Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-16

The Chicago White Stockings and the
Mutuals, of New York, played game oI
base ball in the latter city on the 5th
Score TO in favor Of the Mutuals. Al
Philadelphia, the Rockford Forest Cityt
beat the Athletics, of Philadelphia-11 ia
10. tf Il
The trial of @. O. Bowen for bigamy
was concluded at Washington on the 3D.
the jury returning verdict Of guilty. A
motion for new trial was made, and the
prisoner was held in $4,000 bail.
The President has appointed George w
Curtis, of New York; Joseph Medill, Of
Chicago; Alexander G.. Cattell, of New
Jersey Damson A. Walker, of Pennsyl-
vania; E. B. Elliott, of the Treasury De.
partment, and Joseph II. Blackfan, of the
Post Office Department, to carry out the
object of that clause in the appropriation
bill passed March 8, 1871, authorizing the
President to prescribe such rules and reg
ulations for the admission of persons into
the civil service of the United States az
will best promote the efficiency thereof
and to ascertain the fitness of each candi-
date in respect to age, health, character,
knowledge and ability for the service into
which he seeks to enter The Board will
convene on the 2Sth at the Interior De-
partment.
At San Francisco on the 3D., the motion
for new trial in the Fair murder case was
overruled, the attempt to impeach Jurors
having failed, and Judge Dwinelle, after
briefly alluding to the crime and the inn
partial trial she had had, sentenced Laura
d. Fair to be hanged, on the 28th day of
July.
Hon. Joshua Van SAINT has been nomi.
mated for Mayor of Baltimore by the Dem
ocratic and Conservative Convention.
The election takes place in October,
The International Typographical Union
met at Baltimore on the 5th. Sixty-fo
Unions were represented by seventy eight
delegates. VIM. J. Hammond, of New
Orleans, was reelected President. The
other officers chosen are NJ. r. Walsh, of
New York, First Vice President; J. A.
Cussley, of Baltimore, Second Vice -Presi-
dent; John Collins, of Cincinnati, Secre-
tary and Treasurer; and Frederick K Ira
cey, of Chicago, Corresponding Secretary.
Letters were recently received by Mr..
Risley, at Washington, from his daughters,
stating that Mr.. Seward and his party were
at Suez on the 5th of May, and were 60
ing thence through Egypt. They had al.
Seady travelled over 10000 miles.
A Washington dispatch of the 9Th says
there "is absolutely no truth in the re.
Gently published Washington dispatch
that General Sickles had notified the
! Spanish Government that the question OF
restoring the sequestrated estates OF
Americans in Cuba must be settled as the
alternative of the employment of force.
These very claims are referred with all
matters in dispute for settlement by the
convention recently concluded. The idea
of force, therefore, is preposterous."
| 1t is stated that the salaries of post
masters throughout the country are to be
readjusted on the basis of their receipts
during July and August this year, and a
new schedule of salaries will go into effect
July /, 1872.
| Rumors having been circulated that the
Department of Agriculture had predicted
a very short crop of cotton in 1871, a
Washington dispatch of the 9th says it is
! proper to state that no estimates of the
growing crop have been made officially.
"No reports concerning it have been is
sued this season, on an estimate of COM
parative acreage, and the statement of the
condition of the crop will be made in
about two weeks"
Two whites and one negro, herders,
were scalped on the Sd by the Brule Sioux,
near Mcpherson, Neb. The same band
ran off herd of horses near there.
A dispatch from New Orleans on the
evening of the 9th says $500 houses had
their ground floor under water. More
than that number of families were home
less and desolate. The damage by the
food was estimated at 100000.
The population of Montreal, Canada, is
100, 900, according to a recent census.
At the recent Homeopathic Convention
at Philadelphia, resolution was adopted
declaring that the exclusion of medical
men from positions Of honor and trust in
the public institutions of the country oI
in the government service on account Of
their medical opinions, is an abuse o.
power and ought no longer to be toler
ated.
The bridge of the North Weare Rail
road over the Merrimac, at Manchester, N
ii was destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss
very heavy.
Horace Greeley reached New York city
from his Southern tour on the 7th.
President Grant arrived at West Poin
on the 9th, and was received with a ma
tional salute.
The Comptroller of the Currency ha,
ordered the National Banks to furnish hin
with the names of their shareholders OF
the first Monday of July next
The laying of track on the Utah South
ern Railroad commenced on the 9th, Brig
ham Young driving the first spike, in thu
presence of large concourse of citizens
Vice-President Colfax, in letter to {
friend in New York, attributes his recen
illness to overwork.
General Thomas j. Rodman, who ha
for several years past been in command o
the United States Arsenal and other gov
ernment works at Rock Island, ILL.,, dieC
in that city on the 7th, aged about fifty
years.
The Gulf coast of Texas was visited b,
a terrific gale, accompanied by heavy rain
on the Sd, 4th and 5th, resulting in grea
damage on land and water. A part of tn
city of Galveston was inundated. Con
siderable damage is also reported else
where in Southern Texas.
Hon Willard Warner, of Alabama, ha
formally declined the appointment o
Governor of New Mexico.
A new tariff for western freight adopte,
by the leading railways at the East is full,