The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-12
NEW YORK.
Roman Matters.

Roman Matters.
NEW YORK, August 1l.-There are
some reports about the dying condition
of two leading personages of the Vatican.
Some of the opposite party are so I'M
patient to have the Pope and Cardinal
Antonelli out of the way that they fire
quently put ahoat exaggerated reports to
which we here do not give much atten-
tion.
The official journal of Rome publishes
from time to time n report OF the pro-
gress made in the sale of contiscated
Ecclesiastical property. The whole
amount disposed Of from 1867 when the
law was passed up to the end of juno OF
the present year, is represented by the
sum of 465, 5,O0O,O 900 of francs. The gov
ernment has come into possession OF
somewhat more than 590,OOO,OOO from
this source.
NH@ Samana Bay Company.
A correspondent who has been taking
n look at and about Samana Bay, writes
of the Samana Bay Company: This
company commenced operations by build
ing "A hotel on the top Of mountain,
which in this climate, would call mae
cossible. 1t is half finished and that part
is already rotten by rain and sun.
little farther down the mountain Is
billiard room, or rather barn, which Is
hrlf finished also and gone to decay.
Further down comes the G0Vcrn"fs
house. Prof. Howe's small wooden shanty
containing three very small rooms with
kitchen attached, and to get up to this
house in this hot climate
is task that none would seek for pIca-
sure | visited them, and at every step
lizards of all co.ors would bounce out OF
the grass, as well ~ in the houses. The
company sold all its old furniture, in the
shape Of desks and chairs early in June,
and the only thing they now possess Is II
small steam launch, now goingt to decay,
Is no coal is there to run her. and no
trade. The Sananu Bay Company is
absolutely defmct and forgotten there.
1t has left nothing behind it upon which
to build monument, or scrap OF ground
it could call its own.
u. =. Chaplain Charged with Fraud
The Rev. John Cowan, once Chaplain
of the 9Th New York Heavy Artillery,
and John Kcha have been held to an
swer charge of conspiring to drfraud
the United States out of SlOO,OoO.
Cowan recently wrote To the State De-
partmcnt that on the DIST of July last
he fell from Il street car and his wallet
was crushed. He enclosed the fragment
ola 81 900 bond, saving that that was all
that was saved from his wallet, and
prayed the Department to give him Il
duplicate ola 81 600 bond. An cNalmin-
or found on the fragment that the Rev.
COwan had enclosed To the Treasury, the
words "Prcsidcnt de Ia, showing that it
was bond of one of the South American
Republics.
Fatal Fireworks Explosion.
The London papers received here to-
dav contains accounts of an explosion OF
fireworks in IL house in Northampton,
whereby seven out of eight occupants of
the premises were killed, and eight were
believed to be fatally injured.
The sale of the Tichborne claimants
icwelrv and other effects for the benefit
Of the creditors, brought large prices.
A collision occurred on the steamer
City of Boston. on her way to this city
this afternoon, she ran down Il schooner
and portion of the latter was drowned.
Bonds Stolen.
In searching the trunk of the forger
Van Ectcn, who committed suicide about
week ago, $1,000 bond of the Fon Du
Inc railroad WAS found which on inquiry