Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-17

United States Senator from Massachusetts,
Nineteenth Whole number of votes cast,
PCS necessary TO a choice, 1856. Dawes, 81
Hoar, GO Curtis, ~ Adams, 13 Washburn,
4; Whittier, / Sanford, z; Banks, 8 Bull
lock, T. Twentieth-Whole number of votes,
269 necessary to choice, 1856. Dawes, SO
Hoar, 66 Curtis, ~; Adams, 13; Bullock,
10; Sanford, z; Washburn, Banks, s
Whittier, G. f. Hoar, Reuben Noble and Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore received each one vote.
Discussion cnsued. New Orleans dispatches
say that serious crevasses have occurred in
the lower Mississippi and caused extensive
damage. The levee in the vicinity of New
Orleans has broken In not less than score of
places. The plantations in the sunHower,
Tallahatchie and Yazoo bottoms are also
threatened.
MONDAY, April 18.-Advices from
Abanto on the 9th state that Marshal Serrano
had made proposals for settlement through
Gen. Elio, which the Carlists had definitely
rejected. According to Calcutta dispatches
of the 10Th, the distress on account Of the
famine was increasing in Tirhoot, and it was
estimated that A. 573 900 persons in the districts
of Patra, Chazepore and Rajeshhye were starv-
ing "A recent fire at Williamsport, Pa,
destroyed S500,0O0 worth of property, in
cluding a large amount of lumber, a large
planing-mill, saw-mill and fourteen frame
dwelling-houses. One man was burned to
death The twenty y-frst ballot for United
States Senator in the Massachusetts,
Legislature was taken on the 18th,
with the following result: Whole num-
Der of votes cast, 1856; necessary to a
choice, 119. Dawes, IS; Hoar, "a; Curtis,
So; Adams, IA; Sanford, q; Banks, g. Wash
burn, A; A. H. Bullock, 15; Edward Learned,
8; Judge Pitman and Whittier, one each. d.
Judge Blodgett, of the United States Court
of the Northern District of Illinois, has re-
Gently decided thatwhat are technically known
as "puts," where the intention Of the con-
tracing parties is only to "settle the differ
ence " and not to deliver and receive the thing
specified in the contract, are void as "wsger "
or gambling contracts; in other words, that a
"put" is a bet against the price of some COM
modify at future time, like an "option,
and therefore void like all other bets, because
contrary to good morals and public policy.
A circular has been issued by W. II. jackson,
President of the National Agricultural Con.
gress, relative to the third session of that body,
to be held at Atlanta, Ga, commencing May
13, 1874. The circular says: "This is a
purely representative body, since, by the
amended constitution, agricultural or kindred
societies which shall have contributed or may
contribute five dollars to defray incidental ex-
penses of the body are entitled to one delegate
aonh xyit hnttt rafar 10 hn nI1Tn nhpF M
membership" 1t is requested that notifca-
tion be made of the appointment of delegates
to Chas. W. Greene, Secretary, Jacksonville,
H., at as early date as practicable. 80.
The Michigan State Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention will be held in Lansing on May g..
Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati
Commercial, has been arrested and held to
bail for publishing an advertisement of agift
concert in violation of the Ohio law. The
work of taking the regular State decennial
census in Michigan is to be completed this
year, as provided by law, between the first
Monday of April and the third Monday OF
May
TUESDAY, April 14-The upper house
of the Austrian Reichsrath passed the Eccle-
siastical bills, on the 18th, whereupon the
Bishops withdrew in a body. A Vienna dis
patch says the Emperor has sent conciliatory
reply to the Pope's recent protest against the
| bills. The Carlist forces before Corona have
retired, the municipal authorities having paid
them 10000 reals. President Grant is re-
ported as having recently asserted that he was
opposed to imitation in the general acceptation
of the term; that is, to an increase of the cur
rency beyond the actual business necessities
| of the country; but at the same time he had
given no opinion concerning the measure
before Congress, nor had he indicated
what his action would be relative to
any bill that might be passed. . One
of the New York Cremation society's mem.
bers having recently died, the organization
have practically applied their idea of dis
| posing of the dead. The body was put up
right in a fire-proof receptacle, through which
intensely heated air was forced. The father
of the deceased paid the BLISS. 25-and now
has the ashes of his son in an urn on his par
| lor mantel-piece. Iron-workers in Renn
| sylvania to the number of 10000
| are on strike because of the re-
fusal of the masters to accept the
schedule of prices recently adopted by the
| Puddlers' Union. James Shoaff, editor Of
the Paris Qll.) Gazette died on the 10Th from
the effects of morphine administered by him
| self. Hon. Schuyler Colfax has written {
letter peremptorily declining to become a can
didate for Congress from his district next
fall :. The Wisconsin State Institution fol
the Education of the Blind, located at james
vile, has been totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$3.50, 900.