Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-30
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


MATTHEW NOBLE, the well-knov
English sculptor, is dead
THE Spanish Senate has adopted d
new Constitution, by vote of 1877 to 1
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEW Sc
his resignation to the President on d
2lst.
IT is stated that the number of deaf
from the plague in Bagdad, during Ma
was 1922. 20.
THE Rev Henry Ward Beecher's salaI
rs pastor of Plymouth Church, Brookly
has been fixed at $4,000.
The Illinois Democrat. State Convel
tion 10 nominate a State n lcket is
be held at Springfield on the 9th
July.
RoBERT DALE OWEN was recently ma
ricd, at Lake George, N. Y, to a daught,
of the late Martin A. Kellogg, of Hartford
Conn. -
JAMES BAIRD, of Scotland, the millior
aire iron-master who recently gave 81
100000 TO the Scotch Church, di fe'
days ago.
THE'President has nominated Senate
Lot NJ. Morrill,, of Maine, to be Secretar
of the Treasury, and the nomination wa
at once confirmed by the Senate.
AT Philadelphia, roeeutly, Goldsmit
Maid trotted three heats against time
making the first heat in 2:17%, the Sec
ond in 2.14, and the third in 2171S.
BY an accident to the mail train on III
Saragossa & Barcelona Railway, in Spain
II few days ago, seventeen persons wer
killed and thirty-seven injured.
PosTNAsTER-GE JEWELL has invitct
the postmasters of the larger cities to
conference in Washington upon the nev
law reducing appropriations.
BY a kerosene lamp explosion few
evenings ago, Mrs. Larry McCarty ant
four children, of Ogdensburgh, n. j., wer
badly burned, the mother and one daugh
ter dying soon after the accident.
THE New Hampshire Legislature hat
elected E. II. Rollins (Rep.) to succeed
Mr.. Cragin in the United States Senate
The vote stood: Senate-Rollins, 8
Sinclair, 8. House-Rollins, 200; Sin
clair, 40.
IT stated that the mother of the late
Sultan of Turkey instigated Hassan tC
assassinate Avni Pasha, and furnished
him with all the necessary information o.
the Minister'S movements by means ol
spies whom she employed for that puI'
pose.
A BAND Of masked men entered the
Boone County (Ky) Jail, at Burlington
on the morning of the Esd, and took
thercfrom Smith Williams, a colored
man accused of numbering white man
last fall, and hung him to tree by the
roadside. A volley of bullets was then
fired into the hanging body.
JAMES c. REED has published le,.-.s
New York announcing himself as the au-
thor of the "Favo" dispatch to Josiah
Caldwell asking him to forward the cal
gram vindicating ex-Speaker Blas
Reed says that he was formerly CaldwC
confidential clerk, but is now simply
friend.
Four members of the Cincinnati Black
Hills party, who we're reported to have
been massacred on the way out, reached
Sioux City few days ago, en- route for
home. They deny having met any Indi-
ans. They say the only mines paying
anything were in the vicinity of Dead
wood and Whitewood,' and they were all
taken. N -'''..
AN Eastern paper having published an
item stating that the silver quarter dollars
having &C. c." under the eagle are coun-
terfeit, an exchange says the statement
is unfounded, those two letters being
the mark of the Carson City mint.
Another distinguishing feature is the diff
ference in the size of the stars, those on
the coinage of the Carson City mint being
larger than those on the coinage of the
Philadelphia mint.
NJ a ioa,,AI kn
President Grant invited the people of the
United States, in addition to the usual
Observances, to mark the recurrence of
the Tooth anniversary of our existence as
Nation by public religious ceremonies
and devout thanksgiving to Almighty
God for the blessings bestowed upon us
during the centenary of our existence,
and humbly to invoke a continuance of
His favor and protection"
GEN. SHERMAN has ordered the Centen-
nial anniversary of the Independence of
the United States to be observed by the
army as follows: At each military post
and camp provided with artillery and
ammunition, salute of thirteen guns will
be fired at dawn, and also, at the close of
the day, and a National salute will be fired
at meridian. Post commanders will pre-
scribe such additional inexpensive observ-
ances, such as parades, etc., as they may
consider appropriate to the occasion.
A Spider Epidemic.
LAST Sunday Mr.. Thomas Walsh, mas
ta.. - Al. I o,.s....lI. D.