Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-15
THE NEW WORLD.

| for seiZing the American merchant steamer
Montijo, for revolutionary purposes.
THE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the 9th
at 1874
Another of the injured by the Westfeld
explosion, Francis Haggerty, of Brooklyn,
expired on the 3D., at his residence in that
city.
The President has appointed the follow
ing Postmssters: VIM. Weldon, Iowa
Falls, Iowa, reappointed; e. L. Meal
lister, Champaign, Ill. Jas. W. Patter-
son, Humboldt, Kan; Emerson J. FL.
Taylor, BoLemsn, Montana.
A fearful election riotis reported to have
occurred at La Mesilla, New Mexico, on
the 26th ult. Two meetings-Democratic
and RepublicEn-were held in the evening,
and after they adjourned general fight
ensued, in which seven persons were
killed, seven or eight mortally wounded,
and over twenty others more or less in
jured.
A largely-attended massmeetiDg OF cit
liens, irrespective of party, was held at
Cooper Institute, New York city, on the
evening of the 4th, to protest against the
alleged frauds on the part of the city
officials. A serles of twelve resolutions
was adopted, which declare the city and
county debt more than doubled within
the last two and 4 half years, being
now $11S,000000, or over $o3,O0O,OO0
more than when Mayor Rall WAS inaugur-
ated, while there is reason to believe that
many millions more will be paid out
on floating and contingent claims unless
the present officials are removed or
the proceedings arrested. The resolutions
name William NJ. Tweed, Richard Con-
molly, and A. Oakley Hall as the officers
directly arraigned at the bar of public
opinion for these offenses, and declare
that unless they can meet the charges by
other evidence and on different pleas than
have yet been furnished in their behalf,
the credit of the city of New York and
the material interests Of its citizens will
demand that they be deprived of the of
fees which they have disbonored and the
powers which they are abusing.
The Executive Committee of the Amer
ican Woman's Suffrage Association has
decided to hold the next annual meeting
in Philsdelphia on November % and 20.
The ofacial vote at the late election in
Kentucky was counted at Frankfort or
the 4th, and all the State officers commits
stoned. The official majorilies are as fol
lows: Governor, P. II. Leslie, 3697S
Lieutenant Governor, j. G. Carlisle, 80,
637; Attorney. General, John Rodmsr
39,S59; Auditor, D. Howard Smith, 40, l46
,, Treasurer, ]. w. Tate, S0,s3S; Register, j
A. Grant, 39,094; Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, II. A. NJ. Henderson, Al,
270 No ofacial returns were received
from Wolf County, where Leslie had 49,
! ! majority, Governor Leslie has selected
A. ]. James as Secretary of State. W. Fl
Bolts is to be Assistant Secretary.
AT large meeting of the Union Repub
'lican Association, in the Twentieth Dis
, trict of New York city, on the evening o
the 5th, a resolution was unanimously
adopted recommending Horace Greeley +
the National Convention IS the candidat
. of their choice for the Presidency.
' A Long Branch dispatch of the 9th say
d a committee of 20 of the Warmoth Lou
+. siana delegation had an interview wit
{ the President on that day, and laid befor
e him their grievances. During the conveI
sation the President said he had not al
a thorized the use of troops, and that Ger
r Reynolds, when he filed the requisition c
/. Marshal Pickard, did not know that the
v were to be used at a political convention
At Somers, Wis, on the Sd, a farme
4 named William Smith, aged seventy-thre'
q found couple of young men on his plac
,, engaged in shooting pigeons, Mr.. Smit
told them his wife was unwell and he di
a not want them shooting so close to h
house Sunday morning. Some angry WORD
: passed between them, when one of th
\ young men, only about twelve feet frol
Mr. Smith, raised his gun and fred at hin
~ ;, The shot took effect in his breast, and sha
tered his arm fearfully. 1t was feare
II the wound would prove fatal. The your
As men were subsequently arrested at Ken,
N sha. Their names are Jacob Neiderprir
N who did the shooting, and Fred. Wake
I'd Horace Greeley delivered an agricult
A. raj address at the fair of the TippecanC
r County Qnd.) Agricultural Society, on Il
ID 5th There were 5000 people in atten
i'd ance the second day of the fair.
1e The city election in Wilmington, De
on the 9th resulted in favor of the Repu
ne licAns. For President of the Counc
ia Joshua Mavis, has about 450 majorit
re and Kiligore, for Treasurer, 900.
hs The Charleston, s. c., Board of Heal
9n reports that no deaths from yellow few
I'D occurred within the twentyfour hou
1t ending on the morning of the 9th.
I'd Hon. p. II. Leslie, Governor-elect
an Kentucky, was inaugurated on the 81
~ with ceremonies usual upon such ocC
sd sions. The oath of Office was administ'
us ed by the venerable Judge RobertsC
al Chief Justice of Kentucky, who is oV
en- eighty years old. After the conclusion
TO- the ceremonies, Judge Robertson amour
n cd his resignation of the chiefjusticesh
n of the State.
ad AdVices from San Domingo, received
en- the 9th, report the arrival there of col
re missioner from Hayti, the object of who
on visit, it is said, is the negotiation of Sol
or treaty securing the independence of Ii
country.
re- Several days ago much excitement W
caused at the East by the finding of I
ng body OF a young woman in trunk whi
TX had been checked at New York city for O.
cago. On investigation the remains VIZ