Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-23
WEST AND SOUTH.


the cause.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A special from Baker City, dated the 18th
says that a courier had arrived bringing intel
ligence of the surrender of Oils, the surviv-
ing medicine man, and chief of sixty Indians
in party including fifteen warriors The
surrender of Oils and party leaves but few
| hostile Snakes unaccounted for living or dead,
and messengers have been dispatched to bring
in two or three small parties known to be in
the neighboring mountains. The Indian
troubles may be considered to be over for the
season in that section.
A gentleman at Grenada, Miss, telegraphed
TO the Vice President of the Memphis How
ard Association on the 18th, asking for aid
and nurses for the fever-stricken people of
that city. He says the situation in that town
is fearful-worse than in '73 in Memphis.
There were seven deaths and eight new cases
! reported Over 100 are down with the fever.
bold and daring robbery occurred at the
little station of Winthrop Junction, Mo-, on
the line of the X. c., st. j. * c. B. Railroad,
early on the morning of the 18th. The rob
bers, four in number, got on the train at the
station, and when out about one mile en-
cured all of the money in the express safe
amounting to S. 100. The thieves were cool
and collected and showed no signs of timiditv.
None of them were masked. After securing
the money the robbers ordered the conductor
to stop the train, which was done, when they
jumped of and disappeared in the darkness
The steamer John d. Porter landed at Louis
vile on the night of the 18th with several cases
Of yellow fever on board
There were 1874 new cases, and twenty deaths
from yellow fever at New Orleans on the 14th.
The fever was also reported as spreading in
Memphis.
Official information received at Chicago on
the l4th from Lieut.. Wallace of Fort Missouk
states that he overlook the maraudng band
of Nez Perces, numbering about twenty, who
have been plundering their way from Canada
to Idaho, and punished them severely, killing
six, wounding three and killing or capturing
most of their ponies
Wilson Childress, Fountain Banks, Octave
Louve and Aaron Carter were hanged at Don
aldson, La, on the 14th. They were convicted
June l of numbering the clerk of a store on
the night of the 9th OF December, 1876, be-
cause he refused to give them whisky.
A special from Grenada late on the night of
the 14th, says there were fifteen new cases
and five deaths from yellow fever that day,
and not 140 white people left in the city.
A vote was taken at Cincinnati on the 18th
on the question of issuing 81, 900, 900 in bonds
for completing the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad and for confirming the contract to
complete the road. The measure was carried
by majority of $500.
The Six Chinese Companies of San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, denied the statement that
they had proposed to contract or let the labor
of one of their countrymen. They have had
no communication with Chicago, nor is any
one authorized to act for them in the pro-
curement of laborers. They declare further
that their countrymen earn there from S25 to
$40 per month at shoemaking, and that $50
per month would not induce one of them to
go to Chicago.
From late returns received at Chicago from
eight of the principal wheat growing States
of the West, it is estimated that the aggre-
gate yield is 121 ,665, 900 bushels, against l27,-
$4,000 last year, decrease of 5,75S, 900
bushels.
Considerable excitement was created at Gin
cinnati on the 10Th over the arrival of the
tow-boat John ID. Porter, with several cases
of yellow fever on board. The health officer
boarded her several miles below Lawrence
burg and found the crew in a disabled condi-
tion. The boat was not permitted to land.
Two physicians were put on board who will
accompany her to Pittsburgh, her destination.
The Greenback State Convention of Ne
braska, on the 18th nominated full ticket.
The Soldiers Reunion at Mt, Vernon, ILL.,,
on the 18th was grand success. Over 1900
persons were present Thirty-four regiments
from Illinois were represented, ten from Ohio,
nine from Indiana, seven from Missouri, two
from Iowa, and one each from Wisconsin,
Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, New
York and Virginia. Gems. Sherman, McCook,
Logan, Shields and Wilson were present.
Speeches were made by Gen. Sherman, Sena-
tor Oglesby and others.
The White Sulphur Springs property was
again offered for sale on the 18th, but the sale
was indefinitely postponed because of the in
adequate bid, 100000.
The Mayor of Wilmington, N. c., on the
18th, received the following telegram from f.
ID. A. Melton, City Marshal and Acting Mayor
of Grenada, Miss. "Help us to pay nurses
and bury the dead. Our town is a graveyard.
We need help The Mayor is dying and am
the only officer left"
The Democratic Congressional Convention
of the Eighth Georgia District renominated
Alexander II. Stephens on the 10Th.
The Collector of Internal Revenue at Mem
| phis, Tenn, telegraphed to the Secretary of
War at Washington, on the 18th, for tents
and rations with view of supplying and get
ting all poor people out of the city. The Sec
retary responded that he would furnish the
tents, although there is no law for such pro
ceeding other than the law of humanity.
Dispatches from Grenada, Miss, on the 10th,
stated that the scenes in that plague-strickeu
town for the previous twenty-four hours
beggared description. The strongest men
and women and helpless children were sick
dying or dead Entire families We're pros
trated and swept away In few hours. The
official list of the dead for the twenty foul
hours numbered seventeen. Citizens OF
Louisville have subscribed $1,000 for the
sufferers.
The schooner Ida Lawrence, from Langa Ii
Grande, Cuba, bound for New York, put in Al