Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-30

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Logan; State Treasurer, Isaac II. Welsh,
of Belmont; Auditor of State, James
Williams, of Franklin Attorney. General,
Francis B. Pond, of Morgan; School
Commissioner, L. IL. Harvey, of Lake
Clerk Of the Supreme Court, Captain
Rodney Foos, of Clinton; Member of the
Board of Public Works, G. II. Hosmer, of
Muskingham The following State Ex-
ecutive Committee was appointed: r. d.
Harrison, Chairman Rodney Foos, Secre.
tary; Geo. X. Nash, Treasurer; Chas. G.
Walcutt, Jas. Williams, Francis B. Pond.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee met at Columbus on the 21st, and or.
ganized by electing Chas N. Allen, Chair
man, and Jas. G.. Cral, Secretary. The
following Executive Committee was ap-
pointed A. G.. Thurman, of Columbus (;
Jno. G. Jones, of Cincinnati; ID. j. Allen,
of Mercer; Jacob Rinehart and Samuel
Thompson, of Columbus.
Commodore M. F. Maury, of Virginia,
has been elected President of the Univer-
sity of Alabama, and will accept.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 21st says
the flood from the waters of the broken
ca nal had again invaded the recently sub
merged district. The water had risen ten
or twelve inches in the rear of the city,
and the cutters on Canal street were over.
flowed as far as Dryades street. Both Ba-
sin and Rampant streets were partially cov-
cred. The moving of families from the
submerged district still continued. The
levee ON Claiborne Canal, in the rear of
Poland street, Third District, was cut on
the 10Th, in five places, by four miscreants,
who went there in flatboat, and escaped
when the police arrived.
A panic was created in the New York
stock market ON the 21st 1t seems com
bination had been formed some time be-
fore, to force up the price of the Chicago,
Rock Island 81 Pacific Railroad stock, and
get a corner on the bears. The clique
engaged in this movement had succeeded
i'll running up the stock to 130, when a
failure to raise one million dollars which
they were to put up as further margins on
the 21st, caused collapse, and the stock
fell to 10 in two hours time. VIM S
Woodward, one of the principal men in
the combination, failed for a large amount,
causing several minor failures.
In game of baseball at New York on
and the Washington Olympics, the
former club was victorious, scoring IL to
their opponents 4. At Philadelphia, the
Cleveland Forest Citys defeated the Ex-
perts, of Philadelphia-10 to 0.
The Democratic State Convention of
California has renominated Henry Haight
for Governor. The other nominees are !;
For Lieutenant Governor, Mr.. Lewis, of
Tehala; Supreme Judges, Jackson Temple
and Seldom s. Wright
News from Vice-P President Colfax, on
the 22d, was to the effect that he was rap
idly recovering his former health, and the
prospect was that he would soon be well
as ever.
A special dispatch from Dayton, O., on
the 22d, says Mrs. Vallandigham was in an
unconscious condition. BY many it is
feared she has lost, or will lose, her rea-
son, while others declare that the double
shock she has recently encountered in the
loss of both her brother and husband,
threaten fatal consequences, and that her
death is merely matter of brief time.
On the 23d a collision occurred on the
Nashville IL Northwestern Railroad, near
McEwen's Station, between freight and
passenger train, r. M. Vass, passenger,
standing on the platform, was killed, his
head being cut in two and body mangled.
w. s. Conadon, baggage master, and John
Bonner, brakemen, were badly injured.
Joseph Wagner, wife murderer, of
Rochester, N. Y, has been sentenced to be
hanged August H.
According to New York dispatch of
the 22d the bottom was dropping out of
the State of New Jersey. In Warren
County a number of deep holes had been
suddenly made by the earth sinking down
into some fearful, unknown, subterranean
depths. The first noticed was in the bot
tom of the Morris and Essex canal on the
seven-mile level between Broadway and
New Village. All the water in the canal
went down the hole, then half dozen
more holes opened in the corn fields and
woods, taking down into the bowels of
the earth great patches of corn and even
sinking trees out of sight. In addition to
this this there were scores of great long
and deep fissures. Then another big hole
opened in the canal The widest excite
ment prevailed among the people.
In New York, on the 23d, the Olympics,
of Washington, defeated the Ecklords, of
Brooklyn, in game of base ball-11 to B..
The Brooklyn Atlantics beat the Kckion-
gas, of Fort Wayne-22 to II.
The special session OF the Illinois Legis-
lature adjourned ON the 22d.
On the evening of the 10th the town of
Eldorado, Kansas, and adjoining country,
was visited with one of the most terrific
storms ever known in that part of the State.
Over one hundred houses were demol-
ished, several lives were lost, and many
families were rendered destitute. An ap-
peal made in behalf of the sufferers says !;
"These people are greatly in need of re-
lief The people of the county are not
able to afford adequate aid, Being new
settlers, they have not as yet produced
enough for subsistence, and what money
they had has been expended in provisions
and improvements"
The Chicago Journal of the 23d says: a
large number of counterfeit national bank
bills of the ten dollar denomination were
in circulation in that city, purporting to
have been issued by the First National
Bank of Philadelphia. The work on the
bills is splendidly executed, SO much so,
indeed, as almost to defy detection of the
fraud
Some notorious thieves entered the
Southern-bound express car, on the Mobile
s. Ohio Railroad, on the 18th, overcame