The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-24
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Hon. Ice Clatln, father Of Governor
.a;i,n Of Massachusetts, died yester-
ay aged ~.
German immigration at the port OF
New York has fallen Oft 10000 ascom-
,acei wiki last year.
The members of the Joint High
Commission LETT New York for Wash
lion Yesterday morning.
The Onio House of Representatives.
Yesterday passed bill to prevent the
,~rlHent changes of text books in the
.aj'i, schools.
Peter Cooper, of New York, celc-
..ltci his eightieth birthday Wednes-
,Av night 10y presenting the Cooper
. u.oa with donation OF Sl500OO.
4 Dickinson Phillips, one of the most
a-ominent citizens Of Dayton, Ohio,
,.ri suddenly Yesterday morning of
paralysis lie was in his fifty eighth
wear
Fenlan General Halpine arrived in
\cw York from Boston yesterday, and
urt with an enthusiastic reception.
lie iS >t9ying with his fellow exies at
sweeney Hotel
\ disastrous fire occurred at Savan-
AIN. Georgia, Wednesday night, de
,,roying Hodgson's block on Bay street
Loss about $4,000, about halt which
aa> covered with insurance.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
rro Railroad Company will shortly COM
mrnce to lay a second track between
Toledo and Buffalo, and from Elkhart
80 chicago, using steel rails.
\ sleeping car on the Pennsylvania
ri road, burned Yesterday morning near
..p,kport, Pennsylvania, the train hav-
~ run on a broken rail. All passen-
,r~> escaped unhurt.
Joseph Pla;terberg a citizen of Scran-
ton, Pa, was committed to Jail in Pitts
hurGh yesterday, charged with exten-
>iye dealing in counterfeit money, prin :
ripally fives on the Peoples National
Bank of Kingston, Michigan.
The recent reported financial irregu-
.arities in the Boston National Banks
are confined to the Webster and North
Banks. f. c. Daniel, Cashier OF the
Webster Bank, is alleged to be defaul-
Ter to between fifty and sixty thousand
dollars. 1t is supposed that both banks
are amply secured from loss.
In the case OF Fisk against the
.Albany and SusQuehanna Railroad
company, the Supreme Court has
granted n motion to dismiss the appeal
with ten dollars costs A similar order
has been made in the case of Geo. NJ
Chapman against the Delaware, Laka,
wanna, and Western Railroad COMPANY.
without costs
Assistant United States District At.
torney Emerson has begun suit against
the Ocean National Bank of New York
rity, to recover ten thousand dollars
for not making full returns OF dividends.
il being alleged that this bank, in com
mon with other banks heretofore prose
rutci, has illegally deducted from
dividend returns amounts paid a.
municipal taxes.
\ letter from Wisse, in Prus,ian 81.
Ir-ia, states that French prisoners have
ueen compelled, during the cold weather,
10 sleep in the country under small can
yas tents, and it appears that the suf.
fering caused thereby has been inter Sc.
1t appears from the writers statement
that over 300 of the unfortunate men
were recently frozen to death in a single
night
The friends o! temperance in Massa-
rau>cttS having in view the formation
"i q society, whose work is to be Of an
.>c.u,iyely moral and religious charac-
'rr met at fremont Temple, Boston,
Yesterday. There was very large at
tendance, which included many ladies'
and some Of the most prominent tenn
',vranCc men in the State.
The argument was reOpened yester-
lay before Commissioner Pleasanton in
the case Of the New York Central
Railroad scrip dividend tax, Senator
carpenter and Horace F. Clark appear
lng in behalf Of the company. The
papers upon which the argument was
based were submitted to the Commits
-ioner, who, after consideration of the
points presented, will deliver his opin-
.ou.
The Erie Railroad company gave
public notice that in order to relieve the
suffering caused by the present coal
anime in New York, that they will re-
eve orders tor coal from the mines of
'hc company at seven dollars per ton Of
'wo thousand pounds, delivered at Port
'cryis, and eight dollars per ton deliver
81 at all points east of Port Jervis, in
..Tins Jersey City.
Tnc Michigan Republican State Con.
'rntion Yesterday renominated James
! Campbell, Associate Justice of the
SAFE Supreme Court, by large major
.'r. on the first ballot, and for Regents
"i the State University selected Col.
',aul!us =. Grant, Of Ann Arbor, and
DR.. Chas Rynd, OF Adrian. The latter
"a nominated on the third ballot, af-
;rg very close contest with Hon. b. w.
Huston, OF CAESAR.
Judge iIoetfer, OF thc Probate Court
Of Hamilton county, O., Yesterday re-
used TO act with the sheriff, clerk and
'"lnty commissioners, to approve Of re-
'4ir> 70 the court house, made to Sc
cure better ventilation. In declining to
comply with the law on this subject, he
took the ground that this was not Ju-
d'cia! duty, and that the Legislature
mad 49,, an tho Pro-