Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-30


Spain.
Eight ships arrived at New York on the 10Th,
with 1852 emigrants, most of whom were
bound for the West. This is the largest ar
rival in any one day so far this year.
A severe hail and wind-storm passed over st.
Louis on the afternoon of the 10Th, prostrat-
ing fences and chimneys, breaking windows
and doing great injury to gardens and orchards
in the suburbs
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to
whom were referred for investigation the com
plants OF certain parties who alleged they
were unfairly treated in recent letting Of con
tracts for Indian supplies has submitted his
report TO the Acting Secretary of the Interior
and says IL is not impossible some mistakes
were made "by which deserving bids did not
receive due consideration; but no new facts
have been disclosed to this office which, in my
judgment, would be likely to lead to diff
ferent award If it were now to be made under
the advice of the same parties"
Judge Pierrepont has declined the Russian
mission, and telegram Of the 20th says the
President had rendered the appointment to ex-
Governor Jewell, of Connecticut.
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says:
1.-THE Executive Committee of the Grand Army
of the Republic resolved last evening that the
proposed strewing Of flowers on the Confeder-
ate graves at Arlington, Va, would probably
cause disorder and occasion a breach of the
peace, and that the national cemeteries were,
on Decoration day, only open by the order of
the Quartermaster-Gene for the purpose of
decorating the graves of Union soldiers"
The trial of George Francis Train, on the
charge of circulating obscene publications,
terminated in New York on the Goth by the court
directing the jury to give a verdict of not guilty
on the ground of insanity. Mr.. Bell said that
two of the jurors informed him that that was
not their verdict. The court replied: "The
verdict is entered and that part of the case is
disposed of. DR.. Cross testified that this in
sanity continues, and therefore Train must be
sent to the State Lunatic Asylum" Train ex-
citedly said, 81 protest against the proceedings
here. / have been five months in Jail without
being granted a trial" Then addressing Judge
Davis, he said, Before leave here l move
your impeachment in the name of the people "
Judge Davis ordered him to sit down, and an
order was made out TO send Train to the State
Lunatic Asylum. Trains counsel obtained
a writ Of hdbeds corpus, returnable on the 22d
Governor Dix, of New York, has vetoed the
Local Option bill on the ground that it re-
stricts the freedom of choice Of communities,
and compels them to either permit the sale of
ardent spirits or prohibit the sale of lighter
beverages; and also, because no limits are
specified to the number who may engage in the
traffic. He favors local option, but not in the
restricted sense which this bill provides. The
veto was sustained by the Legislature.
The st. Louis Democrat of the Goth publishes
large batch of correspondence from all parts
If Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kansas and
Iowa, which predicts large and excellent
wheat crop, but short crops of oats and corn.
A San Francisco dispatch of the Goth says
Governor Booth had conferred with General
Schofied with reference to the propriety of rails
ing company of sharpshooters and scouts to
fight the Modocs, and for the purpose of pro
tecting the lives and property Of settlers in the
extreme northern portion of this State. Gen
eral schoGeld received the proposition favor
ably, and informed the Governor that the
services of fifty volunteers would be accepted
the company, when organized, to report fol-
service to General Davis headquarters, at the
lava bed. The company so raised will be or
ganized and accepted as part of the Nationa
Guard. Its officers will be duly commissioned
by the Governor.
The Southern and Western Governors Con
venton met at Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth. Tn,
Convention permanently organized by the elec
tion of Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, President
and one Vice President from each Of the thir
teen States represented. Over three hundred
delegates were present. The Convention
adopted resolution that cheap transportation
was the only subject for discussion.
Melvin NJ. Cohen, an attache of the New
Orleans Picdy1ne, was arrested on the Goth
charged with shooting at Governor Kellogg
on May Z, with the intention of killing him
He was bailed in 5000
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, on the Goth
says that grasshoppers in innumerable mum
bers had made their appearance in tina
State, and were laying waste all vegetation Ii
some localities they had entirely destroyed tn
corn, consuming it down to 4 level with tn
ground. They seemed to be moving north
ward.
The Advisory Board of the Civil-Servic
Commissioners, at its session in Washington
on the 2lst, elected Dorman B. Eaton, Chair
man. There was general discussion Oh
civil-service affairs, but no other business o
importance.
In accordance with an act of the Thirty
ninth Congress, Associate-Justice Clifford, o
the Supreme Court, will act ms Chief-Justic
| till the President fills the vacancy.
! A delegation from New Jersey, composet
of ex-Representative Hill, Colonel Yermilyea
and other citizens of that State residing in tn
neghborhood of Commissioner Van Buren
called on President Grant on the 2lst and hat
a long interview. The gentlemen eXpresse'
their mistaken confidence in the integrity AM
honesty of General Van Buren, and urged hi
retention. The President said he woulr
await the arrival of the official papers il
the case and then decide definitely in tn
matter, as he desired to see no injustice don
| any one. ........
The will Of Chief-Justice Chase is date
November 10, 1870, and is as follows: s.
nominate H. d. Cooke, of the District Of &C
| lumbia, TO be sole executor Of this, my last wi
and testament. After the payment of all ius
| debts, make the following bequests: The inter
est on 5000 At per cent TO my niece, Jane AIlC
| during her life, and II her daughters survive he
| the principal thereof to be paid 10 them equally
| $4,000 to Wilberforce University; $4,000 to Oar
mouth College. Whatever sum may be due to m
|
| N. " to be remitted to his widow and admins
| tratriX. The picture OF Chief-Justiee Marshal
| presented by members Of the bar and other cit
zens Of New York, to the United States for the us
| OF the Supreme Court. The residue Of my estai
to be distributed in equal parts to my two daugl
| tens | commit my soul to God in Christ Jesus Ou
Savior through the Holy Spirit
| SP. CHASE.
Witnessed by r. c. Parsons and Jacob SehuckeI
Smith, the murderer of Mr.. Sackett, &
Westfeld, Mass, is to be hanged the last FIR
day in June,
a. Charges have been preferred in the Ne
York Legislature against Ezra Cornell, founC
er of the Cornell University, to the effect tina
In locating and selling the public lands whic
were granted to the University, he had vic
lated the law and used his position as agent c
the State for purposes of private speculatio
aud plunder Mr.. Cornell demanded am invei
tigation
A New York dispatch Of the 2lst say
"Esqulmaux Joe, In his published statemen
speaks in adsapproying way Of Capt, Budding
ton, the sailing-master of the Polarls, and sal
that Capt. Hall was poisoned, and that Cap