Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-18


Anniversary at Philadelphia.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says |
Chief Justice Chase had written to afriend |
there that he was rapidly improving, and
expected to take his seat on the bench at
the approaching term of the Supreme
Court.
Friends of Clement L. Vallandigham
held meeting at Dayton on the 9Th, and
appointed committee to report plan for
erecting suitable monument to his
memory.
The returns from the North Carolina
election received on the 9th indicate
Republican success in the State and the
defeat of the proposed convention.
The Massachusetts, Democratic State
Convention is to be held at Springfield on
the 4th of September.
The celebrated trotting mare Purity,
while exercising, few mornings ago, on
the driving park at Buffalo, dropped dead
from heart disease. At the time Of the
accident she had trotted over the track in
2:25, and was on the second round on a
2:20 gait.
A New York dispatch of the 7th says: :
"Seven vessels arrived at the lower quaran-
tine, within the past few days, with cases
of yellow fever on board The threatened
approach of cholera is being met by every
precautionary measure on the part of the
health authorities in the city and at quaran-
tine"
The President, accompanied by General
Porter, returned to Washington on the
evening of the 7th.
A Washington dispatch of the 7th says
"The subscriptions to the new loan to-
day were t22,650. The amount of sub
scriptions during the past week show a
considerable increase over that of any
other week for nearly two months pre-
vious"
According to the figures of the pub
Usher of the Chicago City Directory, who
has recently completed thorough can
vass of the city, the population of Chicago
is 334, ,270; the United States census gave
299,933. There are 97,27s families in the
city, of which 2S,S70 are Germans, S,S39
native Americans, and 1915 Irish.
The State election in Kentucky oc
Cured on the 7th. A Louisville dispatch
on the morning of the 9Th says Th'
Democratic majority in the State is vari
ously estimated here at from 10000 tC
10000. Disturbances are reported from
various parts of the State. At Frankfort
after the polls closed, riot occurred, il
which one hundred shots were fired. w
ID. Gilmore, a clerk in the Auditors office
and Silas Bishop, both whites were killed
and several whites and four or five coloret
wounded, though not seriously.
Hon. George II. Pendleton arrived il
New York city, from Europe, on the stf
James Crutchel, an English resident o
the District of Columbia, has filed tn
first claim against the United States unde
the Treaty of Washington. Our Govern
ment seized his Mount Vernon cane fac
tory at the commencement of the war, fc
military purposes, and damaged the mi
chinery.
A Washington dispatch of the Sth says
"The report recently circulated ths
Charles Francis Adams has declined tn
appointment of arbitrator under the Treat
! of Washington is incorrect. The Pres
dent o-day received telegram from ths
gentleman informing him of its accep
ance."
President Grant, on the Sth, sent a con
p munication to General Pleasanton, form
J, ally suspending the latter from the ot1t
of Commissioner of Internal Revenu
t On receiving the notification, Pleasanto
s vacated the office, and Deputy Commi
sioner Douglass Immediately entered upo
s the duties of the position.
IS The third trial of George Vanderpo'
" for the murder, at Manistee, of Herbe
Field, was begun at Hastings, Mich, c
u the Sth.
n General Allen Rutherford, recently r
e turned to Washington from North Caro-
ma, estimates the Republican majority
g. that State at from ten to twelve thousan
ic On the morning of the 9th body
a. armed men, about $50 in numbC
t. went to the Frankfort, KY, Jail, deman
r. ed the key from the jailor, and opened Il
lie Jail door, taking out a negro that had col
mitted an outrage upon the person
at Mrs. Pfeiffer few days before, also
h, negro by the name of Washington, WI
le it is said, was the first man that fired
H. pistol in the riot of the 7th, and hui
ii. them both about half mile from I
Jail.
ed The New Jersey Democratic State Co
nj vention for the nomination of candids
in for Governor has been called to meet
Trenton on Wednesday, September 20.
in N. w. Cove, ex.Secretary of State
Mt New Hampshire, died at Concord on t
nj. 9th, of chronic dyspepsia.
lv Another victim of the Westtield exp
pr. sion died in New York city on the 8
mt making the total number of deaths 100
The Vineland Railroad, connecting N
he York direct with Vineland and Sol
els Jersey, opened on the 9th, with the f
Ok. passenger train to New York.
a The New York State Republican O
vention is called to meet on the goth
tn September.
ily The Pennsylvania State Tempera
Ors Convention, which met at Harrisburg
the 9th, nominated Barr Spangler, of L
m. caster for Auditor General, and Hon
of A. Wheeler, of Mercer County, for
He veyor-General.
of The New York Tribune of the 9th hi
,sts dispatch from the United States Mars
bed at Helena, Montana, announcing the
ing ton of Clagget, Republican, as Dele!
en- to Congress, by 1000 majority.
,er- by direction of the President, the
trict Land Office now located at Humbc
Kansas, will, on and after September
next, be located at Independence, Nj
ttb gomery County, Kansas.
The first bale of cotton raised in G
,ns. gia this year was received at Savannah
In. the 9th. 1t was grown in Decatur Cou