Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


WASHINGTON.
Gem shenmn returned toswashington on
the 18th and held o consultation with Secrc-
tary Cameron upon the condition of affairs
In South Carolina. The opinion in army cir
clesis that there are sufficient troops sta
toned in South Carolina to protect all citi-
zens in their rights. ro tI
Difficulties having arisen between the Nez
Perces Indians and the white settlers OF Ore
gon and Idaho, the Indian Bureau will send
special commission TO them TO settle
all questions in dispute and avert further
trouble. Many of those Indians have never
been parties to any treaty. Gen o. o. How
ard, Mai. ClaywoodS AVN. stickney, d. II.
jerome of Saginaw, Mich, and A. G. Bar
btow of Providence compose the commits
sion. Gen. Howard left Washington for the
West on.the 18th. -tr
A delegation OF South Carolinians, headed
by Senator Patterson, presented to President
Grant on the 18th formal demand from Gov.
Chamberlain for troops to quell riot and
bloodshed in that State. The Governor
states that the State officials are powerless
to keep the peace. The demand was referred
to Atty..Gen Taft In n conversation the
latter intimated that the troops would be
sent. He also stated that Republicans from
the Norfolk and Petersburg Districts in vir.
ginia had made demand for troops, which
would be complied with.
THE EAST.
The Cuban residents of New York cele-
brated, on the 10th, the eighth anniversary
Of the Cuban war of independence.
John f. Cleveland, for more than thirty
years-a member of the editorial staff of the
New York Tribune, died on the 9th.
The Board of Missions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the United States COM
menced its annual session at Philadelphia
on the 10th.
The entire business portion of Sandy Hill,
NY, was burned on the night of the 10th.
The losses are over s2O0,o00. ''t-''
The monument to Christopher Columbus
was unveiled at the Centennial grounds, Phil
adelpha, on the 12th, with appropriate cere-
Richard Harrington, alleged to have been
connected with the Washington safe burg
Larry, appeared before the U. s. Commissioned
at Wilmington, Del, on the 18th and gave
bail for his appearance in court. His where
abouts were unknown at the time Of the
Babcock trial IA yFb4
E. A. Woodward, Tweed's confederate re-
Gently arrested in Chicago, arrived in New
York in charge Of officers on the 18th, and
was committed TO the Tombs to await trial
on the charge of forgery.
The steamer Abyssinia. arrived at New
York on the 18th, bringing $3.50, 900 in Amer,
ican gold coin my F.r--r rT-# p
Martin Farquhar Tupper, philosopher and
poet, arrived in New York from England on
the 18th. t.H..
William Orton was reelected, on the 18th
President Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company for the ensuing year.
The Centennial Commissioners are prepar
ing programme for the closing day Of the
Exhibition, they desiring to render 1t as i'm
posing as the day of opening.
Ex-Gov. CASTOR has declined the Demo
cratic nomination for Congress in the Fourtl
Massachusetts District.
Hon. S. 8. Cox was nominated for Con
gress on the 18th by the Anti -Tammany Con
vention of the Sixth New York District.
A fire at Csnestota, N. Y, on the 14th de
stroyed property valued at $4,000.
Cadet -Midshipmen King of Georgia, Par
sons Of Massachusetts, Scott of Indiana
Leeby of New York, and Russell of Mary
land have been dismissed from the Nava
Academy at Annapolis, Md, for refusing tC
give the names Of other students who hat
"hazed" "plebs." For "hazing," in addi
tion to expulsion, a cadet is cashiered, anC
cannot he reinstated
The importations of gold at New York fo
the week ending on the 4th were 100000
All attempts at a coalition Of the Tamman!
and Anti.Tammany Democracy of New York
up TO the 18th, had failed.
Snow fell at Boston and in various parts o
New England on the night of the 14th.
A dispatch falsely announcing the death o
Commodore Vanderbilt was sent from New
York throughout the country and to Europ
on the 10th. The announcement at the New
York Stock Exchange caused declinei in NeS
York Central stock OF IA to l 3-4 per cent
The Commodore sent the following dispatcl
to n Wall-street firm: 1 am alive and doini
well; better than l have been In seyera
months" ta
Ten Molly Maguires convicted at the las
term of court at Pottsville, Pa, we're sen
tenced on the 18th to various terms OF i'm
prisonment ranging from one to fourteen
years.
The mercantile failures throughout tn
United States for the first nine months o
1875 mum bered 1850, with liabilities Of $l56,
272, 200.