Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-11

Interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, a., ,356, ,652
Total debt. bt....................$ $2,27b, ,s3s, ga
Cash in Treasury
Coin. ......s''..-.'''..'''''.S oa.5OI' 'qUS
Currency. -. ..................... 9,GS3,5 ,529
Special deposits held for redemption
Of certificates Of deposit as provid-
ed by law............. 3l,f5O,Vu
Total in Treasury. 1879, ,9S1
Debt, less cash in Treasury. ........ $2,147sis71s
Decrease during the month. ......... 2145,159
Bonds issued TO the Pacific Railroad
Companies interest payable in law
full money, principal outstanding. S64623.512O0
Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 1887 536
Interest paid by United States ..... $lS,sO9,SeO@
Interest repaid by transportation of
MALE, etc......... 9,<So'l9Uo<
Balance Of interest paid by the United
States ............. .......'. 80. Sl4'Sco,l4VOo
A dispatch from New Orleans says that a
duel was fought near Montgomery Station on
the morning of the LIST, between ex-Judge
William II. Cooley and r. B. Rhett, Jr., of
the PicGyune, in which Cooley was killed at
the second shot The difficulty grew out of
an article published in the Picayune, and the
reply from Judge Cooley, published in the
Times. Colonel Rhett was not touched.
A special dispatch from Des Moines on the
higher courts of Iowa will announce an opin-
ion that will overthrow, SO far as Iowa ship
pers are concerned, the present Illinois tariff
law The Judge holds that a contract with
railway company operating line in both
Iowa and Illinois, the contract being made in
Iowa for through shipments to any point in
Illinois, will be good, even at less rates than
allowed by the Illinois law"
There were seven deaths in Cincinnati from
cholera on the LIST.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has announced a ruling that parties
making entries under the first section of the
timber culture act Of March 8, 1873, are en-
titled to only one year to complete the plant
in" General en- hH W. f. ssde r O. 4A 4Ar trfsd asd in New
York City on the Isl. He graduated at West
Point in 1888
In reply to letter of inquiry from Sena-
tor, as to the period at which the undrawn
back pay of Congressman reverts TO the Treas
ury, Comptroller Taylor writes that the unex-
pended appropriations for the pay referred to
cannot be carried into the surplus fund until
June so, 1S75-in other words, any Congress
man can draw his back pay at any time prior
| to the above date.
Professors Wise and Donaldson, the aero
nauts, are building balloon in New York
City, a private corporation bearing the ex-
penses, in which they propose to make voy-
age to Europe, starting about August 20.
The funeral of Jesse X. Grant was held at
the Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Gov
ington, KY, on the 1st. 1t was largely attend
ed. President Grant arrived there early on the
| Of ha ha Oruil la MT nd
Mrs Cramer were the children of the deceased
present at the funeral.
1t is stated that Salvador Cisneras has beer
chosen President of the Cuban Republic
Cespedes having resigned.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners have delivered long written opin
ion upon the new Railroad law and the ques
tions which have been raised by the railroads
First-Through freight is subject to the Law
of the State so far as the restrictions set fortl
in the law operate. Second-Special rates MAJ
be made, based upon the quantity shipped
Third-The rates for freight going over TIVE
connecting roads may be made as if on ON
continuous line, and need not necessarily b.
the sum of the locals. Fourth-Excursion
communication and thousand-mile tickets ma
issue.
The Tennessee Farmers Convention met q
Humboldt on the I'd, to organize a Stat
Grange, and adopted resolutions setting fort
the necessity Of the thorough organization @
the farmers, and expressing hearty co-operG
tion with the farmers in the Northwest in the
fight against unjust railway and other MOI
opolies. The establishment of subordinat
granges throughout the State was recon
mended. DR.. William Maxwell, of Dyer, wa
! elected Master of the State Grange.
! The deaths from cholera reported on th
I'd were-in Cincinnati, ten; Nashville, six In
, new cases); Little Rock, one (the first; an
four laborers who were employed on the raj
road few miles below Cairo.
u The Walworth murder trial was conclude
on the I'd. Judge Davis, in his charge to IL
l. jury, called attention to the new law und'
which the trial had taken place, and whiC
made it necessary that a deliberate purpoi
: and premeditation should exist before averd
of murder in the first degree could be give
= He said II the jury were satisfied from the ey
. !. dence that young Walworth came to Ne
y :, York with intent to murder his father, the
the crime was murder in the first degree; bl
II the crime was committed in sudden ma
!, u ner, in an instant, then it would be murder
= the second degree. The jury should not I
% gard the fears which the prisoner entertain'
70 for the life of his mother, as they could N
be regarded as any justification of his Grim
, that they should only regard those fea
Y which were personal, The law did not ma
u it justification when killing was done throul
fear that the life Of another was in dangt
le They could, however, consider whether L
e fear that his mothers life was in danger
not give point to the fear which he ent,
le tanned for his own life on the meeting on I
rs morning Of the Sd of June. The jury retir
a. at 4;30 p. m, and at S.25 came in
a court and announced theirverdctt to be "guil
ne of murder in the second degree" The Coz
in announced that 1t would suspend sentence U
ns I'll the following Saturday.
d. The vicinity of indianapolis was visit
be by an extraordinary thunder storm on
ry night Of the LIST, which did considerable da
ed age to the crops. -Four houses in the C
re were struck by lightning and in one Of tn
IT'S two girls were seriously, and perhaps fatal
injured.
as A severe storm passed over portion
nm | prahIa Dotnfu Ohio IN tho morning NJ