The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-09-20
!. ..TGiiENERALNEWls.E 2

General Garfield gives a very enc6ur
aging account OF the campaign In Ohio
Six weeks age. matters looked quite, ,rln
, promising But !of late the tide has beer
turning: RAPIDLY. o The good will Of tht
Germans has become an influential ele
:. menty and the Democrats themselves art
admitting that fthe Republicans are Z
gain by It. The General believes that the
Congressional delegation will remain al
now divided. ,5r+lJs
Gen. B. w. Brice, Paymaster. Genera
LUIS. Army, Was run over by an express
wagon at Baltimore, Sunday evening, and
had his right leg broken.
!, Tile LIQUOR law whichshas gone into
operation in Now 5Hampshirethis week
provides that any damage done by an in.
toxicated man, Is recoverable from the
person selling the liquor. #
q IA ddtalcation in the Baltimore Gus.
tom-housc, by theDeputy Collector, is re.
ported. RumOr places the amount, at
q from one Hundred and forty thousand Ia
two hundred thousand dollars. !, An in.
vestigation Is being made by. a special
agent Of the Treasury Department. .
\ g Ion tho 9th instant, 9Adeline PrindelI
Of Durand, Winnebago county, Illinois,
died in half an hour after her husband,
Albeit nj Pfindell, had given her some
medicine fora slight illness. The deceas-
ed was buried, and no steps to investigate
tho matter were taken, although (some
suspicious circumstances attended her
death, until about ten days after, when the
bodytot Mrs. Prindell was disinterred and
the stomach taken out for medical exami.
nation. Traces Of arsenic was discovered
ingthe stomach, and Prindell has been ar
1fcatel ,fdndSis III fail gThe dather and
m6thef Sof Pfihdeii lived In the tanily,
aud there had been serious ,quarrels be-
tween. them 81 Z y 9 w
The President will return to Wash
ington about the Goth
The busihessof the Money Order Bu.
reau Of the Post Office Department during
the past fiscallycar IL on6:third larger
than that Of tho fiscal: year. Over! one
million, six hundred thousand. orders have
been issued; transferring $S4, ,654, 1884 Tor
which $685., ,235 was paid. Tho cost to
the purchasers was, therefore, seven. tenths
Of one per cent, while the cost TO the
Government was only half TINT! This Is
only the filth year since the Treasury
Order Bureau was established, and the
business Is growing rs rapidly this year
rs Inst four hundred, new olheeS having
been opened since July /. Illinois Is the
leading State in their uso, having sent
three million q dollars 81 these orders
the past year. New York comes second,
The children Of all slaves in Cuba,
captured since the year 1854, after serving
an apprenticeship Of 10 years, are to be
tset free BY order OF; Captain General De
t,RbdbkJI G11hG Bgisii1G
"A Montreal telegram says Berry de-
clines Walter BrownsI challenge for a
single aCull match. A five mile race has
BEEN arranged betwceul RcptQFth rand
Coulter forIone thousand dollars slJit !
Chicago has 97,7ls people, and tho
people living in the vicinage, doing busi-
nSsi y IdHd3ty t3P sity are 1921 9 more IN 1890
,.-The, schooner Howard collided with
the schooner Dominion about 75 miles
from Rochester, on Lake Ontario, Sunday
Entktit. y The latter hlleFt and capst4ed,
Tic crew = escaped ,o1 d bodt and were
picked up and brought hero. Both vessels
are owned by David Andrews, Of Ontario.
"A destructive fire occurred in the
dyetand storage houselof the R4 4eQlmAek
Woolen mills at Dracut, Mass, on Sun
day last Loss, $1700OO; mostly in.
sured.
The police arrested man in Rich.
mond, Va, named Henry Brown, yester-
day, In tho act Of pounding metal into
counterfeit three cent nickel pieCes.sL
Several influential colofed citizens Of
Richmond, Va, visited Gov. Walkeryes
terday to ask that colored menTbe admit.
ted to. the Jury box. The. Governor ex.
planned to them that the Legislature had.
not altered the old code 80 as IA. admit
and advised them to appeal to that body.
Preparations for tho industrial Ex-
position at Cincinnati, arc proceeding nc.
tively.a The last new building VIM 10 un.
der cover to-day, and everything, 80 far
as the committees arc concerned, will 'be.
ready for the formal opening to occur on
Wednesday evening, the 21st inst ,ea
"A destructive fro visited Rockville,
Park county, Indiana, on Saturday night,
destroying all the buildings on the north
side totStle public square, except the
hank building The loss amounts to
$4,000, and insurance 100000. The
fire Is supposed 10 have been the work Of
an incendiary, as the telegraph wire be-
tween Terre Haute and Rockville was cut
before the 'tirg commenced. EW6g,