Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-06

fifty yards up hill and terribly msngled.
The mill was total wreck.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention met at Worcester on the 9Th.
Congressman George F. Hoar was elected
permanent President. A letter was read
from Governor Claflin, absolutely decljn.
ing to allow his name to be used for re-
nomination. Mr.. Loring, in a speech,
withdrew his name from the contest.
The vote on candidate for Governor re.
suited In 643 ballots for William B. Wash.
burn and 484 for General Butler. General
Butler is reported to have declared that he
accepted the action of the Convention and
would abide the result.
The New York Republican State Con-
vention assembled at Syracuse on the 9th.
Amid much confusion temporary organ
izl ion was effected by the election of An
drew D. White as Chairman. The COM
mittee on contested seats made a majority
report, sustaining the action of the Sta'e
Committee in reorganizing the party in
New York city, declaring the organiza-
ton which 1t has establ shed the regular
aud only Republican organization in the
city, and directing the committee to per-
feet and consolidate said organization the
majority report recommended, for the sake
Of harmony, thst both delegations from
New York be admitted to the Conven-
tion, with the right to cast half of one
vote, and that each of said dele
cations should present three Republicans
as members of the State Committee, but
no person should be presented who holds
Office under the present State or Municipal
governments, or receives profit or emolu-
ment therefrom The minority of the
committee reported resolution in favor
of the admission Of the delegation headed
by Horace Greeley The majority report
was adopted, whereupon the Fenton- Gree
ley delegation from New York city with.
drew, also the delegates from the First
District of st. Lawrence The Conven-
ton adjourned to the 28th.
The large lake propeller Nebraska was
burned in the Chicago River on the night
of the 9th, and almost totally destroyed.
She had on board at the time of the fire
cargo of about $4,000 bushels of wheat
and oats, which were total loss. The
value of the boat and contents was about
$125,0OO.
A dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn states
that Colonel D. NJ. Nelson, son of Judge
T. A. r. Nelson, of the Supreme Court,
shot and killed General j. II. Canton, of
Alabama on the evening of the 9th, In
personal reno jntre.
News is received that the Brazilian
Chamber of Dep ties has adopted the bill
for the emancipation of the slaves.
The full Republican State ticket in Mass
achusetts is as follows: For Governor,
VIII lam r. Washblrn; Lieutenant Cover
nor, j. P. Tucker; Secretary of State, Oh
iver Warner; Attorney General, Charles
R. Trim; Auditor. Charles Elliott; Treas-
urer, CHARTS Adams.
Hon. John p. Hale, who has been par
TALLY paralized forsome time, was Knocked
down by a runaway team, at Dover, N. H.,
on the 2Stb, and had one of his knees
fractured. He was comfortable in the
evening but very feeble.
In the New York Republican State Con-
veniion, on the 2Sth, some of The st. Law
renee delegates expressed their willingness
to remaio In the convention, and it was
announced that the delegation from the
First, Third, Sixth, and Eighth districts
of Kings did not withdraw from the con.
vention owing to the previous nights ac-
ton. The nominations made are For
Secretary of State, G. Hilton SIibuer; /;
Treasurer, Thomas E RsiIes; Attorney
General, Francis c. Barlow; State Sur.
veyor and Engineer, E. Il. Roberts Canal
Commissioner, William Barley; State
Prison Inspector, Thomas Kirkpatrick.
John Quincy Adams has written letter
accepting the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts,.
A Washington dispatch of the 2Sth says
at is rumored that discrepancy has
| been discovered in the accounts of another
army paymaster, almost as large as that of
Hodge. For the present, the name of the
party implicated, as vel as the details of
the defalcation, are kept secret. The Pay
master General, since the defalcation of
Hodge, has instituted a general inquiry
into the accounts of the paymasters, and
it is asserted that the last was discovered
IN this way"
Judge Field, of the United States Cir.
cult Court, District of Nevada, has de-
cided In the matter of settlers on land
along the TTuckee River, claimed under a
lpr, hxr
clfic Railroad, that the grant was peremp-
tory, taking effect Immediately on passing
and the settlers have no rights in the
property.
The grand jury at New Haven, Conn,
have found true bill against Mrs. Lydia
Sherman, the "modern Borgia," charged
with poisoning her husband and several of
her children. She will be tried in Octo-
ber.
1t appears, from statistics at the Land
Department, that 10000 settlers made bona
fde entries on the public lands last year.
Since the passage Of The Homestead act,
in 1862, there have been 100000 entries
These alone make 10000 moro landholders
than there are in Great Britain.
Grant Oliver and Anderson Holland,
colored, were taken from jail at Winches,
ter, Tenn, on the night of the 9th, and
hanged, by party of ten disguised men.
They had been committed on the charge
of burning a Methodist church, and the
II sidenCe of Henderson Wagner. The
church was burnt in re alia,ioa for the
burning of negro church. Wagner bad
made himself obnoxious to the negroes by
a contest to get possession of negro girl
hired by him.
James H. Clanton, Chairman of the Ala
bama Democratic State Committee, died al
Montgomery on the 29th
A YnuNa wife In Troy cured her hns