The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-01
NEW YORK.
The POlaFis Search.

| MAKING au unusuaiF Ploionseu 'oyoS@
owing to westerly winds. At noon yes
terday she anchored in the navy yard
harbor. A number Of necessary altera-
tions will be made in the Tigress, and
Capt. Green expects to have her ready
to sail by July Sth. Captain Tyson
will accompany the expedition. The
Tigress has not yet been transferred to
the United States, but the expected bar
gain will be consummated to-day when
the agent of her owners will receive
sixtv thousand dollars, the amount con-
tracted for. Her owners profess to
desire 10 re-purchase the steamer should
she be successful in the coming voyage.
The steamer Tigress was placed on
the dry dock to-day, when she was
surveyed by board of naval officers.
The machinery and interior arrange
ments were found in good order. The
board will report favorably and advise
her acceptance by the navy depart
ment for the purpose OF being sent out
in the exploration for the Polaris.
The Times, this morning appears in
new and handsome type, and presents a
greatly improved appearance. In an
article this morniug the Times says this
is but one of several improvements in
its establishment, and in addition to
new type there has been purchased new
presses, new machinery and new office
outfit, at an outlay OF over one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
The Weather.
The weather this morning is intensely
! close aud warm, and bids fair TO equal
Yesterday, when the average tempera-
ture was 70 degrees.
Woodlands Tribulations.
Assistant United States District At
torney Purdy says that new iudictm ents
have been found against Mrs. Wood
hull, Miss Clafin and Col Blood. under
act OF 1873, which includes newspapers
by name for mailing one number o'
| Woodruff & Clafin's weekly, contain.
ing obscene extracts from Trains Ligue
The defendants will probably not be
arrested under this indictment, until
bail bonds have been cancelled under
the old indictment.
The New Cable.
The following telegram from the
captain Of the steamship Great Eastern
was received here to-day:
STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN,
Hearts Content, June 27, 1878.
To CYRUS w. FIELD, Nes0 York:
Many thanks for your cougratula~
tons to all connected with the laying ot
the 1873 cable ! am sure it will live
long. We shall start soon as possible
to resuscitate 1865 cable. [Signed.
R. G. HALPINE.
The waIworth Trial.
In the Walworth trial this evening,
Mrs. Walworth was recalled and testi-
fed to the erratic acts OF her husband,
He lad at various times, suddenly and
without provocation or previous intima-
ton, seized her roughly, and used rough
and bad language. About the time oi
his fathers death he was frequently
violent, denouncing his father and other
relations in uumeasured terms, and
breaking articles OF furniture.
Lemuel Hardin, a brother Of Mrs.
Walworth, testified to the prisoner
amicable disposition. He resides in
Louisville, and Frank Walworth had
studied law in his office for short time.
General Martin Hardin, brother OF
the former witness, testified to an at
tack made upon him by the deceased
in lS7l, at the Hoffman House in this
city, where the witness was temporarily
stopping. Witness was Just recovering
from q wound and diseases contracted
in the war; deceased came into his
room and threatened him with pistol
but was taken away by policeman.
1t was about this time that Mrs. Wall
worth was applying for a divorce.
Importation Frauds.
Its reported the Custom house Off
GERS are examining the books Of Duder,
Freese & Co, lace importers, owing to
a discovery as allegad of several grave
irregularities in their importations.
The amount OF money involved is re-
ported as between one and two millions
OF dollars. The firm protest their lnno-
cence of fraud, and cay that they have
telegraphed to Europe, and will soon
be IN q position to prove satisfactorily y
that the charge against them is un-
founded.
Another Murder.
What is believed 10 be terrible
murder came to light tonight in this
city. For some time past Col. L. ?.
Sidney, of the British army, has been
stopping at the De Soto House on
Blocker street. He belonged to one OF
the first famiy's of England, and was
reported very wealthy. On Friday
night he announced at the house that
he was going on the morrow to hls
bankers TO draw $4,000. He left and
nothing more was heard Of him. On
Saturday night the body OF an I'M
known man was washed up on South
Bend wharf; the body was badly dis
figured and had been roughly used
The police state that it is the body ol
the missing Colonel, and that be had
no doubt been wsylsid and murdered
Detectives are very reticent in regard tc
matters tonight, and beyond the above
, | faots notbin1 can he learned