The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-27
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Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1929.
The horse disease is still making sad
havoc among the railroad horses in
New York.
Captain James C. Williamson, OF the
United States navy, died in Jersey City
on Monday.
A Washington dispatch saws that
Secretary Delano returned 10 Washing
ton Yesterday.
4 dispatch from Washington says; :;
Information has been received that
Catacazy, the Russian Minister, will be
recalled.
Victor Hugo has addressed letter
to the New York Liberal Club accept
ing the membership to which he was
recently elected.
A letter from Paris says an epidemic
OF a serious nature prevails among the
horses If the Paris cab companies
Two hundred died lately in few days
The appointment OF Dr. W. W.
Dawson, Of Cincinnati, as Professor Of
Surgery OF the Medical College OF Ohio
was confirmed by the trustees Yesterday
President Grant, accompanied by a
party Of gentlemen, left Long Branch
yesterday morning for the garrisoos on
the Hudson river, on visit to Secretary
Fish
Ned Myers and Terris Coppedge,
negroes, were hanged at Walboro,
Union county, North Carolina, on last
Friday, for the murder Of James W.
Bedford, white man.
The Internal Revenue authorities on
Tuesday seized the wholesale whisky
house Of Stephen Kinney & Co. on the
charge OF having large quantity Of
con,raband whisky on hand
It il now positively believed that the
man who seduced Sarah J. Meels, at
Boston, Illinois, gave her poison to de-
stroy her lie The guilty party has
been already suspected.
Mr.. George II. Miles, distinguished
lawyer and author, died at hi residence
near Baltimore, on the 24th inst. He
was the author OF the well known play
OF Mohamed, written for EIwin For.
rest.
The Ohio State Labor Reform Con-
yention met yesterday at Coium bns, to
nominate Labor Reform State ticket.
The convention was 50 slimly attended
that it adjourned without action. It Is
now thought that the idea Of nom
mating labor ticket will be abandoned.
DISPATCHES from indianapolis state
that Richard J. Bright, Of the Sentinel,
was arrested yesterday on a charge OF
presenting false and fraudulent accounts
as State printer, and swearing to the
same. Bright declares the prosecution
malicious. The hearing occurs on
Thursday next.
The American Pathological Society
commenced its third annual session in
Hartford, Conn. yesterday. Chancellor
Crosby, OF New York, and the Presiden;
Of the Society delivered addresses.
Papers on important points will be read
by professors whitney, Mark Hall,
Hadley, and others.
John Mckinney and John Roberts
got into a quarrel yesterday evening on
the corner of Cherry and Olive streets,
New York During the alteration
Roberts discharged his revolver, shoot.
ing Mckinney in the breast. The
wound will probably prove fatal. Rob.
erts was arrested.
The official statement OF L. J. Pow
ers and c. A. Nichols, Of Springfield,
Mas, time keepers in the recent Uni
versity boat race at IDgleside, declare
that they have discovered an error oi
one minute in reckoning the time for
that race The change thus effected
makes the tiufe Of the Agricultural
crew l6.4sl, the fastest time on record
by nearly one minute.