Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-18

In the Connecticut State Senate resolutions
have been passed condcmning the Back-Pay
bill Of Congress-, and commanding the Senators
and Representatives IN Congress from that
state for opposing IL. save va 81, '.''''i
Anuniber of celebrations were held through
out the Northwest on the Fourth under the
auspices of the Patrons pof Husbandry. At
Springfeld, ILL., yaox- Governor Palmer was the
| speaker; at Urbana, H., General Black; at
Galesburg, ILL.,, Hon, Leonard SWEET; at
Pontiac, ILL.,, Hon. s. M, Smith, and at Mar
shall, Wis, Judge Horace IS Orion. The at
tendance, generally, was large ut these cele-
| brafiona e "a = IFri taa .aFH S.
The Postmaster ut New York City says that
under the, new Postal law there has been a
falling Off for the first week of about $1,000
free newspaper exchanges at that office.
70 Prof. La Montaine, Of Brooklyn, Mich, was
instantly lxilledat Ionh on tic afternoon of
The Fourth, BY falling from a balloon. He had
ascended 500 ors6O0 feet, when the balloon col
lapseds The ropes passed from under thebas-
ket, and the Professor, came down 100 feet
from wherelhe assembled, to the horror of ten
or twelve thousand persons. s issa4 II ts.fa
4, The landing of the shore end of the new At
1
ly accomplished on the 4th, ,.... .......,
On the morning of the Fourth picnic party
went out on Green Lake, Wis, in O small
yacht, on a fishing excursion, and had proceed
cd but short distance when squall struck
the boat, capsizing it. The following persons
were thrown into the water and drowned:' Mrs
A.; T.. Carman, Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss
Jennie, Olin, Mrs. M. @. Russell and child,
VIM. ,Bloxham,, wife and child, Mrs. John
Baird, and a child Of the Rey. Mr.. Allen. t.
Frank H. Walworth has been sentenced to
imprisonment in q, the State Prison for life.
Judge DAVIS, before passing sentence, said that
the evidence, in his opinion, justified the ver-
| dict (murder in the second degree) and he was
not sure but it would have justified verdict
of murder IN the first degree. The prisoner
heard his sentence apparently unmoved and
at the close retired from the courtroom ac-
companied byahis mother Upon being taken
to his cell he parted cheerfully from the Sher-
i'll, saying that his was q case which he thor
onghly understood, fbut did not blame the
world for not understanding t..., O. .t..
Elizabeth McWay, at Noblesville, Ind, used
the kerosene can to hurry up the fire few
days ago, and was burned to a crisp from the
neck down. She lived but short time.
A young man and a woman named John
Elliott and Margaret Rollinston, accompanied
by child, attempted to cross the Niagara
Ruin from the American side in small boat,
on the 4tl, bat were caught in the rapids and
carried over the Falls The young man and
the girl were from Cincinnati, and were TO
have been married on the following day. ff
The steamship City Of Washington, from
ct,
/ Gull Rock Bar, Port Lebear, seventy miles
west of sambro, onithc afternoon of the 5th,
in a dense fog. sAll the passengers and crew
were landed safely. The ship was likely to
become atotal wreck tss, ss as. st 7.
! A Frenchwoman and child in Dudley, Mass,
were SO badly burned by an explosion of kero-
sene. oil, q few nights ago, that both died
Another child could not recover.
The Investigating committee appointed by
the Trustees of the Howard University to ex-
anime into the alleged financial mismanage-
ment Of that Institution and of General
Howard's connection Herewith, have made a
report, showing the University to be in a
sound financial condition., and entirely excul-
pating General Howard from the charges made
+, f. The news from the Indian, country on the
| 7th was that band of 200 Arizona Indians had
crossed the line and entered chihuahua to
spoil the MeXicaps Captain Jack and his
companions in confinement were reported TO be
growing wan and weak from the effects of
! their imprisonment. The number of Modoc
| captives had been increased by the surrender
4 of three more braves, with their women and
children. s1s a2FaE .a-T stAeF "' tsaa- seas
"a Des Mofnes dispatch Of the 7th says ''the
anti-Inonopoly party inalowa aregoing forward
10 make nominations for State and county
| offieersa' yastss inE' rt Fss E~sf ,7e1. s. a.
Buffalo had three, slight shocks of earth
quake on the evening of the 9th and another
ON the morning Of the 7th., The only damage
done was the throwing down Of q chimney in
the center Of the city.
1t isnow stated, upon good authority il is
said, that the Illness of v Vice-President Henry
Wilson has assumed, a paralytic form, dis
ablhg. him physically, and rendering neces-
sary. cessation of intellectual labor, at least
for the time being. hgsafz ..i Ed aa
"A dispatch from staniey's Yellowstone ex-
pedftior, dated. "sCamp, seventy miles west Of
Bismarck, Dakota, June 30,, states that the
health of the whole command was good. The
Indians were Offering no serious resistance to
the location OF the railway through their hunt
ing grounds, Abundant coal of good quality
was found twentylseven miles west of the
Missouri River, on the surveyed line of the
road, and the country thus far traVersed by
the expeditionmy force is an excellent one,
well erased and watered.
A Washington dispatch says that the deficit
charged against Jacob Thompson, Secretary of
the Interior under Buchanan s Administration,
is explained by the statement that that amount
of Indian trust bonds was abstracted by one
Goddard Bailey, a clerk in the Department OF
the Interior. The deficit, though charged to
Thompson's account, Is carried from year to
year in the aecountsAof the Secretary of the
interior 'nD ,' " 4
The deaths from cholera reported ON, the
9TH, were; \ In Cincinnati, seven; Memphis,
three; in Nashville there was none. One fatal
case had occurred in Jersey City. A special
from Chattanooga reports fifteen deaths from
the disease in that city during the preceding
! torty-eight hours. y sdl tr a,st- .E. fvr
A report the prospects of the
cotton crop, which comes through the Agfi.
cultural Bureau at Washington, states that
the yield VIII be fully equal to that of last
year, the increased acreage compensating foI
the unfavOrable weather. - i'-fs h-I1fes
An Associated Press. dispatcher the Sth says
the Washington Republican had stated arthori
4 tatiyely that q recent special dispatch to q
Chicago paper that the Administration didnot
desire the success of General Butler in Massa'
chusetts, in the Governorship contest, was un
true in every particular. 49,. p, ,..-...,
General ,Brinkerhof, Chairman Of the Ohio
Liberal Republican State Central Committee
has issued call for Peoples Convention tC
be held'at Columbus on the SOth Of July.
The rayages by the recent storms in Illinois
q Iowa, IndialA, Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri
were immense, and great damage was done tC
the crops. In many sections buildings, orchards
railroad bridges, etc, were destroyed, and rail
road travel was greatly impeded. Many lives
were lost by drowning, lightning and falling