Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

OOtAbENl hlbhUthI uIOs
AUSTRIA has selected England as arbit,
in the solution of the conflict betwee
Turkey and Servia.
RoYLToN & DIXON, iron ship builder
of Middlesborough, England, have faileC
with liabilities at "a, ,250 900.
THE failure is announced of Cottrell
Babcock, of New York, manufacturers {
printing presses, with liabilities of ovC
$3.50, 900.
MAX. STADLER &c Co., of New Yor
city, wholesale and retail dealers in clotl
ing, have suspended, with liabilities @
$500, 900.
ALL the candidates except those fc
Governor and Lieutenant Governor on til
Massachusetts State Prohibition tick,
have withdrawn.
THE ship Geltwood, from Liverpool fo
Melbourne, has been lost with all on board
off Cape Northumberland, on the sout
coast of Australia.
THE letters of Mcssrs. Tilden and Hen
bricks, accepting the nomination of Pres
ident and President respectively
were given to the public on the 5th.
RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, hostile Indiar
Chief, is reported to have arrived at Stand
ing Rock Agency, with 122 lodges, hav
ing deserted the cause of Sitting Bull.
GOLDSMITH MAID won the free.for- al
race at Buffalo, a few days ago, in the un
precedented time of 2:16, 2:151 ant
2:15. Fullerton was second and Bodinc
third.
Hon. BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indian
apolis, has been nominated for Governor
by the Republican State Central Commit.
tee of Indiana, Uice Hon. G.. S. Orth, de.
clined.
THE grasshoppers are said to have dc.
stroyed all the corn and vegetables in the
vicinity of Denver, Col, and similar raw.
ages are reported in some sections of Min
nesota and Nebraska.
HENRY WATTERsoN, editor of he
Louisville COurier-Journdl, has been
elected to Congress from the Fifth Ken
lucky District, to ill the vacancy caused
by the death of Representative Parsons.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the various sub Treasury Offices
throughout the country to pay out silver
coin in exchange for legal-tender notes,
and in ordinary disbursements of the Gov
ernment.
Mrs. GEN. CUSTER, Mrs. j. Calhoun,
Mrs. G. w. Yates and Mrs. A. E. Smith,
whose husbands were slain in the. Little
Big Horn fight, and Miss Reid, niece of
Gen. Custer, arrived at Chicago a few
days ago, on the way TO their homes.
THE public debt statement for July
shows the following: Coin bonds out
standing, 81 ,606, ,6S4, ,45O; total debt, 81.
17s, 200, III; cash in Treasury, $105, ,249,-
034; debt less cash in the Treasury, So
09S, ,301 ,3l1 decrease during July, 81, 1885,
Obj.
BRUCE YOUNGER, who was recently ar
rested in Missouri on suspicion of having
been connected with the Otterville train
robbery, has been released on a writ of
hdbeaS corpus, it being satisfactorily shown
that he was not one of the gang perpetrat-
ing the crime.
A SMALL row-b boat on Putnam's Pond,
near Whitehall, n. Y, was struck by a
squall and capsized, few days ago, and
of the thirteen persons on board the craft
six men and four women were drowned,
in eight feet of water, about three rods
from the shore.
The Philadelphia mint coined during
last month "a, $50 pieces of gold, valued
at 1858 900; silver, number of pieces, L.
154, 500; value, $25S, 300; base metal,
number of pieces, f35, 900; value, $15,-
150; total number of pieces, 1928, $50;
total value, 1856, ,450.
AID. CULLERToN, who was tried in
connection with the whisky frauds in
Chicago, and convicted and sentenced to
six months imprisonment and $1,000
fine, on the charge of neglect of official
duty while Revenue Gauger, has been
pardoned on condition that he pay the
fine.
A SPLENDID statue of Washington ar
rived at Philadelphia few days ago,
from Leghorn, Italy, having been 10
days on the voyage. 1t is twelve feet
high, cut from one block of marble, and
will be put ON pedestal eighteen feet
high, near the Main Building on the Ex-
position grounds.
MAI. RENO, in his report concerning
the Custer disaster, expresses the opinion
that the massacre was due to Custer's mis-
taking the condition of the Indians. He
supposed them to be flying in retreat,
hence the fatal division of the command,
which gave the concentrated hordes tie
opportunity of cutting the three divisions
off in detail
A Woman Saved by a Pet Dog.
On Thursday last, large white bull,
belonging to Mr.. Patterson, on his farm
near Peabody, in some way got loose
from the stall in which II was tied, and
the men of the family being far from the
house in the field, Mrs. Patterson attempt
ed to catch the animal by approaching it
with basin of salt. This seemed to
work well at first. as the animal, on being
called, came near and bowed its head, as