Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-14
EPIToME Of THE WEEK.
CONDENsep TrlEeRApHIC NEWS.

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II was also reported that the Porte had or
dered all his iron.clads to prepare for an
expedition to the Black Sea and the Al
banian ports.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9th
that Hamilton, Richardson & Whitney,
dry. goods jobbers of Boston, had failed,
with liabilities placed at $3.50, 900. Two
failures were also reported in New York
city, one of them being Hunting s. Earle,
manufacturing jewellers. o. ~ 81.
THE Ohio State Agricultural Conven-
tion adopted a resolution on the 9Th urg-
ing Congress to grant reasonable subsidy
to the Centennial Exhibition.
THE recent Republican State Conven-
ton of New Hampshire nominated Per-
son G. Cheney, of Manchester, for Gov
ernor, and William A. Pierce of Ports
mouth, for Railroad Commissioner. Res
olutions were adopted favoring specie
payments; revenue tariff with incidental
protection, and true reconciliation with
our Southern brethren; declaring against
a third Presidential term; approving OF
the present National Administrations IA
voring the proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States declar-
ing that no money raised by taxation in
any State for the support of public schools,
or derived from any public fund therefor,
shall ever be placed under the control of
any religious sect; condemning the action
of the Democratic majority in the Ma
tional House of Representatives in its
dealings with manned Union soldiers for
merly IN the employ of that body.
SPAIN has created commission to take
charge of Spanish products at the Phila-
delphia Exhibition.
THE Paris Presse of the 9th contains an
account of terrible landslide in Isle Re
union on the 18th of December. Sixty
two persons were killed and many in
jured. A large number of buildings and
plantations were destroyed.
JOSEPH BoRK, the detaulting City Treas
urer of Buffalo, returned to that city on
the 9TH and surrendered himself to the
authorities, and was held in bail bonds of
$50, 900. He promised, if permitted, to
assist in administering his estate so as to
pay all claims.
Gov. AMEs, of Mississip pi, in his re-
cent message to the Legislature calls at
tention to the late State election, recites
alleged cases Of violence growing out of
the political canvass, and says such vio-
lence had the effect TO intimidate many
voters. He attributes the cause of the al
legged intimidation and troubles to the
race question and the efforts of the whites
to reassert their old supremacy. He rec
ommerds the modification of the funda-
mental laws Of the State so as to bring
about better feeling between the races.
The State finances are reported as unpre-
cedentedlY favorable.
THE recent Louisiana Democratic State
Convention adopted series of resolu-
tions declaring that the usurpation of
the Government of the State of Louisiana
through the perversion of the functions of
the General Government is an evil which
weighs heavily on the people of this
State, and is a constant menace to the per-
petuity of representative institutions I"
that the Wheeler adjustment had no refer
ence whatever to the elections of 1879, and
was expressly limited to two contested
seats in the State Senate and seventeen in
| the House; that the memorial cf the peo-
pie of Louisiana, praying for relief
at the hands of Congress, be again
presented to that body; favoring return
to specie payment as soon as it can be
done without material injury to the inter
ests Of the country. A memorial to Con-
gress protesting against the Kellogg Gov
ernment and declaring that Nc Emery and
Penn are the official heads of the State
Government was also adopted.
L. Q. G. LAMAR was on the 9th nomi-
mated for United States Senator by the
Democratic caucus ofthe Mississippi Leg
islature.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople on
the 7th states that the Grand Vizier had
rejected the scheme of foreign mediation,
and was reported to have said to the Aus
trian representative who presented it that
the Sublime Porte would give the peoples
of the provinces all the necessary guaran-
tees for reform. 1t was reported that
Montenegro had dispatched troops to the
frontier, had negotiated loan of 81 ,000,-
000-and had contracted with an American
firm to deliver $4,000 rifles and sixty
cannon in March.
AMONG the failures reported on the 7th
were those of Easton & Mines banking
house at Fall River, Mass Charles
Suthers, a cotton-spinner at Oldham,
Lancashire, England, for 1000, 900;
Philip Stiner, tea merchant of New
York, who had eighteen stores scattered
throughout the city-liabilities $13s, 600,
assets S3S,O00, Wonderly & Co., lumber
men, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, with liabili-
ties of over 5000, 900.
A CoLoRED man named Frank Scott
was hanged at Memphis, Tenn, on the
7th, for the murder, in December, 1874,
OF an old negro for about ninety cents
which the latter owed him. He made a
short speech on the gallows, concluding
BY saying that the cords were cutting his
arms, and that he would rather be hang
ing. Bin Williams (also colored) was
hanged at Bartlett, Tenn, on the same
day, for murder, he denying the crime to
the last. AT Jackson, Tenn, also on the
7th, Milton Mclean was hanged for the
murder of man named Pope.
A REPORT that Austria was preparing
for war was authoritatively denied on the
9Th.
| WHILE the Prince of Wales and his
party were hunting wild boars near Luck.
now, India, on the sth, Lord Darlington
had his collar-bOne broken.
| A MADRID telegram of the 9Th states
that there had been heavy fall of snow
in the. province of Guipuzcea, which had
greatly impeded military operations. The
authorities had issued a notice to mariners.