Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-01-01
EP1ToME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed ircu leI,uams Il Accompanying Dates

uPoh INC OrlB dusJaY. .Otnctal announce
ment has been made Of the acceptance by the
British Government Of the invitation Of the
United States to participa in the centen.
nial....The writ Of hdbeds corpus In the case
OF WIN. NJ Tweed was dismissed on the god
by Judge Barrett, and the prisoner was re-
manded to custody A writ Of certiorari was
subsequently granted by Justice lawrence
...Forty.nine Conservative members OF the
Mississippi Legislature have issued an ad-
dress protesting against the call OF the Gov
ernor and Legislature for troops to be sent TO
Warren County The minority report Of
the legislative committee on Gov. Ames'
message denies the allegations made In the
message. The Governor OF Iowa has
offered reward Of $500 for the cap
ture and conviction Of each OF the ring
leaders in the recent lynchlng at Des
Molnes Of Howard, and $500 each for
the other parties concerned. ....A New
Orleans dispatch says, by action Of
the Returning Board In throwing out
votes, the Conservative majority in the
House has been reduced to two, with eleven
parishes yet to canvass which elected
eighteen Conservatives and one Republican
The Committee Of Seventy have issued
an appeal calling the attention Of the people
Of the United States to alleged additional
wrongs and indignities inflicted upon the peo-
pie of the State. They believe the Returning
Board will not fairly promulgate the result Of
the election, and claim they have already
evinced determination to defraud the people
and defeat their will rs expressed at the bal
lot-box.
THURSDAY, Dec. PA St. Petersburg
dispatch says the difficulties with the Turco-
man tribes In Khiva have been settled and
the Russian expedition has returned without
a fight. King Kalakaua left Washington
on the 23d for New York. In a letter
recently published in the New York
Tribune Robert Dale Owen says the
Holmeses were still in Philadelphia, "pro-
testing their innocence and holding their
usual sttings still attended by earnest and
undoubting believers. They have not had
their say, and the greatest criminal is en-
titled to n hearing. If, when the smoke
clears away, they are found guilty,
there is no crime in the decalogue more
heinous in the eyes Of justice or of re-
1igion than the otfense against all that is
holy and most sacred which they have per-
petrated". The father of Charlie Ross has
offered reward Of 5000 for the return Of
the child, promising TO ask no questions
and make no effort for the detention of the
person bringing the boy....A New
Orleans dispatch says the returns
as promulgated by the Returning Board
give the Republicans A and the Con-
servatives 46 members in the House. The
Conservative committee withdrew from the
Board because of its alleged arbitrary ruling,
and entered a protest against the action
of the Board in rejecting the returns of
certain precincts and thus securing the re-
turn of Republican in place of Democratic
candidates. The returns by the Board an
nounce the election of four Conservative and
two Republican Congressman. The Conserva-
tive subcommittee certify 10 the election OF
four Conservative and two Republican Con-
gressmeu; the election of Moncure, State
Treasurer, by 4,S51 majority, and the election
of seventy-one Conservatives and thirty-seven
Republicans to the Legislature.
SATURDAY, Dec. 26.-Thirty persons
were either killed or wounded by an acci-
dent to an express train on the Great West
ern Railway, near Woodstock, England, on
the oath. The train was thrown down an
embankment. An explosion took place in
Bignall Hill colliery, England, on the 24th
and twenty miners were killed. Sec
retary Delano has written a letter to the
Secretary of War, in which he says: The
Black Hills country is secured by treaty to
the Sioux Indians, and l respectfully re-
quest that the most effective measures with
In the power Of the War Department
may be adopted toward all persons making
encroachments upon said territory, and that
all intruders be pursued, overtaken and ex-
PEELED from it" The meeting OF the Rail
road Commissioners for the Northwestern
States, which was to have been held at
Springfield, Ill, on the Goth of December, has
been postponed until the 26th Of January,
1875. Gov. Kellogg states that the canvass of
the Returning Board shows three Republican
and three Democratic members of Congress
from Louisiana. The House of Representa-
tiyes is nearly, If not quite, tie, as Gov.
Hahn and other Conservative Republicans
will probably remain neutral. The constitu.
tional amendments are declared carried by
about 10000.
MONDAY, Dec. est is stated that the
Carlists have offered to restore the German
brig Gustav upon payment of the customs
duties alleged to be due Food is reported to
be very scarce at Pampalona, and all known
Carlists have been expelled from the city.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, nephew OF the
Emperor of Russia, the one who was asso-
ciated with the diamond scandal some months
ago, has been declared insane, and placed
under guardianship. "A recent cable dis.
patch reports the burning of the emigrant
ship Cospatrick on the nth, In latitude 81
la u Il l.. s.sF
lives were lost. "A Washington dispatch says
Gen. Sheridan has been ordered to New
Orleans to relieve Gen. Emory In an
affray in the streets of New Orleans on the
26th, between ex-Gov Warmoth and Daniel
G. Byerly, manager of the Bulletin, the
former stabbed the latter with a pocket
knife and inflicted wounds which proved fatal
in short time. The difficulty grew out OF a
newspaper discussion on political affairs and
concerning the rights of the colored people.
Personal charges of an offensive character
were made and Jewett, editor OF the
Bulletin, challenged Warmoth to duel,
:, and the latter promptly accepted. The
7 next day (26th) the street fracas oc.
CURED, Byerly, who had been character
lied as a liar, etc, by Warmoth, making the
attack, Warmoth apparently acting in self
defense. e. A verdict for $500 has been award.
ed TO o. B. Stout, of indianapolis, against his
mother-in-law for alternating the affections
Of his wife, who procured di-
vorce from him some time ago.
The report OF the Election Returning Board
OF Louisiana shows the following result for
State Treasurer: Dubuclet, 69,544; Moncure,
6S,5S6; majority for Dubuclet (Republican),
95S. The five constitutional amendments
recommended by Kellogg and adopted by his
Legislature are all carried, according to the
count OF both parties.