Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-07-02

JUDGE o. d. McFADDEN, Delegate to
Congress from Washington Territory, died
at Olympia on the 25th
MORTIMER THOMPSON, a well-known
humorous writer, known as @. X. Philan-
der Doestcks, p. b., died in New York
city on the 25th, after short illness. He
was forty-four years old
gIs -
TIE severe wind and rain storm which
prevailed on the night of the 23d de-
stroyed fifty houses and three miles of
fences and sidewalks in Decorah, Iowa.
Other sections Of the West suffered more
or less severely.
THE final trial of Count Won Arnim,
for abstracting public documents from the
archives Of the Paris Legation, was con-
cluded before the Kammcrgericht, at Ber-
lin, on the gath, and resulted in verdict
of guilty and sentence of nine months
imprisonment
A LETTER was lately received in New
York which fully confirms the previous
reports relative to the recent earthquake in
New Granada In the city of Circuta, out
of a population of 10000, over 5000 per-
sons were killed The loss of life in other
cities in the vicinity make the aggregate
mortality nearly 10000.
INFORMATION has been received from
Washington that new and dangerous
counterfeit five-dollar note on the First
National Bank of Canton, H., is being
extensively circulated in some portions of
the West II resembles the counterfeit
fives on the Traders National Bank of
Chicago, and has evidently been altered
fIom that plate.
PROF DoNALDsoN's anticipated violent
death came near being a realized fact few
days ago With three members of the
press he made balloon ascension from
Toronto and fell into Lake Ontario with
his balloon, where he remained for over
four hours clinging to basket which was
dragged through the water with frightful
velocity. A passing sail vessel gathered
him and his drowning companions in.
AT Dedham, Mass, on the 25th, james
H. Costley was hanged for the murder o.
Julia Hawkes., his housekeeper. On tht
same day, at Thomaston, Me-, Louis Wag
ncr and John True Gordon swung from
one scaffold-the former for the murder o.
two Norwegian women for the purpose o.
robbery and the latter for the murder o
his brother, his brothers wife and infan
child. Gordon was insensible when hung
having in the morning stabbed himself il
the hreast with suicidal intent
TIE New York Tribune of the 2jth con
tains the affidavit of Mrs. Tilton, in which
she denies the truth of the statements
made by the alleged new witnesses upor
whose evidence an attempt to reopen thu
Beecher case was made by the plaintiff
counsel She also solemnly declares tina
she is innocent of all the offenses charged
against her in connection with Mr.. Beech
er, except that under the influence of he
husband she had made charges agains
him which were false and unfounded, anC
which her husband knew TO be so.
In speech few days ago, in the Gin
cinnaG Chamber Of Commerce, p. NJ. Gen
Jewell said he believed it entirely possible
to conduct his department of the Govern
ment and run it in the interest of itself
promoting celebrity, security and accurac,
in its ramifcations, and doing away witt
some of the red.tape which has heretcf01
incumbered it. He was not aware of N
extent of this mighty country until h
came to look at it. He finds it entirel
impossible to do our postal business ex
clusiyely in postofices located in cities
Therefore it is being largely done O
wheels. In the valley of the Mississippi
there are 200 clerks engaged in distribut
ing letters and papers as the cars are i
motion, and they distribute more tina
10000, 900 of letters per month.
THE Indian Bureau at Washington, o
the 23d, received a dispatch from Pro
Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition
dated near Harney's Peak, June II. Th
professor says: 81 have discovered gol
in small quantities on the north bend {
Castle Creek in terraces or bars of quart
gravel. About fifteen miners have locate
u camp on the creek above here and hay
commenced working. Gold is found frol
Castle Creek sOuthwardly to French Creel
at this point, and the deposits are almo
wholly in Dakota The region has n,
been fully explored, but the yield of gol
thus far has been quite small, and repor
of the richness of the gravel bars al
greatly exaggerated On French Cree
the deposits are very unfavorably situate'
The water supply is small and failing an
the grade is too little to admit of failing
being carried off by the stream. III
prospect at present is not such as TO wa
rant extended explorations in mining"
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THE vital statistics of Connecticut f
1874 show that there were Ia, ,450 brit
and 5000 deaths-the former total beiI
1868 more than has been reported in al
previous year; but ia deaths from chill
birth and diseases incident thereto Q
CURED. Consumption caused the me
deaths, 1,153, pneumonia coming ne,
with $50; smallpox killed 56 dyspeps
seems TO be on the decline, deaths fro
z disturbances of the digestive organs ha
ing fallen from 459 in 1872 to 422 in 1S
and 346 in 1874, Violence carried off 3
people, by homicide, by lightni
and 72 by drowning-the latter an unus
ally large number. There were few
marriages in 1874 than for ten years pa
4,694, but more divorces, 492, miscondu
desertion, cruelty and intemperance bel
. the chief grounds for the latter.
a. - II
THE reported losses by fire during
month of May were. In New York Il
Brooklyn, $61s,600; in the United Stat
exclusive Of these cities, $S,127 200;
gregate. $s,745S00. Losses in Uni
States during first five months of this "
reported, $3S,004,500 These facts, in c.
necton with the fact that the gross ca
ings of the nation are $1,000, 600 900, nj