The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-02
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-Oe1eraI benz. tracy, was yesterday
retained as counsel for Beecher in the
suit Of Tilton. . f',1't I0I0T
.-Marshall Jewell took the oath Of Of
fee to-day and entered upon his duties as
Postmaster General at Washington.
u. B. Banhardt, Of the Camp Rifles
Stste Guard. on duty at Owenton. XIV.
was accidentally shot and killed Monday
The first of the new United States
iron sloops.okwar was launched TUESDAY
at Reaches Ship Yard, Chester, Pa.
-Donaldson's large balloon with six
newspaper men aboard, passed over Phil.
adelphia, southeast into New jersey, al
o:l5 P. Y. yesterday.
"A committee ol the National Cotton
Exchange to establish a standard classi.
tication for the U. g., were in secret sea--
sion yesterday at New York.
In the Universalists State Conven-
ton at Auburn, N. Y, the Committee OF
Education recommended the estsblish-
ment OF a lady ploiesaorshlp In the Clin.
ton Liberal Institute.
-President Grant and party arrived in
New York city yesterday forenoon from
their trip East and drove Immediately 10
the Long Branch boat on which the party
rode to the Ptesidcni's summer residence,
AT q meeting Of the creditors OF Nc
knight, Duncan & Co. and Mcknight
Porter & Co., Of Pittsburgh, yesterday,
an extention 70 Eve years was granted
the firm.
The Democrats Of the Twelfth Con.
gressioual District convened at Lancas-
TER, Ohio, yesterday morning, and nomi.
mated a. I. Walllng on the fvo hundred
and,thirty.ninth ballot. =, 5iss G,'
The first bale Of cotton from North:
ern Texas was received in Memphis from
Dallas on Monday, consigned to-. Gall
breath & Co, and was sold to A. Gelasto
q Co., for the Greek market, at 25 cents
per pound. va A 49, ID al ltiI1.
The Republican Congressional Con-
vention for the First District Of Wiscon.
sin at Madison Tuesday nominated L. B
Caswell, OF Jefferson, for Representative
to Congress cieS G. W. Hszleton. ~
The Little Rock Convention on
Monday voted down, by a vote Of 8 toI,
Q proposition 10 repudiRte what Is known
as the Halford bonds. This was the sec.
ond deciaive vote against reputation.
John W. Coleman, charged with the
murder OF Peter Graeffe, In rear of No. IS
east 9Th street, Cincinnati, on the 2Sth Of
last Jnne, committed suicide last night by
hanging himself from his bedstead, which
he had placed in q perpendicular position
In his cell. :"
.-Whilethe negro who last week grossly
assaulted and atterwards killed a little
girl aged o years, was being taken to
the Tonawands, Pa, Jail, he was taken
from the wagon by masked men and rid
died with bullets. -',
"A fire at Lebanon, Ohio, early yester.
day morning, destroyed the principal busi.
ness block, Congregational Church, Boss
Hotel and Town Hall. Loss estimated
at q . from M $4,000 to $7500Oi insurance
The Grand Lodge Of Good Templars
met Of Madison, Wis, Tuesday. The re.
port oil the Grand Worthy Chief Templar
shows that 80 new lodges have been es.
tahliAhed during the past year, and that
the membership has increased 1000. =,
"A large frame building belonging IN
the Clark Thread Co., ut Newark. NJ IL
burned yesterday. The building was
used as dyeiDg, bleaching, and driving
department Of tho works. Loss S51'50G:
iuA insured: ssg s4H t3g 10 y sD''S '~S''
A large number Of Catholic PILGRIMS
from England, have arrived in Paris on
their way to the Shrine at Pautionev
Le Temps Opinion National land Is bis1
public newspapers, have been Sentenced
70 e nominal penalty ior Publishing Mar.
shal Bazsin0's letter. TT
!, Col Carlton B. Curtis, OF Erie, Pa,
the present Republican member Of Con-
gress nom The 27lh Pennsylvania district,
was yesterday re.nominated on the frat
hallotoi the adjourned Convention, which
separated without action three weeks ago.
y. +. Watson, Of Warren and F.. o.
Mitchell, OF Franklin, the competing can.
dldates, withdrew their names IN favor Of
Curtis and he was nominated unanimous.
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