Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-24
EPIToME- OF THE
CONDENSED 1ELEeRAPAlc NEws.

PARIS dispatches of the, 18th repor
another inundatiun of the Seine. n Paris
several of the more important bridges
over the river were threatened, and-tra
over them had been prohibited. The
Government tobacco factories and the fac
tories at Alfortville had been flooded
AT st. Maur, 200 houses were filled with
water TO the depth of several feet. During
The gale of the 10Th, at Cambray, eleven
persons had been killed High water was
also reported along the Rhine, in Ger.
many.
AT a caucus of the Democratic members
of Congress, on the evening of the 18th,
the Payne Currency bill was agreed upon,
by vote of 60 TO 4G.
A MASS Greenback Convention was held
at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18TH Richard
Schell was elected permanent President.
The resolutions adopted declare opposi.
ton to any Reputation of the Nation g
obligations, but assert that the act of Con-
gress of March, 1869, promising to pay
the 5-20s in gold, is gross yiOlation of
the contract whereby said bonds were is
sued, and said law was passed by fraud
that the effort now making by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to pay fractional cur.
rency in silver should be Immediately pro-
hibited, as silver is worth less than curren-
cy; that legal-tendcrs are standard of
value, while gold constantly fluctuates for
various reasons; thatthe amount of money
required by the people depends on their
intelligence; that legal tenders should pay
the bondholder his interest and all other
debts, private and public, including
duties on imports; that the act pledging
resumption in 1879 is a failure, and its
immediate repeal is demanded; that Con-
gress should enact laws for the encourage
ment of labor, agriculture and all other
Industrial interests, and for the develop
ment of the Nations resources and wealth
by the people to the exclusion of monop-
olies.
THE Italian Minister of Public Instruc.
tion has ordered the Vatican University TO
be closed, on the ground that it is an lille
gal establishment.
MUCH damage has been done IN many
sections of the West by severe storms OF
wind and rain which occurred on the 18th
and 1Gth. Heavy Hoods are reported in
some localities.
A PARIS telegram of the nth says that
on that day an arch of the railway bridge
over the river Ill, near Lauterturg, had
given way under the pressure of the high
water. A passenger railway train from
Mulhcuse TO Strasburg, which was cross.
ing at the time, was precipitated into the
water, the cars falling upon each other
and being dashed to pieces. Every pas.
senger was either crushed to death OF
drowned. Up TO the morning OF the 18th
thirty corpscs had been recovered.
SEVERAL. of the parties indicted in Chi.
cago for whisky frauds entered pleas Of
guilty ON the 17th. Among the number
were A. &. EIesing and Jacob Rehm.
THE steamer Isabel went ashore on
Pendever Rocks, between ST. Ives and
Lands End, England, on the night of the
18th. All ON board-thirty nine in num-
ber-were lost.
THE centennial anniversary of the evac
uation of Boston by the British troops wa;
duly celebrated in that city on the nth
Business was generally suspended.
WORD was received in Washington or
the 18th, from Caleb p. Marsh, who was
then in Montreal, that he and his wife
would return to the former city if Presi
dent Grant would issue full pardon tC
them. This the President decided to do
and dispatch was received from them OF
the 18th stating that, full immunity hav
ing been promised them, they would leav,
at once for Washington.
EX-MINIsTER SCHENcK arrived at New
York on the 10Th, from Europe.
KING ALpHoNso and his army entered
Madrid on the morning of the Goth annie
the cheering of the inhabitants and shout
of "Long live the Pacifcator King.
Over 140, 900 strangers participated in tn
festivities.
INTENSE cold throughout England anc
Scotland was reported on the Goth. Ii
the latter country great quantities of snow
had fallen, and railroad traffic was gen
orally suspended.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 20u
states that the Treasury Department woul,
receive during the week, from San Fran
cisco, fourteen tons of silver coin TO pre-
pare for the circulation of silver. Thi
will amount to $500,000 The amount @
silver in the vaults Of the Treasury wa
less than $30,000 Orders were receives
at the Department on that day for 1920
600 fractional currency. The amount O
fractional currency still in the vaults wa
s., 900, 900, though none had been printe
since the middle of last month. Sine
that time the acquisitions upon the Treas
ury from banks and other offices for frac
tiOnal currency had amounted to So
O00, 900.
A LARGE fire occurred in Charleston
S, G, on the Goth, destroying all tn
buildings on both sides of King stree
from Columbus TO Line streets, and el
tending up the King street road for three
quarters of mile, the houses, fence
and farm buildings along the road bein
burned. Hundreds of persons were rer
dered homeless by the fire, which indicte
pecuniary loss of over 100000. InsuI
ancc $s5, 900.
A SEVERE snow-storm extended over
large portion of the South on the 20tl
Good sleighing was reported at Memphis
the snow being ten inches deep, Weathe
unusually cold for the season. a.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-.