Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-23
THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 18th at ll7sl
@ll71s.
At the annual meeting Of the National Tenn
perunce Society, held in New York City on the
9th, VIM. f. Dodge, of the firm of Phelps,
Dodge Il Co., was elected President, and J. n.
Stearns Corresponding and Recording Secre
tary. The receipts for the past year were
$50, ,9S2, and expenses, S53,s42. Resolutions
were adopted appealing to Congress to ap-
point Commission to inquire into the liquor
traffic throughout the country, and to pass a
general law prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors in the United
States.
Hons. John B. Hawley, of Illinois, and J. NJ.
Rusk, of Wisconsin, have returned their back
pay into the United States Treasury.
The following dispatch was received in New
York on the 9th from President Grant "Your
dispatch announcing the death of Hon. Chief
Justice Chase is received. His family and the
Nation have my coincidence in mourning the
loss of distinguished and faithful public
officer"
The final funeral services over the remains
of the late Bishop McIlvaine were held in Gin
cinnati on the 9th, the body having arrived in
that city on the day before.
The body of Chief-Justiee Chase arrived in
Washington on the morning of the 18th, and
lay in state in the United States Supreme Court
room, and continuous column of people was
passing through the room from ten o'clock in
the morning until five in the afternoon
A portion Of the crewof Captain Halls Arc
tic expedition have reached st. Johns, n. F.,
and report the death of the Captain and the
failure Of the enterprise. They state that
Captain Hall, under whose superintendent
the expedition was organized and who was in
command Of it, died Of apoplexy in November,
1871. A year later the main portion OF the
exploring party, consisting of nineteen
persons became separated from the Po-
laris during severe gale, when in
latitude ~ degrees 35 minutes, and after
great depryations, sufferngs and narrow
escapes of the ice Of the Arctic Sea, were final
ly rescued by the steamer Tigress, and brought
to st. Johns. The fate Of the Polaris and
those on board is not known, and probably
viii not be for some time. When the escap-
Ing party last saw her she was under steam and
canvas, making for harbor on the east side of
Northumberland Island She had no boats left
VI SIX MhiVu sHV uuu luhtH Win utr from lnc
port of New York. The number remaining on
board was fourteen, and they had a plentiful
supply Of provisions ..-.arr -.t.,
The Musical Festival ut Cincinnati closed on
the 10TH Over 5000 persons were present, and
the interest was wen maintained to the last.
A duel was fought near Richmond, Va, a
few evenings ago, between John b. Mordeeai
and Page Mccarthy. Both were wounded
Mordecai fatally. The seconds were arrested.
The difflculty occurred about lady.
dispatch from Yreka on the night OF the
1lth states that Donald McKay's Warm Spring
scout had found the Modocs in the lava beds,
four miles south of their old stronghold, near
the foot OF Snow Mountain, where they were
strongly intrenched.
The excitement over the recent development
Of the Bender murders in Cherry Vale, Kan
sas, continued on the 10th. The Roach fam
lily, Of Ladone, seven miles from the slaughter,
consisting Of the old man and wife, and son
and wife, and Stevenson, John Harness and
wife, and Thomas Tyke, wife and daughter,
had been arrested. A. NJ. King, a travelling dis
trlet preacher, had been arrested at Parsons,
and notorious murderer, once pardoned from
the Penitentlary, named Major Munford, and