Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-07-30

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ISAAC NJ. SINGER, inventor of the Singer
sewing-machine, died recently in London,
aged sixty-eight
l.. Q. G. LAMAR has been rcnominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the First
Mississippi District.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has
decided the local-option feature of the Lii
cense law constitutional.
OVER 500 German manufacturers have
arranged ~ exhibit their wares at the
Philadelphia Centennial
THE total damage to property in the
South Of France by the recent inundation
is estimated at $15,00O00O
A LOAN of $1,000, 600 is to be contracted
by the Spanish Government for the pur-
pose of indcmniiying the owners of eman-
cipatcd slaves in Porto Rico.
AVERY, Chief Clerk of the Treasury De
partment at Washington, indicted by the
Grand Jury at ST. Louis for completely in
the whisky frauds, has resigned in compli-
ancc with a request of Secretary Bristow.
A PEDESTRIAN named Hugh Donahuc
recently completed the task of walking
LOO miles in LOO consecutive hours
lie was in good condition at the close.
This remarkable feat was accomplished at
Mystic Park, in Boston.
JESSE PoMERoY, the Boston boy mur-
derer, very nearly succeeded in escaping
from the Charles Street Jail Il few days
ago. He was expecting to cut through
the prison walls ON the evening of the day
on which his attempt was discovered
ALEXANDER AND WILLIAM CALLIE
members of latcly-suspended London
firm, have been arrested on charge OF
having obtained $l,0OO,OOO under false
pretenses. They were held in bonds OF
$40, 900 each.
THE Pan Presbyterian Council have
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new union is called the " Alliance of the
Reformed Churches Throughout th,
World" and all Presbyterian churche,
are considered members thereof.
THE statement that the President had
in June last, addressed letter to Secrcta
ry DclanO requesting his resignation, and
that the latter had besought the Presidcn
TO retain him in the Cabinet, are pro
nounced by a Washington Associated Pres
dispatch of the 26th To be without any
foundation in fact.
BRIG. GEN. ORD, commanding the De
partmcnt Of Texas, has issued AN ordc
that persons appearing in that department
in the disguise of Indians will he trcatc,
rs Indians, and, if not killed, when cap
turcd will be sent to Fort Marion, st. Au
gustine, Fla, and will not be allowed Il
change their Indian dress.
THE Maryland Democrats have nomi
mated John Lee Carroll for Governor. Ii
their platform they declare against higI
protective tariff and protest against an
increase of the circulating currency, ant
demand that Congress shall pass sue
measures as will result in resumption o
specie payments at the earliest possibl
moment
THE New York Tribune announces tha
the Postmaster General has set the neN
route along the shores of the lakes for tn
fast mail to the West, expected TO begi
TO run by the 1st of October. 1t wi
Chicago in not more than twenty-si
hours, and It is hoped to reduce tn
time to twenty four, gain of twelve hour
over the present mail and express train
THE Massachusetts boy-murderer, Pom
roy, has written history of his life. II
retracts his former confession and denic
his guilt He claims that he was goade
by the police into making confession
being guilty of the crime f~r which
was first arrested, and that he was entirel
innocent With regard to the death {
Katie Curran, he says he made fall
confession that his mother and brothe
who had been arrested for the murder an
whom he knew to be innocent, might I
free
THE statement of John ID. Lee confirm
the previous reports concerning Il
Mountain Meadows massacre. He sa.
thirty Mormons, with the assistance of
large number of Indians, decoyed the en-
grants from their entertainments by a fiji
of truce; that all were murdered exec
seventeen children that the deed was do
mon Church; that he took the news of t
massacre to Brigham Young, who Z
plored the transaction and said il wou
bring disaster on the Mormon people.
A BANKERS CONVENTION was recent
held at Saratoga, n. " at which resol
TONS were adopted-favoring immedii
specie resumption and calling upon eve
citizen to hasten the day when every pro
ise of the Government to pay doll
should be redeemed in coin; calling for
repeal of the war tax on banks; urgi
Congress to issue coupon bonds in I
change for registered bonds; demandi
the adjustment of the two-cent star
tax on checks and vouchers; favoring
permanent organization of national bar
ers. A resolution opposed TO the Usu
laws was also adopted by close vote.
RETURNS al the Department of Az
culture for July show the condition
spring and winter wheat together at abb
50 per cent of an average. WinterwhC
including California, averages IA, a
spring wheat 06. Spring wheat States
the Northeast and Northwest are genera
inhigh condition. Ofthe winter wheat a
the South Atlantic and Gulf States are g
orally above the average, but in the M
die States the condition is very low, N
York ranging down to 45. West of
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