Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-06-26
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.
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sion at Harrisburg, decided not to NOM
mate q State ticket. There were about
forty delegates in attendapce upon the con-
vention. ..E. G. Ryan, OF Milwaukee, has
been appointed Chlef-Justice OF the supreme
Court Of Wisconsin, to all the vacancy oc.
casioned by the resignation OF Judge Dixon.
THURSDAY, June 1S.-In their report
the District of Columbia Investigating Com
mittee sustain the charges made against the
District government, and conclude by saying
that the committee have unanimously arrived
at the conclusion that the existing form of
government of the District is failure; that Il
Is too cumbrous and too expensive; that IL is
wanting in sufficient safeguards against mai.
administration and the creation of indebted.
ness; that the system of taxation IL allows
opens door to great inequality and injustice,
and is wholly insufficient TO secure
prompt collection of taxes, and that no rem.
edy short of its abolition and the substitu.
tion of simpler, more restricted and eco
nomical government will suffice The com.
mittee thereupon reported bill for a tenn
porary government until Congress shall have
time to adopt and mature Il permanent form
....Among the bills passed by the United
States House of Representatives on the 10th
was one providing for the disqualification
hereafter of polygamists as Delegates in Con-
gress from the Territories.
FRIDAY, June 10.-The French Govern.
ment has seized all copies of the New York Her.
aid reaching that country which contained the
address of Rochefort, delivered recently in
New York city, and which was
printed in the French language. The
Maine Republican State Convention has
unanimously renominated Nelson Ding.
ley, Jr., for Governor. Resolutions were
adopted in favor Of the early resumption of
specie payments; approving the Presidents
veto of the Currency bill; reiterating the
former declaration of principles of the party,
and recognizing the necessity Of judicious
liquor laws. The Woman's Temperance
League of Ohio, in session at Spring
field on the nth, adopted resolutions
in favor of the organization of Temper
ance Leagues IN every district of the
State for the purpose Of procuring the de-
feat by the ballot of the license clause of
the new Constitution, and declaring that
1--WE will do all we can to defeat the IL
cense clause in the proposed Constitution OF
Ohio, now submitted to the voters of the
State" The Wisconsin Episcopal Council
has unanimously chosen the Rev. Edward r.
Wclles, of Red Wing, Mimi, to succeed the
late Bishop Armitage. The Missouri Demo
cratic State Convention is to be held at Jeffer- |
son City on the 26th of August The Kan
sas Republican State Convention is also TO |
be held on the same day, at Topeka.
The United States Circuit Court at Spring.
field, ILL.,, has decided against the application
for the transfer of the State suits against the |
Chicago & Alton Railroad, for violation of
the new Railway law, from the State courts |
to that court, and quashed the writ of certio- |
rdri. These cases will, therefore, now be |
tried in the State courts in which they were |
originally instituted.
SATURDAY, June 20.-James G.. Blaine |
Speaker of the House of Representatives, has |
been renominated for Congress by the Repub- |
licans of the Third District of Maine The |
vote in the Rhode Island Legislature on the |
10Th for United States Senator stood as follows:
Burnside, 43; Dixon, %; Barstow, II; |
scattering, 81. Ernest Ortwein has
been convicted at Pittsburgh, Pa, of |
murder in the first degree, for the |
wholesale slaughter of the Humnett fami-
ly last spring. The Missouri State Temper
ance Convention at st. Louis, on the 18th,
adopted resolutions declaring it the impera-
tive duty of every citizen to use his political |
influence so as to promote the best interests
of the community in which he lives;
in the present crisis he should exert |
his influence in behalf of temperance,
and vote only for men of pure habits, correct
principles and opposed to the liquor traffic.
THE National Crop Reporter Of the Goth
says: The returns of correspondents indicate
for the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wis
consin a decrease in the probable Weld
of hay this year, as compared with last,
averaging 4-10 per cent, equal to
10000 tons. Reports relative to the condi-
tiOn of swine in the same States indicate for
June an increase since April 16 OF IL per
cent. The average condition June was 1l11
per cent. below good average condition. The
condition of the growing barley and rye June
in the same States were respectively 6.6 and
5.4 per cent below good average"
MONDAY, June 22-The thirty-seventh
anniversary Dune 20) Of Queen Victoria's
accession to the British throne was observed
throughout the Kingdom by the ringing Of
bells, firing Of salutes and other demonstra-
tions. The strike in Yorkshire, England, in
which 10000 miners were engaged, has been
ended by the acceptance of the ultimatum
proposed by the masters, which was a
reduction of 12H per cent. in the rate
of wages. In the Sea of Marmora
a Turkish vessel was recently run
into by an Egyptian vessel, and of the
$40 persons on board 320 were drowned. -.
The crisis in the French Assembly has been
ended by the Ministry agreeing to extend for
two years the operation Of the present
Municipal law, amended so as to pro.
vide that the nomination of Mayors should
he made by the Government. "A few
weeks ago a German family named
Eilers, in Toledo, Ohio, ate of partially cooked
sausage and since then the mother and one
child have died and another child was i'm a
prccarious condition. \ microscopic exami-
patton of portions of flesh taken from the
lungs, limbs and other parts of Mrs Eilers'
body revealed the fact that the whole system
swarmed with trichina. In Jumps of flesh no
larger than pin-head were found from fifteen
10 twenty Of the encysted parasites. 1t is
that Mr. Eilers' life was saved
bv the violent purging and vomiting which
he underwent the next day after eating
Of the sausage. Early on the morning
of the 2lst the last forms of the
New Orleans Bulletin were being conveyed
to the press-room, they were seized by the
Metropolitan police and locked up in DO.
lice station. The paper subsequently APP
pcared with six printed and two blank pages.
Much excitement was created by this proceed.
ing on thd4part Of the authorities. The editor
OF the Bulletin says the seizure was made
without warrant or legal process, and for hay
ing opposed the alleged robberies and in
famies of the Kelogg-Durel administration
TUESDAY, June 23.-The committee of
the Agricultural Union of bennington, En-
gland have voted an appropriation Of 5000
to take party Of the lockedout farm hands
OF that district to Canada and the United
States The Porte Of Turkey has prohibited