Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED rELEGBAPHlc NEWS.

made q statement before the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs on the 29th. He
emphatically denies that he was corruptly
interested in selling worthless mine to
English capitalists, and says he will be
able to prove that he bought and paid for
the shares he holds under an honest con-
viction of their value; that he sustained
serious loss from the investment; that the
failure of the mine was owing to misman-
agement, and that, properly worked, it is
as valuable, in proportion, as it was orig.
inally represented TO be.
lT was reported from Yankton, D. T.,
on the 2Sth that a man named George
Henckel had just returned from the Black
Hills, bringing 5000 worth of gold. 1t
was mostly scale gold, of large size. He
had one nugget weighing twenty dollars.
Gov. KELLOGG, of Louisiana, addressed
an order to the District Attorney of Baton
Rouge, on the 2Sth, instructing him to
take proceedings in the courts in relation
to the recent troubles there. The Gov
ernor says he is informed that George p.
Davis, Parish Judge, and B. F. Buregard,
State and Parish Tax Collector, had been
driven from the Parish in open violation
of the law. The Tax Collector was ap.
pointed some three years ago, and is a
colored man. The Judge is constitu-
tional officer, elected by the people.
THE Ohio Republican State Conven-
ton, held at Columbus on the Goth, nomi-
mated the following State ticket: For
Secretary of State, Milton NJ. Barnes; Su-
preme Judge, w. w. Boynton; Member
of Board of Public Works, James c.
Evans. Delegates TO the National Con
vention were chosen, and a platform was
adopted, favoring an honest and economi-
cal administration of the Government, and
retrenchment and reform in the public
service; recognizing gold as the true
standard ofvalues, and declaring that that
policy of finance should be steadily pur-
sued which, without unnecessary injury
to business or trade, will ultimately
equalize the value of the coin and paper
dollar; instructing the delegates to the
National Convention to support Gov.
Hayes as a candidate for the nomination
for President of the United States.
THE Pennsylvania Republicans held
their State Convention at Harrisburg on
the 29th and selected Delegates to the
National Convention and adopted resolu-
tions reaf1irming the platform adopted at
Lancaster last year; demanding the ex-
posure of official dishonesty and the pun
ishment of the guilty; denouncing the
course of the Democracy in the Southern
States and in Congress, and presenting the
name of Gov. John F. Hartranft to the
consideration of the Republicans of the
Union for nomination for the Presidency,
and instructng the delegates to the Ma
tional Convention to give him united
support for the nomination.
IT was reported at London on the Goth
that the Russian press had changed front
in regard to the Turkish question, and de-
msnded that Herzegovina should be ceded
TO Montenegro. Vienna dispatches of the
same date say that committee of Bosnian
refugees had sent kilograms TO the three
Emperors, entreating them in the name of
God not to send them back to Turkey.
The Turkish Pacifcation Commissioner
had issued a proclamation granting refu.
gees a month to return 10 their homes,
after which the property of the absentees
would be confiscated.
THE Vermont Republican State Con.
vention was held on the Goth, and Dele
gates to the National Convention were
chosen. Among the resolutions adopted
was one opposing the repeal of the Re-
sumption act and demanding the speed
lest return to a specie basis of values and
currency. The delegates to the National
Convention are uninstructed as to can
didate for the Presidency.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the retirement of 1888, IA, that being
eighty per cent. of the new National Bank
circulation issued during March.
STREcKEIsEN, BIscHoFF & Co., we'll
known London shipping merchants, have
failed. Liabilities 100000.
A LETTER from Gov. Ames was read in
the Mississippi House of Representatives,
on the Goth, in which he states that he had
had in contemplation for some time the
idea of resigning his official position, and
that if the articles of impeachment against
him were dismissed he would feel at lib
erty to carry out his desire in this respect.
The House then adopted-79 to 10-a res
articles, and communication from Mr..
Ames was then read formally resigning
the Governorship. The resignation was
accepted, and Col. j. NJ. Stone, President
pre- tenn. of the Senate, was installed as
Governor.
THE St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press OF
recent date says Mr.. w. G. Robertson.
resident of that city, had just returned |
from the Black Hills, and adds; "The re- !
port he gives of the Hills is not calculated |
to induce any one from this section of the
country to go out there. The story told
by him is in substance that the country is
full of trouble, dissatisfaction, want, suf-
fering and, in some places, some gold,
but thus far not much"
A CAIRO (EgypD dispatch of the 3Oth
ult. says the plague had made its appear
ance at Bagdad, and that there were ten
deaths daily. All arrivals from the Per-
sian Gulf were quarantined for fifteen
days.
THE large water-works reservoir, near
Worcester, Mass, containing nearly 800,-
900, 600 gallons of water, gave way on the
evening of the Both ult,, and the escaping
waters rushed down the ravine with ter
rible roar, in a solid mass twenty feet
high, sweeping everything before them
for distance of nine miles. No lives
are reported lost, the people having re-
ceived timely warning of the impending
calamity; but the damage to property is
immense, reaching many millions of dol
lars In amount. Buildings, fences, roads,
ETC., were carried away by the flood.
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS were recov-
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