Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-16
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed lrcm TscgIams Of Accompanying Dates

was made OF them To depress stocks, and
with good success NJ. J. Townsend has
peon nominated for Congress by the Republi-
.ans Of the Seventeenth New York District
The Conservative State Central Commit
&C OF Louisiana has Issued an address to the
Jcople in which they claim that the White
leagues were organized as an offset 10 Black
seagucs, composed Of colored mon, which at
ne time, they say, were numerous through
ut the State. President Grant arrived at
St. Louis ON the night of the 5th There
will be q total eclipse of the moon on the
night the 24th inst, visible in this country
The eclipse will begin little before midnight
and end about three o'clock on the morning
OF the 25th-the total occurring about one
o'clock.
THURSDAY, Oct. S.-The report that
Don Carlos had been seriously wounded at
Durango is pronounced lsltrue. =. =. Washing
ton dispatches state that applications for
troops are constantly reaching the War De-
partment from Alabama, Tennessee and
Louisiana Gen. Sheridan has been requested
TO spare a regiment from his command, and
the Thirteenth Infantry has been ordered to
report to the Department of the South.
The Secretary of War says il he were re-
quired to comply with all the applica-
tions received II would be necessary to largely
increase the force of the army. On the list
day of October, according to an official bulle-
tin issued by the Secretary of the National
Grange, there were i'm the several States
207SS subordinate Oranges. During the
preceding month 400 new Oranges had been
Instituted. The next session of the Ma
tonal Grange will be held in Charleston
S. c., on the first Wednesday in Feb
ruary, 1870. The Rev. Dr. T. NJ Eddy,
Missionary Secretary of the Methodist Episco.
pal Church, died in New York on the 7th, aged
fifty-onc years The State Republican Con-
vention of Massachusetts, met at Worcester on
the 7th. Gov. Talbot was renominated on the
first ballot, receiving 755 of the 1,O42 votes
cast. IIoratio G.. Knight was the choice
for Lieutenant Governor, Oliver Warner for
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Charles r.
Train for Attorney-General, Charles Endi-
mott for Auditor, and Charles Adams,
Jr., for Treasurer. The resolutions adopted
declare in favor Of sound currency and
such legislation by Congress as shall
place the currency on par with
gold; express gratitude TO the President for
his promptness in suppressing the New Or
leans outbreak declare that the Republican
party has proved itselfun all circumstances
the party of progress and reform, etc ...
c. c. Warren, of Princeton, H., has OBJ
tanned judgment for $1,000 against the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad for ex-
tortionate passenger and freight charges. 80.
Twenty-siX indictments have been found by
the Grand Jury of st. Paul against Charles
McIlrath, late State Auditor of Minnesota,
for alleged malfeasance in office. The
election in Georgia on the 7th for men,
bers of the state Legislature passed of
quietly. But little opposition, except in a few
counties, was made to the Democratic can
didates. The Democratic majority on joint
ballot will be about POS. Congressional
nominations on the 7th: Democratic-First
Michigan District A. S. Williams; Second
Kentucky, John Young Brown, renominated
Fourteenth Illinois, j. Fl. PickreI. Republi-
can-Fifth Wisconsin, John Cochrane. Re
publican and Independent-Tcnth Missouri,
ira B. Hyde
FRIDAY, Oct 9.-Count Won Arnim,
late German Am oassador to Paris, was re-
Gently arrested at the instance of Bismarck,
who charged that he had concealed important
State documents and was about to publish
them. A London dispatch of the Sth says the
affair had taken q very serious turn,
and that the Emperor had ordered that ne
stone be left unturned to recover the miss
ing papers. The Count mad denied that
there was any intention of publishing State
secrets, and intimates that the documents
were removed from the archives of the en-
bassy without his knowledge. a Rome dis
patch of the same date says the missing doc
uments relate to the establishment Of a new
Government in France and to German inter
ference with Spanish affairs Spain
has dsbanded 10000 soldiers, the pc
rod for which they enlisted having ex-
pired. &. The Democrats of the Twenty eighth
New York Congressional District have nomi
mated Edward S, Esty UiberaD for Congress
... The Grand Jury at Salt Lake City, Utah,
have indicted one of their own number,
Thomas E. Ricks, for polygamy. He is
charged with having five wives, three of whom
were married to him since 1862. His own
daughter is one of the principal witnesses
The Attorney General Of Wisconsin has
stipulated with the general solicitor of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
to unitedly ask the United States Supreme
Court to take up the railroad case appealed
from the United States District Court at Mad
ison, and set ii down for trial on the 10th day
of December next. AT his own request the
name of Prof. David Swing has been
dropped from the roll of the Chicago
Presbytery by vote of IS to 1l....The Con
servatives of South Carolina, at their recen
State Convention, resolved to support th'
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor nominated by the Independent
Republican party .... John Means Il
the Republican candidate for Congress
in the Tenth Kentucky District 80.
Gov. Kellogg, in a reply to the recent ad
dress of the Conservative State Committee, as
serts his anxiety to secure a full registra
tion and fair election, and declares his will
ingness to do all in his power to that END
SATURDAY, Oct. 10.-The President ha
appointed Charles G. Hammond, Of Chicago
a member of the Board of indian Commission
ers. .Postmaster-Ge Jewell has eXpresse
a determination to do away with claim agent
in the transaction Of department busincs
with railroad or other corporations or ind
viduals. He prefers dealing with parties
rectly interested go. At Buffalo, recently, I'll
United States detectives arrested Ihomi
Ballard, dliaS John Davis, one of the most e
pert counterfeitcrs and engravers in the cou
try; also Elizabeth Ballard and Ann Adam
accompices. In their possession was four
$4,000 in counterfeit money OF various d
nominations, together with press, die
plates, etc AT the recent election in dc
aware for Inspectors and Assessors 60 co
duet the election in November the Dem
Gratis carried the day by an aggr
gate majority of about SOFA Ne
Orleans special of the 'th says Frau
Morey, Congressman from the Fiji
District, had sent communication TO ;.
Packard, Chairmsn OF the Republican STA
Central Committee, stating that intimidatiC
organized eld thorough, prevailed in
parish of onion TO such an extent that l
more man 800 of the colored voters wo'
Register. He stated further that a simi