Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Tslsnaas q Accompanying Dates

~N'AN N'oiie ioohNh vi l0t lOtn
recltlng the recent revolutionary proceedings
In Louisiana and stating that Gov. Kellogg,
the Legislature net being In session, had
made application for Federal aid to protect
the State and citizens thereof against
domestic violeDce, and concluding as follows.
"Now, therefore, T. U.S, Grant President of
the United States, do hereby make proclama.
tlon and command said turbulent and dis
orderly persons to disperse and retire
pcacoably to their respective abodes within
I'VE days from this date, and hereafter to
hibniit shemselves to the laws and consti-
tntea eaauthorities Of said state, Invoke the aid
ahq coiopetatioh q all good cltizens thereof to
uphold the law and preserve the public peace"
i,..Ihe Supreme Court of Wisconsin on the
10th rendered decision in the injunction
suits brought by the Attorney General against
the cflicago Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul aud the
Chicago " Northwestern Railroads. The
court maintains its original jurisdiction in
cases brought by the State, but holds that it
would not extend to private suits; affirms the
eonstlttlonality of the Potter law; rejects the
theory That this law was repealed by the act
OF March 12 prescribing that the railroads
snail make reasonable rates; and, final.
ly, grants the Injunction asked for
the State compelling these two rail
roads to comply with the provisions
OF the Potter law. The roads are
given till Oct to make arrangements to this
end. 1t is said Mr.. Keep, President of the
northwestern, has stated that compliance
with the law will necessitate a reduction of
expenses on all sides, that fewer trains and
second-class coaches will be run, that work
will be suspended in the shops, and that the
number of employees will he reduced.
Mr.. Mitchell, President of the Milwau-
kee d st. Paul, says that trains will be
run on his road as usual, and only cut off as
1t becomes obvious that they are Improbable
THURSDAY, Sept. 17.-Judge B. r.
Curtis, of Boston, died at Newport, r. l., on the
18TH. Edna Dean Proctor, the authoress, has
commenced suit for libel against Francis D.
Moulton, for the reference made to her in his
recent reply to the statement of Mr. Beecher
She claims 100000 damages. Rev George
F. Seymour, Professor of Ecclesiastical His
tory in the General Seminary of New York,
has been elected Bishop Of the Illinois Diocese,
to succeed the late Bishop Whitehouse.
Congressional nominations on the 18th: Re-
publican-R. H. Whiting, Ninth Illinois Dis
trict; Z. H. Roberts, Twenty-second New
York, renominated; Henry S. Magoon, Third
Wisconsin. Democratic-W. r. Morrison.
Seventeenth Illinois, renominated; ;J. j. Robin
son, Second Michigan; Allen Potter, Fourth
Michigan. Reform-DavidC G. Fulton, Seventh
Wisconsin.
FRIDAY, Sept. 1S.-A French court has
sentenced Col. Yillette to six months i'm
prisonment for assisting Marshal Bazaine to
escape from St. Marguerite. Others were
sentenced from one to ten months e. The |
New York Democratic State Convention on
the nth, mt Syracuse, nominated S. j. |
Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for |
Acknowledgement Adm Thayer for Canal !
Commissioner; Geo. w. Wagner for Inspector |
of State Prisons; Theodore Miller for Judge |
of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions de- |
mand: Gold and silver and no currency in |
convertible with coin; steady steps toward |
pecle payment; honest payment of the pub
lie debt in coin; revenue reform; federal tax
alton for revenue only; no Government part
nership with protected monopoles; home rule
and no Capitalization; equal and exact justice |
to all men; no gag laws; uniform excise, but |
no sumptuary laws; no third term, etc -.
Forty indictments have been found against |
parties supposed to have been concerned in |
County, Tenn I'm NJ. Ham, member
of the Democratic National Committee
for Iowa, has issued an address call |
ing upon the Democracy of the State |
to support the Monopoly State,
Congressional and local tickets at the ensuing |
election, there having been no State Demo |
cratic Convention held during the present !
year. The Tennessee Republican State
Convention has nominated Horace Maynard !
for Governor by acclamaton. Resolutions |
were adopted-favoring the Civil-Rights bill; |
recommending State Constitutional Con- |
yention; favoring public schools and the i'm
sprovement of Southern rivers, etc. ID. Con- |
gressionas nominations on the 18th: Re- |
publican-John K Green, First Ohio Dis |
trict; Job E. Stevenson, Second Ohio; w. II. |
Rogers, First Arkansas; John NJ Clayton, |
Second Arkansas; w. j. Hynes, Third Arkan- |
sas; Chas. H. Lander, Fourth Arkansas. In |
dependent-J. F. Farnsworth, Fourth Illinois;
- Bagby, Tenth Illinois. Democratic
Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois (the |
Independent nominee); NJ. D. Wilbur, Fifth |
Michigan; w. j. O'Brien, Third Maryland, re-
nominated; Thomas Swami, Fourth Mary |
land, renominated C. H. Morgan, Sixth Mis- |
souri,; A. II. Buckner, Thirteenth Missouri |
renominated; - Bagby, Tenth Illinois (the |
Independent nominee).
SATURDAY, Sept. 10.-Washington As. |
socated Press dispatches say that Atty. Gen |
Williams has received a large number of let |
ters from United States Marshals, Attorneys |
and others, representing a terrible state of
affairs in some portions of Alabama, Tennes- |
see, Arkansas, Mississippi and louisiana |
There is not so much disturbance as hereto |
fore in South Carolina. There are no
complaints from Texas, North Carolina
and Virginia :. President Grant is repre- |
sented as saying that he believes all serious
trouble in Louisiana is now over and express
ing the hope that the business aspect will
soon be fully resumed in New Orleans and
elsewhere in the State. On the evening of
the nth the stages running between Nal.
yern and Hot Springs, Ark, were over
hauled by four men supposed to be
the same who robbed the Hot Springs
stage last spring and the railway train
at Gad's Hill some months before. The
robbers secured about $4,000 in money and
several watches. Gov. Brown, of Tennessee,
has sent message to President Grant protest
ing against the arrest by the United States Mar
shal OF citizens of Tennessee upon the charge
of numbering the Trenton prisoners. He in
sists that the duty Of Furnishing offenders be-
longs to the State, and that the State authori-
ties are entirely willing and have manifested
the most earnest desire to punish the Trenton
offenders. He demands that no more arrests
shall be made, and that the parties already
in custody shall be turned over to the proper
local tribunals for trial and punishment. "A
Bismark Cd. IT, dispatch of the 18th declares
that the statement of Prof Wnchell, that there
is no gold in the Black Hills, is unqualihedly
false. Three persons who accompanied the
Custer expedition declare they found digglngs
that would pay no less than ten dollars per
day per man.
MONDAY, Sept. 2l.-The September re-
turns to the Department of Agriculture indi-