Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19

Fly bar, on the MISSISSIPPI, on lne nlSnt
of the 14th. The number of lives lost is
about thirty, including four women and
three children
ALI but five of the shoe manufactures of
New York city, lately suspended on occa-
sion of the Crispin strike, have resumed
work, generally conceding to the Crispin
terms.
The total debt of Massachusetts,, funded
and unfunded, is S2S, ,269, ,SS1.93, and the
sinking fund for its redemption amounts to
$15,000,000. The debt was decreased $2,-
552. .49S09 during the last year.
The Jersey City water works were re-
paired on the 14th.
PERSONAL.
Captain Ayre, of the steamer Bombay
whose conduct at the time he ran into and
sunk the United States steamer Oneida
caused his suspension for the term of six
months, has, at the expiration of the time,
been notified by the Peninsular and
Oriental Steamship Company, his employ
ers, that his services are no longer re-
quired.
The Directors of the Home Insurance
Company of New Haven, Conn, made
an assignment, on the 9th, of the assets
of the Company to Samuel E. Mervin, Jr.
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate by the President on the 9th were ::
Stephen Coffin, to be Indian Agent at
Warm Springs, Oregon; ]. E. Kellogg,
Pension Agent at La Crosse, Wis; ]. II.
Knight, Register at Bayfield,, Wis. Post
masters-Martha F. Gordon, Coalsville,
Pa; Edward Shussy, Beverly, Ind.
Winnie Ream's statue of Lincoln was
temporarily unveiled, on the 7th, in the
rotunda of the Capitol at Washington for
inspection by the Secretary of the In
terror, prior to the formal acceptance of
the work by Congress. All present ex-
pressed the highest satisfaction at the
artistic manner in which the work had
been performed.
Ex-Postmaster General Randall has
recently returned from Japan, whittier
he accompanied Hon. w. III. Seward. He
says both of Governor Stewards arms
were completely paralyzed, so that he was
entirely deprived of their use. With this
exception, his health seemed to be unim-
paired He proposed to extend his trip to
India, and, on his way home, will visit St.
Petersburg, upon invitation of the Gar
of Russia.
NJames Kelly, postmaster of New York
city under Mr. Lincoln, died on the evening
of the 10th.
John L. Murphy has been appointed to
the Senate by the President, as Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana
Territory.
1t is now stated from Washington that
Hon. Hamilton Fish will retire from the
Cabinet as Secretary of State, on the ad-
journment of the present session of Con-
gress, and that Hon. Oliver P. Morton, of
Indiana, will be appointed in his place.
Hon. B. Gratz Brown was on the 9th
inaugurated as Governor of Missouri.
The Ohio House has adopted a resolu-
ton, by vote of 6S to 16, granting per,
mission to place memorial of Lincoln in
the rotunda of the State House.
A Washington dispatch of the 11th says
there was authority for asserting that al
rumors, since the resignation of Secretary
Cox, of Cabinet changes, are without s
particle of foundation.
The following nominations were sent tt
the Senate on the 11th: Willis S. Drum
mond, Commissioner of General Lane
Office; John Walker, Postmaster at Au
rora, Ind.
Hon. John Covode, ex-M. c., died a
Harrisburg, Pa, on the 18th, aged 63.
In billiard match at Buffalo on the 18th
between Parker and Rudolphe, for tn,
championship of America and 81 ,000, tn
former was the winner by score of $50
to 1926.
The first White House reception of tn,
season was given on the evening of tn
10th. 1t was given by Mrs. Presiden
Grant, and was very largely attended.
Nominations were made on the 18th
S. A. Strickland, Nebraska, Governor o
Utah Territory; Joshua Armitage, Indial
Agent for the Blackfeet and neighborin.
tribes; VIM. Goodloe, Pension Agent a
Lexington, KY.
A Washington special of the 18th say
Hon. B. F. Wade is to be president of tn
San Domingo Commission, and the othel
members are President Andrew D. White
of Cornell University, and DR.. Samuel G
Howe, of Boston. General Franz Sige
declined the appointment of Secretary t
the Commission, on the ground that he di'
not think himself sufficiently acquainte'
with the Spanish language to undertak
the responsible duties of the position
: Hon. Allan G. Burton, of Kentucky, ha
been appointed in his place.
The Senate, in executive session on tn
18th, confirmed the nomination of Vice-Ad
miral Porter to be Admiral, by vote c
80 to 10.
The murderer of Mr.. Rogers, in Me-
York city, on the morning of Decembe
81, 1868, has just been discovered, in th
person of convict in the Auburn Stat
Prison, named Francis E. Pinton.
At the request of the San Doming
Commission, Professor VIM. B. Case, 70
merly of California, has been appointe
, Geologist and Minerologist of the Con
mission.
Justice Byron Paine, of the Wisconsi
I Supreme Court, died at Madison on th
night of 18th, of pneumonia.
, Mr.. Bliss, of the firm of Morton, Bli'
& Co., New York, has been elected Pres
dent of the Union Pacific Railroad, ]
: place of Oliver Ames, resigned.
I POLITICAL.
? At the municipal election at Brownvill
Tenn, on the 7th, the Republicans electt
their entire ticket, except one Alderman
4 A Democratic State Convention Fl
4 Texas has been called to meet at Aust
e | January % for tho rurnOse of effectinp