Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-04
DAILY NEWS.
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THURSDAY.

The President signed the Virginia
bill yesterday.
The election returns in Spain
show the people have declared
against monarchy. 3
The Kokomo (Ind.) Postoffice
was robbed, on Tuesday night, of
400 letters, $40 and watch.
The League Island bill is dead.
The House tabled it yesterday, and
probably that is the end of 1t for
this session -.a ru
General Butler, yesterday deliver
cd his speech in reply to Dawes, in
defense of the administration. To-
day, Dawes will reply.
The House Postoflice Committee
have determined to report q bill
providing that after July first no
matter whatever shall pass through
! the mails free. .-.. .-.. .
Otterbein University, an institu-
ton under the auspices ofthe United
Brethren, at Westvil!e, Franklin
county, Ohio, was entirely destroyed
by fire yesterday.
The Peabody funeral fleet has ar
rived in Portland. The remains
will lie in state on the monarch till
Saturday, and then be landed and lie
in state in the City Hail of Portland
till Monday. On Tuesday the final
ceremonies will take place, and the
body be started to it's final destina-
ton.
The Georgia House of Represen-
tatives organized yesterday. r. b.
Whorten, Republican, was chos
en- speaker over j. E. Bryant, Con-
servative, by twenty four majority.
Three members Of the House lave
been declared ineligible by the Mill
tary Commission, and the seats of
of sixteen members declared vacant
for refusal and failure to take the
oath required by the laws of the
United States.
| FRIDAY.
The two Houses ofthe Iowa Leg
islature have settled their differen-
ces about the Fifteenth Amendment
by adopting the Conference Com
mittee's report.
| The proposition made in Tennes-
see Convention to submit the ques-
ton of negro suffrage to a separate
vote was defeated yesterday-yeas,
20 nays, 50. The Amendment pro-
viding for negro suffrage will be
adopted by the Convention by a
large majority.
The engrossed resolution ratify-
ing the Fifteenth Amendment was
signed by the presiding officers of
the two houses of the General AS
sembly Of Ohio, yesterday, and sent
to the Governor to be forwarded to
Washington.
President Salnave, of Hayti, was
captured by the insurgent forces un-
der Cabrai on the Sth. He was at
once carried to Port au Prince, ar
rived there on the 18th At3 O. clock
on the day of his arrival, he was
placed upon trial on the charge of
treason, found guilty aad shot at 6
o'clock.
The House Military Committee
are ready to report the Army; bill.
In addition to the particulars already
given, it cuts down the pay of gen
eral officers materially. Generals
are to get $4,000, Lieut.. Generals
$40, 900, Major Generals $7,500,and
Brigadier Generals $4,000. Officers
on duty in the field have a slight in
crease in pay, and those in cities a
decrease. All co limitations. except
fuel and forage, are abolished.
| SATURDAY
Gold closed in New York, ycster
day, at 1919
The Pope has issued a decree Sc
verely denottncihg the Fenians.
A. A. Fox, a postmaster in Rich
land county, Ohio was yesterday
convicted of stealing money from
letters deposited in his office.
The Ways and Means Committee
has reversed it's action placing bi-
luminous coal on the free list. Mr..
Maynard was the recanting member
of the committee. y
On Sunday, the 10Th. on the
plains Of the Northwest, the mercu
ry sank to As degrees below zero.
A number of persons in the vicinity
of Fort Abercrombie were frozen to
death.
The Post-office Committee of the
Senate are said to be in favor of the
bill abolishing the franking privi-
lege, and will soon report it to the
Senate and press it to an early
vote.
The Amendment extending suff-
rage to all races and classes was
adopted in the Tennessee Constitu-
tional Convention yesterday,b yeas
so, nays 16. Both Houses of the
Legislature voted their thanks TO the
| Convention for this action.
Among the combinations by the
Senate, yesterday. were: Will Cum
back. to be- Minister Resident at
Lisbon; E. Nadal, to be Second
Secretary of Legation at London ;
Franz Sigel, to be Assessor of In
ternal Revenue for the Sixth Dis
| trict of Now York and Horooa Cola