Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-24
THE NEW WORLD,

Gold closed iii New York on the 18th
at l11il.
All the members of the Cabinet were
present at meeting in Washington on
the 10Th, which continued nearly four
hours The larger portion of the time
was occupied on the results 80 far OF the
Civil Service Commission, which were ex-
planned by Mr.. Curtis, member of the
board This Government and the Spanish
authorities had not ytt arrived at an agree
ment respecting the Hornet, then at
Port-au-PrincC, menaced by Spanish YES
sells. \ correspondence was in progress
between the Secretary of State and Minis
ter Roberts, the former protesting against
the design to seiza The vessel, which is I'M
der the American flag
Anthony Banning has been appointed
Gauger for the Fifth Ohio District, and
Geo. w. Donaldson Assistant Assessor for
the Seventh Ohio District
Prominent gentlemen ia Washington
attribute the spread of the smallpox in
Philadelphia and other cities TO the sale of
buffalo and other robes there, taken from
the Blackfeet and Piegan camp where
the disease prevailed three years ago. At
that time they were forbidden to be sold
to traders, but several months ago they dis
appeared from those neighborhoods and
found their way elsewhere
OF the thirty-three whalels crushed by
the ice or abandoned in the Arctic Ocean,
the port of New Bedford, Maine, loses
twenty-one. Nearly everybody in the
town is sufferer, directly or Indirectly; by
the disaster
The publisher of the Spectator, an in
surHnce journal published in New York,
has issued table, showing the aggre-
gate losses to companies by States, the
number suspended and assessed, and the
number unaffected by the Chicago fire.
Total companies in the United States, 335 (;
aggregate capital, S74, $50, 2l6 total gross
assets, $l35, Acc, ,426 total losses, $S2, 1871,
i22; companies suspended, 81; number
assessed, % number not in the fire, 81
Losses Of companies by States: New
York, $21 ,637, 800; Ohio, $4,S1s,657;
Massachusetts,, 81, 4S3, 500; Pennsylvania,
81, ,OS2, coo; Illinois, $33, SIS, 900; COnnec-
ticut, $9,325, 900; Rhode Island, 2,O72,
800; California, $2,0j0,OO0; Missouri,
$575, 900; Maryland, 1897, 1865; Wisconsin,
S200, coo; Michigan, 81, 700, 600; Mime
sofa, S10O,OC0 Maine, $50 coo; Kentucky,
SG,S00. Loss by foreign companies, 81,
$4,000.
The Republicans of Brooklyn claimed
on the 10th that by fair count of the
votes cast on the 1th, their candidate for
Mayor, Samuel Booth, was elected by IA
large majority, and also their candidate for
City Auditor, Nelson Shaurman The
Democracy admitted the election of the
latter, and also the election of Charles G.
Morton, Republican candidate for the AS
sembly in the Seventh District,
Returns from all but six towns in Massa-
chusetts give Washburn majority over
all of 1906, which would probably be
increased to li,000
There was light fall of snow ut Pough-
kcepsie, n V, on the morning of the
10th, the first of the season.
IL was so cold in Eastern Maine on the
9th that boys were seen skating ON the
ponds near Belfast aIf
The mail express ON the Cincinnati &
Indianapolis Junction Railroad was
thrown from the track by COW, east of
Liberty, Indiana, ON the 10th, wrecking
the engine, tender, baggage car, passenger
car, and Pullman's sleeping coach. Five
passengers in the sleeping coach were in
jured, part, it was feared, fatally, The
whole number hurt, as far as known, was
/ fifteen, ten of them seriously.
Governor Merrill, of Iowa, has appoint
ed November 90 as Thanksgiving Day,
Secretary Delano authorizes his friends
to deny emphatieally that he is Il candi
date for the Senate from Ohio.
T The Howard association at Charleston,