The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
RY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at ll3s.
Secretary Seward has returned tc
his home at Auburn, New York. 4
TIL. steamship Smidt, from Bremen
for which serious spprehensions have
hasn felt. has arrived ut New York. She
has been fifty.one days in coming over
The National Turn Bund of the United
States has decided to hold the next
Grand turn out at Patterson, n. j., aoeu'
the middle of next August. The festi
val will extend over three days.
Hon. Sanford E. Church has returned
IN his former residence at Albion, Or
leans county, New York. He is rapidly
recoyering his health, and his friends
confidently expect that he will he en-
tirSly restored.
The Missouri House last night passed
the concurrent resolution to submit on
Thursday the Constitutional Amend
meut, sbolishing the test oath, to Ju'
rors. The Corruption Investigating
committee, it is said, will report n reso
luton to expel W. C. Webb, from Rip
ley county.
Petitions to the Dominion Parliament
for the imposition of duty on American
coal areiu circulation. Anti-confedera-
tion papers warn the people not to sign
them as it will be taken in justification
for imposing duties on Hour aud salt,
which would DOT be for the interests OF
navigation.
Burt, the Agent of the English Stock
holders of the Erie Railway, will com
mence proceedings immediately in the
Snpreme Court and the United States
Coprt. at New York. The exact nature
of the proceedings are not known.
Lane has gone to England in the inter-
ests of Messrs. Fisk, Gould Il Co.
On the 26th ult, in Ashley county,
Arkansas, Warren X. Herring, a yonng
man. while frenzied from drink, shot
and killed James Johnson, school
teacher from Texas. HeThing fed from
the Mace and short distance met four
peyroes, three men a1d one woman, and
shot and killed two of the former
and wounded the woman. He was ar
rested and subsequently lodged IN jail
A letter flom Darlington, S. c., says
that Mr.. Whittemore was insulted In
the cars on his way to Darlington at
several d aces, and mas been burned in
effigy i'm nearly every town in tho Dis
trlcf, but his frields are active and Ie-
gard his return to bis seat in the House
"a certain. An enthusiastic mass meet
ing has been held in Darlington, in
which the white and black men took
mart. and Whittemore's statement OF
the case was received with great ap-
plause.
Yesterday morning fire broke out at
John Munbalts landing, Oil City, Pa,
among soue narrow guage oil tank cars,
supposed to have ignited from passing
broad gauge locomotive. Six cars,
with their ninety.two wooden tanks,
were consumed. Two or three Of the
cars were full of oil. The splendid ex-
ertions of the men used to hard work
prevented spread of the contiagration,
and at ll:2O the terrible fright of the
public had given way 10 feeling OF
safety. No great damage was done.
The owners of the cars are the heaviest
losers.
A New York dispatch of yesterday says
the Supreme Lodge of the Knights Of
Pythias continued its session yester-
day. The committees recommended
that the Grand Lodges have only annual
sessions when they deemed it advisable;
that manned persons should not be ad-
mitted to the order except in special
cases of peculiar merit; that all laws
not of general application be provided
BY local grand lodges, and that German
lodges he permitted to keep their pro
ceedings in German. The Grand Chan
cellor from Pennsylvania presented a
handsome certificate for Past Chancel-
lors.
Job Barrett, pedler, was murdered
about four miles from Leavenworth,
Kansas, on Thursday morning. The tes-
timony at the coronsr's inquest was that
VIM. Dixon, lately released from the
pententiary, was seen lurking in the
woods watching Barrett q short time
before the shooting took place, aud i'm
medately after was seen walking
away. He was arrested at Reno Sta
tion, twenty miles from there, Thursday
night, while getting on the train, and
brought to Leavenworth. He had q
gold watch and pistol in his possession,
which no bought at Leavenworth few
days ago.