The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-31
THE LATEST NEWS.

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-Stratiord Easton has been appointed to take
charge OF the Covihgton, KY, postolllce during
the illness ofJessa R. Grant, ata salary Of 81 600
with understanding thatho is 10 be postmaster II
| the old gentleman resigns or dies.
-About1Ve thousand Roman Catholics Assem-.
bled at st. johns n. B., Sunday afternoon, TO OK.
press their opinions regarding the new school act,
and 10 adopt measures to sappUrt their own
schools.
"A Washington special says that Mr.. Cox's
resolution to prohibit commissions In the ne,
gotiation OF government loans, accords with the
wishes Of the bankers Of the country.
Tweed still fingers In New York, and dcclI
to say when he will 60 TO Albany
The steamer Hornet has been llbeed at suit
OF thirty persons who shipped from New York in
the merchant service and were cocrced to enlist
In service Of the Cuban Junta.
AT mectingo OF the Evangelical Alliance at
New York Monday night, VIM. z. Dodge was
elected President and Chief Justice Chase and
several others Vice Presidents. DR.. Chaplin said
the christians Of America ought to take the
newly arrived Japanes Commissioners ont OF the
hands Of tho politicians and show them our
christian institutions.
Alfred East who shot himself Sunday In
Brooklyn died Monday. No further devclope-
ments In the Panormo assassination.
John Bright hopes TO be able to attend q por-
tlon OF tho coming session Of Parliament.
Albany is disappointed because Tweed does
not come aiter his seat in the Senate. g..
The Emperor and Empress Of Brazil were
banQueted at London Monday night by the Due
D,Aumalc.
-AeonTlct In the streets is reported at BARGE
Iona, Spain. The military are guarding the city.
The trouble was caused by the resistance OF tho
people TO the payment ol excessive custom du.
ties.
Gen. II. W. Ransom has been elected U. S,
Senator from North Carolina. The Republicans,
generally, took no part in the election, claiming
the Legislature had no light to 60 into an cleo.
tion at this time.
The Wisconsin Assembly asks Congress TO
renew the St. CroIx land grant.
M. r. Gilman, OF Carver, Minnesota, was
frozen so badly on Saturday that he died in a few
hours. ..
Cornelius Conners, fireman on the P. G. s.
St. L. railroad, was thrown under car and killed
at Plqua, Ohio, Monday.
The loss by the burning OF Herman Wits,
saddle factory, at st. Louis, Monday night, was
$500 on stock and SO 900 on building. Insu
rance, $1,000.
Octave Pavy, the young Frenchman who
proposes to visit the North Pole by Behring's
Strait, Is In St. Louis in consultation with Capt
Silas Bent. In relation to his voyage. He will
set out from San Francisco early in the spring for
PetroEaVodsk, where ho will complete his final
preparations and embark on his little raft for
the Polar seS.
I'm the Missouri Senate Tuesday, remon.
STRANGE reaching three times around the chan.
Der was presented against the passage Of the
temperance bill"
The Spanish radicals are organizing for
vigorous canvass for the coming elections. They
hold mass meeting at Madrid, Friday.
Deputy PalladInes in the French Assembly
has contributed his salary for payment on tho
war indemnity to hasten the withdrawal OF the
Germans.
"A fire at Scranton, Monday night, burned
four frame dwellings, and damaged the postoeIlCe,
Loss, $50 900.
The opinion prevails at Halifax that tho Do.
minIon government will accept the Treaty of
Washington.
An English schooner reported TO be In the
eontraband trade, has been captured OF the Cuban
coast by Spanish gunboat.
Fort Wayne yesterday voted 56i TO lt5 against
water works.
The South Carolina House has protested
against any reduction OF the import duty on rice.
The New Jersey House adopted resolution
Tuesday TO inquire how the rights OF the State
In the New Jersey railroads are affected by their
lease to Tom Scott.
John G. Glndelc, a leading German citizen OF
NhiraCyn HIad VnFv aunnnn1V TueadaV
On the Union Pacific railroad, Monday even.
ing, near Red Buttcs, four locomotives ran into
the rear Of passenger train, bruisIng l2 or Is
passengers, none fatally.
An American steamer Is now making sound.
ings for the bed of tho proposed Mexican and
Cuban cable telegraph.
The stove and tin shop OF J. W. Watering,
at Memphis, was burned Tuesday.
The late Col. Norman B. Eddy, Secretary OF
State Of Indiana, was buried Tuesday at Indiana
polls. Large funeral; and resolutions Of re-
spect were adopted at meeting Of citizens and
State officers.
The commercial agency OF Jefferson and
Henry Brock, at Boston, collapsed Tuesday,
leaving 100 young men and girl clerks out of en-.
poymcnt and number OF creditors minus.
Gorgeous preparations are contemplated in
Luuuuu luE = bubuhSkNluk peu-
ruary over the recovery OF the Prince OF Wales.
in the French Assembly, Tuesday, General
Classy, Minister OF War, stated TO the Com.
mittee OF the Assembly that 1t was impossible at
present to raise the state OF siege in Paris be.
cause OF the presence In the Republic Of Bona.
partists and liberated Communists, who would
lose no opportunity TO create disorder He farther
stated that OF the Communists captured by the
Government 10, ,222 had been liberated, S,473 were
sentenced TO various punishments and 1908
were still confined In hulks at the various naval
stations OF the country.
1t is reported that Picard will shortly submit
motion TO the Fronch Assembly providing for
consolidation Of the Republic, and counter
proposition will be put forward by the orlcanists
appointing Duke d'Aumale Lieut.. General of
France.
-Adyices from Ajaecia, Corsica, say that many
BonApartIsts are arriving In Corsica, and that
letter from Napoleon is soon expected,
Hon. Peter John Locke King, NJ. p. for RaSt
Survey, in an address delivered at Southwark,
last night, said that well.informed people In
England were not uneasy about the American
treaty.
AT Chicago, Tuesday, ex.Alderman Joseph
A. Montgomery was found guilty on an indIct-
mcnt for bribery. He became very restless in
court and on the verdict being rendered demand
cd to be locked up. lie offered to plead guilty on
another indictment.
AT Richmond, Ind, early Tuesday morning,
the ham packing house Of ]. Barnes was burned.
Loss IS 900; insured.
The Grand Duke, owing 10 prior arrange.
mentS, has been obliged to decline the Invitation
to visit Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Cotton Exchange was formal.
ly opened Tuesday, In the presence Of large
number OF citizens. It was stated In the course
OF the ceremonies that fourteen years ago the
only house In the city In the cotton trade aban.
doned II as Improbable. Last year cotton sales
there exceeded So COZ. 900, and receipts exceeded
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