Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-22

press on the excited comments of the En-
glish Ministry on our ease before the Geneva
Conference. If the English Government
withdraws, he thinks the United States can
not agree, with any honor, to any new nego-
tiations."
The City Council of Springfield, Mass,
has elected Miss s. J. Williams, City Ply
sician.
Colonel J. A. Watrous, of Fond du Lac,
President of the Northern Wisconsin Edito-
rial Association, has issued call for an Edi-
torial Convention, to meet at the National
Hotel, Menasha, February 2S, for the consid-
Grafton of matters of interest to Northern
Wisconsin.
The question of the location of the new
Custom-House buildings in Chicago has
been decided by the purchase, by the Govern
ment, of a square two blocks south of
the old location. The new site is bounded
by Dearborn, Clark, Jackson and Adams
streets.
The election of city officers occurred
in Salt Lake City on the 18th. Under the
female suffrage law, crowds of Mormon
women and girls focked to the polls and
voted. It is believed that the female vote
was far in excess of the male. The Mormon
1 llCkcJ WAS suCC0sSlui. II 10 sdlu even
women and children voted, and the Liberals
finally abandoned the election as farce. A
dispatch says: "Much indignation is ex-
pressed tonight at tina frand and mockery
of the election. Such disgraceful abuse of
the ballot-box privilege disgusts every loyal
citizen. A memorial on the subject will be
sent to Congress-"
1t was thought in Salt Lake City, on the
18th, that the Japanese Embassy would be
obliged to return to San Francisco and take
the steamer East via Panama, there being no
prospect of the Union Pacific blockade be-
ing raised for, perhaps, months.
The North Carolina Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th.
A Tallahassee (Fls.) dispatch of the 18th
announces that Governor Reed had been
impeached. Mr.. Day, of Virginia, Repub-
lican, had been appointed Governor.
The jury for the trial of Stokes was COM
pleted on the 18th.
At the Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania,
on the 18th, three employees of the Erie Rail-
way nearly burned little negro boy to death,
by throwing kerosene over his legs, he being
asleep, and allowing the burning to continue
until the boys legs were roasted to the bone
in several places. The iends had not been
discovered up to the 14th.
Acting Governor James of Nebraska, arrived
at Omaha on the 18th, from Washington, and
issued proclamation revoking the call for
an extra session of the State Legislature,
made by the President of the Senate during
his absence, and which was called for Febru-
airy Is.
Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, has issued
proclamation ordering an extra session OF
the Legislature, for March 13, to reapportion
the State into nine Congressional Districts,
and to act on such other matters as may be
laid before it.
A recent Washington dispatch states that
the English Minister, Thornton, says he be-
lieves the misunderstanding with reference
to the Treaty of Washington can be satisfac-
torily adjusted.
The Attorney General has decided in the
case of the steamer Hornet to allow her to
go to New York upon bond, to be entered
| into by sufficient sureties, that she will pro-
ceed direct to New York from Baltimore, and
go nowhere else.
Louis E. johnson, United States Marshal
for the District of South Carolina, has been
informed through the Attorney General that
his resignation will be accepted by the Presi
dent.
The South Carolina Senate, on the 18th
after a lengthy debate, indefinitely post
poned the resolution requesting Robert
son and Sawyer's resignation as United
States Senators. The vote was-yeas, II
nays, 5.
New Orleans was exceedingly gay and live
ly on the 18th, on the occasion of the annual
celebration of Mardi- Gras. The city was
crowded with people to witness the grotesque
procession.
The New York State Homeopathic Medical
Society, recently in session at Albany
adopted a resolution repudiating the use
of humanized virus for vaccination.
The Ohio Republican Central Committed
met at Columbus on the 18th. Resolution:
in favor of appointing delegates at the Stat,
Convention to the National Convention
recommending the election of Central Com
mittees in the spring instead of in the fall
and in favor of the denomination of Presi
dent Grant, and declaring William Dennison
of Ohio, first choice of Ohio Republicans fo
the Presidency, were passed. TIL,
State Convention was announced for the 2Stl
of March.
The Ohio Woman's Suffrage Convention
met at Columbus on the 18th. The perma
nent officers chosen are President, Mrs. NJ
NJ. Cole; Vice-President, Mrs. NJ. V. Long
ley; Recording Secretary, Mrs. c. Buchwal
ter; Corresponding Secretary, Miss J. o. D.
Forest.
In the Constitutional Convention a
Charleston, W. Va, on the 18th, after sey
eral days warm discussion upon the subjec
, of embodying the words ''white citizens il
the proposed new Constitution as a defini
tion Of qualified electors, the report of tn
committee was adopted, giving all citizen
the right of suffrage. The ballot system O
voting was adopted.