Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-16
PERSONAL.

James Hughes, charged with the murder
of Benjamin Nathan, at New York, has
been discharged. There was no ground
for the suspicion
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 4th: Post -Masters-Rob-
ert A. Cameron, Greeley, Col Jno. s.
Climmer, Salem, o.; James Taylor, Fort
Howard, Wis, ]. NJ. Turnbull, Monmouth,
Ill.
Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia. has
been admitted to the bar of the U. S. Su-
preme Court at Washington.
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 9Th: George c. Stevens,
Collector of Customs at Milwaukee, Wis. !;
Isaac FL. Duval, Assessor of Internal Rev
enue for the First District of West Vir-
ginia. ..
Mrs. Edwin Spotswood, while singing
in choir at a church parsonage near
Memphis, which was donated to the
church by her and her sister, fell dead, of
heart disease.
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 7th: NJ. Mabily, of
Iowa, Principal Clerk of Public Lands !;
James FL Jayle, Register of Land Office at
East Saginaw, Mich. Edmund Browning,
Register of Land Office at Indianapolis
President James B. Angel, of the Yer
mont University, has been unanimously
elected by the Board of Regents to be
President of the Michigan University, at
Ann Arbor. President Angel has ac-
cepted, and will enter upon his new duties
August 1.
The statue of Hon. James Guthrie ar
rived at Louisville from Italy, ria New
Orleans on the 9th.
The Fenian exiles received splendid
ovation in Tammany Hall, New York city,
on the Sth, from members of the Tam
many Society.
The Executive Committee of the Far
ragut Memorial Association has sent cir
cular to the principal cities with regard to
a suitable memorial to the late Admiral.
No news, either good or bad. had been
received at Washington from the steamer
Tennessee up to the 11th. 1t was stated
on the 10th that the government would
dispatch steamers both from Key West
and Savannah in search of the missing
I
vessel.
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 10th: Postmasters-J.
L. Bryan, Lebanon, o.; Thos. l.. Reynolds,
st. Joseph, Mich. E. s. Stackpole, Deer
Lodge, Montana; Philip Lawrence, Mineral
Point, Wis; E. II. Armsley, Atlanta, Ill.
Jno. Kahl, Shelby, o.; ]. F. Vaughan,
Lawrenceburg, Ind NJ. C. Woodruff, Iowa
Falls, Iowa; III. ]. Brown, Anderson, Ind.
POLITICAL.
Florida has voted not to change its cap
ital from Tallahassee to Jacksonville.
The Massachusetts House has defeated
the bill permitting the opening of the
Public Library on Sundays, by vote of
129 to 80.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of the 9TH
says the Throwing out of three Repubh-
can members of the House by coalition
of Democrats, and Brooks and Hodges,
Republicans, has given the Lower House
to the Democracy. The Senate is strongly
Republican"
Both houses of the New York Legis-
lature met in joint convention on the Sth,
and elected John Lewis and Horatio War
ner, Democratic candidates, as Regents of
the University. Horace Greeley and d.
w. Bristol were the Republican candidates.
The lower branch of the New Jersey
Legislature, on the Sth, ratified the Fif-
teenth Amendment by vote of "a to "a
Resolutions censuring President Grant
for interfering in elections, especially in
New York, were defeated in the Ohio
Senate on the sth-yeas, "A; nays, II.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of the 9th
says: Brooks was declared not duly
elected and ousted last night, two-thirds
of the Senators concurring. The Demo
crats all voted in his favor, and the result
is considered as a victory Tor the admins
tration over the coalition of Democrats
and Brooks and Mcdonald Republicans"
A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch of the 9th
SAYS: "A concurrent resolution, instruct
ing the Attorney General and Treasurer
of the State to demand from Governor
David Butler the immediate payment oi
the five per cent fund, taken in violation
oflaw, was passed without division. The
Legislature has adjourned till March Is, tC
give the committee to inves igate
the special acts of the Governor and Other
State officers, and the Land Commission
ers, during the last three years, time to
complete the investigation A large mum.
ber of persons are being summoned, and
lively times are anticipated"