Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-23

much as the unlawful combinations in
Union County, South Carolina, had not dis
persed, in accordance with his formerproc-
lamation, the writ of habeas corpus is sus-
! pendedin said county.
The Montauk Indians have been decided
by the Supreme Court of New York to be
trespassers on the lands occupied by them
on Long Island for many years. Thou
sands of acres thuscome into the possession
of specializing whites
Peter B. Sweeney has resigned the Com
missionership of Public Works of New
York city.
Charles O'COnnor stated on the 11th that
Tweediwas taking all the preliminary steps
that men take when they seek to elude JUS
tice by flight to a foreign land. He believed
that Tweed would certainly run away, and
that he would not be the only promi-
nent criminal who would quit the coun-
try; but wherever they go in Europe
they will find that they cannot remain
with impunity. They will be followed
wherever the law can follow.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says
that Fields seat in the Assembly will be
disputed on the ground of fraud in the
election, of which proof is so abundant
that Horatio Seymour will surely take
his seat.
The subscription in aid of the sufferers
in the West received by the New York
Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee,
from November 6 to November amounts
to $1,3SO9s, making the grand total so
far received 1881, ,9S9.67.
The clipper Abreck, one of the Russian
fleet, arrived in the harbor off Staten Is
land on the 11th
The farmers of the San Joaquin Valley,
Cal, are said to be starving. For two
years past the crops in that valley have en-
tirely failed on account of drouth. The
people were able to survive the first years
crop failure by selling their poultry, swine,
cattle, horses, etc. but the loss of sec
ond crop has completed their ruin. The
California journals are calling upon the
people of the State to contribute to the re-
lief of these sufferers.
Governor Fairchild has issued letter
of thanks to the people of the United
States for their timely aid to the sufferers
by the late fires in Wisconsin.
On the morning of the 18th a family
named Parks were found murdered in
their house near Henryville, Indiana. The
family consisted of Cyrus NJ. Parks and
wife Isabella, son John, aged 10, daughter
Evaline, aged II, and Ellen. aged 10. The
heads of all were terribly beaten and
crushed by some blunt instrument The
brains of Parks wife and son were scat
tered about the room. They were lying
III their beds. The daughters were found
sitting in the kitchen alive, but delirious
and fatally hurt. Shots had been heard in
the night by neighbors, but the bodies bore
no bullet marks. Parks was leading
member of a church near his house, and
much esteemed in the community.
BY an accident on the North Missouri
Railroad near Wellsville, on the 18th, two
soldiers, who were passengers on board
the train, were killed outright, and between
twenty and thirty were wounded, some of
them, it was feared, fatally.
A South Carolina dispatch of the 18th
reports that the United States Court at
Raleigh had sentenced large number of
the Ku-KluX to the Albany Penitentiary.
The trial of Mrs. Wharton, charged with
the poisoning of General Ketchum and
others, is to take place at Annapolis, Md,
on the 4th of December next. Mrs
Wharton has been transferred from Balti-
more to the Jail at Annapolis, where she
will await her trial
The following internal revenue ap-
pointments were made on the 18th
Robert G. Hutton, Collector of the Fifth
District of Michigan ; Edward Melbourne,
Assessor First Mississippi District r.
E. Chandler, Collector Sixth Iowa Jacob
o. Trick, Collector Tenth Pennsylvania
District.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says:
''It is officially announced that the Ger
man steamer Franklin, at quarantine,
has 40 cases of cholera on board. There
were % deaths on the voyage. Nearly
everybody aboard is more or less affected
Most of the cases were serious, and fur
ther deaths are probable. A rigid quar-
antine is enforced. Every effort will be
made to alleviate their sufferings, but care
will be taken to prevent the spread of the
contagion."
Elder Lindsey, of Utah, in sermon
at Williamsburg, n. Y, on the 18th, re-
ferring to the prosecutions" of the Nor
mons, said: "We are Gods chosen peo-
pie, and He is working A few weeks
ago Chicago was destroyed. This is but
a drop of water to what W soon hap
pen. We were driven from that State
| Qllinois) God said they should not live
there"
By returns received at Springfield up
to the 18th it was thought Beveridge's
Republican) majority in Illinois for Con-
gressman-at-Large would be about 15, 900.
1t is stated that General Howard recon-
mends that the Freedman's Bureau be
closed, as the remaining work can be done
by other departments.
The President, Secretary of War and
Gen. Sherman are said to approve the ac-
ton of Gen. Sheridan, both before and
during the Chicago fire, and the Secretary
of War has written Gen. Sheridan convey,
ing intelligence of said approval.
The Philadelphia Board of Health re
port shows the number of cases of small
pox in that city during the week ending
on the 18th, to have been 491, showing &
falling off from the previous week OF
eighty-five cases.
Alexander Frear, returned as elected tC
the Legislature from New York city, is
reported to have said that even if he was
not counted out of his seat he would no
take it. He added that no Tammany can
didate who had been elected to the State
Senate or Legislature would go to Albany
: this winter.
A New York dispatch of the 14th says
THE Health Board feel no uneasines
= about the cholera, butprofess to have fear
relative to the smallpox, yet only eigh
e new cases have occurred in the who'll