Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-07-21
EPIT'oME OF THE WEEK.
cuNpENsEp 1ELEeRAPnIc NEWS.

master-General would be accepted, and
the latter thereupon rendered the same TO
the President. The Associated Press says
the most intimate friends of Mr.. Jewell
were unable to account for this ac-
tion of the President, except on the
grounds Of political considerations The
President on the same day appointed Sec
ond-Assis't p. M. Gen. Tyner, of In.
diana, TO succeed Mr.. Jewell. Mr.. Pratt,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, also
resigned on the 11th, to take effect on the
LIST of August. This action is said to have
grown out of his opposition TO the dismiss
al of Special Revenue Agent Clarke and
other revenue officials.
EXCESSIVE heat was experienced IN
Washington on the 10th and 18th. The
thermometer registered f03 degrees in the
shade. Twelve deaths from sunstroke
had occurred since the sth About sixty
fatal cases of sunstroke occurred in New
York City on the 10th, exceeding in num-
Der those of any previous day for thirty
five years, except July 2, 1872, when
sixty eight were reported A number
of fatal cases are reported from other
Eastern and Southern cities. In Phila-
delphia the thermometer indicated 102 in
the shade, and the number of deaths from
sunstrOke was fifteen.
Gov. TlLDEN was formally notified, on
the evening of the 18th, of his nomination
for the Presidency by the st. Louis Con-
vention. He accepted the nomination,
and said he would transmit 10 the commit
tee formal letter of acceptance.
Bishop CHENEY, of Chicago, has been
elected Presiding Bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Bishop Cum
mings
A RECENT London dispatch announces
the failure of John Edward Cooke,
stockbroker, with liabilities of $3.50, 900
and assets amounting to $42 900
DURING the two months ending ON the
evening of the 10th, 2,O1B, LOG persons had
visited the Centennial Exposition, at Phil
adelphia, and the total cash receipts were
1854 $50.
SCLAvoNTc dispatches of the 18th state
that force of 5000 Turks had suffered
defeat on the preceding day in an attack
on the villages of Kerguezc and Tachza,
and been compelled to embark on steam
ers on the Lake of Scutari The Turkish
loss was 400 and that of the Montenegrins
100. Sixty Scvians belonging to one regi-
ment had been shot for cowaulicc at Nisch.
A ACONsTANTNoPLE telegram of the 18th
says Turkey had again defaulted in the
payment of the July interest on her pub
lie debt.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Philadelphia
to the Chicago Jo.rRdL says that on the
Exposition grounds on the 11th seventy
one persons were overcome by the intense
heat and had to be carried to the hospital
in the Landsdowne Valley. Several simi-
lar cases occurred on the 18th, and the
thermometer stood at 10I degrees in the
shade.
A SPECIAL election for Mayor was held
in Chicago on the 18th, and resulted in the
success of Monroe Heath (Rep.), who had
a majority of about 5000 over two oppos-
ing candidates.
NEWS was received in London on the
18th that Z 900 Servian wounded were ly-
ing in villages ON the rivers Sane and
Morana, almost uncared for, owing to the
lack of hospital supplies. The Turks, the
dispatch adds, take no prisoners, and sys-
tematically refuse to give quarter.
A LETTER was received at Washington
ON the 18th from Speaker Kerr, who was
stopping at Alum Springs, Va, in which
he states that his health was slowly but
substantially improving.
President GRANT sent a letter 10 ex-
Secretary Bristow on the 10Th relative to
the latters refusal to testify before the
Congressional Committee investigating
the whisky frauds, ON the ground that
what occurred in the Cabinet was of a
privileged character, and that COM
mittee of Congress had no right to
demand its divulgence. While APP
proving of the propriety of this action on
the part of Mr.. Bristow, the President
begs to release him from all obligation of
secrecy on the subject, and adds that g l
desire not only that you may answer all
questions asked relating to it, but wish
that all members of my Cabinet and eX-
members of the Cabinet since / have been
President may also be called upon to
testify in regard to the same matters"
A DISPATCH from Augusta, Me-, on the
18th says, owing to the excessive heat of
the previous few days, Mr. Blaine's con-
ditiOn had not improved, and his physi-
clan was confirmed in the belief that the
original trouble was of the nature of
sunstroke. A sea.voyage would be urged
as soon as Mr.. Blaine's strength would
bear it,
Gov. HENDRICKS was at Saratoga, N.
Y, on the 18Th, where he was formally
notified of his nomination for the Vice
Presidency. He said he would reply in
few days. 1t was understood that he nc
cepted.
No RECENT news had been received
from Gen. Crook up to the night of the
18th. Gen. Sheridan was in constant
communication with Fort Fetteman, the
nearest point to where Crook was supposed
TO be operating.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Vienna, on the 14th, says that the quarrels
of the Servian leaders interfered with the
efficiency of the army. 1t was reported
that "a, 900 Russian volunteers were ready
to march to the assistance Of the Servians
us soon as they could get the permission
of Roumania TO cross her territory. A
Belgrade special of the same date says the
Turkish base of supplies had been broken
up by the Servians, .fQc Y tfJ .
OK the 14th, a deputation from the
British Christian League waited on Lord
Derby to urge upon him the necessity of
protecting the Turkish Christians from
harm. The latter said it was the inten-
tion of England TO stand by Turkey.
A LONDON dispatch of the 10th says
thhty-four deaths had already resulted
f,o,,, tlo 90 tka bo;Iar of a.