Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-10

foundation, and substantially without truth
The position of the Government is unchang-
ed. The claims are not withdrawn, and will
not be, unless England grants the point for
which they were inserted and for the settle
ment of the questions involved. The Gov
ernment never expected pecuniary damages,
but believed that it had a right to present
the question and have 1t decided"
Mrs. Sherman, recently on trial at New
Haven, Conn, on one of the many indict-
ments against her for murder by administer
ing poison to her husbands and children, has
been found guilty of "murder in the second
degree" and sentenced te States Prison for
life.
The Hercules Life Insurance Company, OF
New York, has been declared bankrupt, not
having s. in the treasury.
Only SIS, 900 were realized from the sale Of
Helmbold's store in New York on the Goth.
His debts TO newspapers for advertising are
said to amount to 100000,
The Homeopathic Hospital Fair at Bos-
ton, Mass, closed on the 9th. The receipts
were estimated at $4,000.
| All the railroads centering at st. Louis
have agreed to transport visitors to the Ma
tional Sengerfest, to be held in June, for one
and one-ffth fare for the round trip, with the
condition that each purchaser of an excur-
sion ticket shall buy one admission ticket to
the Sengerfest Concert, as protection to
| the railroad companies.
| A recent number of the Cherokee AdVocdte,
the official organ of the Cherokee Nation,
states that the attacking party in the bloody
aft air at Going Snake Court House, some
days ago. was the Marshals posse, and that
the Sheriff's guard did not fire until Proctor
the prisoner on trial, had been wounded.
The assault was made by Sut. Beck, Cher
ollee interested in the prosecution of the
| prisoner. The Sheriff of the Going Snake
District has made lengthy and circumstan-
tial report of the affair, and attaches the en-
! tire blame of the massacre to the United
States Marshars party.
! The formal opening of the public library
of Kentucky took place at Louisville on the
evening of the 9th. The shelves of the Lii
brary building contain 200O0 volumes, and a
large and valuable cabinet of geological
specimens, besides periodicals and papers of
the day.
A st. Louis dispatch Of the 2Sth says Gov
ernor Brown had ordered Kansas City
Company of Militia to Holden, Mo, to pro-
tect the citizens of that place against appre-
hended violence by the Cass County Vigi-
lantes.
A Washington dispatch of the 30th says:
"There was a good deal of talk, and some
little excitement, among members of the
House of Representatives to-day, several of
the most prominent expressing the belief,
from information received, that our claims
for consequential damages were to be aban-
doned."
The President has sent the following NOM
nations to the Senate: Lewis Peach, Sur
veyor-General of Washington Territory
Thomas N. Lee, Postmaster of Hancock,
Mich.
Governor Hoffman, on the 30th, sent in
his veto of the Committee of Seventy's New
York city charter, mainly on the ground of
the cumulative voting feature, and says the
Legislature could hardly have expected that
he would approve it. The veto message is
very long, and closes as follows: $50 con
vnced am that great and disastrous evils
to the city are likely to grow out of the
enactments of this charter, that if 1 knew
that every man in the City of New York was
clamoring for it, 1 would not give it my ap
proval." The veto was sustained by the
Assembly.
| Lieutenant -1ONeTllOT OTNuelly, Vi hlssOuIl-
died at his home in Cedar County, on the
morning of the 2Sth, after brief Illness.
The Michigan State Seuate reassembled on
the 30th as Court of Impeachment for the
trial of Land Commissioner Charles A. Ed
mOrds.
A Washington dispatch of the lst says
it has beenS ascertaned from authentic
sources that, while the Government had not
withdrawn, and would not withdraw, tho
claims for indirect damages before the
Geneva Board of Arbitration, it had beer
sgniied to Great Britain that no money
award is anticipated or desired, but simply q
decision of the question involved, touching
the duties and obligations of neutrals.
The President has approved the bill repeal
ing the duties on tea and coffee on and after
the LIST of July next.
The Vermont State Republican Convention
met at Bellows Falls on the lst and chose
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
Resolutions were passed declaring Grant anC
Colfax to be the first choice of the State fo
J President and VicePresident.
The monthly public debt statement on thu
| | st of Nav Is as follows: