The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-08
NEW YORK.
A Bloody Family Quarrel.

NEW YORK, July IA dispatch from
Winchester, Virginia, states that while
a family named Little were at breakfast
on Saturday, a feud broke out, when
two sons named Oscar and Lycyus COM
menced firing at four other sons and
their mother, the firing being returned
by the other sons. Oscar was wounded,
captured and sent to Jail. Another son
named Clinton was wounded, and also
the mother. Clinton died on Saturday
evening, and the mother will die.
Carl vogt
United States Marshal Fiske ex-
pected to receive last week the Presi'
dents warrant for the extradition OF
Carl Vogt, alleged fugitive murderer
from Belgium. The warrant not ar
irving, Ex-Governor Solomon, counsel
for the North German Government,
went to Washington to inquire into the
matter, and it is said he found on his
arrival that he had been preceded by
Vogl's counsel, who had obtained a
delay in order to make protest against
extradition.
The Importation Frauds.
The case Of Dudep, Freres Il Co.,
lace importers, Of Broome street, al
legged to have deirauded the general
government out of large sums on im-
portations, has excited much interest in
business circles. The affidavits on
which the hooks and papers were seized
by the Custom House authorities were
made by a former general manager Of
the firm. He makes oath that his em.
ployers systematically entered false and
fictitious invoices OF goods at the Gus
tom House, and uudervalued their im-
portatious from thirty to fifty per cent.
He also charges them with defrauding
the government by invoicing their con-
signments of laces at lees than their
real quantity. He further alleges that
their irregularities amounted to upward
OF five hundred thousand dollars He
makes another accusation, representing
the firm to have extensively smuggled
Chantilly and real thread lace and
camers hair shawls in casks purportlng
to contain London porter.
The Late Empress OF France.
A letter from Geneva to the World
gives a conversation with the late En-
press of France. She says that her
visit to France is tor political purposes,
and that it is useless to try to conceal
it. She believes there will soon be
general return OF the people to order.
She said the Piedmontess government
at Rome, the anti-Christian and Pagan
Court at Berlin. and the wild Commun-
ists at Madrid, are filled with fear at
the awakening of Catholic France.
Now that the wretched Theirs is gone
all moves well. MacMahon is prudent
and loves France" "The future" said
Eugene, "is ours, and France will lead
tie reaction against forces which have
seemed to threaten the existence of so.
ciety and religion throughout Europe"
She cav in the future that France
will again be at the head Of the na-
tions, the robbers driven out Of Rome,
the Pope restored, Germany divided
into harmless states, and Austria again
strong"
Union Pacific Bonds.
The total amount OF coin due holders
of the Union Pacific railroad first mort.
gage bonds amounts to $4,000. Of
this sum fully 100000 has already
been disbursed at the redemption Office
here, and payments will continue in
London, New York and Boston. The
entire amount of interest due will have
been settled in a day or two.
Crops I'm the Valley ofVirstnia
A gentleman who has travelled the
route between Staunton and Winches-
ter four or five times within the last
month, says the wheat crop has 80
in that time that it will be
be equal to that Of any year since the
war. While in some places the wheat
was frozen, still in others the excellence
of the crop makes up for the deficiency.
Between Strasburg and Woodstock the
Weld is unusually abundant. The
corn is doing fiuely.-Staun'9n pindi'a'