Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-27
DOMESTIC

DUN ESI1Cs
Gold closed in New York on the 21st at
H1X.
A statement was telegraphed from
Washington on the 18th purporting to be
the basis agreed upon by the High Com
mission for the settlement of the Alabama
claims. A Washington dispatch of the
10Th says this statement was regarded
there as erroneous. "The expressions of
members of the Commission do not war
rant the belief that an agreement has been
reached"
The Supreme Court of the United
States have recently decided that the Con-
fiscation act passed by Congress during
the war is strictly constitutional.
A terrific hail storm passed over Jack
son, Miss, on the night of the 14th. Hail
fell for fifteen minutes. Many stones
measuring six inches in circumference
were found. Several thousand window
lights were broken, and sheet iron roofing
perforated. The gardens, fields, crops
and fruit were seriously damaged, fruit
trees stripped of their foliage, and hundreds
of birds killed.
On the 18th, Deputy United States
Marshals John Burke and John Arm
strong attempted to arrest two illicit dis
tillers, named Limerell, living near Sparta,
in White County, Tenn. They resisted,
disarmed the Marshals, beat them over the
head with their own pistols, fracturing
Armstrong; skull in three and Burke's in
two places. They were not expected to
survive.
The Female Seminary at North Gran
vile, N Y, was entirely destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$25 900.
A Pottsville, Pa, dispatch of the nth
says: "a wellinformed and prominent
coal operator here stated tonight that
the coal difficulty was about ended, and
that the speedy resumption of mining
would follow"
A Washington dispatch of the nth
says an application had been received at
the Treasury Department from st. Peters
burg for an agency for the negotiation of
the new loan to be established in that city.
The application was accompanied by the
subscription of s1OOOOOOO to the loan by
the house applying for the agency.
The State Insane Asylum at Lincoln,
Neb., was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 18th. The inmates were res
cued with considerable difficulty. About
forty patients were occupying one wing of
the asylum. Two of them perished in
the flames, one being a raving maniac,
chained in his room.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
the dispatches of the Associated Press re-
garding Indian hostilities in New Mexico,
and a collision between troops from Fort
Bayard and Mexican soldiers, were then
entirely discredited, as they were doubted
from the first.
The Union Hotel at Galesburg, ILL.,, and
an adjoining three-story brick block were
destroyed by fire on the 18th, inflicting a
total loss of about 100000. Two persons
were badly burned-E. w. Kubitz and
| Fred. Sunderland-and others injured
One or two persons are reported to have
been caught by the debris and burned to
death.
On the 10Th, the citizens of Lexington
Mass, celebrated the ninety sixth anniver
sary of the revolutionary fight in that towr
by dedicating memorial hall in honor o.
the heroes of the two struggles, those who
fell on Lexington Green in 1775, and thost
who fell in the late war. Among the
statues to be placed in the hall, is one rep
resenting the minute men of rs, anC
another the Union soldier. The names o
those who fell in both wars are appropri
ately inscribed on tablets.
Stephen Mason, a member of the Vir
ginia Legislature, has been convicted o
| attempting to pack jury in the case o
/ ex-Mayor Cahoon, with view to his &C
l.. quittal, and fined $500. w. A. Hoppe wa
, convicted of the same offense, and fine'
: $500.
5 A Washington dispatch of the 2lst say
5 that the Secretary of the Treasury ha'
= authorized the different United States AS
sistant Treasurers and Depositaries +
8 commence the payment of the interest du
May 1, on Monday, April "a, withou
e rebate.
: The miners in the employ of the Lack
e awanna Iron and Coal Company at Scrar
l ton, Pa, resumed work on the goth.