Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-08
EPIToME OF THE WEEK.



sons. "A Temperance crusade has been begun
at Manchester, England. IA call has been
issued for an Anti Monopoly State Conven-
ton TO be held at Des Moines, Iowa, on the
oath OF June. The call states that all per-
sons whose political views are In accordance
with the principles announced at the
convention held in Des Moines on the 25th
day OF February last are cordially invited to
join in sending delegates to the convention.
The ratio for representation will be one
delegate TO each county, and in addition
thereto one delegate for every 250 votes
and fraction thereof over 100 votes cast for
Hon. j. G. Vale for Governor. :. Charles
Wagner, the proprietor of q saloon in
Columbus, Ohio, advertised a grand open
ing on the 9th, proposing to sell several
liquors bearing the name of Crusade water"
and giving especial prominence TO the names
Of many ladies connected with the temper
ance crusade. Upon seeing this advertisement
seventy ladies marched to his saloon and said
they would like little "Crusade water. "
Wagner ordered them from his premises, and
when they refused to go put them out. Dur
ing the melse one of the ladies was quite seri-
ously injured, and Wagner and his wife have
been arrested and held to bail. d. Gov. Bax-
ter on the 9th received information from the
President that his requisition for aid to assist
in the suppression of the alleged insurrection
In Arkansas, made on the 10Th, had never
reached him. He therefore forwarded a
similar request both by telegraph and
by letter A company OF Baxter men
took possession of the Fort Smith train on
the 2Sth, near Lewisburg, to prevent reinforce
ments for Brooks reaching Little Rock. A
W. Al
stating that the question as TO who is the act
ual Governor of Arkansas would be decided
by the President In few days, unless some
other mode of settlement should intervene
THURSDAY, April 30-A Bayonne
(France) dispatch states that the Republican
Gen. Concha is moving with 10000 men on
Valmosa, with the view of attacking the Car
lists at Bilboa in the rear. Serrano will attack
simultaneously in the front. The Carlists are
reported strongly intrenched. The Cap
tain nGeneral of Cuba has issued a decree
calling for a tax of 10 per cent. on all
incomes exceeding 81 900 annually. The pro-
ceeds of the tax are to be used for the pay
ment of the pubic debt and the redemption
of the paper currency. -. o. H. Kelley, Secre-
tary of the National Grange, has sent tel
egram from Washington to II. N. s.
Lewis, Master Of the Louisiana State
Grange, to the effect that he has sent
by express, by order of the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Grange,
$1,000 for the benefit of the suffering men,
bers of the order in Louisiana . Senator
schurz delivered a eulogy on the late Senator
Sumner in Boston on the 29th ult., in the
presence Of large audience. Mrs Nancy
(1nnn ryh trfa tty;o
convicted of completely in the murder of
Mr.. apd Mrs. Jacob Young at indianapolis,
severh years ago, has at last been re-
leased, on motion made by the prosecuting
attorney to enter nolle prosegui, on the al
legged grounds of the death of an important
witness, the absence of others in California,
and the want Of funds to continue the prose-
cution. &. The Ohio Constitutional Convention
has agreed to submit article relating to
"Lcense" or No license to sell Intoxicating
liquors to a separate vote of the people.
FRIDAY, May Fighting was resumed
around Bboa on the Goth and 30th ult., and
some of the advanced positions of the Carlists
were captured by the Republicans with slight
loss. .SenatOr-elect Washburn, of Massa-
chusetts, resigned the Governorship of that
State on the Both ult., and left for Washington
The house of John Hamnet, near Home
stead, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 30th ult., and the entire family
six persons in all-were burned. 1t was
thought that they were first murdered and
that the house was then set on fire by Ernest
Love, the hired man, who is missing. :. "A
Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch announces that
"Gov. Taylor has appointed as Railroad Com
mssioners, under the law of last winter, J.
II. Osborn, a Granger, for three years George
H. Paul, of the Milwaukee Mems, for
two years, and Dr. J. w. Hoyt, of
Madison, scientist, for one year" . "A
letter written by Albert Keep, President
of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and
an abstract of similar letter written by Alex
ander Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee 81
st. Paul Railway, to Gov. Taylor, have been
published, giving the alleged reasons why
their respective roads cannot conform to
the new tariff of rates fixed by the recent
session of the Wisconsin Legislature
These gentlemen claim that If the
rates fixed by law are enforced the
roads cannot pay expenses, while the receipts
would fall far below the amount required for
the payment of running expenses, the interest
on the bonded Indebtedness of the roads, and
dividends to stockholders. Such being
the case, they will decline to adopt
the tariff fixed, and will contest the
constitutionality of the law in the courts
NJ. D. Whethore, Secretary of the State
Grange of Louisiana, has sent the following
telegram to the Prairie Farmer, of Chicago,
under date of April 80: "a large portion of
our agriculturists, including many Patrons,
in the overtlowed districts are homeless and
penniless. Immediate aid is needed. Please
make our necessities known to the farmers
of the Northwest. Contributions should be
forwarded to New Orleans to H. L. Lewis,
Master, or to myself" IA Little Rock
(Ark) dispatch says that Gen. White, who had
charge of the Baxter forces at Pine Bluff,
hearing that party of Brooks men were as
sembled at New Gascony, in Jefferson County,
moved a column of 200 men down to that
point for the purpose of dispensing them. A
dispatch to Gen. Newton, from Pine Bluff,
says that White sent forward a flag
OF truce to order the men to dis
perse, but they were fired upon
and regular battle ensued, in which nine of
the Brooks party were killed and twenty
wounded. The remainder were taken PRISON
ers, disarmed, and sent home. Gen. White
reports seven men of his own command
wounded and three horses killed. Gen.
Churchill, of Baxter's forces, with squad of
ten men were captured by a company of
fifty Brooksites, but were subsequently re-
leased.
SATURDAY, May IA Madrid telegram
says the Carlists have abandoned their posi-
tions at Abanto and San Jullana, and these
points have been occupied by tAe Republican
forces. Information has been received of the
defeat, in the Province Of Tarragona, of 1000
Carlists Later dispatches from Santander an.
nounce that on the afternoon of the LIST the Car
lists were retreating in confusion, and 1t was
reported that the Government forces had
already entered Bilboa Information has