o'clock no disturbance had occurred.
The usual license prevailed in the boxes
and on the floor
The reduction of the wages of the Ia
borers employed in digging down Fort
Hui, Boston, led to indications of riot
on Monday afternoon, but the excite
meut was suppressed by the presence OF
strong police force.
Governor Palmer has received treas
ury draft for 81, ,397, on account of the
State war debt of Illisois, against the
general government, being on the regis
tered claims, which, with the additional
vouchers, were again presented and
this amount secured.
In the Supreme Court at New York,
Yesterday, application was made TO
Judge Cardoza by William +. Home for
the discharge, on bail, of Daniel JOsephs,
of Cincinnati, charged with having OBJ
taincd, by false pretenses, some sixty
six thousand dollars from CialllH "
Miller and other merchants of New
York. The District Attorney resisted
the application, and Judge Cardoza re-
served his decision.
Leonard Crocker, of Buffalo, we'll
knows as the lessee of the New York
Central cattle yards at that place, left
the St. Mary's church on Sunday night
in buggy, with hired man, for his
home. two miles distant, since which
time nothing has been heard from him.
1t is feared he was lost in the binding
snow storm and drawn in the current
which swept the turnpike away near by
during the night.
A meeting of the members of the mill
tary organizations with which General
McGroarty has been connected was held
at Cincinnati yesterday, and 1t was re-
solved to attend the funeral to day in u
body at ten o'clock. They appointed a
committee to wait on the County Com
missioners, requesting the appointment
of some person as County Clerk, who
will give the proceeds to the family of
the deceased.
Mrs. Georgiana Rimsy, the divorced
wife of Cortlandt Rimsy, Esq, one OF
the Poughkeepse knickerbockers,
made an application late 3 before Judge
Freeman to open the Judgment OF the
divorce granted against her. RImsy
moved in highly fashionable circles,
The lady is beautiful, and the scandal
has occasioned much comment. Re-
ported infidelIties occurred during last
summer at Long Branch. On Monday
Judge Freeman denied the motion to
open the divorce.
In the case of the two policemen,
Hannagan and Remisep, who were tried
aud convicted in the Court Of General
Sessions, at New York. for having rob-
bed a Kentuckian Of abont $3.50, and
sen tenoed by Recorder Hackett to five
years each in the State prison, the Su
prems Court, to which q molten was
made for a stay of the execution of the
sentence, has given an opinion in which
the stay is refused. Judge Cardozs
holds, however, that the writ Of error
asked for is one of right; hence he has
granted it.
Only three railroads in Tennessee
have paid their January interest-the
Nashville & Chattanooga, Memphis &
Ohio aud sM'ssissippi and Tennessee.
The last paid part, leaving small bal.
ancs. The East Tennessee & Georgia
road proposes to pay one-third green
backs, one.third in notes of the Bank of
Tennessee and one-third in coupons.
The Mississippi Central & Tennessee
road offers coupons; the Mobile & Ohio
road offers TO pay $4,000 in New York
and the remainder in coupons at Nash
vile. Nothing heard from other roads.
The Comptroller will not receive COZ
pons in payment of railroad interest.
The prospect of payment in currency is
encouraging.