Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-24

N. b. JUDD, Collector of Customs at
Chicago, has forwarded his resignation to
Washington, to take effect Oct. 1.
THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has de-
clined proposed public reception at the
Academy of Music in Brooklyn.
FULL returns of the vote for Governor
in California give Irwin Dem.) 81 1,525,
Phelps (Rep) 30,022, Bidwell lind 29,630.
THE charge for messages between
America and Europe by the new Direct
Ocean cable is twenty-five cents currency
per word.
THE Nebraska Republicans have nomi-
mated George B. Lake, T. F. CAN'T and
Samuel Maxwell for Judges of the Su-
preme Court.
In the new Maine Legislature the Re-
publicans will have majority ON Joint
ballot of twenty-eight--nine in the Senate
and nineteen in the House.
A CALL has been issued by the Michigan
Reform State Central Committee for
hard-mency mass convention to be held at
Detroit on the 14th of October.
TREMENDOUS storms have recently pre-
vailed throughout New Mexico, and the
town of Las Cruces has been nearly de
stroyed by tile bursting of a water-spout.
Great damage has been done to the wheat
crop.
THE Orange County IN, c. election to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr.. Graham, resulted in the election of
the Democratic candidate (Patterson}, by
some 900 majority, giving the Democrats
two majority in the convention.
THE Alabama Constitutional Conven.
ton has adopted Bill of Rights, one Sec
ton of which reads as follows "The
people Of this State accept as final and
established the fact that from the Federal
Union there can be no secession of any
State"
The Wisconsin State Temperance ticket
recently nominated at Janesville is as fol
lows: For Governor IT. G. Tilton; Lieu
tenant Governor, j ~. Gilfillan; Secre-
tary of State, II. W. Brown; State Treas
urer, d. w. Ball; Attorney General, Will
lam Monroe.
THE jury in the case of Westcrvelt, on
trial in Philadelphia for alleged compiled
o., L., tlo Chorlio Rose ohduction bavn rp.
turned verdict acquitting him of actual
participation in the crime, but find him
guilty of conspiracy TO conceal the child
and of having guilty knowledge of the
abduction.
THE recent Democratic State Conven-
ton of Nebraska nominated E. A. Thomas
for Judge of the Supreme Court. A Eeso-
luton was adopted declaring in favor of
a sound currency, coin or its equivalent,
as essential to stability in business and a
restoration of prosperity; steps toward
specie payment, no step backward"
WHILE Mrs. Uda's patent aerial ladder
was being experimental with in New
York city on the 18th, and after eight or
ten men had mounted the structure, which
was elevated to the height of nearly 100
feet, it suddenly snapped in two and the
occupants were precipitated to the ground,
three of them being instantly killed and
as many more dangerously, if not fatally,
injured.
THE Rev. w. L. McLaren, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been elected Bishop OF the Epis-
copal Diocese of Illinois, receiving thirty
nine out of sixty clerical, and fifty-five out
of fifty-eight lay votes on the second
ballot His election was then made
unanimous. The Episcopal Council of
the Fond du Lac Diocese have chosen as
Bishop the Rev. John Henry Hobart
Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y.
A CONFIDENCE man has been arrested in
Muscatine, Iowa. He had inserted an ad.
Vertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a
Congrcssman's clerk, offering $4,000 and
expenses, and instructing applicants tC
address him at that place. His plan was
to reply to each one seeking the position
that, as agent for the Congressman, he
had inquired into the applicants qualiti
cations, ETC., and would forward the ap
pointment on receipt of five dollars to de
fray expenses of advertising, telegraph
ing, etc. He had received large num-
ber of letters in answer to the advertise
ment.
THE platform adopted by the recen
New York Democratic State Convention
declares that "a speedy return to speci,
payment is demanded alike by the highes
consideration of commercial morality ant
honest Government, and reaffirms tn
declaration of principles adopted by tn
State Convention of last year. The fol
lowing is the State ticket nominated: Fo
Secretary of State, John Bigelow; Comp
troller, Lucius Robinson; Attorney-Gen
eral, Charles S. Fairchild; State Treasur
er, Charles N. Ross; State Engineer
John ID. Van Buren,; Canal Commissioned
Christopher II. Wolrath; State Prisol
Inspector, Rodney r. Crowley w
In letter to Gov Ames, of Mississippi
published on the 18th, Atty Gen. Pierre
pont quotes from a dispatch he had r.
ceived from President Grant, in which tn
latter says "The whole public are tire
outwith these annual outbreaks in tn
South, and great many are ready now
condemn any Interference on the part {
the Government. heartily wish th'
peace and good order may be restore
without issuing the proclamation; but
they are not, the proclamation must |
issued but II II is, shall instruct u
commander of the forces TO have \
childish play. If there is necessity fc
military Interference, there sjustioe in sue
interference as win deter the evil-doers.
The President then suggests that Co
Ames be urged to exhaust his own r
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