Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-03-17
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The Mount Carmel, Pa, District Min
ers' and Laborers' Beneficial Association
has offered $500 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the parties who caused the
death of Hoffman.
A fire at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the
morning of the 9th, destroyed the Taylor
Hotel, eight mercantile establishments, the
Times newspaper Office, and a number of
other buildings. Loss about 100000 in
surance less than $4,000.
A severe earthquake occurred at Eureka,
Cal, on March g. Many chimneys were
thrown down, and the inhabitants greatly
frightened. No lives were lost.
In the United States Supreme Court, ON
the 9th, the case of Virginia and West
Virginia, suit in which the former sought
to recover the counties of Berkeley and
Jefferson, alleged to have been ceded to it
by the latter several years ago, and which
has been twice argued, was decided in
favor of West Virginia
AT meeting of the stockholders held
in Boston on the Sth, new Board of Di-
Company was chosen, and Thomas A.
Scott, of Pennsylvania was elected Presi.
dent. ,,
President Grant on the 9th made the
following appointments of members of the
Southern Claims Commission, as provided
for by the amendment to the Army Ap-
preparation bill, relative to the claims of
Southern loyalists: Judge Adds, Yer.
mont; ex-senator Howell, of Iowa, and
ex-Representative Ferris, of New York.
At Albany, N. Y, on the 9Th, DIR.
Lemuel Van Hoosen, while intoxicated
and laboring under an attack of deliriun'
tremens killed his wife by striking her on
the head with griddle. The Van Hoosen
family is one of the Oldest and most re-
spected families in that city.
The New York police authorities have
evidence pointing to a notorious burglar
and desperate as the murderer of Mr..
Nathan, the New York banker. A reward
of $4,000 is offered for his arrest.
Treasurer Spinner has decided that post.
masters must receive mutilated currency
for its full value in payment for postage
stamps, when, in cases of United States
notes, not more than one-twentieth of the
note Is missing; and in some cases of frac
tional currency, when not more than one.
twentieth is missing When notes and
fractional currency are mutilated beyond
the standard referred to, no one is com.
pelled to receive them for any part of theiI
value, and the only place where such notes
may be redeemed is at the United States
Treasury.
A recent San Francisco dispatch says
Mount Roarier, Washington Territory, ap
peared to be firing up for volcanic erup,
ton. The heat at the summit had grown
so great as to melt the SHOWS, though here
tofore the hottest summers only partially
melted them. There was a constant ennis
sion of steam, and some parties living in
the vicinity say smoke as we'll.
Helena, Ark, has been further dam
aged by severe gale of wind, lasting
fifty minutes. Much injury was done tC
buildings. Hailstones fell as large a!
pebbles, breaking nearly half the window;
in town.
A dispatch from Columbia, s. c., on thu
evening of the 9th, says large body o
men, armed, from East Tennessee anC
North Carolina, had made their appearances
in York and Chester counties, and fight
ing had been going on for several days
Reports were received that the most hor
rible outrages had been perpetrated il
those counties by both colored militia anC
Ku-Klux 1t was stated that Governo
Scott would, on the 10th, proclaim MARTA
law in York and Chester counties, an,
had telegraphed to President Grant ant
General Terry at Louisville, asking 70
troops.