Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-11
THE NEW WORLD.

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Gold closed in New York on the Sd at 1l711g
@nT%.
Governor Austin, of Minnesota, has ac-
cepted the resignation of State Treasurer
Seegcr, who was under Impeachment by the
Legislature for alleged financial irregulari-
ties.
VIM. NJ. Tweed has resigned his seat in the
New York State Senate.
President Grant will hereafter, while Con-
gress is not in session, receive callers on
other than official business on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, from eleven to
one o'clock.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed,
and the Governor has signed, bill appro-
priating 81, 900, 900 for the celebration of the
National Centennial, July 4, 1876, at Phila-
delphia.
The Hon. w. P. sprague, member of Con-
gress from the Fifteenth District of Ohio,
has published card saying that he voted
against the Increase Of Salary bill, and will
either return the money to the United States
Treasury, or use it for the relief of the tax
payers of his district.
The Hon. James Dixon, formerly United
States Senator from Connecticut, died of
heart disease, at his residence, in Hartford,
on the 9Th, aged 5S. e
The Democratic and Liberal Republican
Convention of Michigan met at Jackson on
the 9th and nominated: For Judge of the
Supreme Court. j, P. Christian, present In
cumbent; for Regent of the State University,
Duane Doty, of Detroit.
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rejected all amendments, and accepted, by
vote OF twenty.seven to four, the adverse
report of the Committee on the petition Of
John G. Whittier and Others, for annulling
or resembling the Sumner resolutions passed
last session. The House had already taken
the same action.
Out of the three hundred Postmasters
whose terms of office expired on March l.,
1873, all but twelve have been renominated
by the President. These will be reappoint-
ed by the President, and acted upon by the
Senate next winter.
0akes Ames has written to the Attorney
General that the Credit-Mobilier Company
does not intend to give up Its books to the
United States, but will offer them for in
spection. He questions Kelley's right to
give away stock he did not own, and he has
asked his lawyers whet er Kelley's dis
clalmer does not entitle him (Ames) to hold
1t for the Credit-Mobilier Company.
John Thompson Mason, Secretary of State
of Maryland, died suddenly at Elkton, Nd,
on the 2Sth.
Judge Brady, of New York, on the 2Sth
decided to admit George Francis Train in
81, 900 bail, but the prisoner declined to fur
nish 1t, and he was thereupon remanded to
the Tombs.
Near Detroit, Mich, recently, while Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Peters were absent from
home over night, their house was burned
to the ground with all its contents, and
three of their children perished in the
flames. Their eldest girl barely escaped with
her life.
An accident occurred on the Renssalser &
Saratoga Railroad near Shusham Station, VT,
on the night of the 30th, caused by passenger
train running off an embankment, by which
Fred Downs, conductor, and Patrick Mona
han, fireman, were instantly killed. The
cars were badly wrecked, and nearly all the
passengers were more or less injured,
though, 1t was thought, none fatally. The
baggage car took hre, and the through mails
were about half burned up. r
On the morning OF the 30th, train on the
Great Western Railway was thrown from
the track, by broken rail, about thirty-dve
miles from Detroit, Mich, The sleeping-car