The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-04
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The cohvehti9p of short horn breeas
continued its sessions at Springfield IN
yesterday, and a number of interesting
and valuable papers were read by,promi-
nent members of the association. Toronto
was selected as the next annual meeting
place.
Rev. G. B. Davidson, pastor of st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Cincinnati,
died yesterday morning.
The Secretary of the Treasury awards
SjOO,OOO in gold at ll2.lS! to ll2.2O.
The King of Hawaii and suite visited
the San Francisco Board Of Brokers yes
terday morning, and concert at Platt' ;
Hall last night.
Intelligence has been received at
Bahia, Brazil, of the conclusion of peace
between the Argentine Government and
General Mitre, who with his officers and
soldiers, have been granted amnesty.
A Kingston, Jamaica, letter puts the
damage to that Island by the typhoon of
November lst, at $35, 900.
A dispatch reports that F. A. Dockray
has been pardoned by the Spanish Gov
ernment.
Senior Cashier has been appointed
Commissioner to represent Spain at the
American Centennial.
The New York Loagshoremen have
had an understanding with the Walsh
Brothers, leading stevedores on North
river, and q modification in the rates Of
the compensation have been agreed to.
1t is expected they will go to work to-
morrow.
The Longshoremen of Hoboken en-
deavored to effect compromise with the
Bremen, Hamburg and Eagle Steamship
Companies, but the agents informed them
that no Union men were hereafter to be
employed.
Russell Sage, President and Director of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
resigned yesterday.
On Wednesday night a Calaboose at
Pontiac, Illinois, was burned, and Frank
and Samuel Downing, who were confined
in it for disorderly conduct, were burned
to death. They were sons of an old and
respected citizen of Pontiac.
Advices from Empire Bluff, at the
lower end of Lake Michigan, report the
schooner VIM. Sanderson ashore and
broken up. The crew, consisting of the
captain and seven men, having evidently
taken boats and abandoned her.
Col. Sam. b. Thomas, a well known
railroad man, and wealthy citizen of
Elizabethtown, KY, died at the Gait
House, Louisville last night.
A special to the Louisville Courier
Journal SAYS that Harrison Cockerill
was not shot by Hon. John ID. White, MS
first re ported, but by DR.. Shall, whose
brother Cockerill killed some years ago.
The wound is thought to be mortal.
All vessels now in the Wclland canal
will get through the late warm weather
having melted the ice.
President Mac Mahon has sent his mes
sage to the French assembly. lie says
that order has been everywhere main
tained, and that the relations of France
with all foreign countries is peaceable.
The financial condition of the country
has sensibly improved. The crops are
most satisfactory, and equally As good
results are anticipated for next year.
He recommends, strongly, legislation IN
regard to the constitutional powers. lie
saws that he did not accept power to
benefit any particular party; that ne
works, and will always continue 90 work,
only for the good of France. In this he
claims the support Of all whose present
preferences bow before the sacred cause
of country.
A Hamburg paper says that the trial
of Count Won Arnim is indefinitely post
poned. u
town. New York, to-day, all efforts 10
have the sentence commuted having TALL
ed for the murder of Charles Nenham,
near Carthage, in January, 1878. lie still
asserts his innocence.
The Springfield Republican says: Chss.
Nordhoff has become connected with the
New York Herald, and is to be chief of
its Washington staff.
The last official communication sent
by Mayor Havemeyer, was 70 james l..
Bowen. President Of the Commissioners
of Charities and Corrections, in which he
said that he had been informed that Will
liam NJ. Tweed was allowed to wear his
usual dress, have luxurious quarters, and
entertain visitors. That this must not
he allowed in the case of
man who had plundered the city
of millions, while smaller criminal
who had only taken an inconsideraole
sum. possibl y to satisfy pressing phys
ical want, was subjected to all the re-
quirements of the law. 80,
The late Mayors death prevented tins
communication being sent; but his sue
cessor, Mayor Vance, has forwarded a
similar one, demanding the facts in the
case. which, he says, if true, are sum
cient cause for Bowens removal from
office