Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-17
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


THE wife of Senator Burnside died at
Providence, II. l., few days ago.
JUDGE TAFT, the new Secretary of War,
has been sworn in and assumed the duties
of the office.
THE Prince of Wales is expected to
reach home on the Goth of next month,
from his trip through India.
WAR has been declared between Japan
and Corea, and the sea-ports of the latter
power have all been blockaded.
,HAILsToNEs four inches in circumfer.
ence are said to have fallen at Dubuque,
Iowa, during a recent severe storm
THE Iowa Senate has for the second
time rejected the proposed Woman's suf-
frage amendment to the State Constitu.
ton.
GEN. FRANCIS FEssENDEN (Rep.) has
been recently elected Mayor of Portland,
Me, by a majority of 526 in total vote OF
5,948.
THE Iowa House of Representatives has
recently passed by Il vote of fifly-five to
fory-two-a bill TO restore hanging for
murder.
THE Mississippi State Senate has, by a
vote of 80 to 4, found Lieut. Gov Davis
guilty as charged in the articles of i'm
peachment.
THE California Republican State Con-
vention to select delegates to the National
Convention has been called TO meet on the
26th of April.
THE jury in the civil suit of the City of
New York against VIM. NJ. Tweed have
rendered verdict In favor of the plaintiff
for $6,537, lit.
THE Judiciary Committee of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature has reported against
Mr.. Parton's petition for special act le-
galizing his recent marriage.
GEN. j. d. WEBSTER, United States
Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago,
died few days ago, after a brief illness.
He was sixiy-four years of age.
THE house of wealthy farmer named
Crosby, in Northern New Jersey, was
robbed, few nights ago, of $4,000 in
money and other valuables by masked
burglars.
IT is said Gen. Sherman has recently
stated TO a st. Louis reporter that he
would decline a nomination for the Presi-
dency, "even if it were unanimous and
enthusiastic.
THE Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Lansing on the
-24tL of May. The Iowa Republican State
Convention has been called to meet at
Des Moines, May 81.
IT is reported from New York that
Daniel Drew, the famous Wall-street OPP
orator in railway stocks, has gone into
bankruptcy. His liabilities are estimated
at 81 500, 900, partially secured.
MEssRs. EDMUNDs and Morrill,, of Yer
mont, Morrill,, of Maine, Christiancy, of
Michigan, and Paddock, of Nebraska,
are the Republican United States SEN
ators who voted against the admission
of Pinchback.
HEAVY snow-storms have recently oc-
CURED along the line of the Central Pacific
Railroad. The track was blocked for
twenty seven hours, the drifts in some
places being one hundred feet deep.
A COPENHAGEN (Denmark) dispatch of
recent date says intelligence had just
been received there that the inhabitants of
the Westmanna Islands, small group
lying to the south of Iceland, were dying
from starvation. The islands contain 500
souls.
JosEPHUs SooY, the defaulting State
Treasurer of New jersey, has been SEN
fenced to the State Prison for three years,
and until the costs of the prosecution are
paid. He wept bitterly on hearing his
sentence. He is over sixty years old, and
has a family who are highly respected.
A RECENT San Francisco dispatch says
it was reported there that arrangements
had been completed for the Government
to have the product of the Virginia and
California mines for the year and apply 1t
to the resumption of specie payment. j.
G. Flood stated that the sale was under.
stood to have been consummated, but all
the details were not yet settled.