Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-02
General News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, the House
bill, amendatory to the postal code, with amend
ments was reported and passed; the amendments
change the rate Of postage seeds, authorized to
be transmitted, from two cents for four ounces to
one cent for every two ounces or fraction Of two
third class must be fully prepaid Bills were re-
ported-Postal Telegraph bill, by the provisions
Of which the Postmaster-General is required. az
at all Ofices on telegraph circuits. at Others
within ten miles thereof where the salary Is al
least $500 per annum, and other places
and fixing the rates OF charges for the trans.
mission Of messages; substitute for the bill pro-
;iibiting the sale Of liquor In the District Of Co
lumbia and other Territories. Bills were reported
adversely-allowing women in the Territories to
vote and hold office; relating to judgments in the
Provisional Courts Of Louisiana The bill au-
was called up, and an amendment was agreed to,
providing that the operation of the law shall not
increase the public debt rate Of interest on the
bonds. when the bill was debated and laid over.
The French Spolation bill was further discuss
ed. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
passed-for paying the expenses Of the Mexican
Commission; the Deficiency Appropriation bill;
appropriating 100000 toward the representation
Of the United States in the Vienna Exposition in
mission Of not more than twelve skilled citizens
TO attend the Exposition and report their obserya
East Chester National Bank Mount Vernon, Ind,
to change its location and name. Resolutions
were adopted-that the Banking Committee in
quire whether unlawful combinations for locking
up gold and money exist, and report what legtsla-
ton Is necessary to prevent and punish such un-
lawful combinations; for the appointment of q
of stamps from the Assistant Treasurer's office in
New York Several billswere introduced and re-
ferred. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, bills were
passed---House bill, extending the time for the
completion Of the Winona & st. Peter Railroad
authorizing the Kansas National Bank to change
it's name to the First National Bank of Topeka;
appropriating $1S, 790 for the Texan Commission;
the Deficiency Appropriation bill, with amend
ments. Eight thousand copies Of the eulogies on
the late Senator Garrett Davis were ordered print
ed. -. The resolution for Special Committee to
investigate the alleged irregularities in the Arkan-
sas election was debated. Executive session and
adjournment to January6.
In the House, on the Goth, bills were
introduced to extend the time for entries in the
Usage lands in Kansas; to secure a more efficient
Indian administration in the Territories: to amend
the Constitution for the election Of President,
Vice-President and Senators by the people. .Ad-
journed to January6.
THE OLD WORLD.
A Paris telegram of the 10Th says the
Seine had overfowed in that city. The
quays were flooded, and the stores near
them were closed. All traffic in that quar-
ter was carried on by beats. Beyond Bercy,
a suburb on the right bank of the Seine,
houses in the vicinity Of the river were
standing in one vast lake of water. Dis
patches from Ghent, Belgium, of the same
date, report that the streams in that section
had risen above their embankments, and
the country was inundated. The water was
three feet deep in some of the streets.
A crisis occurred in the Spanish Cabinet on
the Goth, and the Ministers of Finance, Pub
lie Works and Colonies have retired. Senior
Echegary has been appointed Minister of
Finance Becerra, Minister of Public Works,
and Mosquera, Minister of Colonies.
Large portions of the country in Leicester,
Derby and Nottingham, England, were sub
merged, on tho Goth, by floods. In some
sections of these counties the tops of trees
and hedges only were visible.
A dispatch from Liverpool on the Goth
says that 449 persons, including passengers,
had perished by marine disasters within the
previous ten days. Thirty persons were lost
by the sinking of the ship Matchless, off
Northumberland County.
There was q demonstration in Paris on the
Goth of three thousand students, in favor of
Professor Robin, distinguished member Of
the Institute, who had been struck from the
jury list in consequence of his disbelief in
the existence of God.
The freshet in the Seine was subsiding on
the 21st.
The river Thames, which had already
overflowed Its banks in many places, sud-
denly rose nearly foot on the 2lst, at
Windsor. Home Park was one vast lake of
water, and thousands of acres of other lands
were submerged.
The French Assembly has passed the bill
to the Orleans Princes their con-
fscated property. The Assembly adjourned
on the 21st for the holidays.
1t was estimated in London on the 23d that
the total liabilities of the exploded firm of
Bowles Bros, bankers, would foot up more
than $3.50, 600; assets, Gas, 900.
An explosion occurred on the 21st in a
coal mine of Silverdale, England, by which
eight miners were suffocated.
The German papers state that the Ameri-
can press has greatly exaggerated the ac-
tion of the Prussian Government looking
toward the checking Of emigration. The
partial revocation of reduced fares fer emil
grants on the German railways is required
by motives of political economy and private
interest"
Bismark has received formal notice from
the King of the acceptance of his resigna-
tion of the Premiership.
The King of the Sandwich Islands is dead,
and as he left no direct heir, and did not
name his successor, the throne continued
vacant at last accounts, and q revolution
was expected.
By the terms of the bill read in the Span
ish Cortes on the oath, slavery is to cease in
Porto Rico in four months from the time the
measure of emancipation is passed, and the
are to be paid for the slave
property thus confscated.
THE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed In New York on the Goth at
112@1123s.
The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate on the 10Th: Chas B
Wilkinson, Collector of Internal Revenue,
Sixth District, Missouri. Postmasters-B.
NJ. Crawford, Wamego, Kan; ]. w. Whips,
New Lexington Ohio; L. T. Cheever, Della
van, ILL.,; Mrs. Eliza Sellers, Pekin, Ill. F.
NJ. Trip, Farmer City, ILL.,; Samuel Math-
ews, Sidney, Ohio; John Macarthur, Chi
cago, Ill.
Telegraph dispatches of the 10th announce
that the negotiations between the New York
Tribune Company and Vice-President Colfax,
looking to the latter's editorship of that
paper, had failed.