Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-13
DOMESTIC,

Gold closed in New York on the 9th
at 1909.
A Poughkeepsie IN. " dispatch states
that the Assistant State Cattle Commits
sioner, on the 29th ult., reported one thou
sand head of diseased cattle in Dutchess
county, and that the health of the county
was seriously endangered by the people
using the milk.
1t appears from the returns made at the
census office in Washington, that the col
ored population in 1870 in 1,03O counties,
is 1,507011 In the year 1860 the colered
population in the same counties was /, ,441,-
402. The gain is little over AZ per cent,
and leaving out the Northern States, which
were included, the total gain would be less
than per cent.
A recent fire at Marshall, Texas, de-
stroyed $150,000 worth of property.
The following is the public debt state
ment as published on the Sd.
Total outstanding debt. 50 ,423 49,, ,06O 90
Total principal and interest, in
cluding interest due and un-
paid.,...... .........t....... 2,47O 15I, 1868 90
Amount in the Treasury .......... iss OS6,572 90
Debt less amount IN Treasury..... 332 1864, ,T93 90
Decrease during the month. ....... 22l0,700 90
Decrease since March 1, 1S10..... 106 1853 90
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad
Companies interest payable in
lawful money
Amount outstanding . .......... 646ta,ss2 90
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 17s6.5i 90
Interest paid by the United States. S,Sl5,3t5 90
Interest repaid by transportation
OF mails. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 24D,Sl6 %
A fire at Mifilin, Pa, on the night of the
Both ult destroyed seventy buildings, in
flicting a loss of from $150,OO0 to 100000,
The gang of laborers engaged in clear
ing out the ruins of the Spottswood Hotel,
at Richmond, Va, have discovered por-
tions of bodies which cannot be identified.
Chief Justice Beasley, of the New Jer-
sey Supreme Court, has decided that the
Erie Company has the exclusive right to
make regulations governing traffic through
the Bergen tunnel; and, also, that the Erie
timetable must have precedence.
BY the official report of United States
Treasurer Spinner, the conscience fund
during the year ending June 80, 1870, is
shown to have increased $3,40603, and the
total contributions to the United States
Treasury since 1868, through the agency
of the silent monitor" is $117397S4.
The Commissioner of Pensions has re-
Gently decided to strike from the list of
examining surgeons employed by the
Bureau of Pensions the names of all sur
geons of the homeopathic school. The
grounds of his decision are, that all the
surgeons should belong TO one school, and
have but one theory of medicine, and that
the homeopathic system is not recognized
by the Bureau.
A motion has been made for new trial
in the jerks murder case, at Lagrange,
Ind. The Judge reserved his decision in
the matter until the March. term.
A fire at New Orleans early on the
morning of the Cd, destroyed the steamers
Magenta, Grand Erie, Julia Rudolph,
thompson Dean, and John Howard, all of
which are total loss. The steamship De
Soto, running between New York and
New Orleans, was burned to the waters
edge, below the latter city, on the 9lst ult
The new tariff went into effect on the
1st. 1t changes the tax on teas from % to
10 cents coffee from to 3 cents; new
sugar from s1s to 124 cents; sugar above
No. z, from to 9 cents; refined sugar,
from 5 to cents; cane molasses, from s
TO cents; brandy from SO to So liquors,
from $3.50 10 ~ per proof gallon wool,
from 10 peF cent to II and 10 cents steel