Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-16
FHE NEW WORLD.


Gold closed in New York on the Sth at
l15&@11511.
A Matamoras (Mexico) special of the I'd
says President Lerdo de Tejeda had issued a
proclamation Of general amnesty and a con-
vocation fer the election of President.
The Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, on the I'd, commenced the distribution
of several superior varieties of fall wheat to
all the States and Terr tories adapted to its
growth. The distribution will be completed
during the current month. A large distri-
button of rye will follow.
President Grant passed through Water
town, N. Y, on the I'd, where large con-
course of people gathered to welcome him.
He made few remarks in reply to the well
coming speech of the Mayor.
Michael Lowrey, of New York city, threw
his wife from a third story window into the
yard below, a few nights ago. She could not
recover
A Salt Lake dispatch of the 2d says the
Ute Indians belonging to the White River
Agency, California, and Nintah Agency,
Utah. lately congregated in the Southern
section of the Territory, and who had start
ed to leave a few days before, had stopped
showed determined hostility
L. T. Neal, of Ross County, is the Liberal
candidate for Congress in the Seventh Ohio
District. Judge F. c.. Whiteside, of Iogans-
port, has been nominated for Congress by
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans of
the Eighth Indiana District. Samuel P
Nash, of Galliopolis, is the Democratic can
didate in the Eleventh Ohio Congressional
District
dispatch from Charleston, s. c., on the
I'd, says that the drouth was so excessive
throughout the State that the crops were
almost parching up, and that if rain did not
fall soon there would be nothing left for the
caterpillars to eat. The cotton crop in some
sections of the State would be an entire
failure.
At Marysville, N. Y, on the Cd, Charles
NARROW was hanged in Jail for the murder of
William Bachman, at jamestown, last
August.
dispatch from Saratoga on the I'd says
that the famous trotting horse Longfellow
is completely disabled. John Harper, his
owner, admits the completeness of the dis
aster
The Iowa State Board has completed the
valuation and assessment of railroads in the
State, under the new law. The number of
miles of railroads in the State is 3, ,O65 total
valuation, slS, ,359, ,661 average valuation per
mile, S5,931. so.
Two buildings in Mechanics Block, in
Keokuk, Iowa, fell on the morning of the
I'd, with a terrible crash, killing one woman
and wounding several other persons so bad
| ly that it was thought they could not recov-
er, The buildings were a complete wreck.
The cause of the accident is traced to a mis-
erably insecure foundation.
The Board of Managers of the House of
Refuge of st. Louis, who had been investi-
eating the affairs of the institution some two
weeks, made a report on the I'd, exoner-
ating Superintendent Gleason and Mrs.
Gleason, the Matron, and awarding them
high praise for the efficient management of
the institution under their charge. The
whippings, which were the special subject of
investigation, are admitted by the report,
which states they were inflicted during the
the sickness of Mr.. Gleason by Assistant
Superintendent Blair, who has been repri-
manded and relieved from further execution
of sentences.
Matamoras special of the 5th says that
Rocha was preparing to take the field
against Trevino and Qulroga, who refused
to accept the amnesty proiTered by the ex-
isting Government They oppose Lerdo de
Teiada's Cabinet, and are in favor of Dlaz
for President. Reliable information from
Tula at Tamaullpas, confirms former news
from there that the place was still in pos
session of the revolutionary party who was
J la.
passing through, who, in fact, were buying
their liberty There was no immediate pros
! peet Of change for the better,