Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-03-03
PERSONAL,

PERSONAL.
The bodies of Doc Simmons, engineer
of the express train, and the stranger en-
gineer who was on the engine with him,
were recovered from the New Hamburg
wreck on the 18th. From letters and pa
pers upon the person of the latter, his
name was ascertained to be James Hum
phrey, of Carmansville, Pa.
The Columbia Typographical Union, at
Washington, on the 18th, admitted to its
membership Keith Smith, colored printer,
employed in the government printing
Office, by vote of 800 yeas to So nays.
This is the first colored printer ever ad-
mitied to that Union.
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 18th E. G. Bryan, Reg
lister of Land Office at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
ostmasters-Francis Brooks, Defiarce,
Ohio; T. G. Shurtz, Marshalltown, Iowa
E. Little, Independence, Iowa.
The Texas Legislature has voted 81 1885
to pay for portrait of Gen. Sam Houston.
General Halpine, the liberated Fenian
prisoner, arrived at Boston, per steamer.
Siberia, on the goth.
p, Rev. Joseph Chester, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed District Secretary of the
Western Tract and Book Society. -
On the 18th Bishop Whitehouse for
mally suspended Rev. G. f. Cheney, of
Chicago, as a rector Mr.. Cheneys
church, however, requested him to con-
tinue to officiate as their pastor, and he
accordingly preached as usual on the 10th,
and would probably continue to fill the
pulpit of Christ Church, which is not the
property of the Bishop or the Diocese.
Mr.. Cheney has solemnly protested against
the action of the Ecclesiastical Court and
the sentence of the Bishop.
General J. b. Msgruder died at Hous-
ton, Texas, on the 10Th.
The jury in the trial at Washington of
G. @. Bowen, member of Congress from
South Carolina, on charge of having
three wives, all living, failed to agree after
being out all night, and were discharged
on the ffR- They are said to have stood
eleven foT conviction and one for acquittal.
VIM. G. Gibbs, Governor of Rhode Is
land from 1921 to 1924, died at Newport
on the 21st, aged "a
At the annual election of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad, held at
New York on the 21st, all the old officers
were elected.
F. Bret Harte arrived in New York on
the 21st
The funeral of Edward H. Simmons,
better known as doc" Simmons, engineer,
killed in the New Hamburg disaster, took
place in New York city ON the 21st A
large number of people were in attendance,
and the greatest sympathy was manifested
for the family of the deceased, and respect
for his heroism.
Earl de Grey, Professor Montague
Bernard and Lord Tenderden, of the Joint
High Commission, Viscount Frederick
Goderich, and Donald Mckay arrived at
New York on the 22d, ON the steamer
Cuba.
The Fenian exiles, thirteen in number,
called at the Executive Mansion in Wash
ington, on the 22d, in accordance with
previous arrangements, and were intro
duced to the President by member of the
City Council of Washington. After pay
ing their respects short conversation
ensued, the Fenians assuring the Presi-
dent that their treatment in English
prisons had told severely upon the health
of some of them, and expressing an anx
iety to present written statement of theil
case to this government. To this the
President responded that they could do so
and whatever was proper to be done by
, the government would be performed.
. The English members of the Join
High Commission reached Washington OF
the 23d
/ The nominations sent to the Senate OF
} the gath were John @. Witcher, Collecto
of Internal Revenue for the Third Distric
4 of West Virginia; Cornelius Hedges
7 United States Attorney for Montana.
The Ohio Editorial Convention a
. Akron on the Gath elected the following
s officers for the ensuing year; President
r W. T. Bascom, Mt. Vernon Vice-P Presi
3 dents, Joshua Sexton, Urbana; S. ID. Han
T ris, RaSena; Treasurer, p. Cunio, San
8 dusky; Secretary, s. L. Everett, AkroI
) ]. Frost, of Massillon, was selected to co
Q leet the early history of the Ohio press fc
s the next meeting, which will take place q
o Cleveland.