Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

Inc National orange on the 2th elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Master, Adams of Minnesota; Overseer,
Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, Mortimer,
of Cincinnati; Steward, Haughan, OF Iowa;
Assistant Steward, Symmes, of Kansas; Chap
lain, Forsythe, of Illinois; Treasurer, Nc
Dowell, of New York; Secretary, Kelly, of
Louisville; Gatekeeper, Dinwiddie, of In
diana; Ceres, Mrs. Adams, of Minnesota;
Pomona, Mrs. Woodman, of Michigan; Flora,
Mrs. Moore, of Indiana; Lady Assistant
Steward, Mrs. Hall, Of Louisville.
Rande, the murderer, was delivered to nli-
nois officers by the st. Louis authorities ON
the 9th and taken to Galesburg, Ill.
Twenty colored people were drowned in the
neighborhood of Buchanan, Va, during the
recent food The destruction of property in
the town and county is unprecedented
A party of thirty colonizers left Pittsburgh
on the 2Sth ult. in hat-boat, intending to
travel by river to Arkansas. A short distance
from shore one of the steering oars broke and
as the boat entered the Ohio River IL struck a
coal barge and broke in three pieces, throwing
the emigrants into the water. A Swiss family
named Rife-father, mother and two children
and an unknown man perished. The others
were saved with the greatest difficulty.
The South Carolina Legislature met on the
9th ult. Swaits (colored), President pro tenn.
Of the Senate, resigned as Senator, and Wood
ruff, Clerk, also resigned Gov. Hampton
sent in his annual message on the 2Sth. He
strongly deprecates the repudiation of the
States obligations and urges the fostering of
the public-school system to give free educa-
tion to all classes. The special committee to
aV n fO ha oil ~
son submitted their report. They examined
about forty ex-members of the Legislature
white and colored Republicans-of whom
twenty testified that they were bribed by Pat
terson or his agent; the others testified that
offers of bribes were made to them and re-
fused. Every witness testified that it was
known among the members that Patterson
was purchasing his election.
Two indictments for murder have been re-
turned against Frank Rande by the Grand
Jury at Galesburg, Ill.
Associate-Justice Wright (colored), of the
South Carolina Supreme Court, has resigned
The Second National Bank OF Lafayette, Ind.
has closed, owing to the defalcation of Charles
T. Mayo, its cashier. The shortage win reach
100000.
Ex-Treasurer Cardozo, of South CaroliSa
has been sentenced TO two. years. imprison-
ment and $1,000 fine for conspiracy to defraud
the State, and Smalls, Congressman, for ac-
cepting while Senator a bribe of 5000, to
three years at hard labor in the Penitentiary
The National Grange on the Both ult. ad-
journed to meet at Richmond, Va, next year.
The Grange Bulletin was ordered to be dis
continued.
The Missouri River was frozen over at Atch-
ison, Kan, on the Both ult.
Greenebaum, Runnion and Stanford, former
Chicago Park Commissioners, have been in
dlcted for conspiracy TO defraud the city out
Of $4,000, and the officers Of the Protection
Life Insurance Company have been indicted
for perjury in swearing to false statements.
The loss in Hardy County, w. Va, from
the hate flood will reach $4,000. Farms have
been completely washed away and hundreds
Of farmers are ruined.
A communication addressed TO Secretary
Eyarts by the Chinese six companies in San
Francisco calls attention TO the fact that the
United States have received from China nearly
$4,000 for outrages on American citizens
and property in China, while the Chinese have
been robbed and murdered in California and
in not one case I'm fifty have the perpetrators
been brought to justice. They desire that
Chinese immigration be restricted within GER
tain limits.
The Indians are again raiding on trains and
numbering In the Black Hills. Two freight
trains were captured and three ranchmen
killed near Spearflsh ON the LIST.
Congressman smalls, OF South Carolina, has
been released from prison on $4,000 bail TO
await the Supreme Courts decision on his ap-
peal