Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-27

land District. The Republicans of the
Eighth Georgia Congressional District have
nominated Philip Clayton.
A Washington dispatch Of the 14th says a
telegram had been received at the State
Department from Hon. Bancroft Davis,
agent of the United States, stating
that the text of the award OF the
Arbitrators at Geneva had been pub.
licly announced there. The United States
will receive the gross sum Of sl5, ,500,0 600 for
losses sustained by the acts Of the prlvateers
Alabama, Florida, aud Shenandoah, after
leaving Melbourne
Daniel B. Judson has been unanimously
nominated for Congress by the Nineteenth
New York District Democratic and Liberal
Republican Conventions.
A recent New York dispatch says "During
the past two weeks there have been In and
around the city about fifty suicides, actual
and attempted, more than have been known
In the same time for many years. This de-
structlve epidemic continues"
James Kennedy, who was pardoned out OF
the Illinois State Penltentiary, where he was
serving out his sentence for playing the
confidence game, and who was arrested on
a charge Of being implicated in the Tyndale
murder at Springfield, has been discharged
the Grand Jury falling to find an indictment
against him for this latter offense.
Hon. W. w. Merritt has been nominated
for Congress by the Liberal Republicans of
the Eighth Iowa District, and the Rev Dr.
Asa Mahan, of Adrian by the Liberals of
the Second Michigan District.
In Chicago, on the 14th, Christopher Raj
ferty, the murderer of Policeman O'Meara,
was sentenced to be hanged on the 4th day
of October.
! A Washington telegram of the 18th says
about one hundred claims with proofs, had
been filed before the Commission on the
claims of citizens of the United States
against Spain It was said that by the 1st
of October the Commission will formally
enter upon the consideration OF the cases.
1t was expected that In a few days DR..
Houard would file a claim for a very large
amount of money.
John o. Whtehouse is the Liberal candi-
! date for Congress in the Thirteenth New
York District.
General W. T. Sherman arrived at New
| York on the 18th, from Europe.
| The Kennebec (Me) Journal OF the 18th
publishes complete official returns of the
, late election of Governor from the entire
State except some small places which last
year threw total vote OF s3s about evenly
divided between the two parties. These re-
turns give Perham, 7l,s24; Kimball, 54,742;
majority for Perham, 11,0S2.
Matt Morgan, the artist, was mistaken for
a burglar, while calling on a friend in New
| York the other night, and locked up in a
station-house.
recent New York dispatch says that
within week two poor lunatics, both harm
less and one of them a cripple, had been
fatally beaten and kicked by brutal keeper
named Thomas Farrell, at the New York
Asylum for the Insane on Wards Island.
Farrell was arrested. One of the victims
of the cruelty has since died; Farrell de-
nies that he inflicted the punishment, but
admits that parties in the Institute were
whipped.
Private advices received from members of
Lieutenant Wheeler's exploring party, dated
Fillmore, Utah, September 3, state that their
operations we're delayed by hostile Indians.
The military escort had had several fights
with the Ute Indians, in one of which nine
Indians were killed and many wounded.
Deseret City, in Central Utah, a town con
tanning l40 houses, was found deserted by
the party, the inhabitants having fed for
safety.
The second annual Convention of the Ma
tional Catholic Temperance Union will be
held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, Octo-
Der 10.
The straight" Democrats of Michigan
have called State Mass Convention to meet
at Jackson September27, to nominate Elec-
tors and a State ticket
A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 10th an
nounces that delegations to the Soldiers and
Sailors Convention had been arriving CON
stantly throughout the day from various
parts of the country
The Republicans of the First Arkansas
District have nominated Asa Hodges for Con-
gress, by acclamation.
The Grand Lodge of Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of the United States assembled
in Baltimore on the 10th. The forty one
Grand Lodges and thirty-fve Grand En-
campments were fully represented, the l27
representatives comprising the Grand Lodge
being all present.
According to the monthly report of the
Agricultural Department, the cotton crop Of
the present year promises a small increase
over that of 1871.
|
the Geneva award includes the interest,
which reduces the actual amount of damages
to 81, 100000. "Attorney- General Williams,
who is the only member of the Joint High
Commission now in Washington, says that
that the award covers fully all that the
American members expected could be award
ed, while the sum is actually short of what
the English members conceded might be due,
under the declaration of Earl Russell, as set
forth in the correspondence between Minister
Adams and the British PREMIER"
General Sherman reached his home in
Washington on the evening of the nth.
Rev. Oscar Chute, Unitarian clergyman,
has been nominated for Congress by the Lib
erals and Democrats of the First New Jer-
sey District.
Governor Curtin is reported to have ac-
cepted the Democratic and Liberal nomina-
tion as delegate to the Pennsylvania State
Constitutional Convention.
The telegraph announces a large attend
ance upon the Soldiers and Sailors National
Convention, which assembled in Pittsburgh
on the 18th. The welcoming address was
delivered by General j. b. Swezer. He was
followed by Governor Geary After prayer
by the Rev. DR., Preston, General A. E. Burn
side addressed the Convention. General j.
b. Hawley, of Connecticut, was called upon
to preside. Committees on Permanent Or.
ganization and Resolutions were appointed.
Senator Wilson was present and addressed
the Convention in the afternoon. General
John A. Logan, of Illinois, was chosen per.
manent President, with list of Vice Presi
dents. Speeches were made by several gen.
tlemen, when the Convention adjourned to
the 18th.
The First National Bank of Buchanan,
Mich, with a capital OF $4,000, has been
authorized to commence business.
The rate of taxation in Illinois for State
purposes this year will be seven and a hall
mills on the dollar, a reduction of one and
one half mills from that of last year.
William Sehweigert, for the killing OF Kane
Higgins, near Chicago, few weeks ago, has