The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-12-20
SUMMARY or NEWS.

yta'e VI mlOhlB'"g "iVV III bSHVtet ou Jun ]
day.
CoLuNBus DELASo is At Washington, with
bis papers all ready, showing his title to
Morsan's ge&.
" is pepurted tho Roberts aud Savage
wiugs Of the Feniau Brotherhood have
effected union.
E&CoSdREssNAS ITuBsELr, of Ohio. is one
of about dozen applicants for tue vacant
place Of Commissioner OF Patents.
Two chil lren were eaten by wolves, IN Il o
woods in Saint Malachi Canada, Thursday.
The mother had narrow escape.
A GENTLEMAN sitting in the Gold Room,
in New York, recently, had s :, 900 in stocks
taken from his breast pocket by an expert
thief. fr .#H
IT is said to he probable that III Dem
ocratic National Committee will select Gin.
cinnati as the place of oldng the National
Convention. -
EiGmr hundred boats are ice.b bound in
the Erie Cauol, between Syracuse and Troy.
Most of them are loaded with valuable and
perisha6le cargoes.
THE Union caucu, of the California Leg
islalure has nominated Judge Brown OF
Contra Costa, for United States Senator,
and ndorsed g on. Grant for President.
INN. OkM NIL, Oh StVs llOWaIu
has been ordered to make tour of nspec.
tion through the South with view to
closing up the Freedmen's Bureau next |
summer.
A LARGE reservoir in Douglass, Mass, |
gave way in tho night, last week 1t was
discovered by man. who was aroused from
his sleep by is house floating down stream.
tie managed to save himself and family.
The Commissioner Of Pensions reports |
the death of the last Revolutionary soldier !
! The war Of lT76, therefore, will hereafter
| exist only in tradition and history. The
last Of its living witnesses has disappeared.
| TnE new Commissioner of Agriculture
has already discharged about fifty clerks
and will disohurge many more. He iutends
to greatly reduce the expenses of the but
| reau, and at the same time increase its
efficiency.
Twenty -FOUR thousand eight hundred
and fourteen acres Of Government lard
were entered during tho month of n vcm-
Der at Omaha At another land office
nearly seven thousand acres were taken
| for homosteads.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to get General
Schoiell to re. assemble the OH Legislature
Of Virginia to adopt the amendment to tie
Constitution of the United States which is
now pending, with the hope of thus getting
the State back into the Union.
The reports by telegraph state that both
in Virginia aud Louisiana there is great
destitulion aud suffering. General Hancock
will, il is said, appeal to Ungrcss Tor uid
to keep thousands of buth whites and
blacks in his district from starvation.
Tux Paraguayan forces, under tho com
4 mpnd of President Lopez, havo assumed
active offensive operations. Their first
movement was q complete success they
attacked the Brazilian camp and carried il
by storm, taking 1900 prisoners aud sew
eral pieces Of artillery.
OVER eighty negroes of the hundre EN-
rlpyei on plantation near Milllken's
Bond, La We're swept off by cholera in
threo days of week before last The dis
ease was attributed to eating ish taken
from the unwholesome water of ponds
! which were low from the drought.
THE King of Denmark has issued a proc.
) lamation to his subjects in st, Thomas and
st. Croix informing them of the cession of
those islands to the United States. He says
he has made stipu'ations in the guaran o>ng
! to them of protection in their hbe. ty,
). pr perty, religion and private rights.
A DISPATCH from Cuba says authentic il
II formation from Spain has been received,
with the important intelligence that the
t Spanish Government has made formal
offer to tho American Minister at Ma lrid
r. to sell Cuba an | Porto Rico to the Ameri.
,i can Government for one hundred and fifty
million dollars in gold.
SATURDAY morning tho Croft Western
Gun Works at Putsburg, were destroyed
e by fire. A large number of loaded guns
H., Al, T..
n soon reac ed, discharging them in every
& direction, Iiddling with bullets buildings
<, in the vicinity. Autoine Keck, boy
X fifteen years old, was mortally wounded.
y GEN. MoNTEz, confined in the Uaytier
/ prison, has been murdered by Salnave's
IN jailor, and doubtless by command OF Sa'
!, nave. The ruiliau frat administered o spr
to tho General in his food. Finding its op
erations too slow, and fearing it might no
4. effect its purpose, lie attacked him with a.
nj, iron bar used in some part of the prison
no fastening, aud beat out his brains.
ie Tue Memphis appeal declares that " fou
EN- years of civil war aud it's results hav
is taught us at least this one lesson--not I,
he leap too hastily to conc clusions not to thhl
We that ono swallow makes a summer; not t
he imagine that one Bull Run victory secure
N peoples Independence !" and that "th
he elections of this year do not insure the sue
I'm cess of the Democratic party in the Presi
ty dental race Of 1865"
ar' TuERE were two destructive fires on
OK Sunday. The American Print Works a
III Fall River, Mass, were totally destroyed
Oh Involving loss OF one million dollar,
en- About FIVE hundred people are thrown on
IN of employment by this disaster. Tn
!m Calvary Baptist Church. at Washiugto
ma City, was also destroyed, the loss ben
'd over one hundred thousand. This cdihc
'h was mainly constructed 10y money col
an, tributed by Hon, Amos Kendall 1t ha
az b en- in use but short time,
I, TnE Chicago Tribune sAys; Tho az
nv poiltmeut of Hon. h B. w ,shburno a
. Chairman Of the COMMITTEES on Appropri
"G hohs, and Of Hon. Robert G.. Schenck a
Chairman of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, both in defiance of red. d.iapa rnles, ent
Va ties Speaker Collax to the thanks of even
,,t tax payer in the United States These al
N pontments mean economy and retrenc
ment in public expenditures, reduced tax
,ra ton, and pnyielding opposition 10 a
E schemes of robbery, iobbery aud plunde
;. Both Sohenck and Wasburne are sting
,ar. with other peoples money, though free wi
T. their own. They are exactly the right m,
,,ts for the places assigned to them, Tho owiSh
~o ~ aud interests OF the Great West, for the fir
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