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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
THE MARKETS.
DECEMBER 81, 1875.
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DECEMBER 81, 1875.
NEW YORK.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef Cattle--&10. .0O01300. Hogs
Live, S7.25G17.62h. Sheep-Liye, S5.0O@7.O0.
BREADsTUFFs-Flour-Go to choice, $3.50
600; white wheat extra, S6.o597OO. Wheat-No.
2 Chicago, $1.17@1.ls; No. 2 Northwestern,
Si.1S11 20; No. Milwaukee spring.. s1.24@
l25. Rye--Western and State, Ss195c. Bar
ley-$1.O50I.12 Corn Mixed Western, 750
76Hc. Oats-Mixed Western 44G45c.
s.-Pork-Mess, $20.90G21 90. Lard
Prime Steam, 13G13lsc. Cheese-6912Hc.
WoOL-Domestic Fleece, 3S662c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE .--Bceves-ChOice, $5.2561575; ;
good, $4,000 800; medium, $500 74.25; butch
ers' stock, S2.SO9S.75; stock cattle, s2.750
3.75. Hogs-Live, $6s5075O. Sheep--Good to
choice. S475055O.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter--C Choice, 25032c. Eggs
Fresh, "A D25c. Pork-Mess, S19.050191O.
Lard-S12.15612.2O
BREADsTUFFs.-Flour-W Winter Extra,
S5.OOG7.5O; spring extra, $4OO65.25. Wheat
Spring, No. :, e6A @96nc. Corn--No. 2, 47h6
47sGc oats-No. 2, 29%@29Xc. Rye-No. ., 6s
@6SAc. Barley-No. 2, s6%@s7c.
LUMBER.-First and Second Clear, $1,000
042.cO; Common Boards, Sl1 OO0l2.OO; Fencing,
s12.OO11SOO; "A" Shingles, $2.75G3.OO; Lath,
$i.7502.t0.
EAST LIBERTY.
dium, S50O9525. Hogs-Yorkers S7.OO@7 25;
Philadelphias S7.5o@76O Sheep-Best, $3.50
$50; medium, S4.75@5,OO.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
The Issue Between the United States
and Spain.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA.
The present distinctive point at issue
between the United States and Spain is
stated in unofficial unusually we'll
informed, circles to be as follows:
The United States ask; 1. That in future
all American citizens in Cuba accused of
violation of law shall be tried by civil
courts, and not by military tribunals,
with all the rights in such cases as are
secured by the seventh article of the treaty
of 1905; and 2. That all sentences, where
American citizens bave heretofore been
tried by military tribunals. shall be an
Aulled. Spain In some degree comedies
the claim of the United States to the first
proposition, agreeing that in future Amer
lean citizens accused of violation OF law
shall be tried by the ordinary tribunals, with
the right to be heard by counsel, to sum-
mon witnesses and employ all other nee
essary safeguards TO the accused, but with
the reservation that all such trials shall
be according TO the law of 1921, which
provides for more expeditions proceedings
than those Of civil courts for common
crimes In time of peace. She also offers
TO revise all sentences passed by court
martial on American citizens, where il
shall be satisfactorily shown that such
sentences We're In violation OF established
law. This reply Is unsatisfactory TO the
United States, which takes the ground that
American citizens accused of crime can
not be tried by court-martial, but are en-
titled to trial before the civil tribunals
emily, as secured by treaty stipulation,
without such reservation as 10 proposed
by Spain,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE total number of lunatics and idiots
confined in the several asylums and jails
in Ontario is l., ,179-an increase over the
preceding year of 1O4.
The total production Of all the ale,
porter and lager-beer breweries for the
year ending May, 1875, was 8,SS0,629
barrels, which yielded revenue 10 the
Government of 50, ,304 $40. In 1873 there
were 1854 breweries in operation in the
United States.
THE value of domestic exports for las
October was $53, ,71S, ,707, against $49,817,-
254 the previous October-an increase of
nearly $4000,000. Reducing the mixed
terms in which these totals are stated to
their specie equivalent, we have:
Gold ana silver.......... 81, l3O,7 700 Sg,5Oi,3l
Merchandise. se..'...-...... 41Ss,llf 43,22f,SOd
Totals. s........-... ....s47,lOq,s14 s45,7a9, ,56s
THE value of imports free of duty last
October was $14 1896, ,51S, against SIS, ,301,-
1872 in October, 1S74-a decrease of some
thing less than 81 100000. The only i'm
portant item in the free list which shows
an increase is that of gold and silver, the
import for last October having been $2,-
556 ,039, against $1,210,084 for October,
1874, On tea there was decrease of
nearly 100000 pounds, the decrease in
value having been about 81 160, 900. The
falling off in coffee imports was about
1000, 900 pounds in quantity and $780,
900 in value.
THE number of disasters on the lakes
| during the past season was 1,056, de-
crease from last year of 13l. Of this
number, 562 occurred ON Lake Michigan,
| 152 on Lake Huron, 1880 on Lake Erie, 62
on Lake. Ontario, 10 on Lake st. Clair, 26
on Lake Superior, and 46 on the rivers
| Eighty-ive vessels of all descriptions,
| with an aggregate carrying capacity OF
! 27,l77 tons, valued at $l,049 900, have
] passed out of existence. Twenty-Five new
vessels, with an aggregate capacity of
| 14,731 tons, valued at 81, 100 500, were
commissioned during the year. The total
amount of property lost including hulls
and cargoes, is $3,791 800, which exceeds
that of last year by $104,7O0
THE total value of dutiable imports in
October last was $24 ,219, against
$31 200, 147 for the previous October-7a
decrease of So, 1884, ,929. This decrease of
dutiable imports would indicate decrease
of something like 81 1900, 900 in customs
revenue. This rate of decrease continued
throughout the fiscal year would bring
the receipts from customs from $50 900,
900 to $25, 900, 600 below Mr. Bristow's es-
Inmates. The most important item in
which there was decrease was brown
sugar, that article having been imported
TO the value of only 81 ,790,49 duEing last
October, against $4,070,629 the previous
October. There was a considerable de-
crease also in woolen imports, while in the
foreign iron trade there was no sign of
Improvement
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE Virginia Legislature has reelected
John w. Johnston (he Democratic nomi-
nee) as United States Senator from that
State.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

