Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-01


TO the amount Of about 100000. II is strong
ly suspected that he committed suicide, though
many of his friends think his death was purely
accidental.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners, having been called upon for an
opinion in the matter have officially stated
that reduction in favor Of all persons alike
who are sending articles for exhibition at in
dustrial fairs would not seem to give any bus-
ness advantage to one person over another,
and therefore would not be an unjust dscrim-
nation. We quote: "The facts that these
articles are designed for exhibition at indus
trial fairs; that such fairs are matters of pub
lie encouragement; that no one is injuriously
affected by such reduction, and that all per-
sons sending this class of articles are treated
alike, would seem to justify what would
otherwise, as between rival business men, be
p,'ind tacie evidence of unjust discrimination.
When a reduction does not pecunarily injure
any one, but on the contrary encourages the
industrial interests of the country, and thus
accords with public policy 1t leaves, we think,
no good reason TO declare such reduction an
unjust discrimination. 1t is not mere dis
eliminating but unjust discrimination that is
prohibited by the constitution and the
statute"
According to the new Directory of Chicago
the population of the city is about 1850
There are 133, ,070 names in the Directory.
The G. r. & z. express train which left
Council Bluffs at 4:25 on the afternoon Of
the 2lst, was thrown from the track near
Casey, Iowa, and robbed by seven masked men
on horseback. The engineer, John Rafferty,,
Nya CHI nd no oil and
cars were all robbed.
The number of threshing machines sold at
Des Moines, Iowa, this season, exceeds that of
any previous year.
A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatch of the 21st
says: "Since the adjournment Of the Republl-
can State Convention, facts have come to
| light, proving that Washburn was nominated
on the third formal ballot, by majority of
three over all. Four votes cast for Attorney
| General on that ballot were intended for Wash
burn, but throwing them out of the count, as
they ought to have been, instead of being
counted scattering, Washburn still had a
majority of three. The knowledge of these
facts is creating deep feeling throughout
the State, and the question is
whether under the circumstances,
Davis can AFFORD to accept the nomination re-
ceived by mistake. The Tribune to-morrew
morning will ask that the nomination be set
tied by the State Central Committee"
Dispatches from the town of Louisiana,
Missouri, say eight deaths from cholera oc-
Cured there between eight and twelve o'clock
on the night Of the Goth. Hundreds of citi-
zens were preparing to leave the place. Four
deaths from cholera occurred at Mt. Vernon,
Ind, on the 2lst, three in Cincinnati and one
in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Crop reports from Arkansas, Mississippi
and North Alabama on the 2lst, were favora-
BILE, though the greater poi ton of Mississippi
was suffering for want Of rain.
The larger portion of the business part of
jackson, Tenn, including the Wing and Tri6-
une office, was burned on the Goth. Loss over
100000.
A recent circular of the Post-ofice Depart
ment cautions postmasters from selling, and
the public from buying, the official stamps OF
the Department. 1t seems that postmasters
in several States have been furnishing the
public with these stamps. Letters under such
official stamps are sent from their points of
destination to the Dead-etter Office, as they
are known to be private letters. One post
master in Ohio recently received 200 official
stamps and sold l40.
The Acting Comptroller of the District OF
Columbia has furnished the Government with
an official statement, in which he says the
funded and bonded debt Of the District, in
cluding those of the late corporations, amount
to 50, ,236, ,S9l The District Of Columbia and late
corporations have no floating debt, the current
revenue being amply sufficient to meet all the
current expenses. The sinking fund revenues
are more than sufficient to meet current inter-
est and retire an annual proportion of the
outstanding bonds. The amount authorized
by the last Legislative Assembly will not in.
crease the debt beyond the amount as limited
by act of Congress.
A recent New York-dlspatch says the state.
ment that there Is to be no investigation by
the deacons aud trustees OF Plymouth Church
relative to the Bowen-Tilton scandal is untrue
The trial has only been postponed on account
Of the absence of Mr.. Beecher and a number
Of the committee. In the fall charges will
be filed against Bowen and Tilton, and bt
fully investigated. The sessions will proba
bly, be held with closed doors.
The American Cheap Transportation Asso
citation Of New York City, perfected its organ
ization on the evening of the 2lst, and adopted
resolutions setting forth that the unjust ant
extortionate rates charged by the various rail
roads of the country are detrimental to tn,
industries and interests of the nation, and con
demning the action of the railroad compane,
in bribing Legislatures, and defying Judges
and Executives.
Isaac B. King, father Of Lizzie L. King
alias Kate stoddard, arrived in Brooklyn Oh
the 22d and visited his daughter at the Ray
mond Street Jail. He had not seen her befor,
for six years, and said she was very mucl
changed.
A st. Louis dispatch of the 22t
says the cholera had abated a
Louisiana, Mo-, but some fifty per
sons altogether had died of it since it frs
broke out, including some of the most promi
nent citizens. In egairieville and Troy tn
scourge ragged fearfully, the towns beinl
almost depopulated either by disease or tn
people fleeing from their homes. Out Of on
family of nine persons in the former place, al
of whom were well on the 18th, only two re
NAMED. The disease also prevailed at othe
towns near by. Business was almost suspend
ed, and most of those who were able were flee
ing from the infected places. A reporter of tn
Evansville Qnd) Journal of the 22d says ther
were then only about 800 people in Noun
Vernon, and that the surrounding towns wer
full of Mount Vernon citizens, who had iie,
from the city. The Board of Health had re
quested all persons not to visit the place 70
the present.
The value Of the booty secured by the rob
bers of the express train near Casey, Iowa, o.
the 2lst, did not exceed $4,000. The valuabl
express matter usually sent by this train o.
Mondays was forwarded the night before
At their session at Springfield on the 22d
} the Illinois Board of Railroad and WarehOus
Commissioners received number of CON
plants Of extortion by railroads. These CON
plants were against the Illinois Centra
Peoria, fekin g. Jacksonville, and the Toledo
Wabash & Western Railroads. 1t was not In
probable that the members Of the Board woul
, visit some Of the points where the most iii
grant extortlons are charged TO be made, to il
Z VegtiRate the truth. and III possible devils