Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
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EBglsnd .s.s The New Yorls ,l.sgislatWeatit
recent tessiop passeda Compulsory Education
bin. Municipal elections We're held N sev. |
eral Indiana towns on the 5th, and the
returns indicate that the anti-temperance
tickets are elected in O majority Of
the towns. where the liquor question
was at Issue. A meeting Of the Advisory !
Committeeof The Illnois State Farmers As /
ISOLATION was held at Bloomington on the 5th,
at which Independent political action was de-
ytermined on, and o report wns adopted arrang,
fing the details fdr the calling and meeting
of state Convention az Springfield
on Wednesday, June TO- The platform
adopted at the Decatur Convention In Decen-
Der last was reafirmed. u. fEHaaNN
THURSDAY, May 7.-Capt Gen. Concha,
of Cuba, has ordered the formation OF
eight battalions of colored militia. An
appeal has been published In Washing
ton urging immediate relief of sufferers by the
; Hoods in the Southern States, and stating that
over $4,000 people have been driven from
thcir homes and are now without food or shell
ter, and that to furnish these with provisions
alone will cost 900 a day. The
Connecticut Legislature was organized on
: the 9th by the election OF T. e. Doolittle as
Speaker OF the House. The Governors mes
sage was read in joint convention. :.
The Indiana farmers are to hold a State
convention at Indianapolis on the 10th Of
June. The Iowa State Republican Conven-
ton has been called TO meet at Des Mones on
Wednesday, July 1. The basis of representa-
tiol will be the vote cast for Hon. James
Beck, Supreme Judge, at the last general cleo
tion, to-wit; onedelegate for every 200 votes
and one for each fraction over O0votes.
FRIDAY, May s.-The Supreme Court
has recently rendered decision confirming
the act of the National Government in confs-
eating the property of Sldell, one of the Con-
fetlerate leaders, under an act of Congress :.
: The Ohio Constitutional Convention has
ad >pted a plan for Legislative apportionment,
including a provision for cumulative voting
in all counties where more than two Repre-
seutatiyes or two Senators are to be elected,
in which cases all the votes of any voter may
be concentrated on single candidate -. The
floods at the South are subsding. A Mem.
pills dispatch says planter just arrived from
Chicot County, Ark, brings distressing ac-
counts Of the suffering among the Iaborers
and their families in that vicinity Many of
them, he says, have subsisted for several days
upon the carcasses of cattle that have died
from starvation or been drowned in the over
flow. From mass of correspondence received
by the Governor of Louisiana and the Relief
Committee of that State the following is
selected as showing substantially the pur-
port of the whole Mr.. Reddock, writing
from Cuba, Ouachita Parish, says: Gan the
country for miles around is submerged.
Twelve farms are almost entirely under water
within three miles of this place, with popu-
lation Of 700 persons, from the breaking of
the Cuba levee. The levee broke April s, and
the current of water was so strong that it
washed away everything on my lot except my
dwelling -house-a stone house. My corn,
horses and oxen are all gone. The
water in my dwelling is four feet deep,
and rushes through in such a current as to
make it trembe like leaf But do not look
to me alone There are 600 or 700 others
similarly situated within three miles. W. j.
Ellis has lost everything. The water on the
floor Of his dwelling is five feet deep, and he
has not one pound of provisions on hand for
himself and fifteen freedmen, and no chance
of getting any in the neighborhood' In
the Michigan Woman's Suffrage Convention
at Lansing, ou the 7th, officers were
elected and a fund was raised for
made for county organizations in all counties
of the State. The Executive Committee was
authorized to employ speakers and provide
for thorough canvass. Great confidence
was expressed in the success of the canvass.
SATURDAY, May "a Madrid telegram
announces that the Carlists under Don Alfonso
have been again badly defeated by the National
troops. The Carlist loss is said to have been
heavy. In Bilboa the houses of several
prominent adherents of Don Carlos have been
burned by the infuriated populace IA ter
rible conhagration occurred in JAN
nary last on the Philippine Islands.
Two children who were left to
themselves set house on fire, and the flames
extended so rapidly that in the course of four
hours nearly 1000 houses were burned. Null
titudes of cattle perished and fifteen persons,
Including six children, were burned to death
Washington dispatches state that Presi-
dent Grant has received cable telegram
from the Hon. e. B. Washburne, declining the
nomination for Secretary of the Treasury -.
Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, has issued
proclamation appointing the 30th inst as the
day for decorating the soldiers graves. He
recommends that the occasion be observed by
a general cessation of business, and that on
the Sabbath following appropriate services be
held in all the churches in memory
of the loved ones and in sympathy
with those who still mourn E. The fol-
lowing is list of officers elected
by the Michigan Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton for the current year: President, Jonas
H. MCGOWAN, Coldwater; First Vice-Presi-
dent the Rev. DIR. Fisk, Grand Rapids; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. John ]. Bagley, Detroit;
Third Vice President, Miss Eliza Leggett,
Wayne County, and seventeen others; Record
ing Secretary, Mrs. N. Geddes, Adrian;
Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer,
George stickney.
MONDAY, May 11-Severe frosts have
seriously injured the vines of France
and the grape crop will be largely
diminished in consequence. -. The Ad
Vsory Board of tho Illinois State Farmers
Association have Issued a formal call
for convention at Springfield on the 10th
OF June, of farmers, mechanics and other
laboring men, to nominate candidates for
State Treasurer and Superintendent of Public
Instruction. -. Extensive fires are raging in
the woods throughout the whole Saginaw
(Michigan) district, and in their ex-
tent and destruction of property threaten
to rival the disastrous fire of 1871
.... Attorney General Williams has pro-
posed plan for the settlement of the Ar
kansas imbroglio which has been agreed to by
the friends and attorneys OF Brooks and
Baxter in Washington. The plan is sub
stantially that Brooks and Baxter shall issue
atoint call for meeting of the Legislature,
submit their claims to that body and abide
by Its decision, the President to name the
dd interim Governor, and both contestants
to disband their troops, except body uard
not exceeSlng one company. Baxter refused
to accede to the proposed plan, on the ground
that Brooks had previously rejected similar
proposition, but Brooks telegraphed his