Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-28

DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth
at 113. ~ elf 'ela
The census returns of Nevada show
population of Al 1886 The property over
$32, 100000. ,f,5 70
The Governor of Connecticut has mp
pointed Thursday, November "a, as a
Thanksgiving day. aH
A terrific tornado swept through the
southern part of Milwaukee on the 10Th,
doing great damage to buildings, farms
and lake vessels. .l.-.t..
There were eleven deaths from yellow
fever at New Orleans on the 10th.
Great fires were recently raging in the
valleys Of California in the neighbor-
hood of Napa and Calistoga, Houses,
fences md fields were destroyed
Two white children, who were captured
by Indians about twenty miles from Salt
Lake City, two years ago, passed through
Omaha on the 10Th, en- route to their pa
rents, who had moved away from Utah,
after hunting for their children eighteen
months, and giving up the hope of their
recovery. The children were taken from
the Indians few weeks ago, in the vicin-
ity of Fort Bridger, by party of soldiers.
Two inches of snow fell in Cheyenne on
the nth
The Governor of Michigan has changed
the time for the closing of the Sault Canal,
for repairs, from November 25 to Decem-
Der 2.
A fire in Chicago on the night of the
10th destroyed the extensive confectionery
establishment of NJ. E. Page & Co., "a
Michigan avenue, and other property. Loss
about 100000.
A severe earthquake shock was expert
enced on the morning of the Goth at De-
troit, Cleveland, Montreal, Schenectady,
New York, Boston, Troy, Cincinnati,
Portland, Me, and other places at the East
and in Canada. In some instances the shock
was so severe as to ffighten people out of
their houses At Standish, Me, sixteen
miles from Portland, three hundred feet OF
the bed of the Ogdensburgh Railroad,
across Alter Creek, settled ten feet at the
time of the earthquake.
The New York Board of Education have
refused to reseind the bylaw abolishing
corporal punishment in public schools.
Customs receipts for week ending
October 10, $3,S44,S19.
The population of Michigan, according
to the census just completed, is 1,191, ,463.
In 1860 it was 749, CAS-; increase, 442,S1S.
President Grant has issued the following
Thanksgiving proclamation:
WASHINGTON, October 81.
WHEREAS, 1t behooyes n people sensible of their
dependence on the Almighty, individually and col
lectively, to acknowledge their gratitude for His
mercies, and humbly to beseeoh for their continu-
ance; and,
WHEREAS, The people of the United States dur
ing the year about to end have special cause to he
thankful for the general prosperity, abundant har-
vest, and exemption from war and civil strife:
Nor, hsf.ftrt, BE ii known, that l, L. S. Grant,
President of the United States. concurring in any
similar recommendations from the Chief Magis.
trates Of the States, do hereby recommended all
citizens to meet in their respective places of wor-
ship on Thursday, the 2ith day OF November next,
there to give thanks for the bounty Of God during
the year about to close, and to supplicate for its
continuance hereafter.
hand and caused the seal OF the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city OF Washington, this 2lst day OF
October in the year OF Our Lord, One Thou
sand Eight Hundred and Seventy and of the
independence of the United States the Ninety
fifth.
Csigned U. s. GRANT.
BY the President,
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Another shock ofan earthquake was SEN
sibly felt in the lower part of New York
city on the morning of the 21st, throwing
down articles of furniture, but doing no
percentiblc damage