Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-29

ed. The U. 8. Attorney demurr6d to this
and the other pleas and thecourt sustained
the demurrer and entered JUDGMENT for
plaintiff. This case Is the first one instituted d
to recover income tax after a citizen had
paid the tax assessed by the U. =. Assessor
with the so per cent penalty.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Two companies of Federal troops arrived
at the scene of the South Carolina troubles
on the 10Th. The whites dispersed upon the
Federal officer promising TO disarm the
negroes and arrest the parties charged with
crime.
The closing arguments in the Lee case at
Beaver, Utah, were delivered on the 10Th.
The yellow-fever interments at Savannah,
on the 18th, numbered twenty-seven.
The steamship Rebecca Clyde, from Will
miDgton, n. c., with naval stores and cotton,
was disabled off seracoke Inlet, south Of
| Hatteras, and blown on the beach, on the
! l7th, and the Captain, d. G. Childs, first and
second mates, chief and first assistant en-
gineers, steward, fireman, three seamen and
| two passengers were lost. Eleven others
were saved. The ship is total wreck.
Seventeen states were represented in the
convention of the Boys in Blue" at Indian
apolis on the Goth. Among the noted per-
sons present were Gov Hartranft, Senator
Logan, Gems. Garfield, Burnside, Hurlbut,
Goodlove, Norton, Noyes, Negley, Pearson,
! Drake, Trebridge. Latta, Montgomery; Coils.
scoville and Dudley. The assembly was
called to order in the afternoon and Senator
Morton made a brief address of welcome.
Gen. Garfield, presiding in the absence Of the
President, Gen. Dix, spoke at some length.
Ex.Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, was chosen perma-
nent Chairman Of the convention, and made
a short speech on assuming that position.
| Speeches were also delivered by Gems. Hart
ranft, Burnside, Hurlbut and others aud the
convention adjourned to the 21st In the
evening there was speaking at the hotels,
headquarters and the camps.
The annual session of the irish Catholic
Benevolent Union OF the United States COM
menced at Cleveland on the Goth.
! Yellow-fever interments at Savannah on
the Doth, thirty-six. The epidemic is increas-
ing in violence and fatality.
The Board OF Managers of the National
| Soldiers Home, near Dayton, Ohio, met at
the Home on the Goth. Gen. Butler. ex.Gov.
Fred X. Smith, of New Hampshire, Gen.
John S. Cavender, of st. Louis, Judge Bond,
of Maryland. DIR. f. B. Wolcott, of Wiscon-
sin, and Hon. L. B. Gunckle were present.
| The day was celebrated by the soldiers as a
holiday, and the grounds were illuminated
in the evening. h a 4
| The trial of John D. Lee at Beaver, Utah,
for completely in the Mountain Meadow
massacre in 1857 ended on the 10th. The
| Jury returned a verdict Of murder in the first
degree.
The trouble between the whites and ne.
groes on the Port Royal Railroad, an Angus
ia (Ga.) dispatch Gays, recommended on the
10Th. Several buildings on the plantation of
James Ashley, near Robbins, were burned by
| the negroes. The whites attacked the ne
groes and fight ensued wO whites were
killed and, it is supposed, several negroes.
The Deputy-Sherif of Barnwell County was
Bushwhacked" by the negroes and seriously
wounded. - ~
The yellow-fever interments at Savannah
on the 2lst numbered sixteen.
Alfred Rodman, OF Brownstown, Ind. was
lynehed on the 2lst while returning home
from Jeffersonville. He had threatened to
kill several persons, and, having already been
guilty Of murder, he was hanged.
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union at its
session on the 2lst elected Hon. A. NJ.
Kelley, of Richmond, Va, President for the
ensuing year.
In the Indianapolis Convention, on the 2lst,
resolutions denouncing the Democratic party
and pledging full, open and manly support
to R. B. Hayes and W. A. Wheeler were
adopted. kilograms and letters from R. B.
HAYES, W. A. Wheeler, President Grant, ex-
1s,I,
regretting their inability to be present. were
read. Speeches were delivered by Gems. Tut
tie of Iowa, fitzpatrick of New Jersey, and
Robinson of New York There was large
tOrchlight procession in the evening.
fire at Georgetown, KY, on the 2lst de-
stroyedproperty valued at Sl25,0o0
The Oregon Legislature on the 2lst elected
Gov. Grover to the U. s. Senate,
The yellow-fever interments at Savannah
on the 22d numbered three.
The strike in the rice-felds of South Car
olina has broken out anew. All the hands
found at work by the strikers were brutally
beaten.
The Congressional committee appointed to
examine into the postal railway service held
a session at Cleveland on the sd.
In the u s. Court at Chicago, on the 23d,
ex-Ald Hildreth, convicted Gauger, who
ran away to Canada, paid a fine Of $4,000.
A. G. Hesing, Burroughs, Abel and Dickin-
son paid 81 900 fine each and were released
from jail, A Chicago Dispatch says the
whisky WaF is ended. 3
The Democracy OF Louisville, on the 23d,
nominated Albert ]. Wells for Congress,
Mr.. Wntterson having positively declined
denomination.
yellow fever interments at sayannah on
the Esd, thirty; on the oath, eighteen.
Six hundred cases Of yellow fever we're
reported at BruHswicI1, Ga, on the 23d. A
dispatch says.the people are In most desti-
tute conditlon, without food, physicians or
nurses. The Mayor has telegraphed for aid.
i Gov. Chamberlain, Of South Carolina,
states that during the recent disturbances
| in Aiken County twenty-five or thirty ne
groes were killed and two white men.
In the Jockey Club races at Louisville,
KY, on the 23d, the three mile dash, all ages,
est timeon record. a
Two shocks Of earthquake were felt at
Evansville, Ind, at midnight of the oath.
Hellow-feyer interments atSayannah on the
25th, eighteen pPssa .,.
Several Illicit whisky stills were unearthed
hythe Government authorities at Chicago
on the s5th The whisky was manufactured
in vinegar works by means- Of secret pipes
and worms. k3 aA
FOREIGN INTELLIGENOR.
A Paris dispatch of the 10Th says the Porte
is disposed TO reduce it's demands to war in
demnlty to the occupation of two Servian
fortressesa. recognition Of the Porte's
suzerainty by Prince Milan without formal
reinvesture at Constantinople, and the dis
mlssal ofthe present servian Cabinet
1t was asserted on the 18th that the Gear
had given Prince Milan 5000, 900 roubes, and
that large body Of Cossaeks were ready to
enter SerHa BY way Of Roumania, Il
The Transvaal Republic is reported to be
completely disorganized and British annexar