Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-08


in gold per word.
The receipts from internal revenue f
Ihe fiscal year up to the 2d were $29, ,299
oS7, and from customs $44, ,425, ,714.
PRESIDENT GRANT has recently di
posed at auction of his blooded stock c
his farm near st. Louis. ExceedingI
low prices were realized,
THE celebrated trotter "America
Girl" dropped dead on the track wbiI
trotting a race at Elmira, N. Y, on the Q,
She was valued at $4,000. I'D
THE Board of Education of Chicop
have recently abolished the reading of III
Scriptures and repeating of the Lord
Prayer In the public schools of the city
IHE Rev. DIR. George b. Porteus. lat
pastor of All-Souls' Church, BROOKLYN. N
T., was recently drowned in Long Islam,
Sound by the oapsizing ola boat in whicl
he was riding.
THE official canvass of the votes ON tb
New jersey constitutional amendment
shows that all received a majority of NOR
than 10000 except the twelfth amendment
known as the Give County act" whicl
received majority of 6,734.
The Secretary of the Treasury ha,
given directions for the retirement O
$3O4, ,5S4 of outstanding legaltenders, tha
amount being so per cent. of the Nationa
Bank circulation issued during the pas
month. Until further orders the Outstand
ing legal'tenders will be 1878, ,041 1874.
IHE Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice that the principal and accrued in.
tcrest of $50 bonds of the issue of june
80, 1864, TO the amount of So, SOC, 900, and
of registered bonds to the same amount
will be paid at the Treasury at Washing.
ton on and after Jan. l, 1876, and that in.
tcrest on said bonds will cease on that
day.
THE Bank of California resumed opera
tions on the 2d, the opening of the doors
being loudly cheered by large concourse
ofpeOple. Large amounts were deposited
in and drawn from the bank during the
day, the former exceeding the latter by
about $750,00O. Announcement was
made that $7,93O,OO had been subscribed
to meet the Indebtedness and liabilities of
the bank and continue its business.
ACCORDING TO the ruling of the Post
Office Department, anything whatever,
except the address, printed or written
upon the side of postal-card intended
for the address renders such card unmail-
able, and the same cannot be legally for
wardcd unless prepaid at the letter rate
three cents. But if by inadvertcnce it
reaches its destination without such pre-.
payment it is chargeable with double the
letter rates, under the provisions of the
Postal laws.
THE report for August and September
of the Agricultural Department gives the
condition Of wheat harvested for all the
States as 70 per cent. in quality-poorer
than for several years The oat crop is
superior in quantity and quality, and
mostly secured in good condition. OF
barley the average for the country is 85.
Potatoes are 10 per cent. above the aver
age. The wool crop is full average weight
or little above in nearly all the States. To
bacco has fallen 10 per cent below an av-
eragc. Hops-New York and Wiscon-
sin, which together produced from three.
fourths to four-fifths of the entire crop,
have largely increased their acreage.
MIR. AND Mrs. JOHN Mccormick, of
Newark, N. j., went from home the other
day and left their three cbildren-twins
of five years and a three year old-to keep
house. The fire went out, and the little
housekeepers set about rekindling it.
They rcplenished the stove with wood,
poured kerosene on it in the usual way,
and applied match. The top of the
stove was Immediately blown off and the
children were enveloped in flames Some
ofthe neighbors got badly burned help
ing the little sufferers. When the parents
came back, an hour or two aflcrward, they
had two children fewer in the house, one
of the twins and the youngest child being
blackened corpses.
THE Massachusetts Republican State
Convention met at Worcester on the Goth
ult., and Vice President Wilson was
chosen TO preside. Alexander II. Rice
was nominated on the third ballot for
Governor, receiving $40 out of 90S votes.
The rest of the ticket is as follows: For
Lieutenant Governor, Horatio G.. Knight;
State Treasurer, Charles Endicott; Auditor,
julius L. Clark; Attorney-G General, Chas.
X. Train; Secretary of State, Henry b.
Pierce. The platform adopted favors a
speedy return to specie payments and
declares against imitation; opposes the
continuing in Office of a Presidential in
Cumbent for more than two terms; eulo-
gizes President Grant for the independence,
courage and good sense manifested by him
in the discharge of his duties as Presi-
dent, and expresses an earnest desire that
the people of the South "may enjoy to
the fullest extent those inestimable bless.
ings to which we all owe our prosperity
universal free education and security Of
personal rights under local selfgovern-
ment-without the necessity of any interfer.
ence from abroad"
THE following is the public debt state
ment for the month of September;
Six per cent bonds. ds............ Il ,O7O, $40, 100
Five per cent. bonds ..,........... 632, 782, 150
Total coin bonds 81, ,7Os, ,431, $50
lawful money debt. bt..,,..,..,....... 100000
Maturcd debt Observation-Disclosures. 20,013,O50
Legal-tendor notes es............... 374,OlO,956
Certificates of deposit. ........... 0O66OOOO
Fractional currency..... .......... 4O,7S3,575
Coin certificates. Observation-Disclosures, 1l,645, 900
Interest, .,...,.,......,...,.,..." 30,30i,364
Total debt. bt.,..,............... Ss,sSS, ,7i9, 1906
Cash in Treasury
Coin. n....................,.... S67 1888 3i6
Currency ,.... .......,,...............a 4,700,3 ,352