The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-16
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BY the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
Onice, lIO Main Street.
SUMMARY.

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The estimated receipts from the in.
ternal revenue for the month OF Decem
her are So, $4,000.
Two steamships arrived yesterday al
New York, bringing 800 emigra nts
English and German.
Advices from the Indian country
state that Cochise is making every eff
tort to preserve peace.
A prize fight took place on Saturday
at Flatbush, New York, between Peter
Schully and Jack Croker The latter
won 10 twenty eight rounds.
John J. Nicholay, formerly .Presi-
dent Lincoln's Private Secretary, has
been appointed Marshal OF the Supreme
Court. vice Parsons, resigned.
The Army Disabling Board, which
has been in session in Philadelphia,
has been abolished and q new board
ordered to convene at New York.
Thomas P. Talman, cashier of the
Traders National Bank Of Chicago,
has been appointed receiver of the
Scandinavian Bank OF that city.
w. Phillips Weigan was stabbed at
Trenton, New Jersey, yesterday, by
James Price, a New York rovdy.
Weigan is in a critical condition.
Low mass was celebrated al the St.
Francis X,vain church, New York,
S .turdsy morning, for the girls who
lost their lives at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
fire.
An excursion train, the first. over the
Cairo and Vincennes railroad. will
leave Vincennes, Indiana. this morning.
Th" road is now completed and is said
to be in splendid condition.
The condition OF affairs in New Or
leans. on Saturday, wac unchanged, the
Metropolitan police and the military
occupying the same relative positions.
On Saturday. at New Albany, lndi-
ana. John and Peter Meyer, father and
son. were arrested for the murder OF
Leopold SpiudIer. committed in Septem'
Der last.
The proprietors Of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York. published card on
Saturday, announcing that they have
made arrangements for the interment
of the bodies Of the victims of the late
fire.
The brig Meteor stranded and went
ashore at Scituate, Massachusetts, on
Saturday, in consequence OF mistsklng
q light IN house for light house.
She filled and sunk in fifteen minutes.
By order Of the President the Army
Reducing Board has been Dissolved. A
hoard to retire disabled officers will
convene in New York on the Goth
inst.
Henry McNnlts, the Peoria, Illinois,
vie murderer, was, on Saturday, sen'
fenced to he hanged on the third day
OF Jannarv, 1873, q motion for a new
trial being refused.
Horace Blackwell was, on Saturday,
at Hartford, Connecticut, sentenced TO
ten years imprisonment for attemn''ne
to wreck the Boston and New York
express train.
The sale by auction of the stock and
agricultural implements belonging to
the farm OF Horace Greeley, at Chap
paoua, took place Saturday.
A telegram from Montgomery,
Alabama, says the Legislature OF that
State will meet this week and organize
in the manner proposed by Attorney
General Williams.
James Camp twenty years old, wa'
accidentally shot at Dresden. Ohio
SATURDAY., by David Frv The gun
csuoht on some brush and was dis
charged, the ball entering the back and
nassing through the liver, causing
.. ,b rao hnura
An order has been received by Vice
Admiral R,wan, commander Of the
Nsvy Yard At Brooklyn, to fit ont
the store ships Supply and Guard to re
ceiye such goods a. the American ex-
hibitofs NAV desire sending 10 tie
Vienna Exposition.
Julia Smith, the girl shot at 81 Bay
ard street New York, is rapidly i'm.
| rroving, and DR.. Amabile, at the Park
Hospital. entertains hopes Of ber
recovery. Harrington, her assailant
has not yet been captured.
On last Thursday morning, near the
town of Columbiana, Colnmbians
county, Ohio, man named Erhen G
| Porter murdered his two children, aged
| respectively one and three years, by
beating their brsins out With a Ratchet
Three well known Chicsgo newspaper
| men, two of them city editors, were ar
rested Friday evening, in a gambling
den. They were brought into cour
Saturday under fictitious names, and
claimed they were present for profession
al purposes. .
The Italian Consul General, at New
York, Saturday. acknowledged the re
ceipt OF 1925 Is from Louisville for the
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