GEo. s. BANGS has resigned the position
of General Superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THERE are now 100 Oranges in Massa-
chusetts, an increase of thirty-flve during
the past year The number of members
is 1000, an increase of 1900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
The Office Of the Little Rock (Ark,)
Gazette was recently destroyed by fire.

THE town Of ArecibO, Porto Rico, has
been nearly destroyed by an earthquake.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of The 18th says
over 600 persons in that Kingdom had
made application for space at the Phila-
delphia Centennial Exposition.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

An old negro living in Columbus, Ga,
swears he is 1872 years old. He says he
was born in Africa, and when a mere
child, while out in the woods eating
bananas, Gen. Washington came over in
a sailing vessel and captured him. After
his arrival in the United States he waited
upon the General, until one day he got
mad and sold him TO a gentleman in
Columbus
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

BURBAcH, the Milwaukee rectifer late.
ly convicted of fraud upon the revenue,
has been sentenced to eight months i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of $4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

OK the occasion of the recent hanging
of three colored men in New York city
the rope was carelessly adjusted around
the neck of one of them, and just as the
weight descended the knot slipped and
the victim was left writhing between
heaven and earth. He made desperate
efforts TO relieve himself and cried aloud
for assistance. Finally the knot again
shifted, the moose closed around his wind
pipe and he died by strangulation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

