Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-29

OF his death, taking what wages ne cnose 10
give them.
The following exhibit OF our exports and
imports for the calendar year 1871, is fur
nishcd by the Bureau of Statistics. The val
ues are all expressed in specie;
IMPORTS.
Merchandise. $5I2 5Ug,3l
Total .vro,rs s'0S'Oo''2S
Domestic merchandise $I45, ,5i2, COZ
Foreign do. ...... ..-.......... l4I6y,UOl
Domestic bullion and specie. ....... 65,6s2 ,3l2
Foreign DO. lZOOS,lS
Total exports. $537, ,973, ,OSi
Excess imports Observation-Disclosures. S51 935, ,6i5
The Superintendent at Washington of the
Mounted Recruiting Service has been direct
ed to send one hundred recruits to Fort Reilly,
Kan, and the same number to Kit Carson,
Col.
The New York papers estimate the number
OF those in the procession in that city on the
18th, in celebration of St. Patricks Day, at
from 81, 600 to $4,000. The Times says that
it was one of the largest of the kinl that
has yet been seen.
A terrible explosion of two steam boilers
took place in the soap and candle factory of
There were eighty persons in the building,
two of whom were killed and ten injured.
In front yard about half mile distant,
three little girls were jumping rope; a
piece of one Of the exploded boilers, flying
over buildings, struck the three, instantly
killing two of them and fatally injuring the
third.
The Clinton House, at Iowa City, was
burned on the morning of the 10th. Among
its guests was Ole Bull, the famous violinist'
who barely escaped in his night clothes,
having his violin under his arm.
General David L. Stanton, Collector Of the
Fifth Maryland District, has been arrested
and deposed from his position, charged with
being a defaulter in q sum ranging from So
coo to 1000.
Two Americans, Captain Cunningham and
Mr.. Simpson, have been severely wounded
by Nicaraguan soldiers for neglecting to re.
move their hats in the presence of religious
procession at Nicaragua. Both had been in
the country but q fortnight. Neither under
stood Spanish. The American Minister was
moving in the matter.
A Toronto (Canada) dispatch of the Goth
says: reports from different parts of the
Dominion indicate that Tuesday night was
one Of the coolest of the season. The open
ing of the Welland and st. Lawrence Canals
will be very much later than usual, and navi-
CATION will be greatly delayed"
The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate on the 20th Postmas-
ters-Norman d. Meacham, Berea, o.; J. j..
Hibbetts, Chctopa, Kan; NJ. G. Craine,
Wellsville, o.: Elihu Enos, Waukesha, Wis.
Governor Ito, accompanied by Mr.. Fike-
louski, left Washington on the Goth for New
York, on his return to Japan. His business
is to report to his Government the progress
of the negotiation of the treaty between
japan and the United States for such in
structions as the Embassy requires in the
premises, and also rs to their future diplo-
matte transactions.
The bark Gemina has arrived in Philadel-
phia from Fo Chow, China, with cargo of
tea, being the first direct importation for
that port since 1871.
General Sickles stated on the Goth that he
had negotiated loan of s2,0O0,OOO at 5
per cent. for the new Erie Board on securi-
ties rating as high as seventy.
Nearly all the painters of Brooklyn, n. Y,
were on strike on the Goth, demanding 50
per day for eight hours work. The bosses
offered 3211 cents per hour for either eight
or ten hours a day.
The house Of farmer named Robert
Bewles, near Theresa, N. Y, was burned on
the night of the 18th. The family were
obliged to leave the house in their night
clothes, and several of them had their limbs
badly frozen. Bowles was so badly burned
while attempting to save his children that
he died next day.
The oldest navigators say they never knew
SO much ice in Lake Erie, with so little snow
For nearly eighty miles out from Buffalo ice
measured three feet six inches thick ON the
Goth. Teams were crossing at points never
known before. 1t was feared that naviga-
tion would not b0 open until late in May.
The Rhode Island State Convention met at
Providence on the Goth and nominated !;
For Governor, Olney Arnold, of Providence /;
Lieutenant Governor, Charles r. Cutler, of
Warren Secretary of State, William j. Mil
Ter, OF Bristol; Attorney-General, George
n Bliss, of East Providence General Treas
urer, William P. Congdon, of Newport. Del
egates were chosen to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, if one is held. No reso-
lutions were adopted. A State Central
Committee was appointed.
man, recently returned to Omaha from
the Black Hills, characterizes the recent gold
discovery sensation as the worst sell he ever
met. He pronopnces 1t bogus excitement,
designed to attract the immigration of such
persons as must remain there.
Five or six ticket agents and conductors
have been arrested for defrauding the Bur
lington & Missouri Railroad Company, and
held to answer to the charge of embezzle-
ment before the District Courts. Several
employees have been merely dismissed for the
same olfenso, on account Of having large
families. The discovery was the result of
special detectives.
A bill offered in the Illinois House of Rep
resentatives to repeal the reeently-enaeted
Temperance Law was tabled on the Goth by
a vote Of 9S to 22.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that the payments by railroads to
the State during the War in Confederate
money were illegal, and the Indebtedness
must be paid in greenbaeks. The roads
owe large sum, and this decision Will
relieve the State financially. The Court also
decided that citizens are not responsible for
cotton destroyed by order Of the Confederate
military authority,