Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-11
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
casisnssjfrcm telegram. d Accompanying Dates

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1 WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2-The French Ma
uonal Assembly reassembled on the Beth nit.
NJ. Buffet was reelected President on the LIST
by q vote Of 3is TO three scattering Grigua
Land has been absorbed by the British
authorities, thus completing the terri
torial connection between Cape Colony
and. Natal. The New Hampshire Re-
ptrblican State Convention for the nomination
OF candidates for Governor and Railroad Com
missioner IL TO be held at Concord on the 10Th
OF January The Ohio Legislature met in
adjourned session at Columbus on the 1st.
The annual message Of Governor
Ailcn was read In each house
The total local indebtedness Of the
state Is S2t ,ss6, ,0OZ36; reimbursable debt,
4T,9Ss, ,205.30; total, $29S74, ,2l2.66 The ire
duciBle debt ls A., 122, 1915. The aggregate
debts in Ohio, State local and trustfund, $685.
901,20I52. The taxes levied in 1873, collectable
in 1874, aggregate 26,474, ,459. The taxes levied
in1S74. collectable in 1875, aggregate $27 ,6l4,-
729. The taxable valuation In Ohio, as shown
by the grand duplicate Of 1874, is: Real es-
tate in cities, towns and villages, 1854, ,s49,-
1877; real estate not in cities, towns and viii
lagos, $697, ,40S, ,537; personal property, $685.
12l, ,5SS. Total, s1,5s0,379 S24, which is an
increase over the grand duplicate OF 1873 of
$l3104S65. -. The newly y-elected city officials
Of New Orleans were installed on the Both ult.
49,. .TheAmetican Cheap Transportation Con-
vcntioD met at Richmond, Va, on the 1st.
About sevcnty-fve delegates were present, the
Hon Josiah Quincy, Of Massachusetts,, pre-
siding. report on transportation was read
by F. B. Thurber, of New York, in which he
argued in favor Of ftrans.eontinental railroads
in preference to canals. Committees were
appointed.
THURSDAY, Dec. 3.-The steamer La
Plata, chartered to repair the telegraph cable,
foundered of Ushant on the Goth ult. Sixty
persons were drowned. Fourteen persons
were rescued by a Glasgow steamer after
floating for about two hours. Among
the lost we're the Captain and all the officers,
and Mr.. Ricketts,, the chief electrician
DIR. .Kenealy, the counsel of the Tichborne
claimant, has been dismissed from the British
bar. The British authorities on the Gold
Coast have ordered that slavery be abolished
in Ashantee. The annual report of the Reg
lister of the Treasury says the total tonnage
of the country exhibits an apparent increase
of 104,626 tons, 5635 tons in registered
tonnage and 9S991 tons in the en-
rolled and licensed tonnage go. The
New Hampshire Prohibition State Con-
vention met at Concord on the ID and nomi-
mated Nathaniel White, of Concord, for Gov
ernor; David Heald of Milford, for Railroad
Commissioner, and the following for Con.
gress:-First District the Rev. A. c. Hardy;
Second District, j, NJ. Fletcher; Third
District, Edward Fl. Weston. The Rev. John
S. Glendenning has been acquitted by the
Jersey City Presbytery on all the counts
against him.. The Tweed hdbeas corpus case
has been dismissed by Judge Barrett, and
Tweed remanded to prison. l.. The entire
business portion of the village Of Wilton, N
H., was destroyed by fire on the ID, the
loss aggregating about 100000 The
first annual session of the Alabama State
Grange met at Montgomery on the I'd.
The banking firm Of Henry Clews Il Co.
New York, has been adjudged bankrupt.
The returns from the Michigan State election
show the vote for State Treasurer to be as
follows: William B. McCreery, Republican,
110,4S6; Sterling, Democrat, 9S,O49; Pro.
hibition ard Reform candidates, 4,ll9;
making McCreery's majority over all
S,S1S. The remainder of the Republican
State ticket will show about 7,OOC
majority Nv. F. Storey editor of the
Chicago Times was married on the Cd to Mrs
Eureka c. Pearson. A recent Montgomer,
(Ala.| dispatch reports meeting of coloret
men, representing twenty cotton counties o.
Alabama, to concoct measures for a wholesale
emigration to States where the colored mer
are in the majority. The emigration feeling
is represented as very strong
FR1DAY, Dec. 4.-The message of Pres
ident MacMahon was presented to the French
Assembly on the 3D. The President an
nounces his detention to occupy the pos
which he has been called to fill, to the las
day, with mistaken firmness and scrupulou!
respeetfor law. :. Doekeray, the American
who had been sentenced to death as a spy b,
the7Cuban authorities, has been pardoned
A telegram from Carlist sources saws tn,
Government troops in Valencia have been to
tally defeated by the Carlists with loss o
800 killed and wounded and $50 prisoners.
\ Washington dispatch says it is known il
diplomatic circles that Spain has paid Il
GFeats Britain only part Of her indemnity
no account of the Vrginius affair leav
ing the remainder and other question:
to be hereafter adjusted The Su
prcme Court of the United States ha.
recently decided that the Confederate Gov
ernment of the Southern States had no exist
ence except as a conspiracy to overthrow
lawfnl authority, and that all contracts grow
ingout of purchases from it are void as con
trary to public policy. New Orleans dis
patch says Judge Durell has forwarded hi
resignation to The President.
,'S4TURDAY, Dec. 5.-Madrid dispatche
= mention a mutiny in one of the regiment
ordered north. Thirty arrests have beel
made. The Carist leader Sohano was cap
t3red on the Sd while travelling on a railwa
tam G or dova. On the 4th he was shot
having been adjudged guilty of assassination
and robbery Prince Bismarck has given nc
tice to the German Reichstag that the Vatical
legation Aadbeen abolished and the sum appro
priated for Its maintenance has been stricke,
from the budget. The last official docu
mrnt issued by the late Mr.. Havemeyer
Mayor Of -New York city, was communica
ton 10 this President of the Commissioner
Of Charities and Corrections, protesting
against the alleged -partiality shown toWar
Mr. fHesdtn his prison confinement, an
asking an inquiry into the same. Rev
George D. Gillespie, of Ann Arbor, ha
been chosen Bishop OF the newlycreate
Western Diocese Of Michigan. =. In the cor
tested election ease between Mr.. McDll an
Judge Cate for the scat in Congress from tn
Eighth Wisconsin District, the State Bear
Of CanYassers has decided in favor of judy
Catesdeelpring him elected by two majorit
- I, The triad Of David A. Gage, ex-Treasure
Of uip city of Chicago, for misuse of the cit
fluids, terminated at Waukegan on the Ain 4
ayerdict OF "not guilty"
.MoNpAYs Dec, IA Rome Qtaly) tel.
gam repogts another rise in the Tiber and
threatened overflow of the low country -.
The 'longshoremen's strike in New York
ended, the stevedorcs having come to a
amieahie Understanding with both men an
snip owners -. Further troubles are reporte
in the mining regions of Pennsylvania
rta.fr. ..raH e