The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-07
CAPITAL CHAT.
PERSONAL ASD GENERAL GOSSIP,
Movements Of PromIusnt PeFsOns-Vlr
ginIa Read President and
mrs. GaFHeId-ReanIOn Of the
Army OF the Potomac.

> AFe. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. " NAe
Army OF the Potomac.
WAsHGNoToN, June 6,-The NaHoua
Board OF Health has adVicsa that durini
the week ending June 4sh there were
deaths at Cincinnati, 2 at Evansville, Ind,
and at Indianapolis, from csrsbro splna
meningitis,
GENERAL TIHKR,
Assistant Postmaster. General, returned Il
the city to-day from New York and Phila
delphla, where he has been on otticia
business for the PostofEice Department In
connection with the Star route business
He has not resigned his position and does
not contemplate any change bsing made
On the contrary he has assurances from the
President that his resignation will not be
wanted.
Attorney. General McVeagh went to
Philadelphia to-day on Star route buSi'
ness,
COLONEL YosT, A PROMINENT REPUBLICAN,
OF VIRGINIA,
and editor OF the RaLky HigiHiaH, Is in the
city. He says that the ticket nominated
ty the recent Rsadjusters' convention in
Richmond, will not stand a chance Of
election. It would not ge., hO said,
6, 900 votes beyond the Blue Ridge Noun.
tains, The Republicans, he said, would
certainly hold 0 convention and nominate
straight Republican ticket. The mixed
Readjusters, and Republicans ticket Of
the Malone convention does not, he Gays,
please either the Republicans or the Re-
adjusters.
SEVERAL OF MAHoNE's FRIENDS
who were in attendance vt the recent
convention have arrived here for the pur-
pose Of urging President Garfield and the
administration 10 recommend the Rspub.
liCans in Virginia to support the Malone
ticket In that State. They will probably
fall In their mission, as tho President 70
not disposed to interfere In any manner,
but to allow the Republicans under the
lead OF General Wickham, DR.. Jorgenson
and other prominent leaders In that State
10 determine the course which is proper
TO pursue.
TIE PRESIDENT
returned from Hampton Roads this
morning. and found the White House
crowded with the Office seekers who have
been hanging on ever since the adjourn.
ment Of Congress. These people follow
the President'a movements very closely.
When he was absent, Saturday, there was
not one OF them ut the House. They knew
be was to return to-day, and were on hand
before the steamer had arrived OF the Navy
Yard.
BRADY IN WALL sTREETN
The Capital, which is an earnest cham.
pion Of Brady, OF Star route fame, in com.
menting on a dispath setting forth his
wonderful success in stock speculation,
represents his gains at over 5000, 900, and
says. general Brady is the most indie.
fatigable and luCkiest speculstor we ever
knew. His operations, OF course, bear no
com mparison In magnitude to those OF
Gould, Sage, Keene and Vanderbilt, but
that is because his capital Is smaller than
theirs, not because he lacks either the will
or the nerve. II is probable that, in pro.
portion to his capital, Brady Is the most
active operator In the street. There has
not been q week at q time in two and one.
half years when he did not have from 90
to 90 per cent Of all he was worth or could
command embarked In stock deals and
while, like all speculators, he sometimes
gets on the wrong side, the general bal.
anCe is undoubtedly In his favor"
TIE NoREY LETTER coNsPtRAroRs.
Although the Morey letter has almost
passed from the public mind, 1t Is fact
that the government law officers in New
York have been very busy Tor some time
in following the clues which they have
obtained. II is also known that they have
met with signal success, and fully expect to
be able at an early day to fix the conspi.
racy upon the real authors oil the crime.
Prominent Democrats are now known 10
be involved.
BEUNtoS OF THE Army or THE POTOMAC.
The reunion oil the Army Of the Poto.
mac at Hartford on Wednesday next will
be more generally attended than. usual Of
late years. Major General Wright, for
merly Of the Sixth Corps, 10 president OF
the society. The members will be re.
ceived by Governor Bigelow and staff and
by ex.GoVernors Hawley, Jewell and
Hubbard. Secretary Of War Lincoln will
be the guest OF Edgar T. Welles, son Of
the late Secretary Welles. General sher.
man will be present with his staff. About
1900 members otthe society are expected,
oil whom about $50 will be from PhllaGel.
phia. Among these will be Governor
Hovt, General Hartranit, and the Mayor
Of Philadelphia.
GENERAL GOSSIP.
Colonel Robert g. 1ngersoll and party
OF friends left for New Mexico yesterday
to look after mining interests.
II is said, after spending a short time at
Ike soldiers's Home, Mrs. Garfield will 60
To Mentor and spend the summer.
The U. s. 3. Dispatch returned to the city
this morning with the Presidential party.
The President appointed The following
posttnastes: r. B. Tate. Knoxville, III ;
A. X. Prescott, Rico, California, and ]. D.
Tinney, ViCkSburg, Mississippi.
A Novel Marriage and Great A do About
II.
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