Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-09

connect England and France has been
commenced at Langatte, France.
Ar London, on the 3tst ult., on the
application of the Government, Winslow
was again remanded until after June Is.
]. d. CAMERON, the new Secretary of
War, was sworn into Office on the 1st, and
at the same time Judge Taft qualified as
Attorney-Gcneral.
SENATOR ANTHONY has been nomi-
mated for reelection to the United States
Senate by the Republican members of the
Rhode Island General Assembly.
A WOMAN named Wilhelmina Weick
has been sentenced at Buffalo, N. Y, to
be hanged on the 2lst inst, for the MUIR
der, last September, of her step-son.
AT Logansport, Ind, a few days ago,
Mrs. William Monahan used kerosene oil
TO hurry up fire she was building The
usual explosion followed, and she was fa-
tally burned.
THE Iowa Episcopal Diocese has unani-
mously elected as Bishop the Rev. DR..
Stevens Perry the President Of Hobart
College, Geneva, N. Y, DR.. Eccleston, of
Philadelphia, having declined
THE suspension is reported Of three
large pork packing firms Of Louisville,
KY, with aggregate liabilities of about
81 ,000,0 900. 1t is said the failures were
caused by outside speculations in futures
Of cotton and other articles, and not by
losses on regular packing.
A SPECIAL train started from New York
at one o'clock on the morning of the 1st
to make the run TO San Francisco in
eighty-eight hours. 1t reached Chicago
In twenty-one hours-twenty-ive minutes
ahead of schedule time, and the quickest
time ever N ade between the two points.
LETTERS have been received at Cincin-
natl from members of the two expeditions
from that city to the Black Hills, which
show that the reports Of the killing OF
several of Col. Stones party were false.
Both expeditions arrived safely at Custer
City without being molested by Indians
THE passenger fares on the railroad
routes TO the East have been recently re.
duced to the following figures: Between
Chicago and Boston, $17; New York,
$16; Buffalo, $12; Philadelphia, $14.40.
A corresponding reduction has been made
between St. Louis, Cincinnati, ETC., to the
above-Damed Eastern points.
THE American Sunday-school Union
recently held its fifty-second anniversary
at Philadelphia. The record for the past
year shows that 1,236 new schools were
formed, and 3,216 other schools visited
and aided, which have total membership
of Dos, PAS. This work has been done in
thirty.one States and Territories.
THE fasIspecial train from New York
for San Francisco arrived at the latter
city at 9:25 on the morning Of the 4th
making the distance in eighty-three hours
and thirty-lour minutes, nearly four hours
ahead of the schedule time. On one por.
ton Of the road the train made sixty mile:
in fifty-seven minutes.
The monthly debt statement shows the
public debt to have been on the 1st $2,.
213,6l6,417. Cash in Treasury-coin,
500, ,624 ,766; currency, $9,2S5, ,70s; spec.
lal deposits held for redemption of GER
tilcates of deposits, $34 1886, 900; total
$40, ,205, Ala. Debt less cash in Treasury
81, lob, ,320,743. Decrease during May
$4,G17,5l5.
A RECENT New York dispatch says q
large number of counterfeit five dollar
bills were in circulation in that city and
Brooklyn. Among them were counter
feits on the First National Banks of Chi
csgo, Ill. Paxton, H.; Canton, Ill.
Peoria, ILL.,; Aurora, H.; Galena
H.; Louisville, KY, and on thu
Traders National Bank of Chicago. The
best bills are on the Chicago banks-First
National and Traders National. Some
of the others are fairly executed, but moi
sufficiently so as to deceive any one who
is on the look out for the "queer." There
is no SUCH bdnh rs lIlt rlIst NdllOHdl VI
Galena, III.
PETER COOPER, in replying to the letter
informing him of his nomination to the
Presidency by the Greenback Convention
says: "There is bare possibility, il
wise counsels prevail that the sorelY
needed relief from the blighting effects o.
past unwise legislation relative to finance
which the people so earnestly seek, may
yet be had through either the Republican
or Democratic party, both Ofthem meeting
in National Convention at an early day
therefore accept your nomi
nation conditionally, expressing an earn
est hope that the Independent party may
vet attain its aims, while permitting me t.
step aside and remain in that quiet which
is most congenial to my nature and my
time of life"
The Coming Fourth in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, June 2.
THE programme for the Fourth of July
celebration has been finally decided upon
At sunrise there will be chimes and bells