Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-21
ItI CURRENT / { m PARAGRAPHS.

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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
sifar RepdBiican National Convention
is 70 be held in CINCINNATI on ting, IAN Of
next juno stsAaO bnn uah
JoIN LoTnRoP MOTLEY has been elected
Foreign gtssociate of the French rAcsd-
emy Of Moral and Political Science.
ADSIsAI. KaADnE, Russian Minister of
Marine, died recently, and Vice Admiral
Lessowski has been appointed his sue
MRs. ANDREw JOHNSON, widow Of ex-
President johnson, died recently at her
daughters residence, near Greenville, Ten
ness ce. lie..t. l... -sa
Two COTTON. MILLS, one at Manchester,
and the other at Ashley, England, were re-
Gently destroyed by fire, involving loss
of over $5OO,OOO.
CEDAR RAPTDs has been selected as the
place for holding the next Iowa State
Fair, which is to begin on the second
Monday in September. sa8 Vi
JOSEPH LAPAGE hes been convicted OF
the murder, at Pembroke, N H., of Josie
Langmaid, and sentenced to be hanged on
the 10Th of January, 1877.
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ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the death,
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, of Maj Gen.
Gordon Granger. He died of apoplexy
and was abotit fifty years of age.
GEo. s. BANGS, superintendent Of
the United States Railway Mail Service
has been appointed by President Gram
Assistant United States Treasurer at Chi
cago. $3.50
THE Hon. John Wilson, formerly Com
missioner of the General Land Office, ant
Third Auditor of the Treasury, died il
Washington few days ago, aged sixty
five years. .ErLs nrfi
TnE, Democratic National Committe
will meet in Washington on the Pod o
February TO fix the place and time fo
holding the next National Democrati,
Convention. a7Ha wEaEG
Tue English National Rifle Association
has accepted the challenge of the Amcri
can Rifle Association TO compete in
match for the championship of the worl
during the Centennial.
o. A RECENT Washington dispatch state
that Secretary Chandler has appointed
commission TO examine intot the suspende
pension cases and TO direct paymer
wherever no actual fraud barred the grar
of pension. ,fl.hs
y Sin JOHN III. GLOVER, the newly-aI
pointed Governor of Newfoundland, r.
Gently arrived in Paris for the purpose
settling the differences between Franc
and England in relation 10 the NowfounC
land fisheries.
ACCORDING TO recent Washington tel
gram the House Judiciary Committee ha
agreed to present constitutional samenC
ment fixing the Presidential term of offit
at four years, and thereafter forever NAL
ing the incumbent of the Office ineligib
for re- election.
INFoRMATIoN received in New York {
, the 14th leaves little doubt of the sinkir
in the Irish Channel of the American sh
Harvest Queen and the loss of her enti
crew Of thirty men. 1t is thought Il
. disaster was caused by collision wi
the steamer Adriatic, early on the NOR
ing ortie 31st ult.
The Memphis appeal of a recent da
states that few nights ago body of d
quised men took four negroes from {
iail at Friar's Point, Miss, and shot the
10 death. The mob was composed
about fifty men, half of them being CO
ored. The victims had been guilty
murder, arson and robbery.
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RECENT special from Laramie Gil
Wyoming, announces the discovery, abe
twenty.six miles west of that place,
what is claimed to be the richest gold mi
ever discovered on this continent. Ii
said hat only the deep SHOWS in the moul
aims in that neighborhood prevented
the people in the surrounding count
rushing in there in search of gold.
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The Fatal Thirteen.
An old proverb, whose origin dates
back into antiquity, exists that when tn