Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-06
THE NEW WORLD.


Gold closed in New York on the 9Th al
112K.
President Grant is said to be strongly in
favor of paying the same salaries to women
as to men for similar work in the Depart.
ments.
The Hon. William CASTOR, Mayor OF
Boston, was dominated by the Democrats on
the 22d for reelection.
Some three hundred negroes have recently
arrived in New York, from Savannah, en-
route for Liberia. They are the first of some
5000 who intend to emigrate.
jay Gould, ex-President of the Erie Rail
way, was arrested in New York on the 22d,
at the suit of P. II. Weston, the present
President Of the c ompany. The warrant
was based on an affidavit which charges Jay
Gould with wrongfully taking to his own
use, while in control of the Erie Railroad,
s9,5Oo,OOo of money belonging to the Erie
stockholders.
Mrs. Laura Fair was announced to lecture
In San Francisco on the evening of the 21st,
but large gathering of people in front of
her residence and in the vicinity of the hall
where the lecture was to be delivered made
such threatening demonstrations that the
notorious woman was advised by the Chief
Of Police Of the danger which would attend
her should she attempt to keep her appoint
ment, and she remained in her rooms, in
company with a few friends. The crowd
hooted and yelled, and men tried to force
their way up stairs, but were driven back.
The people OF San Francisco are much in
censed at her proposition to give public lee
lures.
The official returns of the vote in Ohio
show: Grant, PSI, ,s52; Greeley, 244,32l
Black, 2, 100; O'Conor, 1853; scattering, 1862.
The total vote cast was 529, sos. Grants
majority over Greeley is 1881.
A subcommittee appointed by the Com
mittee of Fifteen in Chicago to inquire into
the causes of crime made report in which
they state that, in their opinion, there is no
cause, aside from the vilpredisposition which
many criminals receive with their blood, or
from their early associations, which so
directly exctes to crime as the indulgence
in Intoxicating drink. Widespread statistics
are cited to support their conclusion that
the crimes of people are in proportion to
their facilities for becoming intoxicated, and
they assert that, If the liquor traffic were
properly regulated, there would be a dlmi-
mutton of nearly one hundred per cent. in
the number of crimes.
At the annual session, in st. Louis, on the
21st, of the American Woman Suffrage AS
sociation, the following officers were chosen
for the ensuing year: President, Colonel T.
w. Higginson; Presidents, Julia Ward
Howe, Hon. Henry Wilson, General Wm.
Curtis, VIM. L. Garrison, Mary A. Liver
more, Mrs. w. T. Haggard, Mrs. Langley,
Mrs. Cutter; Secretary, Mary B. Blackwell; ;
Treasurer, John K. Weldman; Chairman Ex-
ecutive Committee, Lucy Stone. Among
the resolutions adopted was one calling upon
Congress to enact law establishing woman
suffrage in the District of Columbia, and the
Territory, and also for the admission of wo-
men to positions under the Government,
with equal pay for equal work; also, to sub.
nit a sixteenth Constitutional amendment
to States abolishing political distinctions of
sex.
The Memphis Industrial Exposition, which
closed on the 22d, is said to have been de-
cided success, financially and otherwise.
President Grant has directed the issue of
apardon to Reuben J. Young, Of Alabama,
convicted in May, 1872, of being implicated
be imprisoned for ten years and to pay fine
of $1,000.
The Commission to investigate the out.
RACES on the Rio Grande border have com
pleted their report, which is very long
The Commissioners confined their investi-
cation to the distance of 500 miles, from the
mouth of the Rio Grande to Rio Grande
City, estimating that the Americans in
cluded within the limit have by Mexican
raids suffered to the extent of $50, OOO, 900, to
say nothing of the murders committed by
Mexicans. They think that II they had con.
tinued their investigation as far as Ell Paso
it would have been discovered that the total
losses, including those caused by Indian
raids, would have increased the sum total
to sl0o,oOo0oo. They urge protection to the
people on the border by an increase of
cavalry, otherwise predatory war will re-
suit.
The Revenue Marine report, commenting
upon Civil Service competitive examinations
in that service, says that whatever the result
in other branches of the service, this COM
petitive examination has been attended by
the best results. 1t has given the service
the best corps Of junior officers 1t ever pos
sessed, and has inspired among them Wig
orous competition in pursuit OF professional
attainments.
The National Board OF Underwriters, re.
Gently in session in New York, has resolved
unanimously to charge an advance of SO per
cent. upon all Mansard roofs, except those
constructed OF hre-proof material.
Colonel Blood was again arrested on the
22d, In civil suit brought by Challis, and in
default of $4,000 bail lodged in Ludlow street
prison. He had just given bail in another
suit when arrested.
Mrs. Putnam, wife Of the victim OF Foster,
the New York car-hOok murderer has been