Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-05

Thursday, April IS, day of public fastitig
and prayer in that State.
AT meeting OF the Eric Directors on the
Goth, Edward II. Green was elected Director
lii place Of Jay Gould.
An explosion of sulphur occurred on the
evening of the Goth, in Potts eolliery, near
Oakland, Pa, by which ten men were buried,
some of them 1t was thought fatally.
The Republican majority on joint ballot
in the New Hampshire Legislature will be
about SO.
The New York fbst Of the 25th, in an ar
ticle about the Elases, says: "sonte time
ago, Ellis H. Elias bought at dry goods
auction nine cases Of poplins and silks. He
sent samples Of the goods, accompanied by
Autographs and circulars, to over 1000 re-
tail dry goods dealers, principally in the
Western States and Territories, Offering
goods in moderate quantities at less than
one-half the regular wholesale rates. The
circulars were signed Gould, Stuart e. Co.,
commission merchants, and numerous re-
mttances were received from duped mer-
chauts, who arc still waiting for their cheap
goods"
The trial of Brigham Young has been post
poned until the return of Judge Mexican
from Washington, Brigham in the meantime
remaining closely-guarded prisoner in his
house, from which he has not emerged for
more than three months.
A Wilmington, N. c., dispatch of the 26th
says the outlaws Henry Berry Lowrey and
Bass Strong were dead.
On the oath, David Jones, colored, robbed
the house Of farmer named Murray, near
Nashville, and, the farmer resisting, killed
him. That night mob broke open the
Nashville jail, shot the murderer twice and
hung him to a lamp-post. Six policemen cut
him down and rescued him, but he would
probably die.
The Executive Committee of the Centen-
nial Commission met in Philadelphia on the
9th, and elected Hon. Daniel Morrell per-
manent Chairman.
The enrolment ordered by the Tammany
Hall General Committee has been completed,
and shows Is, ,429 names enrolled.
The telegraph says no such excitement
had been witnessed in Wall street for years
as existed there onthe Goth, owing to great
rise in Erie stock. The number of shares
that changed hands is estimated at 100000.
The opening price of SO rapidly advanced
in the morning, and under the stim-
ulus of orders to buy, telegraphed
from Europe, the price had reached GO
at the close. The World editorially says
that Jay Gould alone netted q profit of
50, ,240,000. The excitement was resumed
on the morning of the 27th. After the open
ing, stocks suddenly tumbled from &C to go,
owing to reported declines in London, in
consequence of which many "bull " specu-
lators were slaughtered.
VIM. w. Cryder has been elected a Di
rector OF the Eric Railway Company, vice
Drake, resigned.
The Los Angeles anti Chinese rioters have
all been convicted of manslaughter.
A lottery advertised in the East for the
benefit of a charity hospital in San Francis
co is, says dispatch from that city, fraud.
There is no such institution or lottery there.
The Ohio Republican State Convention,
which met at Columbus on the 9th, nom
mated A. T. Wykoff for Secretary of
State John Welch of Athens, for Judge
of the Supreme Court; R. r. Porter for
Member of the Board of Public Works. Del
egates were chosen to the Philadelphia Con
yention, and resolution was adopted in
favor OF the denomination of President Grant
and presenting the name of Ex-Governor
Denison, of Ohio, for the Presidency.
The soldiers monument at Detroit, Mich,
will be unveiled on the 9th of April. General
Burnside is announced to be present.
The Iowa Republican State Convention
met at Des Mones on the 9th, and chose
Delegates to the National Convention at
Philadelphia, who were instructed to vote
for the denomination of President Grant, and
in favor of James F. Wilson, of Iowa, for
the Vice. Presidency.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a
resolution providing for the sale of the
Portland Canal to the United States
William Translate, former Governor of
Tennessee, died at his residence in Gallatin
on the 27th
A City OF Mexico dispatch of the 2lst says
disorder and anarchy prevailed throughout
the Republic. Persons and property were
outraged where not protected by the pres
ence of Government troops Levies contin-
Hed to be made, and the army was increas-
ing.
Washington dispatch Of the 2Sth says
'The number of cases presented to tho Brit
ish and American Commissioners is about
900, only IS of which are American, The
Commission has adjourned to April g."
A delegation from Texas, headed by
Senator Hamilton, waited on the President
on the 2Sth, in relation to the Mexican
depredations on the frontier. The delega-
tion represented that on a recent date a party
OF forty regular Mexican troops, in uniform,
crossed the Rio Grande at a point above
Brownsville, arrested the United States
Customs Inspector, together with a number
of citizens, and held them until they had
crossed into Mexico, and drove off 500 or 600
stolen cattle. Other depredations were
represented.
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine
die on the Goth.
| Much damage was done by earthquake
shocks in California and Nevada on the Goth.
Camp Independence, California, was COM
| pletely ruined the courthouse was destroy
ed, and there was not a single adobe or brick
building standing from Bishop Creek to Inde-
pendence. Mrs. West, residing near Independ-
ense, was severely injured. Her child was
killed. Stage passengers report that several
assures miles in length and fifty to two hun
dred feet wide aud twenty feet deep, opened
along the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada.
| NehI Dig Iluo ShlnPi anu uI otner places IN
the vicinity, the ground was heaved up in
| great ridges. Large springs had stopped
running, and others had broken out. Heavy
snow-slides occurred in the Sierra, and large
rocks rolled down the mountain sides, block.
ing up the stage road. The shocks lasted an
interval from 2:30 to $50 a, m.
All disposable colored troops at Newport
barracks, KY, have been ordered to Calves,
| ton.
The Irish Citizen, of Vicksburg, Miss,
nominates Charles O'Conor for President,
and General Hancock for Vice. President.
1t is stated that Andrew johnson intends
to run as an independent candidate for the
Goyernorship of Tennessee.
General Humphrey Marshall died at his
residence in Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth, OF
pneumonia and bronchitis.