Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-07
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Mr.. SAMUEL SLOAN has been elected
President of the Michigan Central Rail-
road Company.
SPEAKER KERR's physician speaks
hopefully of the recovery of his patient
but Mr. Kerr himself remains quite de-
spondent.
MISS HARRIET MARTNEAU, the fa-
nous English authoress, died at London
few days ago. She was seventy. -four
years old.
ALBERT H. WYMAN, late Assistant Treas
urer, has been appointed and confirmed as
Treasurer Of the United States, Uice John
G. New, resigned.
THE Right Rev. George d. Cummings,
Senior Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, died at his residence, in Luther
vile, Md, recently, of inflammation of
the bowels.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Michigan for the nomination of candi-
dates for State officers and for Prcsiden.
tial electors has been called to meet at De-
troit on the 9th of August.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Hoylehouse, of
Springfield, Mass, was fatally burned a
few days ago, by the explosion of a can OF
Kerosene oil while she was trying TO kin
die a fire in the kitchen stove.
SEVEN States will hold elections before
the Presidential election in November
Maine, Vermont and Kansas will vote in
September, and Ohio, Indiana, West Vir.
ginia and Georgia in October.
DURING the month of June 1857 1884 in
legal-tenders, being eighty per cent. of the
new National currency issued during the
same period, were destroyed. This leave:
the outstanding legal-tender circulation al
$500, re, ,2s4.
THE Irish National Rifle Association
has appointed the following gentlemen tC
represent Ireland in the Centennial match
es in America: Fenton, William Rigby
johnson, Ward, Joynt, Cooper, Goff
Greenvile, Millner, Pollock, Young anC
John Rigby.
LOUISE HAWTHORNE (AIrs. Morton, o.
New York;, a well-known actress, acci
dentally fell out of sixth story window
of the fremont House, Chicago, a few
mornings ago, striking on the stone pave
ment below. Her body was terribly
mangled, and her death was instantaneous
RECENT dispatches from Augusta, Me.
say Mr.. Blaine's family physician con
sidered his nervous prostration create
than had been supposed. He prescribeC
absolute rest, entire abstinence from cor
respondence, and says Mr.. Blaine will b,
unable TO take any part in the Presidential
political campaign.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has recent
ly decided that the " City Tax act" unde
which taxes were levied and partially col
lected in Chicago in 1873 and 1874 is un
constitutional This renders the lega
scollection of delinquent taxes for thos
years impossible, and the city will be
loser to the amount of over 81 ,000, 900 o.
back taxes.
g,
p A FEW evenings ago, Orson \. House,
,nOtedsdivorce lawyer residing near Law
renee ation, N. j., quaTeled with hi
stofNkon4k The wife and mother interfere
10 sa lef boy, when House beat an,
Hl|&t nArs and threatened to shoot tn
tty fannfered Mrs. House brok
away esid gettihg a revolver shot her hus
bSAAdead, as he was, as she supposed
about to shoot the boy
THE monthly debt statement for Jun
shows the public debt to have been, o
the7sl -H'Vt., $2,21s, $1,000 Cash i
Treasury-Coin, $73 ,5S4; currency
$4,000, ,142; special deposits held for re
demgtlaR ofn nGeTtiassies q deposits, $3a
cash in TreasI pos, ,430, ,345. Decreas
during June, S3,ssK, 1897 Decrease sine
June 30, 1915, $29haa8sI,
THE National naiAbcratic Commilte
has chosen A. s. Hewitt. Of New Yorl
Chairman, and F. o. Prince, of Mass
chusetts, Secretary. The Executive Con
mttee is composed of John g. Priest, {
Missouri; NJ NJ. Ham, of Iowa; Georg
l.. Miller, of. Nebraska; VIM. Ii. Ba
mum, of Connecticut; Miles Ross, of Ne
Jersey; NJ. w. Rqpson, of North Carol
ma; John G. Thompson, of Ohio; Wn
l.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, and VIM. ]
Bates, of Tennessee.
THE decision given by Judge DykmG
in the case of Moulton Us. Beecher, argue
at Poughkeepsie, has been reversed |
the New York Supreme Court, thus gi
ing Mr.. Moulton the right TO bring actio
An appeal can be taken by Mr.. Beech
To the Court of Appeals. A recent Ne
York dispatch says the committee a
pOlnteu Dy lne ltle AuNlsory OOunCh
Plymouth Church to select a commissiC
for the investigation of the charges or eV
dence in the case of Mr.. Beecher, III
chosen as such commission, Judge N
thaniel Shipman, of Connecticut; Ho
Asahel Finch, of Wisconsin, Judge S.
Gookins, of Indiana; Hon. Jonathan
Sargent, of New Hampshire, and Jud
Joseph O. Knapp, of Iowa.
WashingtOn's Appearance.
ONCE heard my father, in priva
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