The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-11
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
1t is semi-otticially announced, in ref
erence to the recent firing on German
gunbOat by the Carlists, that the Alba
tros having returned the fire, the matter
drops.
A fire at Farmingham, New Hamp-
shire, Wednesday night, destroyed Var
ner's hotel and Nuto's shoe factory. Two
hundred hauds are thrown out of en-
ployment.
The Galveston schooner Pascagoula is
aground on Pelican Spit.
John Miller, of Chester county, has
been appointed Chairman of the Penn
sylvana Democratic State Central Com
mittec.
Fighting is still going on in the Re-
publican Convention OF South Caro-
Ina.
The st. Louis Merchants Exchange
WA closed yesterday rs mark of respect
TO tlc late Henry Van Phcel.
President Grant left Long Branch yes
terday.
Secretary Robson is at Long Branch
The Scamen's Protective Association,
longshoremen, riggers, and Others in like
employ, u the number of 800, paradcd
in New York yesterday, protesting
against the extortions of boarding house
keepers, agents and shippers, and de-
manding far wages.
John w, Thornton was yesterday ap-
pointed Gaugcr for the Ninth District Of
Kentucky.
The Comptroller of the Currency yes
terday authorized the First National
Bank of LisboI, Ohio, to commence bust
ness. Capital, $4,000.
Guizot, the French author and states
man, is seriously i'll.
A strike of thitccn thousand cotton
operatives, at Bon, England, is feared.
Eight thousand people attended the
county fair Mt Loganlort, Indiana, ycstcr-
day. Weather good.
United States Commissioner Davcn-
port has published his answer to charge,
made against him by the counsel for
Tammany Hall, and ass for n prompt
action in open court and Jcfore the whole
community.
LLOYD Lounds was yesterday rc-nOmi-
mated for Congress from tn, Sixth Dis
trict of Maryland by the Republicans.
The hottest political contest ever
known in Minnesota closed Yesterday by
the nomination by the Republican Con-
venton of the Third Distric, of VIM.
:. Cling, of Minneapolis, formerly Post
master Of the National House # Repre-
sentatives, for Congress, in place Of Gen.
John 4. Averill.
Tho Republicans of the sixth.d.trict Of
Wisconsin, have nominated {. W.
Thrasher for Congress.
The Democrats of the Second District
of Wisconsin have nominated \. &.
Cook, of Columbia, for Congress.
Two notorious characters of st. louis,
Billy Rider and Johnny Smith, lad Il
desperate encounter Yesterday after Don,
in which Rider stabbed Smith three
times, inficting Il mortal wound. Smith
fired three shots at Rider, but missed lin.
Rider was arrested.
The recent action Of the Treasury Ne
partment with regard to the establi,h-
ment of precautionary measures agall st
yellow fever at various ports, Is not IL
tended To convey the impression that q q
disease exists anywhere along the Atlm-
tic or Gulf Coasts in epidemic form. bu:
for the purpose Of preventing it, intro
duction by ships.
The inauguration of the Holly water
works system just completed at Litch-
field, Illinois, at an expense of nearly
$4,000, was celebrated Yesterday, with
great pomp and ceremony, distinguished
speakers from various sections of the
country being present, and civil organi-
cations from the ncighboring cities. \
grand banquet was given ut City Hall.
The trial of the works WAS most satlstac-
tory.
The New York Graphic will to-mor-
row publish Moulton's additional state
ment in reply to Beecher in lis three
o'clock edition.
The Cincinnati Ga-stt, special report
has the following casualties to-day: One
at Rushville. Ind, where Jefferson Statcy,
man keeping an eating stand at the
county fair had gone to farm house 10
get a supply of milk, and was shot and
mortaly wounded by an unknown person
on his return to the fair ground. Another
occurred at Mansfield, in which John
Longshore, on engineer, was mortally
wounded by the explosion of a boiler
whileit was being subjected to test in
the shop of Mcnamara.
The prisoners confined in the county
iail at Toledo, to the number of twenty
one. made bold stroke for liberty YES
terday afternoon. Having effected al
entrance to the main stairway and hall
of the prison, they waited until the door
was opened to admit the prison phy-
sician. when they rushed for the street,
and all escaped. About twenty have al
ready been retaken. A similar attempt
was made by the inmates Of the city
prison, but was discovered in time to
prevent its being successful.