Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-23


restored Dr. Stillman, homeopathic ply
sician, to his former position as examining
surgeon.
A Washington dispatch of the 14th says
Captain Halls instructions for his polar
voyage contemplate an absence of two
years and a half, and If results warrant,
even longer. Among the means for secur-
ing intelligence of his movements, he is
instructed to throw overheard, at suitable
intervals and occasions, bottles containing
dispatches for the Government, with in
structions in different languages TO those
finding them to forward the contents with
out delay. When the vessel is left, skele-
ton stone monuments are to be erected on
the course travelled, to mark the progress
of the party.
Recent advices from Newfoundland in
dictate that that colony of fishermen favor,
the ratification of the Treaty of Washing
ton.
Both houses of the Connecticut Legisla-
ture have re. elected Judges James 'Phelps
and Dwight w. Psrdee as Judges of the
Superior Court for eight years from next
July.
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, recently in session at
Erie, Pa, elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: G.. w. G. T., s. B.
Chase; g. w. V. T., w. H. Fries; G. w.
V. c., Carrie r. Williams; G. w. Sec, L.
Ellen Wright; G. W. T., 8. s. King; G.
NJ, G. G. Fawcett
There was no abatement in the horse
disease in New York city on the 10Th.
The malady had extended to private sta
bles.
At Philadelphia, on the 18th, the Rock
ford Forest City Baseball Club defeated
the Athletics, of the former city-10 to z.
The President has appointed Clinton
| Spencer Postmaster at Ypsilanti, Michi
gan Alfred Van Dine, Postmaster at San
dusky, Ohio.
In the finding of the general court mar
tial in the case of the colored cadet, Smith,
at West Point, who was dismissed from
the academy, the Secretary of War; in an
order recently issued, says; "The pro-
ceedings of the findings and sentence are
| dBDAONGug Dut III NlCW Ol oil ChNuL1otohOOo
surrounding the case, and believing that
the end of public justice would be better
subserved and the policy of the govern
ment, of which the presence of this ca
det in the Military Academy is a signal il
lustration, be better maintained by COM
mutation of the sentence than by its rigid
enforcement, the President is pleased to
mitigate it by substituting for dismissal
from the service of the United States re-
duction of his academic standing one
year."
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says:
"The Agricultural Department estimates
the reduction of cotton acreage as compar-
ed with last year at nearly Is per cent,
equivalent to 1,333,353 acres, leaving the
present average from 1900, 900 to 8, 900 000
No estimate is made, but it is assum ed
that the crop cannot exceed 3,500,0 600, and
may fall to 100000, under the combina-
ton of unfsvorsble circumstances. The
condition of the growing plant is below
an average in nearly every State"
Chief. Justice Chase was in Cincinnati
on the 18th. He is said to have been ben.
Gifted by travel.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Con.
vention has been called to meet at Madison
on the 23d of August.
The recent Iowa Democratic State Com
mittee made the following nominations
For Governor, j. c. Knapp, of Van Bu-
rem County; Lieutenant Governor, NJ. NJ.
Ham, of the Dubuque Herald; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, E. NJ.
Mum, of Lee; Supreme Judge, John F.
Duncomb, of Webster. John P. Irish
was reelected Chairman of the State
Central Committee.
A number of persons were recently ia
tally poisoned, in Mississippi by eating
mulberries in which locusts had deposited
eggs.
Commodore Joseph Tatnsll died at Sa-
vannah, Ga, on the 14th, aged rs.
New counterfeit 50 notes on the Ninth
National Bank of New York have been
put in circulation at the East. The Wig.
nette on the left corner is coarsely engrav-
, ed, and at the right corner of the back the
ink has blush appearance.
A New York paper of the 10th says
, Claflin d Woodruff, the noted women
brokers, have instituted libel suit against
Henry Ward Beecher and the publishers
OF the Christian Union, laying their dam
ages at $250,000 The ground of action is
. the publication in the Christian Union, ol
which Beecher is the editor, of Mrs. Har'
riet Beecher Stoves new novel, in which
appear two female characters, which, it Ii
alleged, are intended to represent Mrs
Woodruff and Mrs. Clafiin.
VIM. s. Stokely is the Republican can,
{ didate for Mayor of Philadelphia.
. A Lebanon, Ohio, dispatch of the 16tl
says Ron Clement l.. Vallandigham, one
[ of the counsel for the defense of Thomas
Mcclellan, had accidentally shot himsel
e at the Lebanon House, and it was feared
o the wound would prove fatal. One &C
/. count says:
at appears that no one was present will
. Mr.. Vallandigha-N when the accident oc
% Cured but x-Lieutenant- Governer Nc
Burney, who has been associated with hin
in the defense of Mcclellan, the murderer
e, McBurney had expressed some doubts a
q to the theory that Meyers had shot him
= self, and Vallandigham picked upa pisto
!. from the table, saying he would show hin
d in half second. Two pistols were ol
T. the table-one unloaded-and he, by mis-
take, picked up the loaded one. He pu
p. it in his pocket, keeping the muzzle next hi
!, body. Just as it was leaving the pocke
:. n it was discharged, the ball entering, it
IL said, near the same place Meyers was sho
s. He at once ejaculated, oh, murderY an
s, said he had taken the wrong pistol"
IT The official vote in West Virginia on tn
l. "Flick amendment" which strikes froI
le the State Constitution the disfranchisin
n. clause, was as follows; For ratification
nt 29 ,546; against, $685. majority for ratit
le cation, 1928.