Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-02-18
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGsApHIC NEWS.


the Treasury Department. The Senator
is about sixty-four years of age, and
his bride is represented to be nineteen,
A FIRE in New York city on the even
ing of the 9Th destroyed thirty buildings
in the block bounded by Grand, Howard,
Broadway aud Crosby streets, involving
loss of about $4,500,000. Three fire.
men were killed and four seriously in
jured by falling walls. This is the
most destructive fire in that city for fif-
teen years.
THE contest for the Mayorship of st.
Council for several months, was decided
on the evening of the 9th by vote of
ten for James Fl. Britton, the present
Mayor, and sixteen for Henry Overstolz,
the contestant Mr.. Overstolz was in.
stalled at 80, and made an address to
the Council. Mr.. Britton has published
card in which he states that he takes eX-
ception to the action of the Council, and
shall continue to perform the functions of
his office until the matter is decided by
proper tribunal.
A WALKING MATCH between Weston, the
American pedestrian, and Perkins, the
English Champion, came off at London
on the 9th. The test was as 10 which of
the two would accomplish the greater
number of miles in twenty-four hours.
Perkins walked sixty-five miles in fifteen
hours and stopped. The prize-a e50cup
,roo oruorrlad m Wnctnr,
TIE two Grain brothers, recently on
trial at Cairo ILL.,, on a change of venue
from Williamson County, have been con-
victed and sentenced to the State Peniten-
tiary for twenty years each. They were
members of the notorious gang of Will
hanson County desperadoes, one of whom
(Marshall Crain) was hanged at Marion, a
few weeks ago.
THE Michigan Prohibition State Con-
vention, to choose delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at Cleveland, is to meet
at Detroit on the god of March.
ACCORDING to a Madrid telegram of the
10th the Government had sent to its diplo-
matte representatives abroad an exhaustive
confidential memorandum upon the con-
dition of Cuba. The circular describes
the causes of the instruction, the charac-
ter of the leaders and the reforms which
will be introduced when it is terminated.
AT the session of the Plymouth Church
Examining Committee on the evening of
which he alluded to unfairness and irreg-
ularities Of procedure, but said he wished
to aid the committee to make the exami-
nation thorough and conclusive, and
would propose the selection of three
men within the Congregational body,
in whose decision the world would
have confidence, before whom only
DIR. .Beecher and himself, with their
witnesses, should appear, when he
(Bowen) would unreservedly give in the
evidence which has ed him to believe in
the guilt of Mr.. Beecher; the parties hear
ing the evidence to be pledged to keep it
profound secret The committee de-
cided not to accept Mr.: Bowen's PROPOSE
tion, because it was not case between
Beecher and Bowen, but case between
Plym outh Church and Bowen, and should
not be withdrawn from the church and
taken before strangers. They then
adopted a resolution calling upon
Mr.. Bowen to state any facts in
his possession in support of the allega-
cations that he had made as to
Mr.. Beechcr. Mr.. Bowen then said that
as the committee refused to give him the
necessary time to prepare a reply he must
withdraw. He then read paper, con-
cluding with the statement that he was
now ready when properly put on trial
before any proper tribunal, or before the
committee, but he must decline at this
notice and in this irregular way to answer
the questions on this occasion. He again
appealed to them while leaving the room
to give him time to prepare reply.
Hon. REvERDY JOHNSON was found
dead in the grounds adjacent to the Gov
ernor's residence, at Annapolis, Md, on
the evening of the 10th. 1t is supposed
that hestumbled and fell over some loose
pieces of coal lying on Ihe sidewalk. His
head struck the edge Of the projecting
base of the wall, producing fracture OF
the skull. The medical opinion is thai
the chief and fatal injury was. n fracture
of the frontal bone, extending from neal
the outer angle of the near orbit upwards
and backwards to the coronal suture
Mr.. johnson would have been eighty
years old on the 21st Of May next.
THE Dutch steamer Rotterdam, from
New York, reached Rotterdam on tho
18th. Winslow, the Boston forger, was
not ON board.
OWEN LINDSAY, convicted of the mur'
der of Francis A, Colvin, was hanged Al
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 11th, He per
sisted to the last in declaring his limo
cence.
On the 10th W. Il. Morrison, Chairman
of the House Committee on Ways anC
Means, sent a note to DR.. j. p. Hamble
ton, Clerk of such Committee, in which
he said he had until recently wholly dis
believed the charge that he (Hambleton
had named son after j Wilkes Booth
but recent developments, which show
such son to have been named or recog
nized by the name of John w. B. Handle
ton, gave at least a semblance of truth Il
the charge; and with but the slightest ap
pearanee of the truth of such charge,
was his (Morrison's) duty to accept Ham
bleton's resignation rendered some TIM
before.
AT the meeting of Plymouth Church
on the evening of the 1lth, a resolution
was adopted referring the whole matte
of the insinuations or accusations of Mr.
Bowen against Mr. Beecher back to thu
Examining Committee, with instruction
to continue the investigation, and to sum
mon MIR. Bowen before them. The com
mittee decided to cite him to appear be
fore thOm on the evening of the 23d
THE burglar who robbed the Nationa
Bank of Commerce at New London