Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-04

delphla, as is alleged from the effects Of a
blow In prize fight with Howard Price.
The principals and seconds In the fight were
arrested
Forester, the alleged murderer Of Benja-
min Nathan, was discharged on the Esd, the
District Attorney advising the discontlnu.
anoe Of the case, as he had not sufficient
evidence TO prove tho guilt Of the prisoner
Forester was sent to the 1ombs to await o
requisltlon from the Governor Of. Illinois,
where he will be sent to serve out bis thir.
teen years imprisonment,
Business men OF New York and other large
cities propose TO submit to legal test the
decision Of the Postmaster. General requiring
oil matter that has not been fully prepaid
to be charged double postage.
The Now York Tribune Of the cath pub.
fishes letter from Ex-Governor A. g. Cur.
tin, OF Pennsylvania, accepting the nomlna.
tion of the Liberal Republicans for the Penn
sylvania Constitutional Convention.
Helena, Montana, had its first snow-storm
Of the season on the 22d.
A movement has been iuaugurated in Chi
cago for the erection of million dollar
opera house. The building will be one Of
the finest of the kind in America.
The carpenters IN Chicago have struck for
four dollars a day, and the demand has been
acceded to in many instance.
Horace Greeley arrived at indianapolis,
on the Esd, and was met at the depot by a
large crowd of people.
Charleston Is. o. dispatch of the 22d
says: "a personal alteration occurred in
q restaurant in Columbia last evening be-
tween Montgomery, President of the State
Senate, and Samuel Melton, regular Repub-
lican candidate for the office. John d. Cald-
well and Major ]. NJ. Morgan, two friends of
Melton, who interfered to separate the com
batants, were shot. Caldwell was instantly
killed and Morgan but slightly wounded.
The verdict of the Coroner's iury
charges George Tuppol, friend of Mont
gomery's, with the wlllful and malicious
shooting of Caldwell. The affair, owing to
the social position of the participants,
causes much excitement. Mr.. Caldwell is a
brother-in-law of United States Senator Rob-
inson, and Morgan is a sou-n.law Of George
A. Trenholm, late Secretary of the Confed.
crate Treasury. The tragedy grew out of
ordinations and recriminations of a politi-
cal nature"
A Washington dispatch of the 2ith says:
ury Department will have examinations for
applicants for vacant $1,000 clerkshps on
the 11th and 18th of October. Applications
for permission to compete may be presented
up to October l. From these applications
selections will probably be made by the
Board of the practicable numoer Of the best
qualified, in accordance with the rules"
The Liberals and Democrats Of the Twcn-
ty-eighth New York District have nominated
Stephen T. Hoyt for Congress.
A steam canal boat arrived at New York
on the 23d from Buffalo, with full freight,
via the Erie canal, in five days less time than
by the usual horse locomotion. This is the
first steam canal boat that had so far made a
full trip.
During a recent severe thunder storm,
several persons were struck by lightning and
killed near Milwaukee, among them girl at
Palmyra, yourg man at Hebron, and two
men in the town of Greenfield.
Congressional nominations were made on
the oath by the Republicans in the First
Second and Third Illinois Districts. The
|, candidates are respectively, Messrs ]. B
Rice, ]. D. Ward and G. B. FLrwell
Another unprovoked and brutal murder
occurred in Chicago on the night of the 23d
the victim being young man named james
McWilliams, q compositor in the Daill
Tunes. He was shot, II would seem, without
any provocation, by a young man nameC
Thomas Cullin, who was drunk at the time
Culln was arrested and committed for trial
, The Official vote of Montana for Delegate
to Congress is Maginnis, Democrat, 4,5l5
Cloggett, Republican, 4, ,l96.
| ;nIt IF
q. have issued a call for State Convention I,
be held at Topeka, October 3, for the nom
! ination of a State and Electoral ticket.
The proprietor of the Larrimer House
Dubuque, while trying TO enforce The civi
rights bill in the case of a colored gues
who put up there, by compelling the girls t
wait on him at the public table, had to dis
charge them all, they refusing to fulfill hi
+ commands.
5 A dispatch from Mcdowell, Arizona, date
on the 9th of September says the damon
excitement had subsidized.
,, The Illinois Supreme Court has granted
= SuperSedeaS in the case of Rafferty,, recent
e committed and sentenced to be hanged /
;; Chicago for the murder of policeman.
; Both branches OF the Baltimore City Cour
; ell have passed resolutions rendering th
' hospitalites Of the city to Horace Creole
, on his visit there on the sth of October to d'
+, liver the annual address before the Agricu
tural Society of Maryland.
y Panama papers Of the 18th state that th
steamer Venice d. Or exploded her boilers o
> the Magdalene River, in Bogota, on the I'll
!. killing eight persons and seriously scaldin
. nine others.
y Superintendent Bangs, of the Postal Bal
!, way Service, estimates that the increase
. the number of miles of service for the pre-
ent fiscal year ending June 80, 1873, will
. about 10000, against 5000 for the last flsc
year.
George William Curtis declines to run fC
Presidential Elector on the Republican tickr
y in New York, fearing that he may be inelig
ble owing to his holding office as a Civ
y Service Commissioner.
The official report of the investigation
) the Metis disaster results in the revoking
the licenses of the Captain and the first an
second pilots. The report states that II
u responsibility OF the disaster rests upo
y Captain Burton and two pilots, and SON
= blame is attached to Doane, the first mate.
At the session in Albany on the 25th
y and Blacksmit hs, John Ferenbatch,
II Cleveland, Ohio, was elected President.
Colonel A. B. Woodruff is the Liberal ar
Democratic candidate for Congress in II
n Fifth New Jersey District. D. w. GooC
n has been nominated for Congress by IL
Republicans of the Fifth Massachuset
a District.
% Judge Breese is reported to have written
e letter to friend in Joliet to the effect tn
d his nomination for Governor of Illinois
e the State Straight Democratic Commit,
Is was without his knowledge or consent, al
If that he would not accept.
! The Rev. Peter Cartwright died at his rel
D. denee near Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, on the 25t
in his Ssth year.
}, The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum,
r Newburg, Ohio, was burned on the 25t
o There were about six hundred inmates in Il
building at the time of the fire, nearly all
,.rI,r. Ill. a.. 1.