Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-30

The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill was commemorated in Boston and
Charlestown ON the nth.
There was a severe shock of earthquake
on the north shore of Long Island on the
night of the 10th.
AT the recent election in Waterbury,
Conn, George b. Thomas, Democrat, was
elected Mayor, by majority of %. The
Republicans elected majority of the
Common Council. In New London the
Republican ticket was elected by an aver
age majority of 147.
In his recent walking feat in New York
city, Weston completed the task of walk
ing 112 miles in "a hours, having 1873
minutes to spare. On the 18th he finished
his effort TO walk 400 miles in five days,
having 1S minutes to spare He made the
last mile in II minutes Z seconds, and
showed little signs Of fatigue.
A horrible tragedy occurred in New
York city on the 18th. A DR.. Connolly,
while in an inebriated condition, took his
two children into his bedroom, fastened
the door, and then deliberately butchered
the little ones with carving. knife, after
which he cut his own throat from ear to
ear. The wife and mother was rendered
insane for time on the discovery of the
terrible affair.
In New York city, on the 10Th, the Mu
tual Base Ball Club defeated the Cleve-
laud Forest Citvs-10 TO 6. A game was
played at Troy between the Haymakers,
of that city, and the Kekiongas, of Ft.
| Wayne. The score stood on the sixth
inning g to 3, in favor of the latter club,
when the former demanded the substitu-
tion of new ball, claiming that the one
in use was ripped. This the Kekiongas
refused to accede to, when the umpire de-
cided the game in favor of the Haymakers
% to o.
Two kinds of revenue stamps are to be
substituted for those now in use, and they
will be placed in circulation on the 1st of
August. One is the sensitive stamp, on
which the application of any kind of acid
produces a complete change of color and
appearance, and the other is a stamp
printed in colors, which will defy repro
duction by the photographers,
In the United States Circuit Court at
Canandaigua, Judge Woodruff has decided
that the extension of the Mellier patent
for making paper pulp was improperly
granted and void, and that the patent is
now public property.
At the Norwalk, Conn, city election, on
the Goth, the Republicans elected their
ticket by an average majority of 150.
A New York telegram of the Goth says
the epidemic which broke out among
the horses in that city, some three weeks
before, was rapidly abating, and it was be-
lievedb by the veterinary surgeons, who had
been fighting it since the beginning, that
it would soon almost totally disappear.
In game of baseball played at Phila-
delphia on the 20th, the Mutuals, of New
York, defeated the Philadelphia Athletics
IS to 6. In New York city, the Cleve-
land Forest Citys defeated the Stars, of
Brooklyn-6 to D.
1t is now stated that President Grant
will start on his trip to California about
the 18th of August. All the members of
the Cabinet will accompany him. He will
be absent about five weeks. The Presi-
dent will not visit Oregon, as has been
stated.
The funeral of the Hon. g. L. Vallan-
digham, at Dayton, on the Goth, was of
most imposing character and was proba-
bly, the largest which has ever taken place
in the State of Ohio. The procession was
about two miles in length and was COM
posed of persons of all political parties
and walks of life. He was buried by the
Masonic fraternity.
At Cincinnati, on the Goth, the Rock
ford Forest Citys defeated the Live Oaks
of the former city, in game of baseball
80 too.
MIR. Vallandigham's estate is valued at
$50, 600 or $4), 1000, and is clear of incum-
brances.
Excessive and continuous rains have
fallen in portions of Louisiana, recently,
flooding the country and seriously damag
ing crops and other property.
The first consignment of cotton from
Texas, 0ia the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway, left Big Cabin, Indian Territory,
on the Goth inst, and passed through
Parsons, Kansas. Large quantities are
daily arriving at Big Cabin. The ship
ment of Texas cattle is very large.
Governor Jewell has appointed j. II.
IIawley, of Hartford, and Professor Will
liam p. Blake, of New Haven, Commits
sioners for Connecticut, under the act of
Congress providing for an International
Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
In game of baseball at Philadelphia
on the 21st, the Athletics, of that city,
defeated the Washington Olympics-10 TO
3 At New York the Cleveland Forest
Citys beat the Resolutes, of Elizabeth, N.
J.-24 to 3. At Boston, the Red Stock
ings, of that city, defeated the Kekiongas,
of Fort Wayne-21 to 0.
A Washington dispatch of the 21st says: !:
General Sherman has returned from his
tour of inspection throughout the West
and Southwest. He considers the appre-
tensions felt of widespread Indian war
along the Texan frontier as, in great
measure, unfounded. The Generals view
of the situation is much more hopeful
than many have heretofore supposed"
The Iowa Republican State Convention
met at DesMoines on the 91st Col. Car
penter was nominated for Governor ON the
first ballot, as was also II. Q. Butler for
Lieut.. Governor, and Col, Abernethy for
Superintendent Of Public Instruction,
Judge Day was renominated for Supreme
Judge by acclamatlon.
The jury in the Mcclellan murder case,
at Lebsnon, o., after being out about
twenty-four hours, failed to agree, and
was discharged. Various changes oc-
Cured in the jury, 1t is said, and it finally
stood eight for murder in the second de,
| gree and four for acnnittal One account