Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-06

satisfaction was manifested at the mention
inIconnectlon with that Office, of the name o
F. g. Cardozo (colored). During the excite
ment the chairman declared the Convention
adjourned. The boilers held meeting or
the 23d, but no definite action was taken.
A. W. Wilche, late Chief-Justice, has been
nominated by the Clayton Republican party
for Congressman from the Third Arkansas
District.
The Attorney General has given an opinion
to the effect that the Post. Office Department
cannot make q contract for the manufacture
Of postal cards until Congress makes a spe.
cifc appropriation to pay for them By the
Postal Code bill the Postmaster General was
authorized and directed to prepare and fur.
nish postal cards, but when this bill passed
the Postal Appropriation bill had already
been acted upon, and contained no provision
for said purpose.
A recent Washington dispatch says nearly
100000 letters went to the Dead-Letter
office last year. They have been partly clas
si1ed as follows: SO 600 letters had no coun-
ty or State direction; more than 40, 900 lack
ed stamps, and 5000 were posted without
any address at all. The sum of $02, 900 In
cash, and more than 100000 in drafts,
checks, ETC., were found in these letters. It
appears that on an average every letter mis-
directed, or that goes to the Dead-Letter
office from any cause, contains 81,
A convention of the "straight" Dem
ocracy of New Jersey was held at Trenton
on the oath, at which a series of resolutions
was adopted approving and endorsing the
proposed action of the Louisville Conven-
e. he IoNE H.,
were then chosen.
At an adjourned meeting at Philadelphia,
on the oath, Of the Pennsylvania State Labor
Reform Convention, q resolution was adopt
ed that a committee of FIVE be appointed to
confer with the Louisville Democratic Con-
vention and ask them to adopt "our' prin-
ciples, and that they be instructed to recon-
! mend Charles O'Conor as "our" choice for
President.
! On the morning of the 23d an accident oc-
Cured on the Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque
railroad near Pleasant Creek, caused by OBJ
structions in the shape Of planks and stones,
placed on the track by some evil disposed
persons. Three cars were completely de-
molished. The water boy, Walter H. Gates,
of Dubuque, was instantly killed. A pas
senger named Healy, Of Maquoketa, Iowa,
was badly mangled and died in short time.
1t was thought Charles Maleva, laborcr,
would also die. Henry Gained, Ed. Ferris
and james Smalley were badly injured.
Announcement is made in the Chicago
dailies of the death of the oldest settler in
the city, Archibald Clybourne, aged Neventy
years. He was a native of Giles G., fnty,
Va, first coming to Fsrt Dearborn row
Chicago) in 1S1S remaining only az prt
time, but returning in 1922, since y III
time has been continuously a residS' lf
Chicago up to the moment of his deatNpH OF
The Democrats of the Sixth Iowa sNS
have nominated Colonel II. II. Trimt, y =
Davis County. for Congress. " zaJ
some or the benevolent seiti------. s,'-'U"-e =
gave an excursion and picnic TO the newsA
boys and bootblacks of the city on the 9th.
1t was known as the Briggs House Picnic,
that hotel furnishing the refreshments. 1t
proved grand success, and over five hun
dred "street Arabs " were in attendance
and enjoyed themselves as they never did be-
fore.
The Liberals and Democrats of the new
Twentieth Ohio District, met in convention
on the 24th, and nominated for Congress
selah Chamberlain, Esq, of Cleveland.
A letter to the Cincinnati Commercial from
Louisville, KY, says that in the latter city
by thereeent operations of Robert Atwood,
the great forger, two firms are absolutely
smashed to atoms, numerous private indi-
viduals are ruined completely, while the
banks together lose about $3.50, 900.
A demonstration was made at Rushville,
Tenn, on the evening of the oath, in honor
0f TnbUann ha Init
adopted was one declaring Mr.. johnson to
be the choice of the people for Congressman
for the State-at-Large. In response to calls, |
Mr.. Johnson appeared and spoke at consider
able length. He announced himself candi /
date, and stated that he would stump the
State, inviting others to meet him in discus.
sion.
Columbia Is. c. telegram Of the 24th
says the regular Republican Convention had
completed its State ticket by the nomination
of Francis Cardozo (colored) for State
Treasurer; Solomon L. Hays (white) for
Comptroller; Gen. H. w. Purvis (colored)
for Adjutant- General; ]. X. Jilson (white)
for Superintendent of Education. The Bolt
ers' Convention completed its organization
and nominated a State ticket headed by
Reuben Thomlinson (white) for Governor
and Judge John T. Green (white) for Attor-
ney-General.
The Republicans in the Second South Car
olina Congressional District have nominated
Alonzo j. RANGER (coored) for Congress.
A dispatch from Martnsburgh, West Vir-
ginia, on the cath, states that enough was
known of the election in the State to show
that the Constitution was defeated by from
p IN z ain fu nd 10
pendent Democrat) was ahead by the same
vote. The word 'white," as qualification
for office, submitted for a separate vote, was
almost unanimously voted down.
Up to the Goth applications had been
made to the PostOfIice Department in Wash
ington for over two millions of postal cards,
and about twenty-five informal proposals
had been made by manufacturers to supply
them after the designs determined From
this some idea may be had of the disap-
pointment caused throughout the country
by the recent discovery that the Department
will have to wait for a special appropriation
by Congress before it can furnish such
cards.
At Canaan, N. H., on the 25th, the wife OF
DR.. Asa Wheat died from ehloroform ad E in
istered by her husband for the purpose of
extracting teeth.
The Republicans of the Twenty-frst New
York District have renominated by acclama-
tion, Hon. Clinton s. Merriam, for Congress.
A fire occurred in New York city on the
Goth, in the United States bonded warehouse
of Charles Zust, No. Washington street.
The loss, which falls principally on import
ers of liquors, amounts to about $3.50 900.
The origin of the fire is said to have been the
explosion of kerosene lamp.
Thirty cases of sunstroke were reported in
st. Louis on the Goth, over half of which were
fatal
Mrs. Frederick fisherman, wife of Ger
man laborer Of Cincinnati, set her clothes in
flames on the night of the Goth, by kindling
a fire in a stove with coal OIL She was NOR
tally burned.
The venerable Bishop Uphold died at In
danapolis on the 26th. He had been the