Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

The New York Journal Of Commerce Office
was damaged $685. 900 by fire on the 3d.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Ten murderers (colorcd), sentenced to be
hanged at Lownesville, 8. c., on the 10th,
have been reprieved by Gov. Hampton for
two weeks. The sentence of some of them
will probably be commuted to imprisonment
for life.
BY order of Gov. Hampton, his secretary
on the 18th sealed the doors Of all the State
officials In the State House at Columbia, and
Constables were put on duty there. The Re-
publican officials seem willing to await the
decision CT the Supreme Court. Perfect or
derprevails.
The welland Canal was opened on the
18th and number II vessels passed through.
Gov. Hampton was given grand reception
at Charleston, s. c., on the 18th. The
houses were gayly decorated and thousands
of people thronged the streets and cheered
the Governor as he passed. In reply to a
memorial of colored militia, asking that
their regiment be left intact and field officers
of their own selection be commissioned, the
Governor said the colored regiments should,
in all respects, stand upon the same footing
as the white regiments.
More Indian outragcs arc reported in
Southeastern Arizona-two men killed, one
wounded and stock driven out.
A terrific tornado passed through Ruther-
ford County, Tenn, on the night of the 18th,
blowing down fifteen houses, most of which
we're in Lavergne killing a child, mortalIy
wounding an old lady and wounding some
eight others. At Holly Springs, Miss, eight
or ten buildings, mostly stores, were blown
down or seriously damaged. No lives were
lost.
The negroes of Blossom Hill, Va, suspect
ing that Harry Martin, who had been missing
for two weeks, had been foully dealt with,
hung his wife to tree and she confessed
that she killed him, her son assisting through
fear.
Lydc Levi, Mrs. Clarissa Lee (his sister,
her daughter Aline, Missouri Rittenhouse,
F, A. Somers and Hammond were arrested at
Osgood, Ind, on the 18th by U. s. detectives,
charged with counterfeiting. They are sup.
posed to be part Of the Pete Mccartney gang.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
will be held at Cleveland, Aug l.
The first boat of the season passed the
Straits of Mackinac on the goth.
On the Goth II. T. Jones, one of the Chico
(Cal.) gang was found guilty of arson in the
first degree. The prisoner was implicated in
the recent murder of Chinese. E
negro named Steve Anderson, was
hanged at Aiken, s. c., on the 2Uth for the
murder of Portman and Haussman in No
vember last
Charles NJ. (or T) Sterling, convicted of
the murder of Lizzie Grombacher, a German
girl, near Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 81, 1875,
was hanged at that place on the 2lst. He
asserted his Innocence to the last.
On the 21st eighty lodges of Cheyennes
under Dull Knife and Standing Elk surren-
dered to Gen. Crook at Camp Robinson,
Neb. The village comprises about $50 per
sons, eighty-fve Of whom are fighting men.
They turned in about 600 ponies, sixty guns
and about thirty pistols. ,. s
AT a mass-meeting of the people of the
Black Hills at Deadwood, on the 2lst, a
memorial to Congress was adopted, urging
the formation of new territory embracing
the Black Hills region, to be called Lincoln.
The crop reports from the wheat-growing
section of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys
as TO the condition of winter wheat show
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sown in all quarters, with fine prospects Of
an abundant harvest. The Southwest is
especially hopeful, and the Northwest has no
fears except from the grasshoppers, which it
is thought will be less destructive than here
tofore. The Kansas farmers think they have
hatched so early that they win not be able to
await the coming crops.
The Pioneer Block, at Omaha, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 22d. Loss
800, 600; artiaiinsurapce.
The Grand Jury of the Chicsgo Criminal
Court on the 29d indicted b. +. Allen, late
President of the Cook County National Bank,
for perjury and fraud.
A Richmond (Va.) dispatch Of the 23d says
the accounts of DIR. Baird, Secretary and Man
ager Of the Presbyterian Publication Com
mittee of the Southern States offices at that
place, are complicated" to the amount OF
1921 900. Beard has resigned. >
The steamer Alaska. from Hong Kong, ar
rived at San Francisco on the 22d with $50
Chinese passengers. During the passage
smallpox broke out, and the vessel and pas
sengers were quarantined. Smallpox is an
epidemic at Hong Kong Al