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

who could had escaped. He then leaped
from the pilothouse to the lower deck and
was severely injured.
Gov. Chamberlain, Of South Carolina, re.
ports that on the night OF the 9Th 300 armed
men opened the Edgefeld Jail and took
away 800 stand OF State arms which were
stored there. These arms were taken from
the negro militia at the time Of the disorders
in Edgefeld County in 1874. Squads of
Federal soldiers, with warrants issued by
the U. s. Commissioner, were going through
Aiken and Barnwell Counties on the 10th ar
resting white citizens. The latter submitted
quietly. They were taken to Aiken and ad-
mitted to bail in $4,000 each.
Full Returns from the Indiana election on
the 10th give Williams Dem.), for Governor,
5,494 majority. Democratic Congressmen
were elected in the First, Second, Third and
Twelfth Districts. Republican Congressman
were elected in the Fourth, Fifth Sixth, Sew
cnth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Thirteenth
Districts. The Legislature is Democratic by
a small majority.
A Wheeling wv. Va) dispatch Of the 18th
says the State has gone Democratic by a
large majority. The Legislature will be two
thirds Democratic, thus securing to the DEM
Gratis two U. s. Senators.
Yellow.fever interments at Savannah on the
10Th, seven. Among the deaths was that Of
Jas. II. Guerrard, signal officer.
The yellow-fever interments at Savannah h
on the 18th numbered twenty. President La
throp, of the Cotton Exchange, died at
Greensboro, NJ c., where he had gone to see
dying son.
The Postal Commission met at st. Louis
on the 18th. The substance of the testimony
taken was that the fast-mail service was of
no practical value to the business communi-
ty there. 80
A Denver (Col.) special on the 18th TO the
Kansas City Times says: LA Platte Coun-
ty, claimed by the Republicans, gives 1903
Democratic majority for Patterson for Con-
gress. Hinsdale, San Juan and Rio Grande
Counties must be officially reported to de-
termine the result. 1t is thought the Re-
publican State ticket will be successful by a
meager majority" M
A man supposed to be Frank James, one Of
the Northfeld (Minn) bank robbers, has
been arrested at Independence, Mo. &
The official returns OF the recent election
in Arkansas show Democratic majority Of
1 50, 1872.
The yellow-fever interments at Savannah
on the 18th numbered nine. -.-----a.-..---.
Frank Sturges & Co., metal and tin-plate
merchants of Chicago, failed on the 14th.
Liabilities S4500O0.
According to Charleston Is. C.) dispatch
of the 10th collision had occurred between
the whites and negroesat Gainhoy, near that
city, during a joint political meeting, in
which two whites were killed and fourteen
wounded. The whites retreated, leaving the
dead in possession Of the negroes. About
eighty armed whites left Charleston on the
evening of the 10Th to recover the dead,
There were eight yellow-fevcr interrnents
| at Savannah on the 18th.
Ex-Judge Charles Moran, the oldest in
habitsnt of Detroit, died on the 14th, aged
seventy-nine. He leaves property valued al
over $2,OO0,0OO.
There was snow-stOrm at Eorfoik, Vaa
on the 18th. Ice formed at Memphis on thc
night Of the 18th. -- e