Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-01-05

exceedingly neaYy rams nave recently
fallen throughout California There were
floods in many localities.
On the 23d Bill Woods and another negro
approached q commissary building connect
cd with the Memphis & Salina Railroad five
miles east Of Memphis. They were ordered
away by man named Reynolds, In charge
of the building, who threatened to shoot if
they approached Not needing the warning,
they started for the building. He shot both
through the head, killing them instantly.
He then fled.
New York dispatch of the Goth says:
"The new Board Of Aldermen consists of
eight Democrats and seven Republicans.
The Assistant Aldermen will consist Of thr-
teen Democrats and eight Republicans. AS
the new members cannot obtain their seats,
the Legislature will be asked Immediately
on its assemblagc, to decide between the
rival boards"
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, New
York city, on the 26th, confession was made
by two mon, Edward Mahony and George
Williamson, that they were guilty of a rob
berry for which tive other men had been con
yicted. All were remanded for investigation.
On the night of the 23d the passenger train
bound north on the Burlington & Cedar
Rapids Il Minnesota Railroad, broke through
bridge over Shell Rock River, at Rockford
Station, Iowa, precipitating the engine,
caboose, and baggage.car, and one coach
distance Of twenty-five feet. james Judd,
engineer; Mr.. Bartlett, brakeman, and
Robert White the fireman, were instantly
killed. Mr.. Nourse, baggage-master, had his
leg broken, and six passengers were serious
ly, though not dangerously, wounded
In the Wharton murder trial, in progress at
Annapolis, Md, the counsel for the prose
cution stated on the 26th that the evidence
on the part of the State was closed.
1t is stated that all the British troops ex-
cept few artillery will be withdrawn in the
spring from Halifax, which is now the only
garrisoned city in the Dominion.
The Kentucky National Bank of Louisville,
KY, with capital of 5000, 900, and the Sec
ond National Bank of Aurora, H., with
capital Of 100000, have been authorized by
the authorities at Washington to commence
business.
General Sweet, of Illinois, entered upon
his duties on the 27th as First Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.
The Board of Indian Commissioners have
presented their report to President Grant.
1t gives a cheerful view of the peace policy.
In the purchase of Indian supplies and other
measures they claim to have saved about
81, 100000.
A New York dispatch of the evening of
the 9th says that at late hour on the after
noon of that day the Sheriff had failed to
discover the whereabouts of Tweed, though
large number of deputies were active in
the search. He was believed to be still in
the city.
At Peoria, H., on'the 9th, the Illinois
River was frozen over at and below the
bridge, for the first time in the history of
the river
Rev. Robert j. Breckenridge, D. D., died
on the evening of the 27th, at his home in
Danville, KY, after protracted illness.
James II. Hackett, the veteran actor, died
at his residence, at Jamaica, Long Island, on
the night of the 9th, aged ~.
The New vork World nf the 2Sth editorial
ly says that it was probable that Tweed had
fled to escape lodging in the Ludlow Street
Jail that his expulsion was certain if he
takes his seat in the Senate, and that his fall
is perhaps the most sudden and impressive
of any that has happened in our time except
that of Louis Napoleon. A telegram of the
2Sth says 1.-THE whereabouts of Tweed is
said to be constantly known to the Sheriff.
He has never left the city, and has no such
intention
The total amount contributed by Philadel-
phia for the Chicago sufferers was $263, ,733,
and for the Northwest, So, ,69S.
The Grand Duke Alexis and party arrived
at Detroit on the evening of the 2Sth.
A meeting of about three hundred residents
of Port Union, Butler County, Ohio, was
held on the night of the 9th, to give express
sion to their feeling concerning the mex
pected acquittal of Tom Mcclellan OF the
murder Of Myers. Resolutions were adopted
denouncing the jury, Judge McKenny, and
McGehan's attorneys, and demanding that
Mcclellan should leave the county.
A Columbia, S. c., dispatch of the 2Sth
says all the Ku-Klux prisoners so far convict
ed, and who had plead guilty, were sentenced
as follows: John w. Mitchell, five years inn
pFisonment and fine of $1,000; Sherard
Childers, William Montgomery, Evans Muir
ply, Hezekiah Porter, r. II. Mitchell, Syl-
vanus Shearer, Hugh Shearer, William
Shearer and James B. Shearer each
eighteen months imprisonment and a
fine of 500; DR., Thomas B. White
sides, one years Imprisonment and a fine of
500; John s. Mills, three months imprison-
ment and fine Of $50.