Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-11
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CoNpENsEp IELReRAPHIc NEWS.

acquittal-being less than the required
two thirds vote for conviction. On tho
second article thirtysix voted guilty and
T twenty-five not guilty. Twenty OF
+ those voting not guilty stated their reason
for doing so was want of Jurisdiction
The following is the vote in detail:
For ConrietioH.--Bnyard, Booth Came sn pa J.
Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dawes Dennis, Ed
munds, Gordon, Hamilton, Harvey, Hitchcock
Kelly, Herman, Key, McCreery, Mcdonald, Merri
mon, Mitchell, Morrill,. Norwood, Oglesby, Ran
dolph, Ransom, Robertson Sargent, salisbury
: sherman, Stevenson, Thurman, Wadleigh, Wal
For Icguittat. t.-Anthony Allison, Boutwell,,
[ Bruce, Cameron (Wis }, Christiancy, Conklng,
Conover, Cragin, Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry, Freling-
huysen, Hamlin, Howe, ingalls,, Jones (Nev.),
Logan, Nc MILAN, Paddock, Patterson, Spencer,
West, Window, Wright
ABSENT or Not Foting.--Alcorn, Bogy, Burn
side, Clayton, English, Johnston, Jones (Fla.),
Maxey, Morton, Sharon. Mr. Jones, Of Florida,
declined to vote on the ground that the Senate
had no Jurisdiction. Messrs COnover and Wright
voted for acquittal on the ground that they be-
lieved the charges were not sustained
OFFICIAL information was received at
Omaha on the 1st from Camp Brown,
Wyoming Territory, to the effect that In
dian scouts had brought intelligence that
the hostile Indians were moving southeast,
and at last accounts were at the head of
the Little Powder River. 1t was thought
they were making for the agencies.
A ROW BOAT on Bawbeese Lake, east of
Coldwater, Mich, overturned the other
day, when about 200 yards from shore,
and of the seventeen men, women and
children therein, nine were drowned. The
victims resided at Coldwater, and left in
the morning to attend picnic on the
shores of the lake.
News was received in Paris on the 2d
that the Sultan Murad Effendi had already
signed his abdication of the Ottoman
throne. Abdul Hamid, his successor, had
declared that he would take personal COM
mand of the armies operating against the
! Sclaves.
The Arab shieks at Mecca are said to
have offered 200, 900 Arabian troops to the
Turkish Government.
BELGRADE dispatches of the 2d say
Russia had sent an army of observation to
her frontier.
AT the election in Portsmouth, N. H.,
on the 1st, the Republicans elected their
candidate for Mayor by majority of
about 300
GoDLovE S. ORTIZ, on the 1st rendered
to the chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee his declination as can
didate for Governor of Indiana, on the
ground that he had become convinced he
would not receive the united support of
the party in the State.
A. II. CoLQUITT has been nominated for
Governor by the Georgia Democracy.
THE National Independent Council pa
pointed by the indianapolis Convention
have nominated Gen Samuel F. Cary, of
Ohio, as candidate for Vice President ON
the National Independent ticket, in place
of Senator Booth, declined. Mr.. Cary
has accepted.
A FEW days ago the clerks of the Bank
of Nova Scotia and the Provincial Treas
urer's Office at Halifax, n S., locked the
doors of the institution, and went off to
see a circus procession. When they re-
turned they found that thieves had been
there and robbed the bank of $t7, 800 and
the Treasurer's office of 81 ,0e0 and valu-
able papers.
THE Coroners jury in the case of the
victims of the Hamburg Is. C.) troubles
have rendered verdict charging the
crime of murder upon Gen. NJ. G. Butler,
Col. A. P. Butler, Pierce Butler and the
Rev. J. Meeling, and fifty three other citi
zens of Aiken and Edgeield Counties,
and also upon thirty citizens of Georgia.
Warrants for the arrest of all the parties
implicated by the verdict were put in the
hands of the Sheriff of Aiken County.
THE Republican State Convention of
Michigan was held at Lansing on the 3D.
and nominated: For Governor, G. NJ
Croswell Lieutenant Governor, Alonzo
Sessions; Secretary of State, f. G. d. |
Holden; State Treasurer, w. b. McCreery
Auditor General, Ralph Ely; Land Com
missioner, Gen. B. F. Partridge; Attor-
ney General, Otto Kirchner; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, II. s. Tar |
bell. Presidential Electors were also I
nominated. The resolutions endorse the
National Republican platform and candi-
dates, and commend the record and policy |
of the Republican party. The present |
State Government was also endorsed.
HEAVY fighting along the Servian bor-
der was reported on the Sd, both sides
claiming to have achieved victories,
BRUCE YOUNGER and Hobbs Cary were
arrested in Missouri ON the Sd on suspi- |
ciou of having been connected with the |
recent express train robbery on the Mis-
soHri Pacific Railroad,
A COURIER from Red Cloud arrived at
Fort Laramie, on the 4th, with the in
formation that a scout from in front of
Sitting Bulls command had brought the |
intelligence that the Indians had been
largely reinforced from northern tribes,
and that Sitting Bull had between $4,000 |
and 10, 900 warriors. He is reported to |
have said he would make his grand stand |
where he then was, and weuld either |
drive back the white soldiers, or die.
DURING the prevalence Of severe gales
along the English coast on the 4th and
9th, over forty fishermen lost their lives.
The mammoth balloon Buffalo,"
NhlSh lClN hlluNtoiphio Oh INC SNOiihS VI
the 4th, in charge of Prof, King, who was
accompanied by eight passengers-repre-
sentatives of the press-sailed in wester
ly direction for some distance, when item
countered an easterly current and was
driven over New Jersey, where it began
to descend, and the Professor decided that
some of the occupants would have to be
landed. This was done, but the balloon
refused to rise again, Notwithstanding all
the ballast was thrown out, and the enter
prise was abandoned, the balloon being
packed for shipment back to Philadel--
phia.
vienna kilograms of the 9th state that
the Turks had been everywhere success
ful in their operations against Servia, and
despair prevailed throughout that coun-
try AT CurgusOYatz the latter lost 600 /