Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WASHINGTON.


BY order Of the President, Secretary Nc
Crary on the Sd directed Gen. Sherman to
cause the troops 10 be removed from the
State. House in Columbia, 8. c., April 10.
The Secretary Of the Treasury on the 5th
issued the forty. fifth call for the redemption
of5-2O bonds OF 1865 May and November.
The call is for $4,000, 900, of which s9,5O0,-
600 are coupon and $500, 900 registered. The
principal and interest will be paid at the
Treasury on and after July 5, and interest
will cease that day. The bonds are described
as follows: Coupons--S50O, No. 46,OO1 to
49,S00, both inclusivc; 81 600, No. 133,OO1 to
14l 900, both inclusive. Registered t5, 900,
No. 1901 to 1874, both inclusive.
The President on the 5th appointed Alfred
f. Lee, OF Ohio, U. g. Consul General at
Frankfort, Germany, and John P. Hoyt, Of
Michigan, Governor of Arizona Territory,
Uice Stafford.
The Secretary of the Navy on the 5th an
nounced that the appropriation for the pay
of the navy is insufficient to pay the officers
for April, May and June, and Of what is
left, he will retain sufficient to pay the allot-
ments to wives of officers and sailors on
duty abroad. The defcieEcy is about $3.50,
600. H+EE-
Gen. Sherman on the 9Th issued an order
to remove the troops from the Columbia Is.
c. State House, April 10.
A precedent has been established by secre-
tary sherman for the disposition of PROPOSE
tions looking TO compromise of whisky
suits. He insists on the strict enforcement
OF the law and refuses to relieve defendants
of liabilities.
A liolle prose9si was entered in the case of
the Government Us. Dom Piatt on the 7th.
rha o N,,, A..ra ,A,Na, Ii,,s.
on the 7th was s362, ,356, ,2O4.
The published allegations against Minister
Seward are stated by the U. 8. Consul-Gen-
eral at Shanghai to be unfounded
Atty. Gen. McCrary has sued letter to
U. 8. District.Attorneys instructing them TO
retrench all possible expenses, as the appro.
priation is being rapidly exhausted.
The President, on the 9th, appointed
james Gilchrist Surveyor Of Customs at
Wheeling, VIVA, and Alonzo Bell, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, promoted from
Chief Clerk on the ground of merit, and in
accordance with the civil. service rules.
The U. s. Supreme Court has decided in
the Centennial appropriation case that the
tl,5OO,oOO appropriated by Congress shall be
returned to the Government before any divi-
dends are paid to stockholders.
THE EAST.
The National Directory appointed by the
convention Of the Ancient Order OF Hiberni-
ans, recently in session at New York, have is
sued an address to the people of the United
States, declaring that the order has no con-
nection with the Molly Maguires" of Penn
sylvania; that all connection with that organ
ization has been cut off; that all clauses in
the constitution which conhicted with the
Catholic Church have been removed, and
their object is to unite their race and creed
for benevolent purposes. The members of
the order number 472,07s.
The firm of Doughcrty Bros. & Co., bank.
ers, of Harrisburg, Pa, failed on the Sd.
Liabilities Sill 600; assets stated to be $780,
coo.
All prisoners of war throughout the coun-
try are invited to attend the fourth annual
reunion OF the National Union of Anderson
vile Prisoners at Hartford, Conn, April 49,
Five-dollar counterfeit notes on the Hamp-
den National Bank of Westheld, Mass, are
in circulation. The execution of the bills
is admirable and the closest scrutiny is re-
quired to distinguish them from genuine
notes.
The American Rife Club has declined the
invitation of the Irish rifemen to shoot a
return match in Ireland in June.
The election in Rhode Island on the 4th re-
suited in the election of the entire Republic
an ticket The Assembly is largely Repub-
lican in both branches.
or the 400 engineers employed by the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad all except
twelve have accepted the terms of the rail
road company and Withdrawn from the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
A -. u Al
Messrs. Jewett, white lead manufacturers
New York, on the 5th. Orville d. Jewett
one of the members OF the hrm had deter
mined to withdraw therefrom, and the nee
essary papers were drawn up and were to be
signed on the 9TH. He went to the office
armed with a hand grenade, pistol and q
dirk. Angry words passed, and he threw the
grenade to the floor. A terrible explosion
followed. His uncle, the senior of the firm
was instantly killed, and his own legs were
broken and he received one terrible wound
in the body. He died on the evening OF
the same day. Another partner named Dean
was injured, but not fatally. Jewett is said
to have been insane.
A deficit amounting to $50, 600 has been
discovered in the accounts of T. Hanel, q
clerk in the Philadelphia Receiver Of Taxes
office.
The rates for special limited tickets have
been advanced TO the following figures BY
the managers of the trunk railroads: New
York to Cleveland $ll, Toledo $14.25, Chi
cago so, St. Louis S24, Cincinnati $lS
From Albany 81 less and from Boston 81
more. An agreement has also been reached
ON freight rates.
The employees in the construction ant
steam engineering departments of the Ports
mouth IN. H. navy-yard have been dis
charged.
The New England Methodist Conference
in session at Boston on the 7th, adopted reso
lutions plcdging to President Hayes thei
hearty sympathy and support.
~ John @. Phair, sentenced to be hanged OF
the 9th for the murder of Mrs. Freeze a
Rutland, VT, in 1874, has been respited b!
the Governor until May 4. New eyidenc,
has been discovered which, If true, will
establish an abb
The Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph COmpan,
have reduced the rates on their lines to TWEEN
ty-ive cents TO any point east of the Missouri
River. The Western Union reduce thei
rates eorrespondlngy to competing points.
The New York Methodist Conference o
3 the 9th adopted resolution expressin
confidence in the upright intention an
statesmRnlike purpose of President Hayes.
The coal producers and carriers have rt
solyed to advance the price OF coal at Ne
York fifty cents per ton June L.
"a WEST AND SOUTH.
~ On the Sd Allan (colored), holding-ove
Senator who has heretofore affiliated wit
the Packard Legislature, took his seat in tn
Nichols Senate. Packard's recruiting on
Gers were released on the Sd.
vi Heath (Rep) was elected Mayor of Chicag
on the Sd by a majority of about 1900.