Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-29

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Congressional delegation consists of fourteen
Republicans and five Democrats and Lib
erals, as follows: Republicans-Frst Dis
trict, j. B. Rice; Second, Jasper D. Ward
Third, Charles B. FOrwcll; Fourth, Stephen
A. Hurlbut; Fifth, Horatlo G. Burchard
Sixth, John B. IIawley; Seventh, Franklin
Corwin; Eighth, Greenbury L. Fort; Ninth,
Granville Barrere; Tenth, William Ray;
Thirteenth, John McNulta Fourteenth,
Joseph G. Cannon; Sixteenth, James s.
Martin; Eighteenth, Isaac Clements. Demo.
Gratis and Liberals-Eleventh District,
Robert NJ. Knapp; Twelfth, James g. Robin
son; Fifteenth, John r. Eden; Seventeenth,
William R. Morrison; Nineteenth, Samuel
s. Marshall.
An alarm OF fire occurred at two o'clock
the other morning in Cincinnati, whea, the
horses being disabled, men got out Of bed
and drew six engines to the spot in only
three or four minutes longer time than it
would have taken the horses.
The business portlonof the town of Abbey
vile, s. c., was destroyed by fire few days
ago. Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
A destructive fire occurred at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the 14th, destroying property to
the amount of 100000, The United States
Court rooms, Marshal's office, Post Office,
and thirteen business houses, besides private
dwellings, were consumed.
A Washington telegram of the 10Th says
Senator Trumbull had written letter de-
clining to continue as Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee.
Peter Cooper has addressed congratula.
tory letter to President Grant, and asks for
the enforcement of the Civil Service rules.
The President has appointed Mrs.
Elizabeth Porter to be Postmaster at Rus
sellyille, Ky, rice Elias Porter, deceased.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th SAYS
the recent action of the United States Mar
shal in Alabama, In arresting three Demo
cratic members of the Legislature, for alleg-
ed violation Of the Election laws, and carry
ing them to Mobile to prevent quorum of
the Legislature, is severely condemned by
the Administration as unwise, unnecessary,
and, perhaps, Illegal.
A severe shock Of earthquake occurred at
Concord, N. H., on the afternoon Of the
18th. 1t began with sort of explosion,
followed by rumbling and shaking which
lasted about ten seconds. Buildings shook
violently, and the shock was plainly percep-
tible to people walking in the streets. It's
apparent course was from west to east. The
telegraph operators at CoRtoocook and
Warner report the same shock there.
Warrants were issued in Rochester, N.
Y, on the 18th, for the Inspectors of Elec-
tion who received the ballots of Susan B.
Anthony and her friends.
In New York, on the 18th. Ambrose c,
O'Neill, detective, gave evidence in the
divorce suit Of Mrs. King, against her hus-
band, James G. King, a lawyer, to the effect
that the latter had been guilty OF brutal con-
duct towards his wife. When O'Neill left the
court room, King followed him and shot him
twice, causing death in half an hour.
The Washington Fire Insurance Company,
of New York, has suspended, owing to their
losses in the Boston fire. The President
says they cannot pay more than fifty cents
on the dollar.
The special session of the Massachusetts
Legislature, called in consequence of the
Boston fire, convened on the Iytn.
The Legislature of West Virginia met at
Charlestown on the 10Th, and perfected their
organization harmoniously.
The General Assembly of North Carolina
completed its organization on the 10Th.
Hon. j. I. Morehead was elected Speaker Of
the Senate, and Captain James Robinson
Speaker OF the House. All the officers of
both Houses are Conservatives.
The Alabama Legislature met at Mont
gomery on the 18th, the Conservative and
Radical members of each House convening
separately and effccting separate organiza-
tions. The Conservatives met in the Capital
and the Radicals in the United
States Court room.
The horse disease was aarmingly pre-
valcnt in Wilmington, N, c., on the 18th, and
had made its appearance in Memphis and
Nashville, Tenn
1t was given out in Washington on the
goth, upon the authority OF the Administra-
tion, that the interview OF the PENNSYLVANIA
politicians with the President, relative to
the Philadelphia Post.Ofiice, was of the
most pleasant character, and that the dele
CATION only asked that il the Civil Service
rules were to be disregarded, Truman might
be appointed. To this the President replied
that he intended to he governed by the
Civil Service rules in all future appoint
ments. The President is firm in this posi-.
Iion.
The bronze statue OF Lincoln, by Meade,
has been completed by the Amcs Manufac.
turing Company of Massachusetts,. The
Monument Association has been notified
that it is ready to be delivered. The statue
Is ten feet and eight inches high, and is said
10 be a fine work of art.
Rand II Avery's Iextensive printing house
in Boston, near the foot of Washington
street, was destroyed by fire on the 2Oth.
hot - al
300, 900.
bill for the abolition of capital punish
ment has failed in the Vermont Legislature.
A fire in Jersey City, on the Goth, destroyed
Jarvis & HemwoOd's tobocco inspection
warehouse and about 5000 hogsheads of to-
Dacco, valued at $S00,0O0; loss on building
about $4,000.
Governor Palmer has commuted the SEN |
.ence of Gregori Peri, who was to have been |
hanged in Chicago In December, for the |
murder of O'Brien and Ready, over year |
lgo, to imprisonment in the Penitentary for
life.
The poultry disease is reported IS having |
appeared in some sections of the West.
The vote in South Carolina is 95,2l7, |
irant's majority, 1886.
The Louisiana election imbroglie has
,een partially settled by the Eighth District
Court deciding that Heron is de JaetO Secre.
airy of State. By this decision the Return
ng Board of the State consists of H. G.
F. j. Heron, James Longstreet,
Iames Hawkins, and John Lynch. The case
will probably go to the Supreme Court.
On the Goth Governor Lindsay, of Alabama,
informed the Legislative body, Conservative,
itting at the Capitol, that he would send in
lis message the next day. In reply to a
of the branch, Republican, sit
ing in the United States Court room, he de-
allied in writing the legal organization of
he Legislature at the Capitol, the lawful
md usual place of meeting, which supreme
md insurmountable necessity can only
.hange. He was ignorant of the existence
II such necessity, and therefore declined
% recognize the body assembled in the
Courtroom, with whom he would have no
,ficial communication.