Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-30

of Monroe County Treasurer, Captain VIM.
Christy, of Clarke County; Auditor, John
Russell of Jones County, renominatedi
Register State Land Office, Aaron Brown,
of Fayette County, renomnated 4; Attorney
General, M. Cults, of Mahaska County, re-
nominated. Resolutions were adopted en-
dorsing President Grant and his Administra-
ton.
The Liberal Republican and Democratic
Congressional Conventions for the Sixth
Ohio District were held at Toledo on the
21st The Conventions failed to unite on q
candidate for Congress, the Democrats nom
mating Hon. F. II. Hurd, of Lucas County.
The Prohibitionists of the same District have
nominated Henry Mooers for Congress.
James M. Shelby is the Liberal candidate
for Congress in the First, and John B. Irish
in the Fifth Iowa Districts.
The crew of the steamer Helen Brooks ar
rived at Memphis on the 10Th. 1t seems that
after the escape Of Captain Patt, the robbers
cut the boat loose, and as she tloated down,
robbed those on board OF everything they
had, including some three hundred dollars
in money. They then put them ashore in the
woods. Of the ladies, Mrs. Robinson had
three small children, and, with fright, fatigue
and exposure, they suffered severely before
they could find food or shelter, hut were
only too glad to escape with their lives, as
the robbers, after breaking into the liquor
room, became very drunk, and threatened to
kill the entire party.
The recent Democratic State Convention
of Tennessee nominated General B. f. Cheat
ham and John NJ. Fleming for Congressman
from the State.at Large.
The Georgia Republican State Convention
met at Atlanta on the 21st. Judge Dawson
A Walker was nominated for Governor, and
an Electoral ticket selected. Resolutions in
dorsing the nomination of Grant and Wilson
were adopted.
L. o. c. Lamar is the Democratic candi-
date for Congress from the First Mississippi
District.
News from Mexico to the 18th was to the
effect that all the revolutionary leaders, ex-
cept Cadena, had accepted the amnesty
offered them. That chief, holding out de-
family, was at last captured. Tejeda, the
Acting President, had contracted a loan of
$500, ,O00 the first loan that the Government
has been able to obtain in many years.
General Pillow having, in a letter to the
Secretary of War, asked to be paid the value
of two hundred mules seized by the Union
troops at Helena, Ark, in 1862, the Attorney
General, to whom the matter was referred,
has given his opinion that the claim is not
good, the property having been seized in a
State which attempted to withdraw from
the Union, and belonging to a party not
loyal to the Government.
The Labor Reformers, at their Convention
in Philadelphia on the 22d, refused to in
dorse either Greeley or Grant, but chose a
committee OF thirty to confer with the
T,,,, Convention, and instructed them
~ ,,rra .ho ,,o,,;n. ''on of Charles O'Conor,
of New York. for PresidenU u 'ie oni'ed
States, and Senator Salisbury, of Dela ."are'
for Vice-President.
The Republicans of the Second New Jer-
sey District have nominated s. A. Dobbns
for Congress.
Governor Hoffman, of New York, has
written letter declining a denomination.
The Michigan Liberal Republican and Dem
ocratic State Conventions met at Grand Rap
ids on the 22d and agreed upon the follow
ing ticket For Governor, Hon. Austin Blair .;
Lieutenant g Governor, John c. Blanchard, of
Ionia Secretary of State, George H. House,
of Lansing; Auditor, Neil Ahearn, of Liv-
ingston; Commissioner of State Land Office,
George II. Murdock, of Berrien; Attorney
General, Matthew H. Maynard, of Marquette ;
Treasurer, Joseph A. Hollen, of Saginaw /;
Electors Large, Hon. G. V. N. Lathrop, of
of ho Il Of Kala
The resolutions reaffirm the principles enun-
ciated in the Cincinnati and Baltimore Con-
ventions.
The State ticket nominated by the joint
action of the Missouri Liberal and Demo-
cratic Conventions at Jefferson City, on the
22d, is as follows: For Governor, Silas Wood
son, Democrat; Lieutenant Governor, G. Fl.
Frost, Liberal; Secretary of State, Eugene
F. Weigel Liberal; Register of Lands, Fred
erick Solomon, Liberal; Judges of the Su-
preme Court, f. B. Ewing, H. NJ. Voorhees,,
F. A. Wood and Washington Adams, all
Democrats.
The Republicans of the Sixth Missouri
Congressional District have nominated H.
E. Havens for reelection to Congress. VIM.
r. Morris is the Liberal candidate for Con-
gress in the Seventeenth Illinois District,
and John B. Hawley is the Republican can
didate for re election in the Sixth Illinois
District. The Republicans of the Twelfth
Ohio District have nominated James Taylor
for Congress.
Speaking of the "bursting" of the recent
wheat corner in Chicago, the EVening Journal
OF the 22d says much excitement had been
occssioned thereby all over the West, and
adds 4; "If the engineers of the late wheat
ring could be made to realize the extent of
the actual mischief they have done, they
would go and drown themselves"
In Chicago, few nights ago, a son of
John Woods, on retiring for the night, blew
down the chimney of kerosene lamp to ex-
tinguish the light, when an explosion fol-
lowed, and the boy was so badly burned that
he died the next morning.
The Democrats Of the Third Texas Dis
trict have nominated D. G. Giddings for Con-
gress.
The Arkansas Republican State Conven-
tion, at Little Rock on the 22d, nominated:
For Governor, Elpa Baxter; Lieutenant
Governor, V. V. Smith; Treasurer, H. Page;
Auditor, Stephen Wheeler; Attorney. Gen
eral, L. D. A. Lorley; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, j. @. Corbin (colored);
Supreme Judges, E. J. Searle; M. l.. Stephen
son; Superintendent Penltentiary, II. B.
Robinson (colored); Congressman.at Large,
John NJ. Bradley, The platform indorses
the platform and nominees of the Philadel-
phia Convention.
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