Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-29
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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TIE first building in the country erect
ed exclusively for the Order of the Sow
ereigns of Industry was dedicated few
days ago at Springfield, Mass.
A NEW planet has been discovered by
Prof Watson, of the Michigan University.
1t shines as a star of the tenth magnitude.
THE three children, a boy and two girls,
of Mrs Genty, of Oil City, Pa, were left
alone at home few days ago and, during
the absence of their mother, the little boy
sought to hurry up the fire by the use Of
kerosene-oil. The customary explosion
followed and the boy was fatally burned
and the house set on fire. One of the lit
tie girls, aged thirteen, escaped from the
building. but the other, aged four, shut
herself up in closet, and her charred re-
mains were subsequently found in the
ruins of the house.
A LONDON dispatch of the Goth states
that extensive and disastrous floods had
occurred throughout Lancashire and War |
wickshire. Traffic by rail had been great |
ly interrupted and for many miles abso-
lutely stopped.
CENTENNIAL excursions, composed of
delegations from several Eastern and |
Western cities, reached Philadelphia on
the Goth, in response to an invitation to |
examine the preparations being made for |
the grand celebration next year.
THE Supreme Court of Germany has
indorsed the verdict of the Hammer
gericht in the case of Count Won Arnim.
PRoF. WHEATsToNE, the distinguished
English scientist and electrician, died re-
Gently at Paris.
A REUNION of Union and Confederate
soldiers was recently held at Elizabeth,
New Jersey.
Two HUNDRED dwellings, synagogue
and five school buildings were recently |
destroyed by fire in Widsy, Russian
Poland. Several persons perished and
more than 5000 persons were rendered |
homeless.
THE assets of the Broadway dry-goods
firm of Rice, Goodwin & Walker, which |
failed about year ago, will, it is said, pay
one cent on the dollar
WHILE playing croquet at Titusville,
Pa, few days ago, Reuben Benton was
accidentally struck in the head with NAL
let and SO badly injured that he died in a
few hours.
In giving the particulars of the recent
floods in England, the London Morning
Echo of the 22d says the valley of the
River Don had formed lake half mile
wide and fifteen miles long; that many
collieries and iron works had been flooded
and thousands of operatives thrown out
of employment. At Darlington the flood
was particularly severe, the gas-works,
among other establishments, boins
drowned ont. At Rutherham, in York
shire, over 900 people were out ofwork.
THE King of Bavaria has issued a
royal decree adjourning the Bavarian
Diet until further notice. The King re-
fused TO accept the resignation of his Min
listers.
A LARGE mass-meeting Of citizens in
favor of the reading of the Bible in the
public schools was held in New York city
on the evening of the Goth.
AT Denver, Col, on the 21st, the bodies
of four Italian musicians ian old man and
three boys) were found in a cellar of the
house they had occupied, with their
throats cut from ear to ear. The crime
had evidently been committed several
days, as the bodies were badly decom-
posed. Suspicion points to another party
of musicians who were in the city at about
that time and stated that the murdered
parties had gone East.
PROF. CARR (Rep.) was elected State
Superintendent of Public Instruction at
the election in California on the Goth. All
the Judges but one in Office in San Fran
cisco, both Democratic and Republican,
were reelected.
A RECENT Paris telegram says the work
of sinking shaft 100 meters deep would
shortly be begun near Calais, preliminary
to the cutting of the English Channel
tunnel
THE town of Iquique, seaport of some
importance in Peru, South America, has
been almost entirely destroyed by conha-
grafton.
FREDERICK HUDSON, for many years
managing editor of the New York Herald,
died few days ago at Concord, Mass,
from injuries received the day before by
being struck by locomotive while riding
across a railroad track in buggy
A NUMBER of important failures were
reported in London and Manchester, En-
gland, on the 22d.
A SEVERE gale was experienced on the
Scottish coast ON the 21st and 22d. Up to
the morning of the Esd five vessels had
been reported lost with all on board with
in distance of forty miles.
IT was reported on the 22d that Sharkey,
the New York murderer, had arrived at
Santander, Spain.
OFFICIAL returns received at Cincinnati |
on the 29d from seventy-six counties in
Ohio, and what were deemed authentic |
returns from the remaining twelve, show
Hayes majority for Governor to be 9,549 |
A LETTER was received by Atty..Gen.
Pierrepont, at Washington, on the 22d,
from Gov. Ames, Of Mississippi, in which |
the latter states that all the threatened |
troubles in his State had subsidized. He |
had disbanded the militia on the assur-
ance Of his political opponents that there
should be fair election, and peace pre-
vailed over the entire State, with no pros
pect of further outbreaks.
THE revival labors of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey in Brooklyn, N Y, were be-
gun ON the morning of the gath at the rink
in that city. The building was densely
packed. An afternoon service was also
held, to which at least 8 900 people were
unable to gain admittance. Two churches
in the immediate neighborhood were
thrown open 10 the crowds and services
held therein, Mr.. Sankey visiting and
singing in both of them. Announcement