Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-18
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.
Cond,n,,d from T,I,uam, J. L,comDanyipr Dates.

more. Rumors prevail that Don Carlos is
negotiating with ex-Queen Isabella. "A
train ON the Kansas Pacific Railway was
stopped by distractions on the track at Mum
Gle, Mo-, on the 9Th, and five armed men en-
tered the express car, uncoupled 1t from the
train, and compelled the engineer to haul 1t
away from the other cars, when they robbed
the safe Of Wells, Fargo & Co. Of about $780,
OO0 The passenger car was not entered nor
were the passengers disturbed. Some firing
was INDUCED in, but no one was hurt
THURSDAY, Dec, 1O.--Dispatches from
India announce that the observation of the
transit Of Venus in that country had been en-
tirely successful. Over 100 photographs were
taken. Successful observations at Cairo,
Suez and Thebes were also made. At Shang-
hal the weather was cloudy and the sun OBJ.
Bcured.. 1.-THE Grand Jury which
indicted the defendants in the late
safe-conspiracy trial in Washington having
been declared Illegal, the defendants have
been discharged. The latest news relating
to the Vicksburg troubles is to the effect that
the excitement is still subsidlng and
business generally had been resumed.
The Governors proclamation denouncing
the alleged riotous proceedings and
calling on all good citizens to
aid in upholding the laws of the State, issued
on the 7th, was responded to by proclama-
ton by the Mayor of Vicksburg, who claimed
that there had up to that time been no riot
Gus assemblage in that city; that the meeting
of the unarned taxpayers who requested the
resignation Of irresponsible officials who had
failed to execute bonds was quiet and orderly
etc. The Proctor-M Mouton libel suit has
amounting to about 5000. Miss Proctor
solemnly AYERS that there was no truth in the
charges made against her as to her relations
with Mr.. Beecher, and Mr.. Msulton admits
that he spoke merely from hearsay.
FRIDAY, Dec 11.-Cable kilograms say
that observations in regard to the transit of
Venus failed in Ormsk, Orensburg, Kasan,
Uralsk, Astrachan, Kertch and Tihs, but were
successful at Teheran, Hobartstown, Adelaide,
and Melbourne, Australia, and at
points in India, China and Japan.
The American party at Hobartstown
succeeded in taking 1l3 photographs of
Venus during her passage over the disk
of the sum-. Gen. Iona has issued a
proclamation summoning the Carlists to
surrender within eight days, and threat
ening to devastate the country occupied by
them in case offurther resistance. Ezra Cor
nell, the founder of Cornell College, died on the
9th at Ithaca, n. Y. Rev. w. r. Huntington,
ofWorcester, Mass, has been chosen Episcopal
Bishop of the State of Iowa by the conven-
tion recently in session at Davenport
The Iowa State Grange met at Des Moines
on the Sth About 200 delegates were pres
ent. The annual address puts the num-
Der of subordinate Oranges in the State
at 2,000-an increase over last year of 1862.
One hundred and nine smaller Oranges
have been consolidated. On the 10th
the Treasurer reported the receipts last year
at $33, 1882; expenditures for last year,
$31 ,50771; balance on hand, $1,SS3.11. The
State Agent reported the business of his
Office for the year at $4,000. The saving to
the Grange by the State Agency is over S27,-
000 The Committee on the Railroad Tariff
Law reported that it was not the law they
wanted, and had proved impracticable
The actual number of negroes killed in the
Gght at Vicksburg on the 7th is now reported
at 15O.
SATURDAY, Dec. 12-In the trial of Count
Won Arnim at Berlin the fact has been devel-
oped that his secretary was instructed by Bis
marck to act as a spy upon his conduct
A Washington dispatch says the Admin
istration approves of the course of Gov.
Ames, of Mississippi, in endeavoring to sup
press the disorders existing in that State
without calling for the assistance of the Fed
eral Government. -. In the case of Jesse
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, on trial in Bos-
ton, the jury have brought in verdict of
murder in the first degree, with recon-
mendation that he be imprisoned for life.
No frfo ~ II
Beecher has been postponed until the first
Monday in January Miss Julia A. Gar.
retson has been elected State Lecturer of the
Grange in Iowa, in place of Mr. Wilkinson
resigned.
MONDAY, Dec. 14.-The insurrection in
the Argentine Republic is over and the Gov
ernment has issued a proclamation granting
amnesty to all political offenders. The
Southern Claims Commission has favorably
passed upon about 1000 claims and total
amount awarded of about $75O,0O0.
The attorneys for Tilton have appealed
from an order OF Judge McCue granting
bill of particulars in the Tilton- Beecher case
The appeal is to the General Term, and is OF
the ground that the Brooklyn City Court shall
not limit the prosecution Oh the trial 10 proc
of any particular day.. John Neville, aget
eight years. residing with his parents in Wes
Hoboken, N. j., was kidnapped by a man il
buggy on the evening of the 10th
while playing with a companion A
large number OF citizens of Vicksburs
have issued an address, giving statement o
the troubles there, in which they charge
vast amount of official corruption, and defend
the action of the citizens in the recent war
fare, claiming that they were obliged to taxi
up arms in selfdefense. They say that on
people, in the trying circumstances in whlcl
by have been placed might well have dom
e, and could not have done less for tn
cction of themselves, their families ant
s. property. 80. King Kalakaua reached
sN,ipgton on the 18th, and his arrival wa
~ ascasion of considerable informal display
-. The constitution of the Iowa Stat
Grange has been so amended as to reduce fu
ture membership to 100 delegates, and t.
provide for districting the State in proper
tion to the number of subordinate Oranges
TUESDAY, Dec. 15.-The five children
of John Datterich, ranging in age from six t
sixteen years, were drowned on the 18th Will
amusing themselves with q sled on a pom
near their parents residence at Preakness, n
J.... The new Republic newspaper, New Yor
city, has suspended publication -. An effoI
was made in New Orleans on the 14th to in
troduce five or six colored girls as pupil
into the girls upper high school, whic
resulted in the withdrawal of owe
fifty of the graduating class .... TIL
President of the Louisiana Electio
Returning Board announced before that bod
on the 14th that he had been informed thl
armed White Leaguers were stationed in a
adjacent building, ready at any moment I
disturb the proceedings of the Board, and o
his motion the Board adjourned for the da
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
TUESDAY, Dec. 8.-Seaats.-Bills wei
introduced--to reduce the Presidents salary
cox 0OO. to construct a telepraDh line hetWet