Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-15
1. UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO THURSDAY, JUNE 1871.

| Barnsted, Assistant. A Democratic Ser
geant-at Arms and Democratic Doorkeep-
ers were also elected.
In letter dated Fort Sill, Comanche
Reservation, May 25, addressed to the
editor of New York paper, General
Sherman says: 81 hereby state, and mean
| all say, that never have been, and new
will be, a candidate for President; that if
nominated by either party, l 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 LIST was PA, with a
total capacity of 192,O59 gallons. OF this
number, Illinois has %; Indiana, 10; Ken
lucky, So; Ohio, "a, and Pennsylvania, 56.
President Grant has appointed Hiram
A. Parker, to be Register of the Land
Office at Beatrice, Neb. Henry NJ. 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 a 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; e-Presidents, Gen
eral S. d. Atkins, of Freeport; General T
J. Henderson, of Princeton; Colonel r. o.
Wilson, of Sterling Secretary, Major A. j.
Pinkham, of Dixon; Executive Commit
tee, Surgeon s. G. Plummer, of Rock
Island; Major Frank Clendening, of Nor
rison; Captain r. A. Smith, of Sycamore
Major j. r. Hotaling, 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 Santanta,
Satank, and Big Tree, Indian chiefs, who
were among those who led the late raid
into Texas. While the arrests were being
that almost resulted in 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 nc
further rains occurred the city would be
relieved of the overflow in a few days.
In the International Typographical
Union at Baltimore, on the Sth, the Com
mittee on Fast Type-setting made a 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 5
The examination of the graduating class
of cadets at West Point concluded at moor
on the 9th. All were successful in pass
ing the ordeal.
The Chicago White Stockings defeated
the Philadelphia Olympics in a game o
base ball played in the latter city on tht
9th. Score, II to 2.
At Lincoln, Neb., on the Sth, the I'm
parchment Court, in the case of exAudi
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 anC
groves surrounding Springfield, Ill.
The Government Board of Steamboa
Inspectors, after careful investigation o
the circumstances of the disaster to tn
steamboat, w. R. Arthur, on the Missis
sippi River, last fall, by which 65 live
were lost, have reported that the engineer
of the boat were to blame.
The International Typographical Unior
recently in session in Baltimore, by
vote of A to II, passed adversely on tn
admission of colored printers to the sui
ordinate unions. Richmond, Va, wa
chosen as the place of the next annus
meeting.
Two murderers, Jno. Roseborough an
VIM. Harrison, both negroes, were hun
at Marion, Ark, on the 9th. Both struG
gled violently, and had to be carried to th
scaffold.