Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-16

He was in his sixty-fifth year, having been
born April 20, 1908. His only child, Napo-
leon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, was born
March 16, 1856, and he is said to be a very
promising youth.
1 Several persons belonging to the Interna-
tional Society have recently been arrested
in Paris and the provinces. The police
found Orsini bombs in the possession OF
some of the parties.
News from Spain on the Sth was to the
effect that the Carlists had torn up rails on
the roads between Mirandi and Bilboa, and
between Alasna and Pamplona. They also
set fire to a railway station with petroleum,
completely destroying 1t, and made prison
ers of the railway officials.
TUE NEW WORLD.
| Gold closed in New York on the 9th at
112H@r2ss.
The time for filing claims for additional
bounty under the act Of July 2Ss 1866, giving
500 to every soldier who enlisted in the
army of the United States after the 10Th Of
| April, 1861, for q period of not less than
three years, and received his honorable dis
charge; or $50 for two years enlisted after
April IA, 1861, expires on the S1st Of the
present month.
The Postmaster General has decided that
families, firms, or companies cannot combine
to rent Post-Office boxes concertly, but that
one box rent must be collected for each
| firm, family, or company enjoying such ia
cilities.
The following explanation accompanied
the bank statement of January "The large
excess of national expenditures over the re-
| ceipts during the past month, amounting to
over 81 GOO, 900, is partially accounted for by
| the fact that the bank tax of So, ,000, 900,
which was paid during December, does not
appear in course Of business in the receipts
for that month. When the accounts are
finally settled, and the expenditures by war
rant for December are made up, the greater
part of the unfavorable balance will proba-
bly, disappear"
A New York Court has decided that the
United States cannot tax the salaries Of
State Judges.
The Governor Of Maine reports that ship
building is again prosperous in that State.
The Northwestern Fertilizing Company's
works, near Chicago, have been destroyed
by fire. Loss about $4,000.
The Legislature of Michigan convened on
the LIST. Charles NJ Crosswell was elected
Speaker of the House. Governor Bagley was
inaugurated on the I'd. The message of re-
t;ring Governor Baldwin was read on the
I'd. The total debt of the State is 81, 1872
292.7S. The State owns 8, ,1O2 1928 acres of
land. The value of school-houses and lots is
s., ,469, ,296. There are 5,365 public schools in
the State, with seating capacity of 3S1, s12
The number of children of school age is
- t.
and there are school lands unsold valued at
8, ,S0S, 1856. The income of the State Uni
versity is SIG, ,359.61, and its expenditures
s92, 600.
William Cluck, convicted of the murder
of his wife, and sentenced to be hung at
Indianapolis on the Sd, committed suicide
on the S1st ult., by taking morphine, which
he had obtained from some unknown
| source.
The Ohio General Assembly met at Colum-
bus on the I'd. Governor Noyes, in his an
nual message, states the aggregate debts of
the State to be $50, ,197, ,569. 81 in which is in
cluded "a, 900, 900 of debt in aid Of railroad
enterprises. The receipts for the fiscal year
ending November Is, were S4,757,7 1877; the
disbursements were S5,05S, ,435.
| Governor Browns Message was read in
the Missouri Legislature on the Sd. The re-
ceipts into the Treasury for the past year
were 81, ,S66, 1923; balance on hand at the
commencement of the year, S642, ,626; total,
50, ,63s, TAG; disbursements, s3,044, ,220; bal
ance January l, 1878, s594, ,529.
The biennial report of General z. N. Bates,
Illinois State Treasurer, shows that the re.
ceipts of the State Treasury from all sources
during the past two years were s15, ,252,
055 12, and the disbursements $13, POI ,279. IA,
and that of the States present indebtedness
is 81, ,7O0,O 900.
All the prisoners confined in the Frank
fort, KY, Jail escaped, a few nights ago, by
cutting through the roof.
The second trial of Stokes, for the murder
of James Fisk, terminated on the 4th
the jury rendering a verdict of guilty Of
murder in the FIRST degree. The announce
ment of the verdict created great sensa
tion in the court room. The prisoner
turned ashy pale, and his sister wept aloud
1t is stated that the jury, on retiring, stood
ten for murder in the first degree, and two
for manslaughter in the third degree.
By the recent breaking up of the ice in the
Ohio River and its tributaries, severa
steamers and barges were sunk, and othel
W Go uOuC w ilNCA piOpCibg-
Louisiana has notified her agents in New
York that the payment of interest on the
State bonds is discontinued for the present
in consequence of delay in collecting tht
taxes.
Two British war vessels have recently
gone to the Sandwich Islands, and tive
American ships were on their way there
Chief-Justice E. H. Allen is acting Regent o
the Islands during the interregnum.
Recent Mexican advices report the com
pletion of the railroad from the City of Mex
leo to Vera Cruz, an event which woulc
shortly be celebrated with imposing festiyi
ties.
Washington dispatch of the 5th says tn
President had directed the Secretary o
State to prepare Immediately an Executiv
order in effect prohibiting persons holding
ing United States commissions from occu
pying Office under State authority.
The President, in q recent conversation
on the subject of the Hawaiian Island at
fairs, said that in view of the recent publica
tions concerning them, it was proper that al
facts should be known, and which ar
briefly as follows: This Government ha,
sent a United States vessel to the Hawaiian
Islands to bring the King to San Francisco
he having expressed desire to trave
through the country, and thence go to Eu
rope for the benefit of his health. Abou
. the time the vessel arrived at Honolulu tn
King died. This intelligence havln
been received by our Government, tn
commander of the Pacific squadron
was instructed to send a vessel to tn
islands in addition to the one already there
simplyto protect the rights OF American
, citizens in case of emergency, and to Sc
that other nations should take no undue ad
vantages under the new government. Gen
, Schofield sailed on this vessel merely for tn
benefit of his health.
Edward 8. Stokes, convicted OF murder il
the first degree in the killing Of James Fisk
Jr., has been sentenced to be hanged on Fri