Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-03
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Cn the same day.arun was begun ON the
Peoples Savings Bank, the officers closing
tue doors Of the institution md taking adj
vantage of the sixty-days' notice WHICH
may be required of depositors, There
was also slight run onthe Security Sav-
inge Bank, TnU EbAflG -
Hon. JeHN ToRNsR, a well known Wis
consIn attorney and editor Of the Mauston
Star, attempted suicide by shooting at
the Nilas House, in Madison, on the 26th.
1t was tBe1eht he would die Of the self
inflicted wound.
AT business meeting of Brooklyn
Plymouth Church, held on the evening OF
the 2Gth, an answer to Mrs, Moulton's de-
mand for an Investigation was read, il
which the ground was taken that her ac-
cusations agaipstsAIr. Beecher were not q
good defense for her past conduct, but
that, nevertheless, her proposition for a
call of a mutual council of churches was
accepted. -
A RECENT decision of the Indiana Su-
preme Court, in the case of an attorney
ho-brought suitto recover for services
in procuring divorce, is to the effect that
promise made by married woman to
pay,after she is divorced, for servicesren-
dered her by an attorney during her
coverture is void, and promise made
aFter she isdiyorced to pay the same is
invalid forwant of consideration.
The Governor of Connecticut has ap-
pointed ex.Gov. English to fill the vacan-
CIV in the United States Senate caused by
the death of Hon. o. S. Ferry.
CHEZ CLERK II. r. CLUM and about a
dozen other prominent clerks of the In
terror Department at Washington were re-
moved or transferred on the 9th by Sec
retary Chandler. These removals are said
to have been based upon the recommends
ton Of Commissioner Smith, and make a
clean sweep of all the clerks associated for
any considerable time with the past his
tory of the bureau.
WORTH, the man-milliner of Paris, was
reported, on the 27th, to have lost very
heavily in consequence of the hard times,
and to have become financially embar-
rassed, mainly it is said, through the
failure of prominent Americans.
THE eighteenth anniversary of King
Alphonzo's birthday was celebrated at
Madrid on the 2Sth. twas reported that
the King was about to take the field
against the Carlists.
IT was reported in Berlin on the 29th
that Montenegro and Servia had concluded
to form an offensive and defensive al
lance in favor of Herzegovina and against
Turkey.
DISPATCHES from Washington on the
9th state that it had been ascertained
from official sources in Spain that the ne
gotiations between Spain and the United
States were proceeding favorably. The
rumors that difficulties had arisen were
said to be absolutely incorrect, and the
relations between the two countries might
be regarded as excellent.
THE Moody and Sankey meetings in
Philadelphia were very largely attended
on the 2Sth. At the women S meeting in
the afternoon $50 ladies stood up for pray
er and at the young mems meeting in the
evening 100 young men made similar re-
quests. The interest in the work contin-
uetl unabatcd. a.
ALFRED BEvIs, a distiller and one of
the witnesses in the trial at St. Louis of
VIM. o. Avery, having mentioned, in
giving his evidence, a rumor that Secretary
Bristow was interested in a distiIery or
liquor-house at Louisville, Ky, the Secre-
tary, on the 27th, sent telegram to the
United States District Attorney at st.
Louis emphaticalIy denying the rumor,
and stating that he did not desire the mat
ter to rest upon his denial, but requested
that "every person whose name has been
or can be given You as having knowledg
of such alleged facts shall be brought
before the Grand Jury and subjected to
the most rigid examination" The Sec
retary further says: II beg TO repeat
the request heretofore communicated to
you, that these frauds on the Government
shall be probed to the very bottom; that
every ramiication of the ing shall be
followed in every part from beginning to
end, and that no one having connection
with or guilty knowledge of its opera
tiOns shall be permitted to escape. So far
as this department is concerned, l ask
that every allegation against any officer OF
it, from its head to its humblest employe,
be thoroughly investigated and vigorously
prosecuted, if any grounds exist therefor
l have read this to the President, who re.
peats his injunction: Let no guilty man
escape"
fACCoUNTs were received in London on
the 29th ult. announcing a rising against
the Russians in Khol1and. Vienna dis
pdtchesof the same date say it was feared
that a majority of the smaller Russian
garrisons in Khokand had been massacred
A DISPATCH from Alexandria, Egypt, on
the Goth ult. says the Abysslnians had re,
Gently surprised and killed ,2O0Egyptians
including seventeen officers, ~ G.
1T was reported on the Goth ult that the
Carlists had begun a vigorous lombard,
ment of San Sebastian. t..t. ID.
IN the.Avery trial at St. Louis on the
29th ult. evidence was given tending tc
implicate Gen. Babcock in the. whisky
frauds. Several telegraphic dispatches
sent to him in Washington by members
of the ring were produced in court, and
the original copy of a telegram signed
"Sylph," dated Washington, Nov. 13
1874, and directed to Gen. Mcdonald al
st. Louis, saying; 81 succeeded. They
will not goal will write you" was alsC
produced and compared with letter Of
similar import, and several witnesses
identified the handwriting as that of Gen
Babcock.
THE MARKETS.
NOVEMBER 80 1875.
NEW YORK. -
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