Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

- AiAaaas ~ 49, - w. If-tai. 1T. N. q
y TnE Wisconsin and Iowa legislatures
have adjourned sine die.
The wife Of ex-senator Schurz died in
New York Oily u few days ago.
TIE Virginia Democratic State Con
vention will be held on the oath of May.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the death of
Rev Robert Milan, d. d., Bishop of CAL
cutta.
THE Ohio Greenback State Convention
is TO be held at Columbus on the 9th of
April.
TIE Democrats of Ohio will hold their
State Convention on the 18th of May, in
Cincinnati.
q A GALL has been issued for the New
York Democratic State Convention TO
meet on the 26th Of April.
GEN. GEoRoE LEWIS COOKE has de
ciincd the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Rhode Island.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention has been called to meet in
Boston on the 2Sth of April.
ROBERTS, the ex-President of Liberia,
died at Monrovia on the Goth of last
month, and was buried with military
honors.
The Massachusetts StatU Senate has
adopted the Woman Suffrage amendment
to the State Constitution, by vote of
eighteen to ten.
FOURTEEN charred bodies have been
recovered from the ruins of the almshouse
at Norwich, Conn, which was recently
destroyed by fire.
FERDiNAND FmaLIGRATH, the distin-
guished German poet, died recently at
his home in Cannstadt in Wirtemburg,
aged sixty years.
DAVID A. WELLS has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Third Connecticut District, to succeed
the late H. H. Starkweather.
A BLOCK of shipping houses in Port
land street, Manchester, England was
burned few mornings ago, involving a
loss of several hundred thousand pounds.
BUNN's OPEBA House at Springfield,
H., was destroyed by fire few days ago.
and three adjoining buildings were badly
damaged Loss estimated at about $l70,-
OO0.
HALLocK, who stole the $47, 600 pack
age from the cash room in the Treasury
at Washington, about year ago, has
been sentenced to four years imprison-
ment.
THE GTeenback State Convention of
Michigan, TO elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention and nominate Presi.
Dental electors, is to be held at Jackson
on the Sd of May.
THE Surgeon of the Turkish army re-
Gently estimated that the Turks had lost,
by battle and by the diseases incident to
war, a total of $1,000 men since the be-
ginning of the Herzegovinian insurrec-
tion.
THE Bank of the State of New York,
New York City, has suspended. The
capital of the bank was $2,000,0 900. 1t is
said the derositors and note-holders are
fully secured, and that the stockholders
will be the only losers.
The Democratic State ticket of Rhode
Island is as follows: For Governor, Gen.
G. Lewis Cooke; Lieutenant Governor, b,
0. Slocum; Secretary of State, John S.
Price; Attorney General, o. $. Lapham+
Treasurer, w. p. Congdon.
RETURNS from all the towns in New
Hampshire but two give Cheney (Rep.) a
plurality over Marcy Dem.) tor Cover
nor, of 1903 and majority of 3,273. In
the Legislature the Republicans will have
a majority of thirty -four on joint ballot.
PRESIDENT GRANT has Withdrawn from
the Senate the nomination of r. p. Der
ickson as Internal Revenue Collector for
the First Illinois District, and nominated
]. d. Harvey, of Chicago, for the posi-
ton. The Senate has confirmed the latter
appointment.