Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-29


Gently imported American calicoes at a
profit.
THE Freeport Qll) watch-factory was
recently destroyed by an incendiary fire.
Loss $3.50, 700.
THE election registration in New York
city this year aggregated 144,034, against
146,21s last year.
GEN Sol MEREDITH, of Indiana, died
recently at his home in Cambridge City
of cancer in his stomach.
DIR. LINDERMAN, Director of the Mint,
estimates the gold and silver production
of the country next year at 100000 900.
The New York Hippodrome has been
engaged for the use of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey during the month of January
next.
HENRY Brown (coloredl was hanged at
st, Louis on the 22d for the brutal muir
der in May last of a farmer named Philip
Pfarr.
THE District Attorney of Brooklyn has
entered a nOHe proseqlt in all the libel
suits growing out Of the Beecher- Tilton
scandal.
MR.. AND Mrs. MURRAY, recently mar
ried, were burned to death during a fire
in the house ofSusan Bradley, at Cheshire,
Conn, few nights ago.
THE property bequeathed by the will of
the late Isaac NJ. Singer, the sewing
machine man, amounts in value to $14,-
100000.
URI CARRUTH who was shot by Mr..
Lands, of Vineland, N. j., in March
last, died on the oath, and Mr. Landis has
been surrendered by his bondsmen and
taken to Bridgeton Jail.
A RECENT Washington dispatch says
the receipts from internal revenue for the
three months ending Sept 30 show an in
crease Of 1,7S0,356 over those of the cor
responding quarter last year.
AT New Orleans, few evenings ago,
Mrs. d. L. Murden was burned to death
by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp, and
her husband was severely burned in at
tempting to extinguish the flames
THE town of Vermillion, near Sandusky,
Ohio, was recently almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire. Eleven business blocks
in the heart of the town were burned.
Loss estimated al $75 900 insurance light.
AN aeronaut named Atchinson attempted
balloon ascensIonat the recent Elkhorn
(Ky) Far, but when several hundred feet
high the balloon took fire and was burned,
and he was precipitated to the earth and
so badly injured that his recovery was
considered doubtful
TnE Postofiice Department has decided
20 order railway postal-car service between
Pittsburgh and St. Louis, Uid the Pan
Handle s. Vandalia route, passing through
indianapolis, and the service will be be-
gun as soon as the department can make
the necessary arrangements.
ISAAC MCAFEE (colored) has been con-
victed and sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment tor having, about a year ago,
caused terrible accident on the Selma
(Ala.) & Dalton Railroad by placing OBJ
structions on the track. Two white men
are TO be tried for the same ofense.
IT is reported that the Treasury De
pa-tment at Washington has discontinued
the purchase of silver for the present on
account of the high price. 1t is consid-
cred probable that the operation of the
scheme for silver resumption will be de-
ferred until after the meeting OF Congress.
A YOUNG man named Fritz KaiZer
twenty-one years of age, jumped from the
tower of the Chicago Water Works the
other afternoon, and fell a distance OF
nearly 200 feet and was dashed to pieces
on the turrets at the base. He was de-
ranged and had recently been an inmate
of an insane asylum.
A DECISION rendered by the New York
Court of Appeals to the effect that the
agreement for the discount of note above
the legal interest in New York was cor
rupt and illegal, and that under the law of
that State the whole debt was forfeited,
has been overruled by the United States
Supreme Courr, which holds that, under
the National Banking law, the plaintiff in
the case appealed forfeited only the excess
of the legal rate of interest.
THEWisconsin Supreme Court has re-
Gently decided the action of the Wood
County canyassers in throwing out the
vote of the town of Lincoln at the election
last year to be illegal. The decision was
made on contest over the county offices,
but the counting of the votes of Lincoln
would have elected Alexander s. McDill
(Rep) to Congress instead of George w.
Cate. The certificate of election had been
given to the latter. A fine of $500 was
imposed ON the leading canvasser who
threw out the votes.
THE annual report of U. s. Treasurer
New will contain the following statement
of the receipts and expenditures by war
rants for the fiscal year 1876:
RECEIPTS.
Customs. SlbI, lOHIx2 10
Internal reyenue.... -. ........ 110,O07, ,493 So
Lands Observation-Disclosures. i.413640 II
miscellaneous sources NJ. .....,.. 10,411,195 90
Total net revenues es............S2 S2se,t o ,O5l 10
Public debt funded iS8l..........., e6,505,70 90
ITnIted States notes .............. 10l907,956 90
Fractional currency. ................ 36,612sO0 90
Gold certificates. es......,.......... 70,250,iOO 90
Certificates OF deposit, United
States notes. ............. ,......, SO,6e5C00 90
Total net receipts. .....,.....,S S676, ,97l 6O7 10
. EXPENDITURES,
Customs. S197is,707 SO
internal revenue ue.................. b188,5l3 81
Interior and civil ................. 4,957,b35 so
Treasury proper. 33,643,262 AZ
Diplomatic......... ............... 3,l9g,22 81
Quarterly salaries. s................. S6f,5if 65
Judiciary ........... ....,.,.....,, 3eO3, ,945 90
Nat ctvil and miscellaneous ex