Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-05


the evening of the Goth. His speech was at
tentively listened to by large audience.
Announcement is made of another general
reduction in railroad fteights from the East
TO the West The new tariff is as follows:
From New York to Toledo, reduced from 5S
cents to 81 cents; Detroit, from 53 to 2S;
Cleveland from 40 to 20; Columbus, from GO
to 32 Cincinnati, from 70 to37; indianapolis,
from 81 to 3S; Louisville from SO to 40; Nash
yile from S1.1O to %; Memphis, from S1.35
| TO 9S; st. Louis, from 81 TO 55; Fort Wayne,
from 05 to 35; Chicago and Milwaukee, from
| So to 2S; Atchson and 1eavenworth, from
| 80 to 81; Kansas City and ST. Joseph, from
| $1.39 to g7. To Lake Erie ports, which In.
clude Cleveland Toledo and Detroit, steam
rates have been reduced TO twenty-four cents,
and to Lake Michigan ports, which include
| Chicago, Milwaukee and Green Bay,
with steam around the lakes, the tariff for
frst-class goods is twenty-seven cents. A re-
duction had also been made in passenger rates
by several of the outside ticket offices in New
| York City. Fare TO Cleveland was thus re-
duced from $14.25 to $12.50; TO Chicago,
from $22 to $3.50; to Cincinnati, from $50
to SIS.
The National TIE importance Convention met
at Saratoga, N. Y, ON the Goth. Judge II. O.
Pitman, of Massachusetts,, was chosen perma-
nent President.
George Smith, the freight engineer con-
cened in the recent collision on the Marietta
He says that he and the conductor both made
the same mistake in looking at the time-card.
81 Cincinnati Railway, was under arrest in
| Cincinnati on the Goth. He admits that he
and the conductor had some trouble at Love
| land, but denies that he made any threats
The Supreme Court of Georgia has recently
decided that the law forbidding the validity of
| judgments for notes whose consideration was
slaves is unconstitutional and that, unless
bound by the statute of limitation, such judg-
ments can be made operative. The Court was
divided, Judge Mccoy dissenting.
The Treasury Department in Washington
recently received from the Syndicate Ii London
$1,000, 600 in fve-twenty bonds and Cancelled
coupons.
| A townsman and personal friend of the
Vice-President, who was lately in Washington,
says that MIR. Wilson fully expects to be pres
enJ NJ the opening OF the session IN December,
and to attend to his duties as President of the
| Senate.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven-
| ton met at Wilkesbarre on the 9th. Il. Mel
ton Spear was proposed for permanent Presi-
dent of the Convention, but so much opposi-
tion was made to him ON the ground of his
having, as a member of Congress, taking back
| pay, that he withdrew. his name, and DR.. An
| drew Nebinger was chosen chairman. James
r. Ludlow, of Philadelphia, was nominated
for Judge of the Supreme Court, and T. NJ.
Hutchinson, of Allegheny, for State Treasurer.
The Ohio Democratic platform was adopted,
except that in the first resolution the words
insisting ''that our tariff laws should be form
ed with q view to revenue, and not to tax the
community for the benefit of any particular
industry are omitted An additional reso-
luton was adopted declaring that 'wewill no
| longer tamely submit to a repetition of the
election frauds by which the will of the peo-
pie, expressed at the ballot-box, has been sub
verted for some years past, and that the DEM
ocratc State Central Committee be directed to
use all their efforts to prevent repetition of
| these outrages on the franchises of the peo-
ple," etc.
In the National Temperance Convention at
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 9th, resolutions were
adopted the friends of tenn
|
ing in 1868; declaring that total abstinence
from all Intoxicating drinks, brewed or dis
titled, is the true basis of the temperance re-
form that venders of liquor and owners of
premises be held responsible for damage by
inebriates; recommending all temperance
societies TO advocate the repeal of State
license laws, and TO urge the abolition of the
manufacture Of liquors in the Territories and
District of Columbia; declaring that the time
had arrived fully to introduce the temperance
issues into State and National politics, and
recommending all friends of temperance to
make it henceforth the paramount issue TO CO.
operate with existing party organizations
when they indorse prohibition and nominate
candidates pledged to its support, otherwise to
organize separate party action in every State
and Congressional and electoral district of the
United States. A grand National Mass Meet
ing was ordered to be held in Philadelphia, in
connection with the Centennial celebration.
The extensive lager-beer brewery of V
Blatz, at Milwaukee-one of the largest estab
llshments of the kind in the country-was, in
great part, destroyed by fire few nights ago.
Loss, about 100000; insurance, Sl5O,0OO.
At Indianola, Iowa, the other day, Ida Bar
rick, aged sixteen, was using kerosene to start
fire, when the oil in the can exploded, and
she was so badly burned that death ensued in
a short time. A little daughter of Mr.. Bett-
ger, of Dalton, H., also recently tried the same
experiment. with like result
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention
met at Madison on the eth. Hon. j. Nazro
of Milwaukee, was chosen permanent Chair
man. Governor c. G. Washbum was renom
mated by reclamation. The balance of the
ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor
Robert H. Baker, of Racine; for Secretary o.
State, e. w. Young, of Sauk; for State Treas
urer, Colonel o. c. johnson; for Attorney
General, Judge L. s. Frisbie, of Washington
! for State Superintendent of Public Schools
Robert Graham, of Oshkosh; Emigration Com
missioner, George p. Lincoln. The Stat
, Central Committee is as follows: E. w
Keyes, Chairman, Dane County; Frank lie
, land, Walworth; j. T. Moak, Jefferson;
NJ. Bean, Milwaukee; Elihu Colman, Fond d.
Lac Robert McCurdy Oshkosh; H. b. Cole
Jackson; John T. Kingston, Juneau. Tn
platform denounces official frauds and cor
t rupt legislation; condemns the additional sal
ary law recently passed by Congress, and de
mands its unconditional repeal; favors a
amendment to the National Constitution pro
I hibiting Congress from increasing its owl
compensation; advocates the speedy adoption
/ of proper legislative measures to secure re
, lief and protection against the greed and op
preston of grasping monopolies; claims tn
/ right under the Constitution to regulate, an
repeal, if necessary, all railroad charters; dis
approves OF public officers accepting FIRE
, passes over railways; sympathizes with ever
} movement to secure for agriculture and labo
their due influence, interests and rights, an
declares that the Republican party will b
! their ally in every just effort to attain tina
l end.
At the meeting of the Wisconsin Stat
Grange at Watertown on the 27th, an addres
by the Executive Committee to the subordi
, nate Oranges was agreed upon, and resolu
: tions were adontpd-in favor of the imnrOye