Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-14


though some Irregularities had been proved
by prisoners counsel, yet they had not
occasioned defendant any prejudice or
injury. The Judge said, to accept
Graham's argument would invalidate
every Indictment yet untried found
since September, 1870, which would be ap-
palling. Stokes counsel presented ela5o-
rately-framed exceptions, and called for the
| polling of the jury but the Judge would
not allow it, remarking that the verdict was
the action of the Court, and it alone was re-
sponsible. Graham asked for twenty days
stay to prepare an error book, which was
granted.
Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowe met with
| serious accident at her home in Mandarin,
Fla, on the 29th ult., by falling backward
from table on which she was standing to
arrange a window-curtain, her head striking
the sharp edge of n bedstead and her back
hitting bath-tub. She was picked up in
sensible, but late accounts indicate that she
was likely to recover.
| 1t is reported that treaty has been con-
cluded between Brazil and Paraguay, by the
terms of which the former continues to ex-
ercise protectorate over Paraguay for ten
wears, and the latter undertakes to pay the
expenses of the protectorate and cedes GER
tain property to Brazil.
| Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, and other
women of Hartford, Conn, propose to make
application to registrars of election for reg
istry, preparatory to making an attempt to
vote at the coming election.
At the charter election in Portland, Me-,
on the 4th, Benjamin Kingsbury (Rep.) was
reelected Mayor, receiving 2,022 votes, to
1,64S for Cleaves (Dem.). and 312 for the
Citizens ticket. Lewiston elected David
Cowan (Rep.) Mayor by 51S majority over
J. P. Hill Dem.)
DR.. Jayne's granite building on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, was almost wholly de.
stroyed by fire on the night of the 4th.
The Prohibitionists of Detroit have called
a State Convention to nominate a State
ticket, to meet at Lansing on the 18th OF
June.
A few mornings ago a couple of body
snatchers were arrested in Chicago having in
an express wagon five corpses which they
had resurrected during the night. One OF
the parties is a medical student.
Andrew ]. Jones, late President of the
Western Railroad of North Carolina, charged
with the fraudulent use of the bonds of the
company, and tried before the Superior Court
in Moore County, n. c., has been convicted
and sentenced to pay fine of $4,000, with
one years Imprisonment in the Penitentiary
He takes an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The General Congressional Republican
Committee, at its meeting in Washington or
the 5th, appointed Senator Wilson, Chair
man, and Hon. James H. Platt, Jr., of Vir
ginia, Secretary. The following is the full
Executive Committee appointed: Senator
Chandler, Chairman; Senators Cameron, Lo
gan, Corbett and Pool, and Representatives
Starkweather, Ketchum On. ", Coburr
Qnd.) and Halsey On. J.)
The Fifty-first Legislature of Maine has
adjourned after a session of eight weeks
The acts and resolutions passed were 397.
The total loss by the fire in Philadelphia
by which DIR. Jayne's building was destroyed
is stated at s., 2,OOO,OOO
At charter elections held in New York
State on the 5th, Rochester elected A. C..
Wilder, Republican, Mayor; Elmira elected
Patrick H. Floyd, Republican, Mayor; Au-
burn chose the Republican ticket; Utica
elected Theodore F. Butterield, Republican,
Mayor, and, with this exception, the Demo.
cratic city ticket was chosen; Alanson S.
Page, Democrat, was reelected Mayor OF
Oswego.
The trial of Mayor Hall commenced in
New York on the 4th.
Hon. D. W. Vorhees has published letter
in the Terre Haute Journal in which he
peremptorily declines to be the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Indiana.
The Michigan Republican State Conven
tion for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, will meet in Jackson
on Thursday, the 10th of May.
In the recent municipal elections in Man
istee and Owosco, Mich, the Democrat:
we're successful.
In the city election of Rock Island, on the
5th, Thomas Murdock, Republican, was
elected Mayor, by 46 majority, over Bailey
Davenport, Democrat. Two Democratic
and two Republican Aldermen were elected
The Democratic State Central Committc,
of Arkansas have issued a call for State
Convention on the 10Th of June.
A telegram was receivedin in Washington OF
the 5th from Thomas A. Scott, denying that
his name is attached by authority to Tho
circular read in the Senate proposing a com
bination among railroad officials to secur,
an advance of fifty per cent. in the com
pensation for carrying the mails.
Several persons are reported to hgve beer
frozen to death at New York on the 5th
because of the extreme cold weather.
The Democrats of Troy, n. Y, on the 5tl
elected their city ticket by about 1000 ma
Jority.
Commander W. II. Dana, United State
Navy, died recently at the United State
General Hospital, in Chelsea, Mass. He be
longed in Ohio entered the navy in May
1850, and was appointed Commander Apri
%, 1869.
Mr. L. Carper, Division Superintendent oil
the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy Railroad
was killed by an engine running off the tract
at Burlington, on the 5th.
A disastrous fire occurred at Cincinnati oil
the night of the 9th, by which seven steam
boats with their contents were destroyed
and it was feared several lives were lost
The aggregate loss was estimated at quar-
ter of a million of dollars.
The Tenness ee Republican State Centra
Committee have resolved to call State Con
yention, to meet in Nashville on the 18th o
, May next, to appoint delegates to the Phila
delphia National Republican Convention.
Private advices received in New York oil
, the 9th state that Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stow
had fully recovered from her late accident il
, Florida.
The President left Washington on the 7tl
to attend the wedding of Miss Drexel, il
Philadelphia.
, The Postmaster-General,i in a circular late
ly issued, requests all persons mailing letters
: papers, or packages, to place on them the nam
/ of the County, as well as of the State an
: Town, to which they are to be sent. Tn
/ Postmaster of Chicago has recently calle
: the attention of the public to a ruling o
> the Post-Office Department to the effect tina
i letters once taken from the post Office by tn
!. proper parties, or delivered according to tn
E address, cannot be forwarded without agai
| being prepaid. As the violation of this reg
: ulation is of frequent occurrence, it shoul
4; be understood that such letters deposited i
a the post-office for mailing, on which postag
Y is not prepaid, are sent to the Dead Letter