Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-13

s97, 600 bushels, showing an Increase OF ~
275, 900 bushels compared with the crop OF
1871 The largest production in any single
State was in California-25, 600, 900 bushels.
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, re-
spectively, ranked next to California, rang
ing from %, 600 to 24,7OO,O0O bushels.
The total production in the Northwestern
States named, in 1872, was 90, 29S, 900 bushels,
an increase Of 20, $50 900 bushels over the crop
of 1871 in the same States. Secretary Langston,
Of the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee,
is authority for the statement that 43,3oo,Ooo
bushels Of wheat, including -four, had been
received at Milwaukee and Chicago and other
points, up to May 81 last, from the crop OF
1872, in the four great wheat-producing States
Of the Northwest-Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota-which, together with the
estimated amounts for food and seed in these
States, leaves an available surplus still to
come forward between the 1st Of June and the
incoming Of the next harvest Of 16, 722, 900
bushels in wheat and -four.
A Washington dispatch says the Advisory
Board Of the Civil-Service met the President
and Cabinet on the 4th, by invitation, and sub
mitted their report, maturely considered, pro-
posing modification of some of the present
rules, and adding several new ones. These
improvements, it is said, are designed to make
the Civil-Service more efficient, being based on
a strict adherence to its principles, and will aid
in remedying such defects as experience has
shown to exist. One of the notifications will
serve to facilitate the filing of vacancies by
| 4, g.
Losses by the late Boston fire are divided as
follows Foreign companies, 1000; New
York companies, s291,O0O; Pennsylvania,
$3.50, 900; Hartford, Conn, $1,000; Provi-
dence, $4,000; Bangor, $4,000; miscella-
neous, $SS,000.
The New York Legislature, at its recent ses-
sion, passed, and the Governor has approved, a
bill making liquor-sellers liable to damages
for the benefit Of the families Of drunkards.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conyen-
ton is to be held at Wilkes Barre on the 27th
of August next.
The Massachusetts, Medical Society has voted
to expel the members convicted Of having
practiced homeopathy. There was only one
| dissenting vote.
The st. Louis tobacco fair opened on the Sd,
with entries from all parts of Missouri, Kan
sas, Illinois, Indiana Kentucky, and nearly all
of the Southern States. Premiums to the
amount of over $4,000 were awarded
The man who was arrested at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, some days since, as being "old man
Bender" turns out to be another individual
named Henry Cephas. He has been liberated
A Leavenworth dispatch of the 4th says inn
migration into Kansas during the month OF
May was unprecedently large. Reports from
! all parts of the State represent the growing
crops to be in excellent condition. An abund
ant yield of all kinds of grain is anticipated.
A dispatch of the ID says Captain Jack and
Schonchin, the murderers of General Candy
and Commissioner Thomas, had been put il
irons together, and were being held to wait the
course of the Government. The cord to Gen
| eral Canby's hat was found in Jacks satchel
A Washington dispatch Of the 4th says it was
thought by the highest military authorities
that the Modocs could not surrender as prison
ers of war in the sense known to nations,
where war is declared in accordance with con
stituted FORMS Not having been so received
| they are not entitled to consideration al
Prisonors Of war The orders issued to tn,
Commanding General directly after the assas
sination of General Candy and the Rev. DR.
Thomas, were not to exterminate the Modocs
but it was said their conduct had been sucf
that their determination would be justifable
! thus leaving the matter to the discretion Of
General Davis. Therefore, if he had ordered
the killing of the Indians he would not have
been censured by superior authority. As tC
their final disposition, no one questions tha
they will ultimately be delivered to the Gov
ernment of Oregon for trial
A dispatch from Memphis on the 4th an
nounces that several cases of cholera haC
broken out in that city, some Of which hat
proved fatal. II had also made its appear
ance in other towns on the river below Mem
phis.
Recent dispatches from Galveston, Texas
SAY that late heavy rains had completely food
ed the country, entailing great damage on the
| growing corn and cotton crops. Many parts Of
the State had been visited by the severest hail
storms ever known, entirely destroying The
growing crops.
1t is stated in a private dispatch from
Montgomery, Ala. on the 4th, that Governor
Lewis, Republican, had appointed Robert c
Brickell, Democrat, Chief-Justice Of tn,
Supreme Court of the State, vice Beck, re
signed.
| A dispatch has recently been received il
Washington from New Orleans to the effec
that the State of Louisiana had resumed tn,
payment Of the coupon bonds, and that tn,
taxes were being rapidly paid everywhere, ant
| there were general indications of order an(
prosperity.
| The Attomey-General of Arkansas conclud
ed the argument in the quo tCarraRtO cast
against the Governor before the Supreme
| Court on the 4th Four of the five Judges de
cided that the Court had no jurisdiction, th'
Chief-Justice, Mcclure, dissenting. This re
suit was regarded as the end of the troubles il
Arkansas, and it was thought Governor Bsxte
will hereafter be regarded as Governor with
out show of opposition.
Information was received in Washington ol
the 5th that Santa Rosa, an American eitzeI
who had been imprisoned in Cuba, had beer
released
The Polaris survivors arrived in Washington
on the 5th, and were interviewed by tn,
Secretary Of the Navy.
The President, Secretary OF the Interior anC
General Sherman, in a consultation on the 9th
came to the conclusion that the question as Il
what should be done with the Modoc prisoners
whether they should be tried by military com
mission or remitted to the civil courts
would be submitted to the Attorney Genera
by the military authorities for his opinion
which will govern the law in the case.
Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, wal
inaugurated at Concord on the 5th. He recon-
mends the Local Option law as the bes
method of restraining intemperance.
1t was reported in New York on the 5th tina
Stokes had been denied new trial by the Cour
of Appeals.
In the recent election for Judges Of the
Supreme Court Of Illinois the candidates sup
ported by the Farmers Conventions were gen
orally successful. In the Fifth District, where
the most bitter feeling seemed to exist, judge
Alfred NJ. Craig, of Knox County was elected