"A horse owned by Dartmouth man
was frightened TO death by the cars at
New Bedford, Mass, the other day. His
owner, knowing him to be afraid of the
cars, was holding him while a train was
passing, and he suddenly dropped and
never moved again
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE National Cheap Transportation
Convention at its recent session in Chi
cago elected as officers for the ensuing
year; John +. Henry, of New York,
President; a Vice-P President from each
State and Territory; F, B. Thurber, of
New York, Treasurer; Frank Gilbert, of
Chicago, Secretary; II. A. Stolenworks,
of Selma Ala, Assistant Secretary. The
Executive Committee is composed as fol-
lows: John F, Henry, Presidents F. b,
Thurber, Treasurer James Utley, Vice
President; Frank Gilbert, Secretary, and
II. A. Stolenworks, Assistant Secretary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE following are the names of the
Congressman who voted against the anti
third-term resolution recently adopted in
the United States House of Representa-
tives: Bradley, Denison, Haralson, Hoge,
Hubbell, Hyman, Lynch, MacDougall,
Nash, Page, Plaistcd, Pratt, Smalls, Wal
lace(S CO., Walls, Wells (Miss.), White,
Whiting-1S. The vote in favor of the
resolution was 232.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE cabinet-shops of the Wheeler &
Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at
Bridgeport, Conn, were recently destroyed
by fire. Loss $5O0,OOO; insurance $780,
600.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE New York Graphic of a recent date
started the theory that Boss Tweed was
not voluntary fugitive, but that he had
been abducted and killed by men whom
he could implicate in the plundering of
the city treasury, and who were interested
in getting him out of the way because of
alleged threats by Tweed to make dam
aging revelations regarding them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

ALEXANDER p. TUTToN, Supervisor OF
Internal Revenue, who was assigned to
st. Louis in McDonald's place, has writ
ten letter TO the President in which he
claims that the order transferring Super
visors of Internal Revenue in JANUARY
last was suspended at his own instance,
and not at the request of Gen. Babcock.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

VERY cold weather was experienced in
New England on the Goth. The mercury
ranged from ten degrees below zero in
Boston and vicinity to thirty-fve degrees
below at Skowhegan, Me-, forty one be-
low at Littleton, N. H., and forty three
below at st. Johnsbury, VT.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE jury in the recent trial of Thomas
w. Piper, the Boston sexton, for the MUIR
der In church belfry tower in May last
of little Mabel Young, failed to agree
standing, it is said, nine for conviction to
three for acquittal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

AT the recent municipal election in
Boston Mayor Cobb--the " Citizens /"
candidate-was reelected by majority
of between 1000 and 1900 over II. j.
Boardman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE official report of the Secretary of
the Michigan State Grange states that the
membership of the Order in the State, as
near as could be determined from reports
received, was, on the Both of September,
34,275; number of subordinate Oranges,
Gil
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

A DISPATCH from ST. Paul de Loanda
on the west coast of Africa, states that
Capt. Cameron's exploring expedition had
reached there on the 10th of November,
having traversed the African continent
from Ujiii. The expedition had been a
pronounced success.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

heart grew light and hopeful SO the
day would have been better If TO larger
resources had been added economy and
self-denial. But this was not the case
He poured more water into his barrel,
and the added pressure made the water
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24

THE total valuation of real estate and
personal property in Colorado Territory for
the current year Is returned at $44 800,
033, the former being represented by the
figures $27, ,284 $40. The Territorial tax
is $67 800, ,26; tax for benefit of deafmutes,
81, 938.ll, or one-fifth Of one mill on the
dollar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-24
The National Cheap Transportation
Convention.

The National Cheap Transportation Con-
vention, recently held in Chicago, was
largely attended, and the proceedings oc-
cupied three full days of time. The reso-
lutlons adopted read as follows:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
Shipments.
Articles.
| 1874.

