Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-29

now holding warrants for their work Will
be refused payment, and TO many of these
there is at least months pay due All
the public works will, therefore, have to
be stopped, and over 1900 men thrown
out of employment"
Upon entering upon the discharge OF
the duties of his Office, on the 18th, the
new Deputy Comptroller, Mr.. Green, i'm
medistely doubled the detective force of
the Comptroller's office, and placed ten
policemen in the Office, for the purpose OF
preventing the abstraction of important
papers. The accounts were being straight
ened by force of experts, and an accurate
statement of the condition of the Treasury
would soon be made public.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury on
the recent fireworks explosion in Beck.
man street, New York, holds the propri-
etors of the establishment responsible for
the lives lost Klueber, the surviving
proprietor, was in the Tombs on the 18th,
in default of $4,000 bail
The announcement of the appointment
of Caleb Cushing and ex-Attorney Gen.
eral Meredith, Of Pennsylvania, to be
Counselors to the Geneva Conference
under the Treaty of Washington, has been
officially made.
Charges of defalcation were served upon
Paymaster Hodge, on the 18th.
The explosion of three hundred kegs of
powder in a cellar at Phoebe, New, dur
ing the recent fire, leveled all the
buildings in the vicinity, killed ]. Kirby,
James Agnew, John Sand, William Dodds,
Mike Sheehan, and one other, who was
burned so badly that he could not be rec
ognized, and dangerously wounded large
number.
Chief.Justice Chase arrived in Cleve-
land on the evening of the 18th, en- route
for the East. 1t is said his health is re.es-
tablished, and he expects to be in Wash
iDgton in season for the adjourned session
of the Supreme Court, in October.
The National Democratic Committee at
Washington received dispatch on the
18th from Santa Fe, stating that the Dem
ocratic Delegate to Congress from New
Mexico hai been elected by $500 majori-
ty, and that both Houses of the Legisla-
| tuIt were O6LnOCIdllC.
President Grant and family arrived at
Cincinnati on the night of the 18th.
Supervisor Perry, of North Carolina,
has seized four tobacco factories in that
State for evasion of the revenue.
The Universalist General Convention
met at Philadelphia ON the 10Th. Rev.
Dr. w. Ii. Ryder, of Illinois, was elected
President. The Constitution adopted at
the last Convention, held at Gloucester,
Mass, has been ratified and is now law.
General Mcclellan, in letter to Mayor
Hall, has declined to accept the Comp
trollership of New York city. The Dep
uty Comptroller, on the morning of the
10Th, gave directions for the immediate
preparation of a schedule of all officers Of
departments and date of appointment, and
their salaries and nature of the duty per-
formed by each
The Committee of Seventy sent com
municatiOn to Mayor Hall on the 10th re-
questing him instanter to cause proceed
ings to be commenced by the Corporation
Counsel against all the Tammany Ring,
including himself, for the recovery of pro-
perty alleged to be stolen from the city.
In letter to the Mayor, Richard O'Gor.
man expressed the opinion that legal steps
should be taken TO recover moneys paid by
the city on grossly extravagant contracts,
: and asked for the Mayors instructions in
the premises. The Mayor replied that
O'Gorman is the head of the law depart
ment, and has full discretion to bring any
action at law be may see fit for promoting
the good name of the city or benefiting the
Treasury, and leaves the matter in his
hands.
A court martial has been appointed to
try Paymaster Hodge. Among the officers
detailed for the court are Major General
George G.. Meade; Colonel ID. b. Sackett,
Inspector General; Colonel Israel VOgdes,
First Artillery, and Colonel N. w.
Brown, Assistant Psymaster General.
An Omaha dispitch of the 10th says
twenty.six prominent points in the State
heard from show a majority of 1879
against the adoption of the new Constitu-
ton for the State of Nebraska. The indie.
pendent propositions ubmiued-frst, for
making bank stockholders liable for three
times the amount of the stock; second,
for giving counties the right of prohibit.
ing and licensing the sale of spurious liq-
uors; third, prohibiting county or muni
eipal aid to railroads; fourth, compulsory
education; fifth, female sutfrsge-were al
voted down by overwhelming majorities
female suffrage fairing the worst of all. II
was not expected that further returns
would materially change the result.
The remains of the late President Lincoln
and children we're removed on the afternoon
of the 10Th from the temporary to the
permanent vault erected for their reception
in the monument just completed at Oah
Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield, III.
; The Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of odd Fellows of the United States
commenced its annual session in Chicago
on the 18th.
A Springfield, Mass, dispatch of thu
Goth says: Returns received by the Re
publican show the election of 573 dele
, gates to the Republican State Convention
{ of which 216 are for Butler and 357 agains
I him"
9 Two cases of Asiatic cholera were re
f ported, on the Goth, to have appeared a
1 Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the victim
i being recently-landed immigrants from
t Germany. The Amboyans were alarmed
q and an investigation had been com
!. menced
o General Spinner returned TO Washing
ton on the Goth from his European tour.
>, In Bremen, near Chicago, a few day
Q ago, German woman named Mrs, Frede
g rika Geist was scalded to death by havin
r. hot coffee poured down her throat. He
husband and his brother were suppose