The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

THERE has been a tremendous storm on
the Newfoundland Coast. Numbers of YES
Is had been destroyed, and $50 dead
bodies washed ashore.
TnE cholera is more prevalent in Chicago
than it has been at any time before during
this season. On Sunday and Monday there
were forty-two cases, of which nineteen
terminated fatally.
The steamer Evening Star, with three
hundred souls on board, foundered one
hundred aud fifty miles east of lyle,
Georgia, and nearly all on board perished.
She was bound from New York to New
Orleans.
AS a proof of the deadly nature of the
cl mate on the west coast of Africl, it is
sta I'd that twenty-threo officers of the Brit
ish African slave squadron 'Iiod from fever
alone between January and December OF
last year.
ADv1cEs received from Mexico, via Texas
are very favorable to the Liberals. Their
army seems to b. on a better footing, and
in better spirits, than ever before. Santa
Annas agents are actively at work ip Texas,
recruiting for raid on Matamoras.
A RESOLUTION has passed the Lower
House of the Oregon Legislature, by a vote
of "a to %, declaring the action of the
House in ratifying the Conslitu ional
Amendment while tn , members from Greene
County were not yet admitted, vas fraulu.
lent.
In pumping out an old marble quarry in
Rutland, Vermont, recently, which has
neither an outlet or an ihlet. several very
large speckled trout were taken ou', one OF
which weighed 211 pounds. How these
front got in there must forever remain q
a mystery"
The Atlantic Cable had been looked upon
as so hopelessly lost, that the underwri ters
had paid the full amount insured. The
Great Eastern will now be entitled to n
large amount of salvage money, and so il
may be hoped that the long run of i'll luck
which that vessel has had to endure has
come to an end aud that her shareholders
will at last get rich by her.
THE emigration of squirrels westward
W hich was not ced all over the State OF
Michigan, short tim ago, is now being
followed by migration OF bears. The
same reasol accounts for both a scuc tv
of mast, a. these animals depend alike on
nuts, & =. for food. Bears are very numer
GUS in the woods west of Bay City Pr
sons employed upon the Bay City aud Md
land Plank Road report seeing them in CON
siderable Numbers.
The Government is considering and viii
probably al9pt an entirely new system Of
small coinage. The cent will have raised
star with a hole through it in the center
The two-cent pieces will have two perfor
ated stars anl the tlr5a.oent coins three
Thus, by holding either denomination to the
light, or by simply touching il so as to feel
holes. the value OF piece Of money viii be
unm'stakably known. The half dimes and
dimes are larger coin of better metal,
but are to be distinguished by Que anl two
perforated stars.
THE cattle plague is steadily abating in
England. In the week ending l5.h Sep
tember, only SO fresh cases were reported
"a decrease of II on the previous week
Not single case is reported from SCOTLAND
and Yorkshire: Cheshire, which suffered
80 fearfully some months ago. returns only
FIVE cases while Lancashire figures for 2l
the whole of which may be said to have
occurred in the Garstang district It is
stated in the official report, that since the
commencement of the dis ease 81 in every
1000 of the estimated ordinary stock Of
cattle in Great Britain, are returned as
having been attacked