There was less interest shown in the grain
markets during the past week, and, although a
fair speculative business was transacted, the
markets we're comparatively quiet. The firm
ness and advancing tendency gave place to a
weak feeling, and, with the exception of Thurs
day and Friday, the daily tendency of values
was to a lower range. The May option was the
chief center of attraction, the longer futures
ruling comparatively dull, while but a limited
business was transacted for immediate delivery:
The recent liberal advance in values left a good
margin for operators on the long side of the
trade, and a satisfactory profit to spectators
who had been carrying the grain for an advance,
and then were notsat all slow in taking adyant-
tage of the profit in their favor to sell out
and take in their differences. III condition
of the Liverpool and New York markets was
not particularly favorable for the main
~tainance of prices, the adviees being Hfavor-
able in their tenor. The receipts are still
light but operators anticipate increased arrivals
before the close of the month. h May shorts
had made ample preparation for their contracts,
and we're therefore less anxious to buy. Nu-
merous selling orders were received from the
interior and from other markets. In making
calculations on the current prices and tie mar
ket for the week, cash grain should not be
taken into consideration, as the daily changes
in the storage of receipts made very If
regular prices. There was really no &C
tual change in the storage, but tho transfer
from winter to summer storage rates necessi-
tated frequent changes in values. Wheat has
declined about 3@4c per bushel. Corn shared
in the weakness, ruling SIC lower. New
will be dropped in the inspection of corn. April
Doth and straight No. 2 will be the only No. s
grades. We may then look for large receipts
Oats were &c lower. Rye and barley firm ant
higher all around.
The following tables shows the prices current
at the opening and close Of the past week:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
Reasons for Going Abroad.

There are many mel who waste all
their estates to gaze upon the estates of
others, and then think they have made
a good bargain. 1t is useless to tell
such men hat we have fine scenery and
noble cities in our own country. Even a
Journey across the continent, so fire.
quently recommended to those who go
about seeking some new thing, does not
satisfy people who want amusement.
Even the minor matter of eating and
drinking is a grievance with the
pleasure-seeker who says he cannot en-
Joy travel in our own country. He says
it is not by any lean a minor affair.
Perhaps he cannot take in the beauties
of this Alleghanies while he is trying to
digest a blazing hot dinner, bolted in ten
minutes at Altoona. Perhaps he is IN
fitted to absorb the loneliness o. New
port beach when he reflects what a great
price he pays for a miraculous display of
little dabs of cooked stuff spread before
him three times a day by an unwhole-
some and naughty waiter. Or, if he
fancies he might enjoy a Southern win
ter, he reflects with terror on the fried
pork and corn dodger which viii well
come him at every table from the Ohio
river to the Gulf of Mexico. The tray
eler knows that the Latin ace has some
how the art of cookery.-N.
Y. Times. ~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
A Remarkable Book.

In 1868 P. T. Barnum wrote his Autobiogra-
ply for Burr & Co., the celebrated publishers
in Hartford, Conn, fer which they paid him
$15, 900. 1t made q book Of 800 pages, was
profusely illustrated, gave a particular &C.
count of Barnum's e~yentful life in all parts Of
the world, and included his celebrated lecture
on 1.-The Art of Money Getting" Horace
Greeley pronounced the book worth q hun
dred dollar greenback to many a beginner in
life" The publishers sold 90, 900 copies of
the book by subscription, at three dollars and
a half a copy. In 1871, when Mr.. Barnum
started his great travelling shows, he bought
back the copyright and stereotype plates Of
his book for SO, 900, added an Appendix
bringing the account of his life up to that
date, printed an edition of 0 $1,000 copies,
sent them with his travelling shows, and sold
the whole of them at cost, one dollar each.
He has added a Appendix each year, which
has now increased the volume to a thousand
pages. 1t averages a sale of 100, 600 copies
each year. They are neatly bound in muslin.
gilt, and sold in all his travelling shows. As
his patrons emerge from his great show tents
with his books under their arm, they look as
if coming from a circulating library! No
book in this country ever had such an enor-
nous sale, or 80 abounds in curious incidents
of real life and valuable experiences.-Bufalo
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
CHER LETTER"
BIZ BRET HARrE.

