Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-21
FOREIGN.
Heavy Flood in the Danube.

Heavy Flood in the Danube.
LONDON, May 2O-A correspondent
who has Just traversed the Danube from
Guirgevo 10 Buda, Pesth, telegraphS
that the Danube is very high a short dis
tance above Bazias, where the Austrian
shore becomes low aud flat. The Hood
extends q great distance inland between
Mus Point and Belgrade, and the river
is 10 to II miles wide. At Belgrade it Is
fully 20 miles wide. Nearly all the
Austrian villages between Pesth and
BdZias have waterin the streets. Floods
continuing 50 late in the SdaSOu must
cause great damage 10 the crops.
Rowing Notes.
LONDON, MAY 2O.-Plaisted is at New
castle % arrange a match with NichOl-
son.
Wallace Ross, unable TO obtain an
opponent in England, has started for
America % participate in the summer
regatta. lie hopes to make match
with Courtney or Riley He promises
tD return 10 England in the autumn
when he NAV try for the championship.
Haulan has returned 10 Scottswood
and will resume training to-day. He
is still the tayOritc. One hundred TO
fifty was taken on him Monday.
Erie Railroad Meeting.
LONDON, MAY 2O.-The bankholders
and shareholders of the Erie Railroad
Company to-day received the report OF
tine reconstruction trustees up 10 Sep
tcmber 80, 1873 Resolutions were
unanimously adopted approving the re-
port and accounts, and expressing the
satisfaction of the English stockholders
that larger interest in the cOmpany's
bonds is being taken by American hold
erS, from whom the meeting trusts the
board may be gradually strengthened
bv tine addition Of the high class OF bus
me>~ men having substantial holding in
the company.
German Reichstag.
BERLIN, Nav pa dispatch says
that Herr Van FOrckcnbcCk'S resigna-
ton of the Presidency of the ReichStag
shows that the Liberals have been
beaten ON ali hands by the ConServa-
tiveS and Clrricals. Bsmarck's : star Is
I'm the ascendant. Ii is rumored that
the proclamation of Clemencv relative
to the enforcement of the Faulk law
will be issued ON the occasion OF the
Emperor golden wedding.
English Grain Market
LoNDoN, May 2O.-Thc Mark Lane
Erpr.Ss SAYS. The reports aS 10 the pres
cut aspect of tine country, although they
are not alarming, are not calculated To
afford farmers much satisfaction. The
damage already done 10 wheat Is not
perhaps extensive. \ succession OF dry
weather would 20 far to relieve the
present anxiety. The provincial cN-
changes, almost without exception, were
dDarrr 40 the close of last week. English
wheat has been marketed freely i'm the
country, but Sparngly at Mark Lane,
amt the trade i'm London has been
marked by considerable tirmnesS. For
pign wheat has been firmly held, hold
rrS'. I'm occasional instances, OBJ
tanning q slight advance. Should
,hc adverse weather continue rally
may speedily take place, as the imports,
although ON a fairly liberal scale have
not been cNceS>ivc-aithOught the sales
Tor the past week have been chiefly re-
TAIL NillcrS have shown more lnCllna-
ttuu tu extend their transactions; a
strong feature of the trade has been
the steady continental demand tor
,lrgOp- Oi white wheat from California
aud OREGON. Stocks are steadily dlmln-
iShiug as most of the imports have gone
into the milIcrS' hands, and taking all
things into consideration the present
position of wheat Is a tirmcr one
than IL has occupied for many months.
There has been very little VuOtablc al