Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-16
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


for the ensuing year were assigned as fol
lows: President, Buchtel College; Vice
President, Oberlin College; Secretary
Heidelberg College; Treasurer, Ohio
University. The next contest will prob
ably be held at Tiffln, in February, 1878
A YOUNG lady named Butcher, resi-
dent of Clifton, was fatally burned al
Middletown on the 9th. She was stand
ing in front of the CRATE, when her dress
caught fire, and she was in a moment
enveloped in flames. She attempted tc
extinguish them, but could not do so
and before assistance reached her she
was badly burned, and had inhaled the
flames, so as to render her recovery i'm
possible.
PHILIP KAvANAUGH, a native of Ire
land, and the oldest citizen in that par
of the State, died on the 5th at the resi-
dence of his daughter, in Zaleski, VintoI
County, at the advanced age of 105.
THE following is the full text of the
Silver Coin bill introduced in the HOUSE
on the 9Th:
That silver coins, equally with gold, in the
proportion Of sixteen grains of silver to one
OF gold, shall be legal tender in the pay
ment of all debts and demands throughou
the State: Prouided, That, in case differ
ent ratio between the two metals is hereafter
established by theFUnited States, then and
thereafter coins of silver and gold shall be
legal tender in the proportion so established
by the Government OF the United States
This act TO take effect July l, 1877.
A GREAT temperance revival is il
progress in New Lisbon. Over 1,00(
persons have signed the pledge.
r. B. MCPHERSON, the brother Of the
late Gen. Mcpherson, died at Clyde or
the 9th ult.
Gov. You've on the 9th appointed Rod
ney Foos, of Columbus, private secre
tary, Uice Lee, resigned; John L. Murray
of Cincinnati, executive clerk; w. W
Bond, of Columbus, Supervisor of Public
Printing; r. NJ. Stimson, of Marietta,
Public Librarian.
On the morning of the 9th a German,
middle-aged, name unknown, was found
dead in the east corridor of the State.
House at Columbus. The man had fol
some time been in the habit of sleeping
about the State Capitol, but no one knew
his name, or where he came from, and
no papers were found on his person by
which he could be identified.
AT the annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin.
cinnati g. indianapolis Railway Company
st Cleveland on the 7th, four Directors
were elected: L. NJ. Heubley, of Cleve.
land; r. NJ. Shoemaker, of Cincinnati;
H. r. Baltzer, of New York, and B. S.
Brown, of Columbus. The board reap
pointed the officers of last year.
A YOUNG man named Davis was killed
at Coal Run, on the 9th, by another young
man named Rumble, under the follow.
ing circumstances: While practicing for
a school exhibition one scene required
one scholar to stab another. Rumble
stabbed at Davis breast protector, and,
missing it, penetrated Davis heart, caus-
ing instant death.
THE following are the points, briefly
stated, in the bill amending the Legal Ad-
vertising law passed last winter. The
amended bill passed the Senate on the
8th inst:
Sec. provides that publishers of newspa.
pers shall be allowed to charge for all adver-
tisements or notices required by law to be
published by any officer; all publications
known as legal advertisements, for the first
insertion one dollar per square, and for each
additional insertion fifty cents per square
a fractional square to be estimated at the
same rates for space occupied. Advertise
ments containing tabular or rule work, an
additional so per cent may be charged for
that portion of said advertisement contain
ing such tabular or rule work.
Sec. provides for the publishing of cleo
tion proclamations, time for holding courts,
Treasurers notice of rates of taxation, bridge
and pike notices and notices to contractors
in two newspapers of different political
prin ciples in each of the several counties OF
the State, provided two such may be printed
therein. Existing laws relating to the pub
lication ofnotices of delinquent tax and for
feited land sales and advertiser ments are not
to be affected.
Sec. leaves the publication of all or any
part of said advertisements to be published
in German papers discretionary with the
Commissioners of the county.
See. provides that square shall be con
stituscd by 800 ems, and all legal advertise
ments must be set in compact form, without
any unnecessary head lines, displays OF
blanks. Calculations and measurements to
be made in the type used for setting the
same. II larger display than two line bre-
vier is used in headline, it shall not be paid
for out of the county treasury.
Sec. provides that il a publisher shall
render a false measurement and present a
account for payment, willfully and
with intent to defraud, he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, IL found
guilty, shall be fined in any sum not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars, and stand committed until
paid.
See. requires publishers to furnish Coun.
ty Auditors with such information as will
enable them to accurately measure the ad-
vertisements TO be paid for, and then II such
Auditor shall measure falsely and fraudulent
ly such advertisement, and pay the publisher
accordingly, he shall be held responsible for
all moneys SO overdrawn from the county
treasury, and it is made the duty of the
Prosecuting Attorney TO institute proceed
ings in the name Of the county TO recover the
amount so falsely or fraudulenuy obtained,
and when it shall be so recovered to be paid
back to the person or fund so defrauded.
An amendment provides that in cities con-
taining population of 300 900 and over the
price paid per square for legal advertising
Shall be fifty cents for the first insertion and
twenty-five cents for each additional inser-
tion.
SAMUEL H. AUSTIN, late manager at
Toledo of r. G. Dun & Co.'S mercantile
agency, committed suicide in that city
on the 10th by shooting himsek. No
cause is assigned.
A GENERAL free fight between citizens
and railroad men on one side and tramps
on the other took place at Delphos on
the 9th. Fifteen tramps undertook to
board freight train going east. The
train men prevented them, and fight
commenced. They were fast getting the
better of the railroaders when about
twenty citizens turned in to help. In
twenty minutes the tramps were routed.
One tramp was struck on the head with
a large club, fracturing his skull. The
wound will probably prove fatal. An
other had an ear cut off, and there were
numerous black eyes on both sides.
ALL the freight and passenger depots
on the Columbus 81 Toledo Road have
been completed.
THE Court. House at atZanesville, said tC
be the finest in the State, is completed
1t cost, exclusive Of furniture, ETC.,
$233, 900.
The following letter was received a
Columbus on the 11th in reply to tele
gram of inquiry sent to Gen. Garfield Al
to his candidacy for the vacant Senator
ship;
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