The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-05-06
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.

The New Liquor LAw.-This law prohib
its the sale of intoxicating liquors, in any
quantity whatever, to be drank at or in the
neighborhood of the premises where sold
and declares all such places to be common
nuisances, and all rooms, taverns, eating
houses, bazaars, restaurants, groceries, coffee
houses, cellars, or other places Of public re,
sort, where intoxicating liquors are sold in
violation of the law, shall be shut up, and
abated as public nuisances, and the keeper
thereof punished by fine of not less than
$50, nor more than $500, and be imprisoned
IN the county Jail, not less than 20 nor more
than 90 days, and the places so kept and SO
declared nuisances, shall be shut up and aba
ted upon the order of the court, until bond
and security be given that intoxicating H.
quors shall no longer be sold there &c
1t allows the public sale of native wine.
beer and cider for drinking purposes, and
places no restrictions upon the sale of liquors,
in any quantity, to be used away from any
public place where liquors are kept for drink
ing. 1t is also made unlawful to get intoX-
lcated, and athAes, as punishment for the
offence, fine of five dollars and imprison-
ment not more than three, nor less than one
day Toledo Republican.
No time being set for the act to GO into
operation, it is in force from and after its
passage, on the first day of May.
The legislature passed "a resolution request
ing the warden of the penitentiary to dismiss
the deputy warden, Watson, for his crimes,
cruelty and brutality. The State Journal
says: We understand no change has been
made in the incumbency of deputy warden
of the penitentiary, and that it is not the
purpose of the present warden to make such
change.
The dispatches received from Lieut.. Strain,
it is said, announce the discovery Of two fine
ship canal routes to the Pacific, across the
Isthmus of Darien. The representations of
DR.. Cullen and the English engineers are said
to be fabrcations, either made wilfully or
because of their total ignorance of the coun-
try they should have surveyed.
The legislature have abolished the criminal
court of Cincinnati, which legislates Judge
Finn out of Office
HARRIsBURGH, May 3.--Gov Bigler is
quite sick and confined to bed. He was at
tackled on Saturday with congestion of the
lungs.
QUEBEC, May 3-ll P. M.-The Parlia-
ment buildings We're totally destroyed by fire
this evening, at half-past 10 O'Clock by some
unaccountable fatality. The handsome and
capacious edifce, situated on Cote Cotton,
built as church for the Sisters of Charity,
which was merely fitted up temporarily at an
immense expense for the meetings of Parlia-
ment, is this moment in one sheet of flames.
The cupola at one end and the handsome
spire at the other are wreathing in smoke
and the flames are rushing out over Mr.
| Deans house on one side and bursting forth
through the lofty gothic windows al
around.
i SUPERIOR COURT OF CINcINNATI--ELEc-
TGoN OF JUDGES May O.
The election of Judges of the Superior Cour
held yesterday resulted in the choice of Oil
yer M. Spencer, William Y. Gholson, anC
Bellamy Storer. The full vote was, fo
Spencer, 1916; Gholson, 1904; Storer, s.,
1925; J. 3. Stattoe, 3,739; A. II. Pruden
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