Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-25

chants are suspendlng their business ant
large crowds Of citizens were leaving on ever!
train.
The body OF a man named Ben Arnold wa
found hanging by the neck to a limb of tire,
at Chain dc Roche, Dakota Territory, on tn,
18th. The supposition is that he had beer
doing something bad and was hung up as al
example TO other evil doers.
Another genuine stampede of citizens oc
CURED at Memphis on the 10Th and Goth. The
city authorities were sending all of the widows
and children out of the city. Business wa
completely paralyzed. Seven new cases aud
two deaths were reported on the 10Th, and ter
new cases and four deaths on the Goth.
Napoleon Bonaparte, colored, was hanged
at Sardis, Miss, on the 18th, for the murder
OF Thomas Butler, colored, on the 9th of last
August.
Frank Smith was shot and killed by an un.
known person at dance near Allensville,
Todd County, KY, on the night of the 10th.
The President of the Western Sanitary
Commission at st. Louis says the negro exc
dus from the South continues as strong as
ever and there is no prospect of its stopping.
He has no more means at hand to continue
the work, and has appealed to the city author
tiles in vain. An effort will be made to inform
the negroes in the South who may be contem-
plating emigration that they must not expect
any help at st. Louis.
At a meeting at San Francisco on the Goth
the Secretary of the Workingmen's party of
California was instructed to send to all Labor
and Reform leagues and parties in the United
States copy of the resolutions adopted re-
commencing that Workingmen's National
Convention to nominate Presidential candi-
date be held at Chicago une 3, 1880.
Cincinnati, on the 20th established quar-
antine against all yellow fever infected points
In the South. Boats will be stopped ia mid
stream, ten miles below the city and exam
ned, and railroad trains will be subjected to
rigid inspection.
The Congressional Committee, consisting
of Representatives Kenna, of West Virginia !;
Carlisle, of Kentucky; Briggs, of New Hamp-
shire; Conger, of Michigan; Henderson, of
Alabama, and New, of Indiana, met at Gin
cinnati on the 21st to investigate the alleged
frauds in the First and Second District cleo
tions of that citseast October.
An official arrived at the headquarters at St.
Paul from Fort Benton on the 21st, and gave
the particulars of General Miles start. Cen
hhCo lGlb DCuJOu Oh Tue l4J0 WIN SUI
men. He should have reached the point
where Sitting Bull is reported to be hunting
buffalo by the last of the week unless the In
dians had retreated. Collision had doubtless
already taken place.
Mrs. Rhinehart and her daughter, Miss
Honiker, were drowned at Decatur, ILL.,, on
the 2lst. The young lady was to have been
married that day, but her affianced failed to
appear, and in fl of desperation she started
for the river, followed by her mother. She
plunged in, aud as Mrs. Rhinehart was at
tempting to save her life both were drowned.
Others of the bridal party narrowly escaped
the same fate.
Joseph Standing, Mormon preacher, was
shot and killed by mob of ten men in Ca
toosa County, Ga, on the 2lst
During game of cards between James
Deadman and Louis Hagel, near Covington,
KY, on the Goth, dispute arose between the
two men, which terminated by Hagel stabbing
Deadman, killing him instantly.
The National Board of Health had informa-
tion on the 2lst that the yellow fever was
gradually spreading in the outside of Mem
phis. Several cases of the fever have occurred
at Mississippi City, place between New Or
leans and Mobile. ThirtY-six new cases and
three deaths were reported at Memphis on the
2lst The Secretary of War has ordered to be
forwarded to Memphis 1,5O0 tents and rations
for 10000 people for twenty days, to be used
in aid of sufferers from yellow fever.