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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
Effects OF Residence Abroad.


Once, on the other side of the water, a
young American lady said she would be
much obliged if we spoke French with
her. for really she had been so long
abroad" tshe had been away for nearly
two years., and had talked French so
constantly, that it was with difficulty she
now spoke English. We suggested the
advisability of practice in the English
tongue if she intended ever to go home
again. The young American who so
soon forgot her own language is dis
tanced by another young American, who,
in a shorter time, forgot the very Gp.
pearance of her papa and mamma. 1t
was on an incoming American steamer,
when she said to a young gentleman
near her: You know Mr.. and Mrs.
by sightI" (Mr. and Mrs. - are her
father and mother, but her dignity
would not allow her to call them so J
Yes" he answered. Well, they will
probably be on the wharf when we get in l..
1t is whole year since l saw them.
viii you kindly point them out9
would not like them to think / didn't
recognize them" alt is wise child, I"
etc., but this is not wise child "by a
large majority. Philadelphia Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
!" Boss TWeed's Revelations.

NEW York, April II.
William M. Tweed sends from the
Ludlow Street Jail to the Attorney Gen
eral proposition reciting that, in return
for liberty and rest, he will yield up all
his property and be faithful witness on
behalf of the people. He says he has
suffered much and long in silence, and
has borne the burden of what others
should have shared. Affected with dis
ease, feeble from age and confinement,
and i'll at ease in mind, he seeks for the
rest and relief he so much and so sorely
needs. He adds that the only basis upon
which he has the right to apply for
leniency and pardon is that he will make
complete surrender of his property, and
full disclosure of his criminal com
panions.
The proposition assumes the nature of
a confession which goes back as far as
1867, when the ring first began to assume
form. 1t gives in detail the story of
various conferences between the writer,
Sweeney, Connolly, Genet, Oakley Hall
and others by which Tweed was elected
to the State Senate, Connolly Comptrol-
Ter in 1867, and Hall Mayor, Jan. 1, 1869
L "
ferred to State Senator Winslow $780,
600 to secure the charter of 1870, which
gave the ring the control of the city and
the support of several influential mem
bers of the Legislature. 1t was Tweed's
understanding with Winslow that the
money was to be divided between Wood
in, Frost, Elwood, Brand, Winslow,
Wood, Blood, Morgan, all of the Senate,
and also with Van PeltOn, Williams,
Crowley, Merriam and Beaman, for their
influence in the Legislature.
The confession gives the circumstances
of the division of spoils between himself,
Sweeney, Hall, Connolly and Woodward.
1t duplicates Garvey, Ingersoll, David
son, Watson, and majority of the
Board of Supervisors. Mayor Halls
proportion was 10 per cent. He shared
throughout in all profits, was in full
collusion with the various details of the
fraud, and was fully aware of the fraud
ulent nature of the contracts presented
for his signature. The document pur-
porting to be a record of the proceedings
of the Board of Audit of May 5, 1870, by
which Mr. Hall, on his trial, secured ac-
quittal on the ground that he acted only
in ministerial character, Tweed says
was manufactured after the exposure.
Hugh Hastings, of the Commercial Ad-
Uertiser, is mentioned as having received
check for 100000, and checks for
smaller amounts at various times. MIR.
Hastings is also credited with having
brought Jay Gould and Tweed together,
| by which alliance the Tammany and
Erie rings were operated to their mutual
advantage. The confession also, ac-
cOrding to the World, says that all tho
painting and bookcases in Recorder
Hackett's house were paid for by the
city,
Tweed gives the names of FIVE persons
! whom he promises. IL immunity is given
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

Mr.. Mitchell, the American geographer, ar
rived at Massawah on the god in a pitable
condition, having been released by the King
of Abyssinia.
An agreement is said to exist between
Austria and Russia.
A London dispatch OF the 23d reports that
the Russian army had advanced to Bucharest.
Russia's finances are badly deranged. The
Russian Charge d'AfIaires and the whole
staff of the embassy and consulate at Con-
stantinople have left for Odessa. Austria
reserves to herself perfect liberty of action.
The Gar and staff arrived at Kischeneff on
the 23d.
A Vienna dispatch of the 23d says IL servia
shows the slightest tendency to insurrection
IL is probable the Austrian army will cross
the frontier. The Servian press are again
hostile. Turkey demands that Servia partici-
pate in the war.
By the explosion of boiler in a -four
mill at Alexandria, Egypt, on the 23d, sixteen
persons were killed and many injured.
At Akhab, IDdia, a serious outbreak of
cholera has occurred. One.fOurth of the Eu-
ropean population died in twenty-four hours
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
Burning Oil,
PETRoLIA, Butler County, p.

PErRoLIA, Butler County, Pa, April 20.
Last evening the lightning struck a
large tank on the Troutman farm which
contained $4,000 barrels of oil. The
tank was torn in pieces and the burning
oil set fire to two other large tanks. One,
containing $4,000 barrels, was destroyed.
The other was extinguished by steam.
The burning oil ran down the creek a
mile, destroying everything in its course.
1t was checked by Ralston's dam, which
was large enough to hold it and stop fur
ther damage.
Twelve oil wells with tanks at the
wells were destroyed. The town of
Troutman, consisting of hotel, two liv-
cry stables, billiard.room and dwelling
houses, was destroyed. A pipe line,
pump station and a number of other
buildings were also destroyed. The A.
600 barrels of oil burned belonged to the
United Pipe Line and will be paid by
pro rata assessment by that line. The
loss in the town of Troutman is esti-
mated at $4,000. The loss on the
twelve oil wells is not known.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

