Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
THE NEW WORLD,

THE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the oath at
l13@113H.
Toronto (Canada) dispatch of the 18th
says the epidemic among horses had extend
ed throughout the Dominion, seriously in
terrupting the business Of the country.
The street-cars in Montreal had stopped
running. In their stables more than 800
horses were sick. Farmers were unable to
bring grain to market. The disease is very
seldom fatal, but recovery is slow.
The President has appointed Ex-Governor
Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Consul to
Liverpool, rice Thomas A. Dudley, resigned.
Henry G. struve, of Washington Territory,
Secretary of that Territory; VIM. Pound,
United States Attorney of Dakota; Andrew
S. Cory, Postmaster at Petersburg, H.
A Harrisburg dispatch says the Straight
Democrats of Pennsylvania met on the 10th,
and adjourned On the recommendation of
the State Executive Committee, that there
was no necessity for the nomination of an
Electoral ticket.
Four inches of snow iell in Eastern Maine,
on the 18th.
The Democrats and Liberals Of Massachu-
setts have substituted F. w. Bird in place
Of Charles Sumner as a candidate for Gov
ernor William L. Smith, for Lieutenant
Governor, in place of NJ. sterus, and Joseph
G.. Abbott, Elector, in place of Mr.. Bird.
A few nights ago the stage-coach was
stopped three miles north of Pleasant Valley,
Montana, by two road agents, and 81, 900 was
taken from the passengers. There was no
express treasure on board.
According to a Milwaukee dispatch Of the
nth, the number of lives lost by the sinking
of the Lac la Belle was elght-W. Freeman,
N. U. Gilbert, p. Wyener, r. H. Lippincott,
w. Smith Dunning, Henry Sparks, Henry
Adams, second cook, and man unknown,
who was working his passage.
Willie, youngest son of Jefferson Davis,
died at Memphis, on the 10th.
special from Havana on the 10th says
that Boyd Henderson, Of Philadelphia, had
been arrested in that place on suspicion of
being an accomplice Of suspected sympa-
thizers with Cuban insurgents. It is report
ed that he is Cuban by birth, but he claims
to be native of the United States, travelling
for his own and his wife's health.
The horse disease raging in Canada has
been communicated to horses in New York
City by a lot of horses recently imported
from Montreal. 1t was also reported on the
10th that the same epidemic was prevailing
to an alarming extent among the horses of
Buffalo.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says it
was reported that anew indictment had been
found against Ingersoll, the famous chair
maker of the Ring. Mayor Han stated that
he had heard nothing of any new indlct-
ment against him, and the report that he
had given bail was therefore false.
AT Ogden, Utah, on the 18th, Nelson and
Purdy, two boys, were found guilty Of man
slaughter In the second degree, for the mur-
der of little girl in Hooper City, last sum
mer, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
twenty years each.
Charges have been recently made OF fraud
in the letting Of bids for the Marine hospital
in Chicago. 1t is alleged that the bids for
stone were opened privately, and finding
that the lowest bid was $4,000 below the
next lowest, the bidder presenting the former
was advised to raise his bid $1,000, which
was done, and the award was made accord
ingly, the $500 being divided among the
parties to the fraud. A Washington dis
patch of the 10Th says the matter was to be
brought 10 the notics Of the Grand jury