Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
TnE New York Democratic State Coz
vention is to be held at Saratoga on ii
9Oth of August
Tue recent Democratic State Convel
ton of Tennessee nominated Gov. Port,
for reelection. Lg-.
b. F.. BUTLER is candidate for Con
gross in the Seventh Massachusetts Di
trict.
THE parties accused of completely /
the Hamburg riot have been before Judp
Maher, at Aiken, 8. o., and given bail /
81 900 each.
JOSEPH BROOKS has been nominated fc
Governor of Arkansas by the regula
Republican State Convention
JAMES G. HILL, has been appornte
Supervisory Architect of the Treasury
He was formerly Assistant Architect.
PRTNcE MILAN, of Servia, has recent
been forced to pledge the crown Jewels b
secure Vienna banker for the loan o
$4,000 forms.
A COLLISION recently occurred on tn
Somerset & Dorset Railway in England
between London train and an empty ex
cusion train, by which twelve persons
were killed and thirty injured.
THE Independent State Convention Of
Connecticut is be held at New Haver
on tho 18th of September, to nominate
candidates for Presidential Electors anc
Congressional and State officers.
AN attack was lately made upon
French mission chapel in the city of Nine
Kooe, in China, by an armed mob, during
the celebration of a mass. The priest ano
many of his congregation were killed.
THE Centennial Commission have voted
TO admit all persons to the Exposition on
the last two Saturdays of each month, on
payment of twenty-five cent note, in
stead of fifty cent note, as heretofore.
TnE Republicans of the Third Maine
Congressional District have nominated
Edwin Frye to I'LL Mr. Blaine's unexpired
term in the House. Mr.. Blaine was pres
ent and made speech in the Conven-
tion.
A NEW circular has been recently issued
by the British Admiralty in relation to
fugitive slaves, in which commanders are
instructed to entertain no demand for the
return of fugitives on the ground of
slavery. a
A YOUNG daughter of John Bailey,
living near Providence, r. l., was, a few
evenings ago, pouring kerosene oil from a
can upon fire in stove, when the Gus
tomary explosion followed, and the girl
was burned 10 death.
HOBBS KERRY, the Missouri train rob-
ber, has confessed and given away the rest
OF the gang ON condition Of uncondition-
al pardon. He says his associates were
Clel Miller, Chadwell, the three James
brothers and the two Youngers.
KEHoE, chief officer of the Molly Ma
guire order in Schuyll1ilLCounty, Pa, and
Canning, chief officer of Northumberland
County, together with six other prominent
members Of the organization, have been
found guilty of assault and battery with
intent to kill one VIM Thomas.
RICHARD BARREs OAKLEY, manager
and proprietor of the COOPERATIVE Credit
Bank of London, England, which scheme
proved failure, and who was adjudicated
a bankrupt in January last, has been
found guilty of fraud and sentenced TO
five years penal servitude.
THE number of admissions at the Cen
tennial Exposition at Philadelphia, from
May 10 to August ga period of three
months-amounted 2,s60,000. The cash
receipts at the gates were 1865, 800. There
was also large revenue from licenses and
other sources, making an aggregate of
more than million dollars received into
the treasury.
Nh. BEECHER's counsel have replied TO
the complaint of Mr.. Moulton in his suit
for malicious prosecution, denying most
of the allegations contained in the COM
plant, and asserting that the defendant
(AIr. b. did not request the District At
torney to enter a not. pros. in the indict-
ment against Mr.. Moulton. The case is
to be tried in the fall.
HALLETr KILBoURNE, who refused to
testify before the House Real Estate Pool
Investigating Committee, and was kept in
duress for such refusal, has entered suit
against the Speaker of the House, the
Sergeant farms, and members of the
Real. Estate Pool COMMITTEES, claiming
$3.50, 600 damages for injuries sustained
by reason of his imprisonment.
The Tramp Business.
THERE are two sides to the tramp busi.
ness. The scamps who are prOwling about
the country, refusing to work, but neglect
ing no opportunity to steal and commit
other crimes, deserve to be severely dealt
with, and should have no encouragement
from any quarter But it should be re-
membered that for three years times have
been exceptionally hard, Factories and
furnaces have stopped; mechanics have
stopped business, and honest and indus.
trious men have found it impossible to gel
work to do Every week or two our city
working people are told to go into the
country, where there is work enough al
fair wages for whoever will do it, and the
words of the ancient philosopher, " &c
West, " are perpetually dinned in the poor
laborers' ears. These people start for the