The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-12

the knowledge of Beecher's lawyers, and
greatly to Beechers Indignation at not
/ being permitted to testify and deny ex-
! plicitly he had ever given MOulton infOr-
nation on which he based his libel. AL
though thus settled, the friends of Miss
Proctor do not admit that they acted III
any hostility to Beecher, and many o
the latters friends express themselves
| pleased at the result, as removing one OBJ
stacle in reaching the main issue in the
City Court.
Bcecher's Bill of Particulars.
! New YORK, December 1l.-Judge
/ McCuc, OF the Brooklyn City Court, in
( his order granting bill Of particulars in
/ the suit of Theodore Titon against Rev.
/ Hcnry Ward Bcecher says: II am Of
opinion ja) that the plaintiff should be
limited as to his proofs of specific acts of
adultery to those named by him in his
bill of particulars, and (b) that this order
| is not to be construed as prohibiting the
plaintiff from introducing, on the trial
! of this action, testimony which may be
admissible under the general rules OF
! evidence us u any acts other than specific
acts OF adultery, declarations. writings,
! documents and confessions, in which the
alleged confessions and no particular time
/ or place shall have been referred to-
The trial has been postponed until the
first Monday OF the January term.
All Quir, at Vicksburgh.
MEMPHIS, December IA Vicks-
burg special to the Western Associated
Press tonight says: All is quiet and SER
| enc. Business is resumed. The City
! Council has authorized the Mayor to ap-
point five hundred special policemen to
guard the city.
PC. Hall. n notorious negro leader, is
reported killed ut SnyderS Bluff to-day.
No particulars.
EICKSBURG, December 1.-THE re-
ports from the interior are that the
negroes are returning to the fields, and
pursuing their usual avocationS. The
city is quiet and orderly.
The Board of Aldermen, last night,
authorized the Mayor to organize brig
ade of volunteer policemen, to consist of
ten companies of fifty men each.
Sheriff Crosby and several negro
leaders are still held prisoners, partly for
their own safety, and to be made amcrt
able to the laws if they have violated
them.
The Board of County Supervisors (all
negrOc, but one, now in session, have
discovered that the negro Chanccry Clerk
has no bond whatever on record, though
he has been in Office more than year.
There are seven indictments for forgery
and cmhrZZcmcnt agulu~t him.
4 Notable Wedding.
DES MoINES, Iowa, December ll.-A
| notable wedding WAS celebrated here to-
night. Mr.. \. c. Athcrton, train dis
patchrr of the c. K. & |. =. railroad, be-
ing married to Grrtic, eldest daughter Of
Judge Cole, of the supreme court OF
! Iowa. Some eight hundred guests are IN
attrrdancr many OF whom com" from
abroad. The event was one of the finest
ever known in this city,
Reception of the King Of Hawaii.
WAsHISGToN, December 1.-THE ar
ran-rmcnt> have been completed tor the
| reception. tomorrow. Of the King of the
/ Iowaiian Islands. y state dinner will
/ he given next week. Thity-thrce rooms
! have been engaged at the Arlington
| House, five of which arc for the personal
use of the king, besides two large parlors
for general receptions. Marines will
! form the escort.
Earthauake In New York.
New IoEK, December ll.-Thc ErCn-
! ina Post will publish in IN earl edition
| the details Ofa distinct snock Of an earth
quake felt half-past 10 o'clock last night
| n the upper part of the city, all along
! the Hudson river and up the Harlem.
! At Stanford Connecticut, families were
aroused from their beds by the noise "t
cruckery shaking, lamp globes breaking,
! &c.
Kcintcrmcnt OF Confederate Dead.
WASHINGTON. December ll.-Bctween
| ll.and l. o'clock to-day, large number
| of persons witnessed the rclnterment, in
Grace Church ward, near Silver Springs,
of the remains of seventeen coniederat"
/ soldiers. killed in the attack on Washing
| ton, near Fort Bunker Hill, July 1864.
Bishop Pinckney read poem, and Cen
/ cral Phillip Cook, who was command
! ing in that engagement, delivered an ad-
dress.
At the rcintrrment of the Confederate
dead to-day, DR.. Garnet, of this city,
I son-in-law Of cX-Govcrnor wise, OF Nir-
/ yiuis. delivered the address, and not
I General Phillip Cook, as the noon dis
match stated. The address was strongly
| tinctured with Confederate sentiment,
! and justified the South for their action.
( Libel Suit Against the baltimore
Amcrian.
BALTIMoEF, December lo.-Juds"
! John J. Yeilatt Of the Circuit Court OF
Baltimore county, instituted suit against
| the Baltimore .AmeY'icuI for libel; dam
ages $4,000, for criticising the Court for
! the release on insignificant bail, parties
! indicted for shoplifting in Baltimore and
/ whose case had been removed to Ba!;l-
/ more county.
Ohio General Assembly.
! COLUMBUS, December ll.-ln the
! Senate a hill was introduced TO restrict
/ the allowances granted to attorneys Tor
conducting the defence in criminal cases
before the Common Pleas Courts, 10
! 800
/ In the House a resolution asking Con-
rrcss to compel Indiana TO fulfill her
obligations relative to keeping up the
! Wabash X Erie Canal, was ordered.
Omaha Iicms-Nebraska Sufferers.
OMAHA. December lo.-A fire at
Pla,tsmouth. Nebraska. Yesterday after
noon, destroyed two buildings on the
east side Of the court house Los,
5000. The court house Was slightly
damaged.
Colonel Remick, An old settler, ana an
agent sent out by the State Aid Society,
! has returned from the grasshoPper dis
trict, having carefully visited six counties.
His report is very bad, and shows tha;
$500 people will need daily rs;ions and
clothing. They can raise something 10
subsist upon in the spring. There has
been no cases of persons starving tn
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