The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1901.
A match of chess by telegraph be-
tween Brooklyn and Baltimore has been
arranged.
Ten of the gunbosts, recently arrived
ut Havana, from New York, have gone
10 sea. Their destination is unknown.
At meeting OF the citizens at Louis
vile yesterday large sum OF money
was collected for the sufferers by the
tornado at Cave City, Kentucky.
The Iowa House of RepreseD tstives
yesterday ratified the Fifteenth Amend.
ment by SO ayes to 13 nays. 1t was rat
fled by the Senate on Wednesday.
Warren Fellows, on trial at Goshen,
New York, has been convicted of mur-
der in the second degree, and sentenced
to twenty years at hard labor in the
State Prison.
During the great storm on Sunday at
Assumption, Christian county, Ill, two
dwelling houses were demolished, two
children killed, and three others were
woonded.
Horace P. Clark's distillery, No. IS
Dey street, New York, has been seized
by General Pleasanton, Collector of the
4th District, on the ground that the
owner rectitied and compounded spirits
without license.
Governor Seward, in response to a
sereDade by volunteers, made compli-
mentary speech on Tuesday evening, at
Havana, but his remarks from begin
ming to end were strictly non-commit-
tai in the matter of the insurrection.
The President of the Union Ferry
Company replies to Mayer Hall and
Comptroller Connolly, of New York,
that the company is now losing money
by carrying passengers to and from
Brooklyn, and that one cent reduction
cannot be agreed to.
James w. Collins, the alleged default
ing clerk in the Boston city treasury,
and John Donshoo, implicated as re-
ceiving a portion of the stolen money,
has been held for trial. 1t is said that
all but s222O of the missingl gold was re-
covered.
The New York Stock Exchange is
dissatisfied with the tardy action of the
committee appointed to select loca-
tion for q new building, and on Wednes
day ousted the proorsstinators and
elected a new, live committee of nine,
with John W. Denny as chairman. The
uptown movement will now receive
fresh impetus.
At the meeting of the General Theo-
logical Seminary OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church, held in New York
city on Wednesday, Bishop Atkinson
presiding, it was decided to remove the
Theological Seminary from New York,
and the trustees were authorized to
dispose of the site and buildings.
The New York Tribune this morning
comments severely on the action of the
Senators on Wednesday, in adopting an
amendment which will send the bill for
the restoration of Virginia back to the
House, and gives Butler chance to kill
it there and this indirect ostentatious
defiance of the clearly expressed popu-
lar will.
The Rhode Island society for the pro-
motion of domestic industry, celebrated
its fiftieth anniversary by historical
aud commemorative address, delivered
by Hon. C. C. Van Seandt, and BAN
quet at the City Hotel, Providence, at
which speeches were made by the Gov
eruor, Mayor Clark, Judge Burgess,
Bishop Clark, and Others.
The Cuban Junta Wednesday night
received information agreeing with the
report of the Spanish General PuelPs
defeat, near Guaimaro, on or near the
lst inst. They are advised that he was
forced to return to Puerto Principe
after losing 1900 men, but will await
further news before laying claims to the
great and unprecedented victory thus
indicated.
A new party was organized in New
York Wednesday night under the name
of New Democracy. The founders base
the party on the fundamental principles
of referring to the people all laws passed
by their legislative representatives, as
is done in several Swedish cantens. A
shrewd bid is made in the platform for
the votes of women. They favor the
running Of all railroads and telegrsphs
by the Government and the employment
of everybody who wants work by the
national and local authority.