Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-01

ELKINs (kep.) majority for Delegate to
Congress from New Mexico is about
1900. ~ rl
EX-SENATOR ScHURz delivered a politi
cal hard-money speech at Cincinnati on
the 9th. 7sa
REV. II. G. Triton has declined the
nomination for Governor of wisconsin on
the Temperance ticket. .........
GEO w. GAGE, a prominent citizen and
well-known former hotel proprietor of
Chicago, died few days ago, aged sixty
three years.
THE Wyoming Legislature is divided
politically as follows: Council, 2 Re
publicans and II Democrats; House, 0
Republicans and 1S Democrats.
g. ii. HAM, of the inter Ocean, has been
removed from the office of United States
Appraiser of Merchandise at Chicago, and
II, G. Feldkamp has been appointed as his
successor,
A RECENT Washington dispatch states
that there remained only $28,000, 900 of
the new 8 per cent bonds for negotiation
and that no further call for the redemp
tion of the old bonds would be made until
demanded by subscriptions to the new.
The American ship Ellen Southard
was recently lost off the Lancashire coast.
Eight OF the crew perished, and by the
cepsizing ofa life-boat which went to the
assistance of the wrecked vessel the pilot
and four of the boats crew were drowned.
THE Fourth National Bank of Chicago
has suspended. There was no excitement
and no run. The business was simply
Improbable, and so the institution shut
down. The statement is made that no one
win lose anything unless 1t be the stock
holders.
iris said the Red Cloud Investigation
Commission will, in their report, unani.
rhously acquit Secretary Delano and Com
missioner Smith of fraud, and will
condemn Prof. Marsh for the means he
had used to secure evidence against the
Indian Bureau.
A LETTER was published in Boston on
the ED from Vice President Wilson, in
which he says that sense of obligation
and duty to the country would not permit
him to accept the nomination for Gov
ernor of his State, even though it were
rendered by the unanimous voice of the
convention.
THE New York Liberals have decided
not to nominate State ticket, but recon-
mend that the Liberal and Independent
voters of the State support those candi.
dates already iri,the field whose character
and experience they most approve. They
have resolved in favor of speedy return
to specie payments.
PRESIDENT GRANT has accepted the
resignation of Secretary Des999n n ldH 81 ts IS
efsCs OTI Ine IetteT vi reslSh"'iOH 10
dated July s, and the Presidents letter OF
acceptance Sept 90. The President ex-
presses his belief that Mr.. Delano has
filled every public trust confided to him
with ability and integrity.
ACCORDING to the recently-published
annual report fthe Government Directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad, the gross
receipts of the road during the year end
ing July 1, 1875, were $11, ,522 ,021, an in
crease over the previous year of $1,215,-
1850; increase in net earnings during same
time, 81, sac, ,424; operating expenses, $4,'
7SS, $50.
Ara greenback mass-meeting held a
Cooper Institute, New York, on the even
ing of the 23d, resolutions were adopted
condemning the policy of contraction, de
manding the retirement of the Natlona
Bank circulation and the substitution
therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring th'
payment of one-half of the customs due
in legal-tender notes.
A BoNAPARTIsr council has been n
Gently held at Arenberg, Switzerland,
the chateau of the ex-Empress Eugeni'
at which it was resolved that the Empires
who was unpopular in France because
her pronounced ultramontanism, shoul
resign the regency, and that the PrinI
Imperial, guided by NJ. Rouher, shoul
have supreme direction of affairs.
THE report of the board appointed to Il
vestigate the Chicago Custom Hou'
building has been made public and is
the effect that some of the material us'
in the structure so far should he reject
and some other notifications made in d
work, and that then the structure mi
safely be proceeded with. The Secreta
of the Treasury indorses the report, al
work on the buileing is to be resumed
the spring in accordance with the su
gestions made by the commission,
AT the recent annual session in Cine
natl of the National Agricultural C'
gress, w. C. Flagg, Of Illinois, was ele
ed President for the ensuing year, W
one Vice. President for each State and I
ritory. G.. e. Morrow, of Chicago, '
chosen Secretary and j. o. Griffith,
Nashville, Treasurer. Resolutions W
adopted commencing the completion
the four great water routes recommend
by the United States Senate, more es
cially the central one, and recommend
the reduction of the tax on tobacco to
cents per pound. The Congress is
meet next year in Philadelphia.
A Story for Bergh.
"CoNpUcTAH, simpered lady on
outpOinr Eastern train last evening, ~