Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-01
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

town, Pa, was run over by switch
engine at Dayton, on the goth, and
killed
TWELVE THOUSAND persons were pres
ent at the State camp-meeting at Mans
field on the Goth.
WILLIAM G. WILLIAMS has been APP
pointed Internal Revenue Gauger for the
First District
Hon. JoHn II. HUDSON, of Sandusky,
was nominated for Congress on the 22d
by the Democratic Convention of the
Tenth Congressional District
FIFTY-FoUR head of cattle belonging
TO A. B. Denune, about five miles north
of Columbus, were found poisoned on the
morning of the 22d. Four were dead
and eight more died during the day. The
cattle in an adjoining field were all right.
How or who did the poisoning is un-
known.
A DANGEROUS form of fever is prevail
ing in parts of Pickaway County, the
vicinity of New Holland being visited by
it. John Wesley Tarbill, young farmer
of that section, died oft after four days
acute illness with spasms and delirium,
and the remains had 10 be inferred the
same day, so rapidly did decomposition
ensue.
WILLIAM A. KNAPP, of Columbus, was
ON the 23d appointed Chief Clerk of the
Postoti1ce Department.
AMELIA STooP, a four-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. Stoop, who resides near
Columbus, was so frightfully burned on
the 21st, by setting her clothes on fire
with matches with which she was play
ing that she died on the 23d.
DR. THOMAS F. MOSES, of Urbana Uni
versity, and DIR. j. A. Mclean, have un-
oarthed several complete skeletons of the
ancient mound builders in the southeast
corner of Champaign County. The skel-
etons were found ten or twelve feet be-
low the top of the mound, inclosed in a
sort of wooden sarcophagus, and some
of the bones are very large and in a re-
markable state of preservation. One of
the skeletons is that of very young
child. They have been removed and are
now in the possession of the Scientific
Association. A copper ornament and
flint implements were found with the re-
mains. The explorations will be con-
tinued.
FROM the tabular statement recently
published by the Auditor of State, ex-
hibiting the numbers of the different
species of live stock in the several coun-
! ties of the State for the year 1876, as
returned by the several County Auditors,
it appears that Hamilton County has the
| greatest number of horses, 10, 9,206; Ash
tabula has the greatest number of cattle,
35, ,227; Licking County has the greatest
number of sheep, 14,495, and Clinton
! County the greatest number of hogs,
47,222. The decrease in the number of
horses in the State from 1875 is 1853;
cattle have decreased SO, 455 head; sheep.
245, 760, and hogs have increased %, S51
head.
JOHN ABBOTT, two-year man from
Mansfield, escaped from the Penitentiary
on the evening of the oath. He and
some other prisoners were taken into
the prison yard to get some water, and
there being misunderstanding among
the guards as to the number of men
taken out he was not missed at the time.
Procuring a ladder Abbott scaled the
wall and made his escape.
THE Democrats of the Sixth District,
in convention at Napoleon on the Gath,
nominated Hon. Frank II. Hurd for re-
election to Congress by acclamation.
THERE was no quorum of members of
the Democratic Central Committee pres
ent at -in-Bay on the Gath and the
meeting was adjourned to the 25th.
TWENTY SEVEN of Denune's herd of
cattle, near Columbus, which were re-
ported poisoned on the 22d, had died up
to the gath. No clew has been discov-
cred to the perpetrator of the outrageous
crime.
FIVE THOUSAND persons attended the
Clarke County Fair on the Gath.
!, THERE was balloon ascension and
wedding at the Dayton Soldiers Home
on the gath.
THE Owens, Lane & Dyer Machine
Company, at Hamilton, have resolved to
dissolve the corporation and wind up its
business. A statement of the condition
of the company and an application for a
decree of dissolution have been filed in
court. The statement shows total liabil-
tiles $40, 400 SS; assets $430, ,07819. II
is the intention of the company to pay
its debts and save its establishment
machinery, ETC., so that when times get
, better it can take hold and go along as
! usual 1t is understood that the compa-
{ ny lost 500, 600 last year in its efforts To
: keep its business up to the old mark,
3 The factory at Hamilton will be kept
4 open, with sufficient workmen to furnish
9 repairs or any other work that may offer
' GEN. A. T. WIKoFF on the Goth sent
to the Governor his resignation as Adju
Q tant. General, in order to be able to de
vote his whole time to his position az
Chairman of the Republican State Exec
utivc Committee. The resignation wa:
! accepted with very flattering indorse
ment, and Capt. Charles w. Karr, OF
| Cincinnati, appointed to fill the vacancy
JOHN ABBOTT, the man who escaped
J from the Penitentiary on the Gath, was
e captured on the 25th at White Sulphur
t Springs, in Delaware County.
9 THE exploration of the mound il
+. Champaign County in which were recent
: ly found the skeletons of mound builders
4 was continued ON the 25th, and resulted
in the discovery of four more perfec
a skeletons, together with a lot of pear
. beads, one hundred conch-shaped sea
A shells found around the neck of child
a a hammer.shaped stone, blue and highl,
c polished, and plates of mica. The bOdie
b had originally been covered with bari
3 and separated by logs, and on top o
/ these was quantity of charcoal an
e ashes. The mound is seventy-fve fee
e in circumference and fifteen feet high
/, and the shaft has been sunk intoit twelv
feet and the excavations extend seyera
It feet out each way from the shaft. Will
e the work was being prosecuted the cart
IS gave way and DR.. Thos. f. Moses wa
e buried under several feet Of earth. III
i. was almost suffocated before he was duI
g out, but fresh air revived him. He wa
much bruised and his face somewhat Gu
n by falling earth, but his injuries are no
# serious.
r THE Prohibition Convention of tn
r Twentieth District on the Goth nominate'
q w, IL. Doan for Congress.
n The President on the 2Sth appointe
# Oscar Eaton Postmaster at Bryan.
e THE funeral of Rev. John Dillon,
5, minister for ihirty-three years in tn
1t Methodist Church, and during the wa