Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

Each party charges the other with firing the
first shot.
The average plurality for the Democratic
State ticket in the recent election in Indiana
is 5,s46 Williams majority over Harrison
is 5,139.
A bold attempt was made on the night Of
the oath to steal the documents of the Louis
lana State Register Of Voters. His room in
the State-House was entered, and a clerk
sleeping there gagged. All the available
documents were put in a bag and carried
off. A policeman attempted to arrest the
men as they were leaving, and was beaten
nearly to death. Another officer who came
to his assistance was struck with slung-
shot The man with the bag dropped 1t and
escaped. Two other men were found in the
building and arrested.
The Governors Of Minnesota, Iowa, Missou-
ri, Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska held con-
ference at Omaha on the 25th TO discuss modes
and means for Kidding the country Of grass
hoppers. A committee was appointed to pre-
pare and present series OF resolutions to
the farmers of the country and memorial
TO Congress.
The ten days having expired which was al
lowed Brigham Young to pay Ann Eliza's
alimony, and it not having been paid, Judge
ShaefTer, on the 25th, ordered that A. X.
Smith be appointed a commissioner to seize
property, sell the same and pay the sum re-
quired, with the costs, and the defendant
was discharged. The amount due is about
$4,000.
The jury in the case Of Alex. Sullivan, on
trial at Chicago for the murder OF Francis
Hanford, after being out forty hours, re-
turned into court on the 26th and, being un-
able to agree, were discharged. The trial
lasted nine days. Sullivan was admitted to
bail in $S,000 Judge McAllister's alleged
partisan rulings in this case, in favor of the
defendant, and his instructions to the jury
caused much feeling in the city, and petit
tions asking him to resign were numerously
signed by merchants and members of the
Board of Trade.
A Charleston dispatch of the Goth says:
The President of the Chamber of Commerce
has united with the Methodist, Catholic and
Episcopal Bishops, and leading Presbyterian,
Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish ministers, and
the Presidents OF all the National and other
banks in Charleston, in an address on the
condition OF South Carolina to the people of
the United States, which denies that the
white people of South Carolina are disloyal
or disaffected to the United States Govern
ment; that any part of the State is in insur-
rection; that law cannot be duly enforced
within the limits of the State; that any law
full cause exists for Federal interference;
that the white people Of the State are deaf
fected toward the colored people, or desire
to infringe on their civil or political rights;
that the rife clubs in the State are combina-
tions against law, and that in the recent race
the white people have been the ag-
gressors."
There were no deaths in Savannah on the
96th, from any cause.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has decided
the Frankfort lottery franchise valid.
Three Methodist ministers, while riding
their circuit in Pope County, Ark, on the
27th ult., were shot from the brush by two
Illicit distillers named Hughes and Hale.
They mistook the ministers for revenue
officers coming to arrest them, warrants
being out for their arrest. One of the minis
ters was mortally wounded and died two
hours after being shot. The others were
seriously If not fatally wounded.
In the whisky case of the United States Us.
Rhomberg, of Dubuque, Iowa, on trial
at Des Moines, the jury on the 2sth ult.
verdict for the Government for
1O3,O11.55.
There was one yellow-fever interment at
on the 2sth ult.; on the 29th, five.
Two of these were refugees who had re-
turned to the city. Absentees are urged not
10 return until after frost