Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-02-25
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

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!, PRESIDENT JOHNSON has pardonec
John Disbrownel, sentenced t.
twelve years at Sing Sing for coun
'terfeiting.
AARON Jones. the noted pugilist
died early Tuesday of last week OF
farm, three miles from Leaven
worth, Indiana.
THE President and family viii
vacate the White House on the Sc
OF March, and probably leave Wash.
ington on the 9Th.
! The Jackson Standard is the
only Republican paper that we know
of that objects to the denomination
of Governor Hayes.-0Afo State
Journal.
In the assault case Of Dempse,
on General Duncan, at Washington.
Judge Fisher last Friday fined
Dempsey $500 and Imprisonment
ten days
NCLAUGHLrN and Shaw, who
made false affidavits against Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue Bailey.
were, on Saturday, sentenced to five
years each in the Penitentiary, in
New York.
THE trial of Collector Thornc
and his sureties, at Trenton, N. j..
for alleged frauds on the revenue,
was concluded Wednesday of last
week A verdict for $4,000 was
rendered for the Government.
LEWIS LANE, colored, was on
Saturday, at Pittsburgh, sentenced
TO be hanged for the murder Of his
wife. He had been granted a sec
ond trial by the Supreme Court.
but was second time convicted.
The President has pardoned
John Fl. Eagan and Nicholas Henry,
convicted, in November, and sen
fenced to the Penitentiary, in New
York, for defrauding the Govern
ment by false bounty money and
U@eh pay paPetS.
ONE Thousand barrels of whisky
we're seized Thursday last by the
Revenue Inspectors on its arrival in
New York city from Chicago. no
brands being Oh the heads as re
quired by Collector Shook in addi
ton to the usual stamps.
Or the eX-governors Of Ohio,
Messrs. Shannon, BARLEY, Bebh.
Chase, Dennison and Cox are still
living-Mr. Shannon in the far
west, Mr.. Bebb in Tennessee, and
Slr. Chase in Washington city. The
rest are still residents of Ohio.
AT Richmond. Thursday, the jury
in the United Circuit Court gave
$1,000 damages to Ropert Stevens.
a South Carolina negro, against the
Richmond & Fredericksburg Rail
road. for putting his wife in sec
ond- class car by force, after selling
her first class ticket.
THE remains Of all the defunct
assassination conspirators have been
or are to be. pardoned, and there is
little doubt but that the surviving
conspirators will be set loose before
the fourth of mach. But Boston
Corbett prevented one assassin re-
ceiving executive clemency.
The body of the negro Copeland.
who was taken from Jail at Aurfrees-
boro, some weeks ago, by band of
masked men, was found Thursday
oflast week in Stone river, near that
place. A rope a ound the neck
indicates that he had been hanged
1t was doubted at the time whether
friends or enemies took him from
the Jail.
For insulting his wife, a citizen
of hicago demanded satisfaction
of his family physician. whereupon
the doctor struck the injured man
five times with a slung shot, leaving
him almost imsensible. last Friday
morning. at the Police Court, the
doctor was let off with fine of ten
dollars, while the citizen paid FIVE
dollars for being the aggressor
The coffin that contained the en-
nestled remains of Mrs. Surratt has
been cut to chips for relics bv some
of the Washington sympathizers.
. If SO much honor is paid to the
coffin of a dead accomplice what a
lion the chief of the assassination
conspiracy would become were he
suddenly to appear alive.
A BLACKSMITH named Ennis was
shot in the head at 8 O'Clock,
Wednesday night of last week
in Memphis, while work
ing in his shop. The perpetrator
of the deed approached the shop
through the back yard, and fired
through a crack in the wall. Frank
Murray has been arrested, charged
with firing the shot, and held in
$4,000 to appear before the Grim
inal Court.
Z The N. Y. Suns Washington
special says General Grant remarked
. to Republican membe of Congress
that he would consider it an insult
to the party which hal elected him
{ to think Of fputting any men in his
Cabinet who were not with the party
during the war, or who had not
acted with it since then. He knew
the party had rights, and he should
{ not allow his personal feelings to
interfere with these rights.
The Presbyterian Convention.