Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-15

On Wednesday the Senate Confirmed BENZ.
=. POrrs, If Ohio, Governor Of Montana rice
JANIS NJ. ASHLEY.
The woman's Co operative Anti-Chinese
Laundry Association Of New York is giving q
strawberry festival in aid Of the cause.
With all solemnity, IL Is stated that engine
drivers in Utah have TO shovel of the grasshop-
pers from the track before the train can move
The number of persons holding lands in Eng
land il dwindling down steadily, until there are
now but 80, 100 landed prOprietors in the whole
island.
Seven thousand arrivals last week at Long
Branch indicate that that popular and conveni-
ent seaside resort will be pretty full win the
arrival of General Grant, some two weeks hence.
A Western paper SAYS the Government may
as we'll give up making treaties tn coniine the
Sioux TO their reservation. The only reserya-
ton they will eyer keep is emeptal reservation
This year, A. T. Stewart reports in New
York an income Of 81, ,420 .000; w. d. Astor. i,
5000: II. T. Helmbold, $50 .0oO james Fisk,
jr., $65, 900; and Cornelius Vanderbilt, $4,000.
Congress- has taken the initiatory steps for the
admission of New Mexico as a State, under the
name Of Lincoln. The immediate necessity Tor
this movement is not apparent unless Is
political necessity.
Nevada paper contains a peculiarly nn-
pleasant personal item "Our friend ferklns
went out yesterday to practice throwing Doom
erang, sent him by his brother in Australia,
The physicians think his nose can be patcheo
and Strengthened up, but say his eyes are eI-
trely gOne."
The Ohio State Teachers Association in con
vcntiou last week, at Columbus, un nimously
adopted, without discussion, "A Series Of resOlu-
tons declaring it To be the sense OF the aseocia,
tion that the Bible, as religious and moral text
book, should not on any account be banlshed
from the public schools.
The New York Tribune says: "Itbegins TO bt
rcalized-as a definite practical idea-that good
theaters are salutary institutions in large city
that they augment public security by cheering
the minds of the masses and they will sow tlt
seeds Of education in all good thoughts which
they scatter abroad, aud all worthy impulses
which they prompt" :r'~
Abill has passed both branches of Congress
establishing certain legal holidays. According
" this bill New Years Day, WAsHISdToNs
Birthday, Good Faiday, Fourth OF July, Thanks,
giving Day and Christmas Day, are to be Iega
holidays, and ranked so far as business affair:
are concerned with Sunday. The new holiday
Memorial" is left as volunteer.
The War Department authorities believe q
war with the Indians this summer is inevitable
The peaceful reports which the Quaker Agents
sent to Indian Bureau are not in keeping with
the STYLE of those received at the Adjutant Gen
erals Office from army officers familiar with
Indian character. Even peaceful agents now
admit fears that the Government will have tC
resort TO the sternest measures.
A ridiculous paragraph is coming the rounds
Of the papers that subterranean outlet has beer
found 10 the Great Salt Lake. The story is Of q
vast maelstrom, from which a schooner with
great difficulty escaped. Were there an outlet
il would be impossible for the lake to remain
salt; as the water flowing into 1t is fresh. All
lakes whose only outlet is by evaporation are
salt. while those which have an outlet always
are and must be fresh.
The Republican Congressional Convection in
the Third District is to be held at Middletown
Butler county, on the 4th of August. It appears
to be generally conceded that General SCIENCE
will be renominated. Lew. CANPBELL will bc
the Democratic candidate, unless VALLAsDIG-
HAM can prevent it. The latter has no notion
Of looking quietly on and seeing his old Whig
and Radical rival bear of ths Democratic hon
Ors, while he himself, who has stood by the
Democrats through thick and thin, is deemed
only bit to be cast out irto the rubbish heap.
According to the cable dispatches for the past
few DAYS the war cloud has been gathering thicl
and fast which promises TO engage Europe ia a
general European War. 1t is all Occasioned by
the acceptance Of the Crown Of Spain by Prime,
LKoPoLD. 1t was announced yesterday by thu
official papers of Paris and Berlin that LFoPOLl
has withdrawn his acceptance Of tue nomination
~ the throne Of Spain. for the reason that he viii
not accept position that will raise war; but th
war fever has got to that pitch that the shedding
of blood seems inevitable. France has $40 90
men ready for marching orders, and other pow
ers ars making like preparations.