Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-11-02

There were besides 93 scattering votes The to-
tai vote for Governor was 81 800.
Bishops majority over West 22,6s0
A TERRIBLE accident occurred near
Sandusky ON the 18th. A boy aged three
years, named Charles Graw, fell into a
large pail of boiling water, and being
alone and unable to extricate himself, he
was scalded so that the flesh fell from his
bones and he died in the most excruciat-
ing pain in five hours.
THERE are in Cleveland 40, ,527 chill
dren between five and twenty years of
"a, POS; colored males, 273; white fe-
males, "a, S06; colored females, 240.
THE annual meeting of the State Hor-
ticultural Society is to be held at Raven
ma, Dec. 8, 6, and z.
A MAN who registered as E. s. Smith,
of Western Ohio, hung himself in q
room at the United States Hotel in Co
lumbus during the night Of the 25th. He
twisted spool of cotton into a rope and
suspended himself from a nail in the
wall. Death resulted from strangula-
tion.
JAMES HAMMER, a resident of Spring
boro, accidentally and fatally shot him
self while hunting on the gath.
QUITE a sensation has been created
near Caldwell, on the farm of William
Stats, by a singular phenomena, which
commenced short time ago and contin.
ued till the 18th, during night and day,
with occasional intervals. The manifes-
tations commenced by the overturning
nf Tnilk mana and hunkatS without anr
visible power Mr.. Stats communicated
the strange affair to his neighbors, who
availed themselves of the opportunity of
witnessing these unusual and so-far-un.
accountable demonstrations. People
gathered from far and near to see the Op-
erations, and on one day an audience of
300 people was present and witnessed
these demonstrations. There seems to
be no solution to the mystery so far.
THE Ohio Baptist Association was in
session at Cincinnati on the Goth. The
following named officers have been
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Rev. Charles ID. Morris, Toledo; Vice
Presidents, Rev. II. p Colby, Dayton;
Edward Fuller, Portsmouth; DR. N. S.
Burton, Akron; Corresponding Secretary,
Charles Rhoads, Granville; Recording
Secretary, Henry Sherwin, Cleveland;
Treasurer, Prof. j. A. Gilpatrick, Gran
vile.
OUT of a total of seventy-three deaths
in Cleveland for the week ending Sept.
81, twenty-three were from diphtheria
and eight from typhoid fever.
LEWIS MYERS, Treasurer, and ]. s.
Smith, Auditor, Of Auglaize County,
were arraigned on the 9th at Wapa-
konetta, charged with embezzling $47,-
600 county funds. Myers plead guilty
and was sentenced to three years in the
Penitentiary. Smith was committed TO
Jail in default of $4,000 bail.
The Calf House, at Hamilton, was
burned on the 2Sth.
THERE have been added to the Ohio
Wesleyan University this fall, in both
departments, male and female, 210 new
students. To the university proper, ex.
elusive Of female department, 150 new
students. Total number in both depart
ments, 4Si; in university proper, 36l, OF
whom twelve are ladies, Total number
in ladies' department, 120, of whom 65
are new. The increase in the university
over last fall is 116. The university, al
whole, now numbers mere students
than ever before. Previous to the pres
ent it reached its greatest numbers in
'5S and '65, 420 being the most ever at
tending at one time.
Two UNKNOWN persons entered tn,
house of f. s. McVey, tOll.gate keeper
on the Circleville pike, six miles north
Of Chillicothe. on the night Of the Goth
and shot McVey through the heart anc
his wife through the head, killing botf
instantly, A little girl, the only Other
occupant of the house, hearing the shoot