Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-23

10Th, ana were witnessed by 3O,OOO people.
The Empress Eugenie was too Ill to attend.
While the ex. Emperor's remains lay In state,
on the 14th, they were visited by q, ,00C
people. The body will be taken to France
for interment.
4 A boiler in q factory at Charleroi, Bel
GUM, exploded on the 18th, with most fatal
results. Eleven persons were instantly killed,
and a large number wounded, some of them
in a very serious manner.
One of the persons who went from France
to attend the funeral of Napoleon brought
with him some soil dug from the garden OF
the Tuileries, which he strewed over the cof
fin after it was deposited in the sacristy OF
the chapel at Chiselhurst. Many French
spies were present at Chiselhurst while the
funeral services were taking place.
TIE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the 10th al
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The Illinois House of Representatives
permanently organized on the 9th. Shelby
NJ. Cullom, Republican, was chosen Speaker
by q vote Of Sc to 65 for Newton R. Casey,
Democratic and Liberal All the other nom
inees of the Republican caucus were
elected.
Mrs. Woodruff aud Col Blood were again
arrested in New York, on the evening Of the
9th, and locked in Ludlow-street Jail, on a
new Indictment for circulating obscene lit
erature through the mails.
The compositors of the New York Tribune
suggest that each printing office in the
country give at least one pound of old type,
and that each compositor give the proceeds
of !, 900 ems (about an hours work. set up
on February 8, the sixty second anniversary
of Mr.. Greeley's birthday, for statue of
Horace Greeley, to be raised over his grave
at Greenwood.
At recent session Of the Connecticut
State Temperance Convention,i 1t was claimed
that the needed temperance legislation could
not be obtained of either the Republican or
the Democratic party, and q full ticket for
State officers was put in nomination, with
Henry D. Smith, Of Plainville, for Governor,
and o. 8. Beardsley, of Plymouth, for Lieu
tenant-Governor. A straight-out Temper
ance platform was adopted.
A. P. Hall, of Hennepin, is Speaker Of the
Minnesota House Of Representatives. The
message of Governor Austin reports the in
debtedness of the State at $3.50 900, with q
balance in the Treasury of g, ,4S3, 900. The
total valuation of property in the State is
s10S, ,373 ,s26, which will be taxed five mills
on the dollar during the current year.
In his recent message to the Legislature,
the Governor of Wisconsin gives the follow
ing as the financial status of the State: Bal
ance on hand at the close of last fiscal year,
s239. 109. IL; receipts the past year, 81 $50, :
477.20; disbursements, s1,O96, 462 e6. The
State debt on the 30th OF September, 1S72,
amounted to 81, 252, ,o57. The assessed value
of property for 1872 was $500, ,45o,s75.
Thetotal State debt of Maryland is s10,911,- :
67s, and the reduction during the past year
was g., ,O90, 900.
The message Of the Governor of Georgia
was delivered to the Legislature on the 9th.
1t shows the receipts for 1872 to be 81, ,i01,-
940.s4; disbursements, 81 ,S35, ,207 "A; public
debt, ss, 1s6, 500; valuation of State prop
erty, 334, 492, ,46S. James NJ. Smith was in
augurated as Governor on the 10th.
At New Orleans, on the 10th, the Fusion
Legislature was fully organized. Senator
Mcmillan, accompanied by Senators jerks,
Noland, Swords, Todd, werrall and Hun
saker, who had withdrawn from Kellogg's
Senate, took their seats in the Fusion Sem
ate, and issued an address giving the
reasons for the course they had taken.
The investigation into the charge against
Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, of having OBJ
tanned his election as Senator by bribery,
was begun before the United States Senate
Committee on the 10th.
A Washington dispatch OF the 11th says
the Committee on Elections had dispatched
a Deputy Sergeant-st-Arms to New Orleans
to subpoena both of the Returning Boards,
known as the Wharton Board and the Bovee
Board, to appear before them in Washington.
An effort will be made by the Committee to
have presented for their investigation all the
returns of the Electoral vote from the
various parishes of Louisiana.
A full jury for the trial Of "Boss" Tweed
was secured on the 11th.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, convicted in Connec-
ticut of having poisoned her husband In
1871, has made q confession and acknowl-
edges to having poisoned three husbands and
four children. She has been sentenced to
State Prison for life.
Advices from Arizona to January 4, state
that General Crook on that morning had re-
ceived dispatch from Major Brown, stating
that his command fought the Apaches, kill
ing ffty-seven and capturing twenty-three.
His only loss was one Lima Indian. The
battle occurred at the National fortidca-
tions, on Salt River, thirty miles above Nc
Buell., and lasted five hours.
Terrible snow storms have recently occur
red in Minnesota, and in some places along
the Winons & st. Peter Railroad the drifts
reached the top of the telegraph poles, and
the snow was packed so closely that men
could walk on the surface. The storm on
the st. Paul & Pacific Railroad was the Sc
verest ever known. At Kirk Haven, there
were several farmers in town when the
storm first burst upon them. They left for
home with their teams, and very few had
been heard from. One wagon WAS found,
containing Mrs'Soland and q boy, who
were frozen to death. Many teams, both
oxen and horses, were found frozen in the
drifts, and the fate of their owners was un-
known.
On the Iowa Division Of the Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad there were recently
eight freight trains showed in between Nc
Gregor and Austin. The snow was packed
so tight that snow-plows had no effect upon
it, and 1t would have to be shoveled out.
All that could be seen of some Of The trains
was here and there the top OF . brake just
protruding above the snow, and nothing but
the top Of the smoke-stack OF an engine
marked the whereabouts of some.
The Nebraska Legislature completed It's
organization on the 10th. The Governor re-
ports nearly $500, 900 in the Treasury, the
greater part Of which belongs to the School
Fund.
Governor Baker, in his message to the
Indiana Legislature, states the foreign debt
of the State to be s744, $50. IL, and the domes-
tic debt s3, eos, ,eo6.25. The expenses of the
State for 1878 will be SIS, ,SSs, to meet
which he recommends levy of Is cents on
the 500.
Acting Secretary Of the Interior Cowan
has replied to the House resolution calling
for information relative to the Teton Sioux
Indians. Their proper name Is Titwans.
They are a nomadie people under the care of