Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-13
THE NEW WORLD.


Gold closed in New York on the 5th al
l131S@ll3sl
The President has appointed Charles VI.
Travis United States Consul at Para, Brazil
Francis Moroney, young stone-cutter at
New York, is reported to have fallen heir to
an English estate worth s30O,OOO
The New York Hcrold denies the imputa.
tions OF fraud cast upon Stanley's alleged
discovery Of Livingstone, and gives the evil
dence of former correspondents of Living
stone, including a son of Professor Stearns,
of Amherst College, who testify to their be-
lief that the letters received from Living
stone are in that travellers handwriting, and
not in Stanley's.
President Grant arrived in New York on
the 3Oth ult and left for Long Branch.
The propeller Metis, from New York for
Providence, was run into off Watch Hill, II
l., on the morning of the 30th ult., by sail
ing vessel, and was so badly injured as to
immediately sink. 4 storm was prevailing
at the time Of the disaster. There were, in
GLIDING officers and crew, one hundred and
fifty persons on board, of whom about eighty
persisted.
On the e5th ult. the dead body of Kane Hig
gins, awealthy farmer living at WinetEa, ILL.,,
near Chicago, was found not far from his
residence. The indications were that he had
been murdered, and a man named William
Swegert has been arrested on suspicion ol
being the perpetratOr of the crime.
little child, two years and eight months
old, son of w. Scranton, of Washington,
Iowa, was lost several days ago, and was
ba &rJ 10, aTt ha missed
two miles from home, in corn-tele alive
and well. As many as six hundred persons
were searching for him.
Congressional nominations were made in
Missouri on the 30th ult.: BY she Democrats
in the Fifth District, r. p. Bland; in the
Seventh District, Colonel L. I. Crittenden'
By the Democrats and Liberals in the Tenth
District, c. II. Manse,,
At Elizabethtowp, KY, A. E. Smith has
recovered 10000 damages against the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, for injury
to his right leg in collision q year ago.
A Lima dispatch of the 18th ult. says the
United States Consul had demanded an
apology from the Governor of Callao for
firing into the United States Consulate dur.
ing the late revolution. The Governor made
Itpl1 III an hpOlOStllC LOuCs
An Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington on the lst says: "Several months ago
Collector Casey, of New Orleans, handed to
the President his resignation, to take place
on the appointment of his successor. This
letter remains on file, but no successor Ii
likely to be appointed, the friends of the
Administration Mt New Orleans not being
agreed on change. Numerous letters have
been addressed to the President, by promi
nent parties, expressing their desire thai
Casey be retained. Therefore, according tC
present circumstances, he will remain in of
fee "
Ex-Governor Curtin's condition was mucl
improved on the 1st, aud he was considered
out of danger.
A dispatch of the 1st says of 155 persons
on board of the Metis, 107 were saved, Q
bodies had been fonnd, and 26 were still
missing.
A st. Paul telegram of the 9lst ult. say
Mrs. Charlotte Lamb had been arrested a
Trimbelle, Pierce County, Wis, and place.
in the Ellsworth Jail, charged with poisoning
five persons at different times-her husband
son, daughter, and two neighbors.
William Sweigert, the man arrested for til
murder Of Higgins, near Chicago, has mad
full confession OF the crime, claiming, a
an incentive to the murder, that Higgins ha
refused to pay him for work, and had, also
on two or three occasions, insulted hi
(swelgert's) wife.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury ha
directed the Assistant Treasurer at Me-
York to purchase 81 100000 in bonds eae
Wednesday, and sell 81 100000 in gold eac
Thursday, during the month of septembe
The Washington Capital of the LIST col
tanned an article based on one from the Ne
York Sun, rejecting upon Judge Lewis Der
end General Grant In the matter Of the a.