The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-06-10
Dnnestic News.

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former having resisted the
Sheriff in an attempt to arrest
some criminals on board his
vessel, near Fort Washington,
and fred the first shot. no @
GENERAL LOGAN, Command
er. in Chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has appointed
Major w. I, Collins, who served
last year on his staff, Adjutant
General of the organization.
Oomrade r. j. Hinton has
been announced as Assistant
Adjutant General. He will
also edit, by order of Gen. Lo-
gan, the new volume of memo.
rial services authorized by
Congress. The volume pre-
pared by Frank Moore is now
going through the press, 1t is
proposed to establish, as an Of.
fetal organ, a monthly maga-
zine, to be known as the Grand
Army Record. aai."a..
On the 10th there was q Sc.
we're fight, four miles from
Puerto Padre, in Cuba. The
insurgents attacked a convoy
of 1000 troops, conveying pro-
visions to Las Tunas. The bat
tie was fought on the margin
of a river, and lasted several
hours. So great was the
slaughter, that the river was
red with blood. The Spaniards
were driven back with great
loss. They admit loss of
thlrty.four killed and one hun.
dred wounded. Of the latter,
seventy eight were brought to
Nueyitas.
A YOUNG girl, daughter of a
merchant of Toledo, while On
her way home from school the
other day, was met by a man
who commenced conversation
and walked with her, giving
her boquet. The girl smell.
ing the flowers became uncon-
scious, and when she came to
herself, at eleven o'clock at
night, was on the doorstep of
a citizen in Washington town
ship, her hands bound. She
was taken to her home in To-
ledo, where her parents were
in deep distress, and the po-
lice in search of the missing
girl. The author of The outrage
has not been discovered. .F.
JOHN GRIFFIN, tried and con,
Eicted in February last, in
Hamilton, for the murder of
Usual Prickett, last June, was
to have suffered the extreme
penalty OF the law, last Thurs
day, and r. N. Andrews, Sher'
if of Butler county, had made
all the preparations for the ex-
ecution in the Jail of that city,
but on Wednesday, evening he
received a SupercedeaS, enjoin-
ing him to delay the final act
of the law until the meeting
of the Supreme Court on the
30th of June. 1t is not clear
what this action is based upon,
but its effect upon the right
thinking people of Hamilton
is not pleasant. They wished
to see the murderer suffer the
penalty of outraged law, not
from a spirit of vindictiveness,
but from a sense OF JUSTICE
The idea that a blood stained
criminal may slip through the
meshes of the law is not rel
ished by any respectable num-
ber of the citizens of Hamil-
ton, nor by any single respect
able citizen. I
A more cold -blooded mur-
der than that of Pri ckett does
not appear on any criminal
record. Without any apparent
superinducing cause he was
shot through the head by his
friend with whom he had a few
minutes before been drinking.
On attempting to remove
the body of Mrs. Boyce from
an old cemetry ground at Van
Vert, Ohio, says the Bulletin
it was found, after the grave
had been opened, that the
usual appliances. would not
raise the remains. A number
of strong men were summoned,
and with difficulty the task of
eleyating the coffin and its
precious freight was soon per-
formed. The lid of the coffin
was displaced, when it was
learned that the remains were,
apparently, in a wonderful
state of preservation. An ex-
animation proved that they