Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-16

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geant-at Arms and Democratic Doorkeep.
ers were also elected.
In letter dated Fort Sill, Comanche
Reservation, May 25, addressed to the
editor OF q New York paper, General
Sherman says; II hereby state, and mean
all l say, that never have been, and new
win be, a candidate for President; that If
nominated by either party, should per-
emptorily decline, and even If unanimous
ly elected, should decline to serve"
Returns to the Treasury show that the
total number Of distilleries in operation in
the country on June 1st was 214, with a
total capacity Of 192,O59 gallons. OF this
number, Illinois has rs Indiana, 10; Ken
lucky, Sc; Ohio, "a, and Pennsylvania, SO.
President Grant has appointed Hiram
A. Parker, to be Register Of the Land
Office at Beatrice, Neb. Henry M. Lewis
to be Collector, and Henry Harden Assessor
Of Internal Revenue for the Second and
Third Districts of Wisconsin, consolidated,
and now known as the Second District.
The recent Wisconsin State Temper
ance Convention adopted resolution
that it was inexpedient to nominate a
ticket.
At the recent reunion of Illinois SOL
diers at Rock Island, the association
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, General julius
White, of Chicago; Vice-Presidents, Gen
eral s. D. Atkins, of Freeport; General T
]. Henderson, of Princeton; Colonel r. @.
Wilson, of Sterling; Secretary, Major A. j.
Pinkham, of Dixon; Executive Commit
tee, Surgeon s. @. Plummer, of Rock
Island; Major Frank Clendening, of Nor
rison; Captain r. A. Smith, of Sycamore /;
Major j. r. Hotsling, of Rochelle; Major
John A. Cheney, of Dixon; Major James
NJ. Beardsley, of Rock Island, and General
j. G.. Sheets, Of Oregon.
AT Fort Sill, Indian Territory, on the
2Sth ult, Gen. Sherman arrested Ssntanta,
Satank, and Big Tree, Indian chiefs, who
were among those who led the late raid
into Texas. While the arrests were being
made Lone Wolf made demonstration
that almost resulted in a general fight.
One Indian was killed, several shots were
fired, and the Indian camps stampeded
A New Orleans dispatch of the Sth says
the water in the city had fallen two inches
in the previous twenty-four hours. If no
further rains occurred the city would be
relieved of the overflow in few days.
In the International Typographical
Union at Baltimore, on the Sth, the Com
mittee on Fast Type-setting made re-
port, giving to George A. Ahrensberg, of
Philadelphia, the first prize; w. A. Ed
wards, Of Norfolk, Va, the second, and
James A. Butler, of Little Rock, Ark, the
third. A resolution was adopted recon-
mending subordinate unions to receive,
as far as practicable, union girls in offices
on an equality with men.
| At Baltimore, on the Sth, the Forest
City Base ball Club, of Rockford, defeated
the Pastimes, of the former City-17 to g..
The examination of the graduating class
of cadets at West Point concluded at noon
on the 9th. AL were successful in pass
ing the ordeal.
The Chicago White Stockings defeated
the Philadelphia Olympics in a game of
base ball played in the latter city on the
9th. Score, II to Q.
At Lincoln, Neb., on the Sth, the I'M
peachment Court, in the case of ex-Audi-
tor Gillespie, adjourned to the second
Tuesday in January next, and the Legis-
lature adjourned to the same day.
The seventeen years locusts have appear
ed in vast numbers in the woods and
groves surrounding Springfield, Ill.
The Government Board of Steamboat
Inspectors, after careful investigation of
the circumstances of the disaster to the
steamboat, w. r, Arthur, on the Missis-
sippi River, last fall, by which 65 lives
were lost, have reported that the engineers
of the boat were to blame.
The International Typographical Union,
recently in session in Baltimore, by a
vote of A to II, passed adversely on the
admission of colored printers to the sub
ordinate unions. Richmond, Va, was
chosen as the place of the next annual
meeting.
Two murderers, Jno. Roseborough ana
VIM. Harrison, both negroes, were hung
at Marion, Ark, on the 9th. Both strug-
gled violently, and had to be carried to the
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