Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-12
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charged with the larceny of the $l2 600 pack
age recently stolen from the cash-room.
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The passenger agents, at a meeting at New
York on the I'd, determined upon the follow
ing advance in passenger rates upon the
trunk lines: New York to Cleveland, IS to
S11; Toledo, $40 to 1880; Detroit $40 to
$l2; Chicago, sl3 to SIS; st. Louis, SIT to
S2S: indianapolis, $12 to $l7; Louisville,
SIS to $40; Cincinnati, Gil to SIG.
David Dudley Field was on the I'd elected
to Congress from the Seventh New York Dis
trict, to fll the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation Of Smith Ely, Jr. His majority was
$40.
The New York Legislature convened on
the I'd. George b. Sloan was elected Speaker
of the House.
In an interview with New York Herald
reporter, on the Sd, Hon. VIM. A. Wheeler
declared that the "great issue of the day
shall and must be settled by the strict carry
ing out Of the letter and spirit Of the Con-
stituton. Congress- cannot investigate
whether Louisiana has gone for Tilden or
Hayes. The action Of the Returning Board
ia final and conclusive"
Eph. Horn, the well-known minstrel, died
at New York on the Sd.
The mines at Lykens, Pa, were discovered
to be on fire ON the lst, and all efforts to ex-
tinguish the flames were unayailing AS the
only means, Bear Creek WAS turned on the
Sd and made to flow into the slope. About
800 men are thrown out Of employment and
the damage done cannot be repaired in
year.
The Presbytery of Newark, n. j., on the
Sd, by vote OF sixteen to twelve, found Mr.
Lee guilty of violating the Scriptures by al
lowing wome n to preach in his pulpit.
8. 3. Bright, ex- President of the suspended
City Bank Of Harrisburg, Pa, and his two
sons, one the ex-cashicr, have been arrested
on the charges OF conspiracy to dcfraud, of
embezzlement and of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses. The bank failed with
liabilities of $3.50 900; assets $4,000.
At the Republican Legislative caucus of
the Maine Legislature, on the 4th, Hon. Jas.
G. Blaine was unanimously nominated for
U. 8. Senator by acclamation.
The Montreal exprcss train on the Grand
Trunk Railway was thrown from the track
at Gilead, Me-, on the 4th, by the engine
striking a snow bank. The entire train went
over an embaukment fifteen feet high.
Mitchell, brakeman, was fatally, and the en-
gneer, brakcmen and baggsgc'master badly,
injured. None of the passengers were killed
The price of gold in New York declined on
the 5th to lO61S-the lowest since November,
1873.
Edwin W. Major, convicted at Nashua, N.
| H., In December, 1875, of poisoning his wife,
1 ~ II ia
scaffold he declared his innocence.
The Boston Board of Trade on the 5th
adopted a report taking strong grounds
against the adoption of silver basis.
The proprietor OF the New York Herald
j. G. Bennett, WAS assaulted on the street In
New York on the Sd by the brother of his
former faRcs, Miss May. 49,
For the week ending. on the 9th the bank
average Of gold in New York was 5000 OoC
higher than the g7eenbsck average, for the
Arst time since the original issue Of green
backs in 1852
Mrs. Charlotte DeForest Egbert, sister o.
the late Commodore Vanderbilt, died at hel
residence on Staten Island, on the 4th, OF
pneumonia. She was eighty-hyc years ole
on the 2Sth ult
The steamship Amerique, of the TrsnsRt
lantic line, from Havre to New York, wen
ashore at three a, m. of the 7th near Long
Branch, N. ]. Three OF the crew Wer'
drowned. The vessel was in charge of I
pilot.
Charles j. Brent, the eItradlted Louisvill,
forger, arrived at New York from England
on the 7th.
The funeral of Commodore Vanderbilt
took place on the 7th. Services were hell
In the Church of the Stranger, New York
and then the body was conveyed to the oil
Moravian Church at New DOrP, statel
Island, where second service was held
after which the remains were deposited II
the Vanderbilt vault adjoining the church
The attendance at the funeral was immense
The steamer Seminole, of the Boston
Savannah line, eollided with the steame
Montgomery, from New York for Havana, o.
the morning of the 7th, about forty miles o.
Cape May, cutting her down TO the waite
and sinking her in few minutes. The SEE
ond officer, eight of the crew and four Spar
ish passengers went down with the Mon
gOmery. The saved arrived at Boston o
the Seminole on the Sth.
Miles Ogle, one Of the most notoriou
counterfeiters in the country, and an accoH
pliee, Johnston, were arrested on Pa
Handle train on the 7th by U. 8. Detectiv,
Plates, spurious currency and $1,000
counterfeit notes were found on their pc
sons. They were committed to Jail at Pitt
burgh in default OF $4,000
james G. Bennett and Mr. May fought
duel on the 9Th at slaughter's Station, De-
! near the Maryland boundary, and 1t was r
! ported at midnight Of the sth that May WI
seriously wounded. Mr.. Bennett had arrive