Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-11-19
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CARDINAL McCLosKEY sailed from
Queenstown on the 14th for New York
THE New Hampshire Prohibitionists
nave nominated A. j. Kendall for Cover
nor.
THOMAS A. DOYLE (Rep.) has been re-
elected Mayor of Providence, r. l., for
the tenth time.
IT is estimated that over $5,000,000
damage was done in London and its i'm
mediate neighborhood by high tides on
the 10th.
RECENT Washington dispatches deny
the report that United States Treasurer
New contemplated soon resigning his Of
fetal position.
THE Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester,
n. H., have given notice of cut-down of
from 5 to Is per cent. on the wages of op-
eratives from Dec. 1.
THE new Minnesota Legislature will be
composed as follows: Senate-Republi-
cans, "a; Opposition, II. House-Re.
publicans, 60; Opposition, Al.
THE official majority for Carroll (Dem.)
for Governor of Maryland is 1881. Total
vote of the State, 15S, 1877. The Democrats
have majority of twelve in the State
Senate and thirty in the House.
SECRETARY BRIsTow has given notice
that SEQ coupon and registered bonds OF
1864 and 1S64-'6J to the amount of ST.
1885, $50 will be paid on and after Feb. 10,
1876, and that interest will cease at that
date.
PRESIDENT GRANT has appointed Hiram
Leffingwcll to be United States Marshal
for the District of Missouri and T. G.
Woodward, of Iowa, to be Examiner.
in-Chief of the Patent Office at Washing
ton.
THE trial at Detroit of the celebrated
Ward will case occupied forty days, and
has ended in disagreement of the jury
1t has been ascertained that eight of the
Jurors were in favor of breaking the will
and that four believed the will and first
codicil should be sustained. All but one
agreed that Capt. Ward was competent te
execute will.
THE report of the Paymaster- General Of
the Army shows that there have been dis
bursed to the army during the last year
$12,272, 02.38, and to the Military Acad
envy S202, ,236.04 The number of deser
lions during the year was 1881, agains
1905 the previous year. The re-enlist
ments aggregated 1886, as against 500 The
previous year.
THE crew of shipwrecked vessel who
had been thrown upon small island of
the coast of Cuba have recently reached
New York and report that while on thu
island they found the decomposed remains
of four men, who had built huts and wer,
evidently part of the crew of an iroi
ship which appeared sunk near the shore
They had probably died of starvation.
In his annual report the COMMISSIONS
of Internal Revenue says the British pub
lie, numbering less by one-fourth than ou
people, paid under their excise laws dur
ING the year ending March 81, 1875, take
measured in gold to the amount of $1S3,
962. .75e. against $110,545, ,154 paid in cur
rency by the people of this country dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80, 1879.
THE annual report Of the COMMISSIONS
of Education shows there has been an in
crease of 164, 600 school children during
the year. There are enrolled in the pub
lie schools 100000 pupils. The averag
daily attendance is 4,500, 600; the esti
mated population between six and sixteel
wears of age IS 10,536,674; number @
teachers employed, 41 300; total incom
public schools Estates and Territories,
$S2, 15S eos; total expenditures, $74'974
9SS; value of school buildings, $3.50, 1913
447.
A ACuIcAGoAN named Nicholas Thoms
has invented new motor similar
a general way to the so-called heei
invention, but differing in application an
effect. The Chicago Tribune says; :" III
Chicago motor, like the other, derives il
power from water and air, and is COZ
ceived on the seemingly contradictor
principle of multiplying force without III
aid of force to begin with. From III
practical tests made by Mr.. Thomas, III
inventor, it has been shown that an e.
traordinary apparent pressure can be pr'
duced by his apparatus, though it has NJ
yet been demonstrated that motive pow'
can be obtained in proportion to IL
amount of this pressure"
ACCORDING to the annual report OF u
Commissioner of the General Land -Offic
7,070,271 acres of land were disposed
during the last year, being 2,4GO,6Ol acr'
less than the previous year. Or tn
amount 2,356,057 acres were homestea
entries and 3,107,6 ,643 were certified
railroads; 745,O61 acres were disposed
at cash sales. The cash receipts durir
the year were 81, ,784,00 The Commi
sioner recommends that all the timb
lands owned by the Government
opened to purchasers at minimum valu
ton, and thus be placed under priva
guardianship. He also recommends u
adoption of the plan of public sales her
tofore practiced, but now abandoned. /
thinks that the Presumption laws shou
be repealed, and the homestead system
made the only method of acquiring tit
to agricultural lands.
REV. ALEXANDER ANDERSON, of PROV
dence, r. l., who sues the Boston & Pro
idence Railroad for placing the coffin
his wife upon end, and otherwise cal
lessly and roughly handling it, SETS o
his damages as follows: Said defendar
did not carefully, safely. and secul
lv convey and deliver said casl