The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-28
Arrival Of Simon Cameron and Ann
Eliza YOung-News Items.

Cameron and party arrived last night.
Also Ann Eliza Young, from Utah. She
will lecture here on Mormanism.
Friends of the stock broker, B. W.
Vogelsdorf, who shot himself at Oakland
last evening, are unable to account for
the act. He left letter requesting them
4 not to make any plea of accident or in
sanity, saying he went to Oakland to kill
himself
All the Communist prisoners will be
removed from New Caledonia and the
Isle of Rives to the Island Of Billephe.
4 The transport Alceste had arrived
from France with new convicts.
! The whaling feet had not appeared at
Hanolulu when the City of Melburne left
Two thousand FIVE hundred immigrants
had arrived in three months in the prov
ince of Canterbury.
New leland correspondence from
| Sydney, Australia August 18th, gives
the particulars of the wreck of the
1 Corvette LeHarmite, on Wsllis's Island,
on voyage from Tahiti to Narmuea.
! Two men were drowned. The German
! bark San Francisco took eighty of the
crew to Narmuea.. The commander and
! seventy men remained on the island to
save portion of the wreck. 1t is be-
! lieved that most of the guns would be got
ten off. The vessel struck reef near the
! shore.
A fire at Port New Castle did damage
TO the extent of Sl25,OOO
Other Disasters ut Sea.
SAN Francisco, September 27.-Syd-
| nev news to August 29th gives the fol-
lowing accounts of recent disasters to
vessels in Australian Seas:
The trig Allen Morris went ashore
near, Baari Pass and became a total
wreck. The passengers and crews were
saved, but the large and valuable cargo
is total loss.
The ketch Flying Cloud was lost on
the Great Barrier reef; all hands saved.
The iron ship Ranparel, from Auck-
land to New Castle, encountered
gale. The cargo shifted, throw
ing the ship on her beam
ends; the masts were cut away, and the
wreck, cleared of the rigging, soon right
ed. On August 18th she was discovered
by the bark Emma, which took word to
Newcastle a tug was sent out and the
wreck was tnwed into Newcastle. No
lives were lost
In similar storm the new iron clipper
ChrvS0mcn, for San Francisco from New
castle, WAS diSmasted. Jury maSts We're
rugged, and she made her way back to
Newcastle, 200 miles, arriving Aug. 18th.
Another dismaSted ship, the South
rrn Belle. has been towcd
into harbor Brisbane by the steamer
Western. Southern news gives an aC-
count of the loss of the brig Car, Will"
trying to make Bluff Harbor. The
wreck wus condemned. The cutter Al
bert Edward was totally wrecked near
Fantomc Island on the 3lSt of July. All
the hands were saved; some on RATS and
Others bv swimming ashore nearly two
miles. On August 18th the steamer
Florence found the cutter Flying Cloud
ashore on barrier and abandoned,
scuttled, and full of water. The steamer
rot the wreck off and towcd her into Pack
ingham Bay. The NerS says it seems
to he singular incXplicablc fatality at
tachrd to nuvigablc vessels of all kinds
between different parts of the colonies
and the mother country. In the year
nearly a dozen have been dismastcd in
making voyage to the colonial ports.
The Dallam Tower, Cambridgeshirc,
John Kerr, Loeb and Lock Morn, Brit
ish Admiral, Southern Belle, Ranparcll
and Chrisamcn, were nearly Y all new
clippers. These facts must attract the
serious attention of the marines and un-
,l,rwritcrs. In several Of the above IN
stances no date was given.
Grand illumination on Opening OF
the New LindeII Hotel.
ST. LOUIS. September 27.-Thc new
Lndcll Hotel, which has just been COM
plctcd and furnished in superb style, was
Illuminated from bottom to top tonight,
and presented beautiful appearance.
1t will open for business tomorrow morn
ing fully appointed in all its various de-
partments. and under the most favorable
auspices. Its lessces are W. w. Felt of
old Lindell, and late fremont X Gard
ncr of Chicago. j. l.. Griswold formerly
| General Superintendent of the Ohio "
Mississippi Railroad; II. ). Clement, late
of Congress Hall, Saratoga, and Chas.
Scudder, of st. Louis.
Miss Sherman's Wedding.
CINCINNATL september 81 Arch
bishop J. B. Purcell and suite, of this
| city left on the $40 train on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad tonight, for
| Washington and New York, to otticiate
in the marriage ceremonies Of Miss
! Sherman. daughter of the General of the
| Army.
DecisiOn--L License Granted.
! EVANSVILLE September IL ester
/ dav Judge Parrctt, of the Circuit Court,
/ decided that under the Baxter bill an
/ appeal BY the remonstrants from the
! County Commissioners Court to the
/ Circuit Court will not lie. The temper
ance league ucrrmonStrated against granting
permits to sell liquor to Jas. =. Hicks
and Others on the ground Of fraud, with
ont signatures I" their petitions, but in
the Judgment of the Commissioners fail
"d L. establish tn" avcrment, and IN" per
mits were granted. The r"m"nstrants
took an appeal 10 the Circuit Court
which WAS disposed of n indicated above.
/ The appeal was dismissed.
Death OF an Ola ' teterhh.
BoSToN. September 27.-A dispatch
from Portsmouth, y. H., says Sergeant
James Davidson, who served for over
fftv years in the United States army,
died at Fort Constitution. on Saturday.
F., He was the oldest enlisted man in th"
service. having served in the war in
Florida and Mexico with distinction.
! For several years he has had charge Of
the fort.
4 fire last night destroyed four build
inrs. Nos. 40. y. a. and 4G Charters
street New Orleans. Loss estimated at
100000; insurance $4,000, mostly IN
local companies The sufferers are Leo
paid Weld. :. Wolfe. Clo>terman X
Bailey. NJ. NJ. Banchctt. LATTE, DufiIes