Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-08

ber of the Board of Arbitration which is
to meet at Geneva under the treaty of
Washington.
Foreign advices received in New York
city on the 1st report that cholera and
famine were still making fearful ravages
among the people in Persia.
THE NEW WORLD.
Gold closed in New York on the list
at 112%.
A terrible accident occurred on the
night of the Goth, at Revere, seven miles
from Boston, on the Eastern Railroad. An
accommodation train was behind time and
stopping at Revere, when the Portland
lightning express overlook 1t and teles-
COPIED it, Twenty-one passengers were
killed outright of whom three were
women, and forty or fifty more were in
iured. The cars took fire, and two or
three persons were consumed. Most of
the wounded were scalded, and their limbs
fractured. The killed and wounded be-
longed mostly to Lynn and Salem The
list of the dead as reported on the 9th is
as follows: q. B. Chattuck, Susan F.
Cheney, VIM. II. Jeffreys, of Lynn E.
F. Sanborn, of Providence; Ella Pierson
and James Burns of Lynn; Ernest S.
Morritt, of Danvers Henry A. Foster,
Miss Foster (his sister, and VIM. Fl. EN-
erton, of Providence Geo. w. Bancroft,
of Beverly; Rev. DR.. S. r. Mason, of
Cambridgeport; Thos. f. Bancroft, of
Lynn; Rev. DR.. Ezra s. Gannett, of Bos-
ton; Aaron Erickson, of Swampscott I;
VIM. A. Steele, of Beverly; Mrs. P. G..
Jasper, ]. B. Miller, Mary May, A. Crow
ley, and two bodies, unrecognized, making
twenty-four in all.
The Republican State Committee of
New York recently decided to call con-
vention to meet at Syracuse on the 9th of
September, for the nomination of candi-
dates for State offices to be filled at the
coming election.
The Erie mail, west, collided with the
first section of the Empire freight, east,
near Westpool Station, Pa, on the morning
of the 9th, on the Philadelphia & Erie
Railroad, causing the death of Reuben
Winslow and r. G.. Brown, of Lockhaven,
passengers; f. w. Hymen, of Williams
port, conductor; and Thos. Cannon, of
Dunkirk, fireman of mail train; Jas. w.
Ward, of Bellefonte, Pa, conductor, and
William Kellinger, of Altoona, Pa, en-
gineer of the freight train; and danger
ously injuring A.. NJ. Atwater, of Lock
haveni Reuben Hitler, of Williamsport
James Shaffer, Jr., of Sinnemahoning, Pa,
and P. Mccormick, of Baltimore, engineer
of the passenger train. Several other per-
sons were injured.
Mayor Hall, of Now York city, has
declared his intAnfinn Tn sne the Times for
the rent for the past six years of the
ground on which the Tines building
stands. 1t is claimed by the authorities
that the ground was given by the city, in
1765, to number of Presbyterian gentle
men, who built brick church there.
on, the conditions of the conveyance being
that it should be forever devoted to religious
uses, and TO the purposes of cemetery
and to revert to the corporation in case OF
its not being used for these purposes. II
is claimed, on the other hand, that the
ground was purchased by the original
proprietor of the Times directly from the
trustees of the old brick church, that re-
version was at the same time purchased
from the city authorities, and that the full
consent of the latter, as well as the STATE
Legislature, to the transfer, was obtained
A Washington dispatch of the 26tt
says For some weeks past, the number
of counterfeit 50.cent notes detected at
the redemption bureau department, hal
been very large, between $500 and $500 o
such counterfeits being discovered daily
They are Immediately branded and re
turned to the persons sending them in 70
redemption;" consequently the loss fall
upon such persons.
Hon. B. O. Cook, member of Congress
from the Sixth Illinois District, has re
signed the Office, and the Governor ba
appointed November Z, the date of tn
regular election, as the time for holding
special election in the district TO fill tn
vacancy.
There were reports at Goldsboro', N
c., on the Goth, of. great damage to tn
cotton crop from drought and rust, an
that there would be a falling off of one
third from last years receipts.
: Concerning the yellow fever at Charlie
ton, s. c., a New York dispatch of th
, Goth says private kilograms reported th
disease as spreading, and that the citizen
greatly alarmed, were fleeing the city.
Charleston dispatch of the 9th says tt
Medical Society of that city had declare
that the yellow fever of mild type d
exist in the city, but that it did not seel
! of character disposed TO spread.
During the recent great fire at William
port, Pa, several children were buried
: the falling walls of the Packer BuildiI
and many of them were fearfully and
tally burned.
"A Wheeling dispatch of the 2Sth sa
=, returns from thirty.fye counties in We
i Virginia had been received. They gi
I, 1854 majority in favor of call for Co
: stitutional Convention. The remainil
nineteen counties would not material
alter this result.
!; The low pressure steamer Ocean Wa
d exploded her boiler at Point Clear, ne
J. aobile, Ala, on the 9th. There we
:. about two hundred excursionists on boar
= fifty or sixty of whom were killed a
a wounded.
# Captain Davenport, of the United Stat
a steamer Congress, reported on the 2a
l. to the Navy Department, from St. Jof
e N. b., his return from Greenland. II
st cargo, coal, provisions, etc, were tral
g. ferred safely froA the Congress to the l
l. laris, and the latter sailed-poleward on
is afternoon of August II, with bright pr
poets and an open season.
1t Dispatches from Boston of the goth s
the number Of deaths from the EastC
az Railroad disaster had reached 70