I'm sitting alone by the fire,
Dressed just as 1 came from the dance,
In q robe even you would admire
It cost q cool thousand in France.
I'm bediamoned out Of all reason,
Ny hair is done up in q cue
In short, sir, the belle Of the season
Is wasting an hour on you.
A dozen engagements I've broken,
left in the middle of q set,
Likewise q proposal half spoken,
That waits on the stairs for me yet
They say he'll be rich when he grows up,
And then he adores me indeed,
And You, sir, are turning your nose up,
Three thousand miles of asyou read.
And how do you like my position?
And what do you think of New York?
And now in my higher ambition
With whom do 1 waltz, fiirt, or talk?
And isn't it nice to have riches,
And diamonds, and silks, and all that7
And Amt it a change FROM the bitches
And tunnels of Poverty Flat?
Wei, yes, If you saw as out driving,
Each day in the park, four in hand;
If o saw poor dear mamma contriving,
To look systematically grand;
If you saw papa's picture, as taken
By Brady, and tinted at that,
You'd never suspect he sold bacon
And -four at Poverty FlatI
And yet just this moment, when sitting
In the glare Of the grand chandelier,
In the hustle and glitter BETTING
The finest soiree of the year,
In the midst of q gauge de chdmbery,
And the hum Of the smallest of talk,
Somehow, Joe, 1 thought of the Ferry,
And the dance that we had on the Fork.
Of Harrison,s barn, with its muster,
OF flag festooned over the wall,
Of the candles that shed their soft lUster
And tallow on head dress and shawl,
OF the steps that we took to the fiddle, p
OF the dress Of my queer Uis-d-riS,
And how once 1 ven down the middley
With the man that shot Sandy MCGEE.
OF the moon that was quietly sleeping
On the hill, when the time came to 60,
OF the few baby peaks that were peeping
From under their bedclothes of snow;
OF that ride that to me was the rarest;
OF the something you said at the gate;
ALL Joe, then I wasn't an heiress
To the best paying lead in the State.
heu, Wen; It's al paSt-yet US funny
To think, as I stood in the glare
OF fashion, and beauty, and money,
That I should be thinking right there
OF some one who breasted high water,
And swan the North Fork, and all that,
Just to dance with old Folinbee's daughter
"The Lily of Poverty Flat"
Good night-here's the end Of my paper,
Good night-if the longitude please
For may be, while wasting my taper,
Your sums climbing over the trees.
You know, if you haven't got riches
And are poor, dearest Joe, and all that,
That my hearts somewherein the bitches,
And you've struck it on Poverty Flat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
A Little Absent Minded.

Shortly after the Southern Canada
train from Toledo to Detroit pulled out
yesterday afternoon the conductor came
into the front car on his accustomed
round. His face wore its usual bland
expression, but there was a far-off look
in his eyes, and he gazed over the heads
of his passengers as he smiled to himself
and muttered- unintelligible things. But
when. he punched a hole in a SIS green
back and stuck a 30 cent scrip in a mans
hat-band, the question of his sanity was
seriously considered among the specta-
tors The matter, however, was ex-
planned when a lady asked what time the
train reached Detroit, and Murray
beamingly'rephed; eight pounds and
a half, ma'am." As it is Murray's first
daughter, a little absence of mind is GER
tainly excusable in view of the happy
event.-TOIedo Blade.
In Paris there are 81, 1000 school chill
dren for whom no educational accommo-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
FINANCE AND TRADE,
weekly Review Of tn Chicago Market.

The financial situation remains unchanged.
The supply Of loanable funds is ample, and the
demand light. Interest rates, 8@10 per cent.
at the banks, and 7@1s per cent. N the street.
Exchange dull. Government bonds firm and
in demand, with values steady and firm, as fol-
lows F l.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29

The Elastic Truss of Pomeroy & Co.,
744 Broadway, N. Y, is by far the best in use.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
Parallel to the Tichborne Case.

A curious parallel to the story told by
the Tichborne claiment has recently
come to light in England. 1t is said to
be an actual occurrence, which took
place in the very neighborhood in Aus
tralia where the claimant first appeared.
A young English nobleman having fallen
into dissipation left England, sailed
about the world, and finally reached Aus
tralia. There he took service a s shep-
herd, and for several years kept sheep
for a farmer. One day, while packing
up something in a piece of an English
newspaper, his eye was caught by an
advertisement stating that his father had
died, the title and property falling to
himself, and offering e200 for his dis
covery. This shepherdlord actually
managed to get the money offered for the
discovery of himself, drank it up, but
has refused to leave Australia. Knowing
the family banker, he sends pretty resu-
larry for money, but he has never, like
the claimant now in prison, sent to a Diff
ferent banker from the one which he
himself had ordered his money to be de-
posted.