Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WASHINGTON.


The Arapahoe and Sioux delegations had
q final pow-wow with the Secretary of the
Interior on the I'd. They object to being
sent to the reservation near the Missouri
River, but the Secretary insists that they
shall live up TO their treaty.
President Hayes in the course OF an inter
view, on the I'd, said his late trip had
strengthened him in the conviction that his
Southern policy would rebound to the in
terest of the blacks.
The President issued proclamation on
the I'd placing all the unsold public lands in
Arkansas in the market.
The Secretary Of the Interior on the Sd
visited the Indian delegations and distributed
silver medals among them.
Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute,
announces that he discovered, Oct 2, comet
in right ascension 24h. 5lm., declination 8.
10h. ION daily motion toward southwark
90m. The comet supports small bright tail.
Collector Arthur, of New York, will be
rendered a foreign mission, Washington
special says.
A rain-storm did great damage. in the In
terror Department building on the 4th. The
records suffered considerably in the Land
and public papers were destroyed.
A requisition from Gov. Hampton, of
South Carolina, for U. 8. Senator J. j. Pat
terson was received by Chief-Justce Cartier,
OF the Supreme Court of the District of CO.
lumbia, on the 5th, and a warrant was issued
for his arrest
Randall, Cox and Morrison, the three lead
ing candidates for Speaker, were in Wash
ington on the 5th. Each professed the ut
most confidence in his own success.
1t is stated that the Democrats will press
action on the admission of Spofford, of
Louisiana, as soon as the Senate meets.
A Washington telegram says Secretary
Evarts has selected Thomas Roosevelt and
Gen. A. Merritt for Collector and Surveyor
OF the port of New York.
u. s. Senator Patterson was in court on
the 9th and the case was postponed to the
18th. Patterson is charged with conspiracy
to bribe legislators, etc.
The Board of Inquiry to investigate the
cause of the fire in the Interior Department
no foundation for the supposition that the
fire was of incendiary origin.
Sena'bu Mterson believes the Senate will
sustain Llin in refusing to go to South Caro-
lima at this time and stand trial.
Randall was believed to be ahead in the
canvass for Speaker on the 9th.
Atty.-Gen. Devens will ask for an appro
priation of S255, 900 to cover defci ency in
his department this fiscal year.
Within year the Seventh Cavalry has lost
eighteen officers in action and the War De.
partment is petitioned by those having
friends still alive in that regiment to transfer
them to some other department.
THE EAST.
The Savings bank at Hyannis, Mass, sus
pended on the 1st.
w. G. Gilman, a Wall-street Insurance
scrip broker, has borrowed large sums Of
money from banks in New York, giving as
security Insurance scrip which he had raised
In one instance he altered a thirty-dollar Ger
tificate to $4,000. The total of his steal IL
not yet known. Gilman has borne the repu
tation ca devoted church member and Sab
bath-school teacher.
The little steamer Comfort exploded he
boiler at Pipe Creek, below Wheeling, w. Va
on the I'd, killing Capt. Kirkbridge, Pilo
Umstter and three passengers.
The siXty-eighth annual meeting of tn,
American Board of Commissioners of For
eign Missions commenced at Providence, r
l., on the I'd, Rev. Mark Hopkins presiding
The Gilman forgeries at New York are es
timated to reach $342,500.
okes, a friend of President Morton, ant
late Secretary of the Philadelphia Markc
Street Railway, has become a lunatic.
Robert S. Winthrop was on the Sd re
i n n
of thS'Peabody Educational Fund.
A fire at McKeesport, Pa, on the night o
the I'd inflicted total loss of Sl75,0O0.
The Allegheny Savings Bank, of Alleghen
City, Pa, suspended payment on ths Sd.
Bayley, Archbishop of New Jersey, die
on tn. i.
The Cape Cod Five Gents Savings Bank, c
Harwich, Mass, has suspended.
The capital of the Brewers Insuranc
Company, of New York, is said to be serious
ly impaired.
Baseball on the Sd: Boston g. Hartford 8
st. Louis 6, Chicago 5.
Mark Hopkins, d. D., has been re-electe
President Of the American Board Of Missions
The next meeting will be held at Milwaukee
A violent rain and wind storm on the At
caused a number OF accidents on railroad
in New York and Pennsylvania,
On the 4th the centennial of the battle G
Germantown was celebrated at Philadelphia
The creditors of Frank Leslie have agree
upon plan of settlement by which the bus
ness is to be continued under a board col
sisting of the five veprincipal creditors. Lcsl
will have supervision and be allowed 90 pC
cent. of the profits, the remainder to
divided pro rata quarterly among the cree
itors.
Fourteen buildings were burned by an II
cendiary at NantieOke, Pa, on the 5th.
Leading members of the National Associ
ton of Wool Manufacturers express IL
opinion that is impossible at present for OF
manufacturers to contend in the markets {
the world with the cheap labor and low ratC
of interest abroad.
The Scranton miners receded from the
demand for % per cent. increase in wage
but the operators declined negotiations unit
work was resumed.
The triennial convention of the Episcop
Church of the United States opened On IL
Sd at Boston.
Tweed testified before the Aldermanic Con
mittee again on the 9th. He said the riu
paid Senators for voting for bills in Commi
tee of the Whole and allowed them to vo
as they pleased on their passage; in sui
against the Albany Argus and Journal an
E.. F. Apgar he would give evidence of nun
bcrs of frauds, and support his assertion
with checks and letters. Two letters
Hastings, of the Commercial Advertiser, we
read, addressed to "My Dear Tweed" al
my Dear Friend" showing their frien
ship. Witness paid SIS, 900 TO the Board
Aldermen, of New York, to appropriate 81
100000 for bridge money and got his sha
Of the latter from Henry @. Murphy. tt
proprietor Of the Albany Argus says Tweed
story as to him is false.
The capital stock % the Arctic Fire Insu
ance Company, of New York, is report
impaired.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of State Apg