Mr.. SPEAKER-I appear here with mum
ber Of my colleagues for the purpose of TAX
ing our seats in the House. In a caucus of
Senators and Representatives q resolution
was adopted that 1t was useless to further
continue the controversy. We have no apol-
ogies TO make; we have been whipped in the
battle, but have at least preserved our self
respect in an honorable contest, and are pre-
pared row to offer our allegiance to the only
existing Government, and to fairly coop
crate in anything which may be suggested
The Clerk of the Nichols House fur
nished the commission the following
statement of membership.
Total number Of the constitutional House,
100; number returned by the Returning
Board, III; number thrown out by the Re-
turning Board, 3; total, 100. Number of Re-
turning Board members now answering roll
call So; Returning board members dead, I;
number of members elected and not returned
by the board, but whose opponents have
withdrawn and acknowledged their claims,
IL; number elected and now occupying their
seats but not returned by the board o.; mem
bers elected and returned, who have not an
swered TO the call of the House, 13; total,
100. Number answering roll-call to-day:
Republicans, 40; Democrats, "a; total, 106,
senate-Total number, 36 present to-day,
33; absent, 3-Mossrs. Harper. Wakefield,
and Dumont, all Republicans. The Senate
16 present. Democrats,
20 present
Gov. Packard is still in the st. Louis
Hotel with his police force, ten or dozen
members of the Legislature, and his per-
sonal staff, who remain with him to see
the end, which is evidently near.
The commission closed their labors to-
day and left for Washington ria Mobile.
NEW ORLEANS, April g.
Nine more Republican members pre-
sented themselves at the bar of the House
this morning and were sworn in. Early,
returned from West Feliciana by the
board, has resigned. There are now alb
sent from the House but four Republic
an members, and three from the Senate.
Judge Spofford was nominated to-day
by the Democratic caucus for U. S. SEN
ator. The Judge approves the Presi-
dents policy and says as long as he stands
squarely up to that policy he will have
his support
Gov Nichols has issued proclama-
tion in which he says his official honor is
pledged that the carrying out of the
Presidents order for the removal of the
troops on the Gath will result in no dis
turbance. He therefore requests the citi-
zens of Louisiana to pursue their usual
avOcations and abstain from congregating
in the neighboIhood of the St. Louis
Hotel
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
A Good Endorsement.

One of our townsmen being in New
York recently, had occasion to'visit one
of the city banks. A gentleman entered
the bank and, with nervous air, pushed
forward to the principal officers desk,
where he presented note for a heavy
amount and desired to have it dis
counted. The bank officer took the
paper, examined it, and, pointing to the
name on the back, said; "That name,
sir, is not good here; we can't take that
paper" "Then," said the other, 81 am
ruined-ruinedp With hurried glance
at the bystanders, the man was about to
withdraw the worthless note, but an
other gentleman who had been engaged
close by, and who had evidently observed
what was going on, quietly put forth his
hand, took the rejected paper, scruti-
nized it, and, having taken good look at
the man who had presented il, lifted a
pen from the desk and deliberately wrote
under the previous Endorsement: VIM.
ii. Vanderbilt The action was accom-
panied by the simple words: 81 guess
that'll GO" Thenthe seventy.fve million
aire-for he it was-turned hastily away
and the man went about his own business
Henceforth, for him at least, the name of
Vanderbilt will mean something more
than railroads, stocks and bonds.--EI-
leRpiIIe (N ~ Journal. fJ
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
Geographical Work in the United States
in 1876.


The geographical work of the United
States has been more limited than usual
owing to delay and smallness of appro-
priations. The Coast Survey continues
its work; in the Gulf of Mexico careful
soundings have been made, and obser-
vations on the temperature of the water
and the flow of currents, which will
throw light on the Gulf Stream. Trian-
gulations were pushed eastward from
the Pacific Coast Range to the Sierra Ne
vada, some of the triangles observed hav-
ing sides over $50 miles long; a series of
telegraphic determinations of longitude
have been made for the purpose of cor
recting our charts of the West India
Islands, one point at least having been
located on each island. Triangulation
along Lakes Ontario, Erie, and Michigan
has been continued, the topography of
Niagara River completed, many points
determined for the State survey of Michi-
gan, and the elevation of the Great
Lakes newly determined. Lake On
tariO is found to be 30 feet and Lake
Erie 573 SO feet above mean tide ut New
York. Reports of geographical and
Typographical work in Montana, the
Yellowstone Park, Southern Colora-
do, Northern New Mexico, and
Arizona have been issued. The geo.
graphical surveys west of the Tooth
meridian, under Lieut.. Wheeler, have
been continued About 25, 600 square
miles were traversed by the vari-
GUS parties. Some interesting Spanish
mines were found in New Mexico. A
survey was carried on in the neighbOr-
hood of Lake Tahoe, in California. The
depth of the lake was found to exceed
2,200 feet. The examination of the
Colorado River, with reference to deter
mining the practicability of diverting it
from its channel to irrigate the deserts
of Southeastern California, has been
completed. The lowest part of the
desert is 300 feet below the sea, and it
was found that an area of 600 square
miles could be flooded, but constantly
shifting sands would make it con-
tinual expense, and the evaporation
from the surface of such lake would
exceed the water flowing in the Colorado
in dry season. Thirteen atlas sheets
of Lieut.. Wheeler's survey have been
Issued; they are upon scale of
eight miles to the inch, and cover a
large part of Nevada, Utah, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Colorado. The sur
vey of the Territories under Profs.
Hayden and Powell was carried on, and
much has been learned of the region
embracing Colorado, Utah, and South
eastern Nevada. A triangulation party
climbed and measured Blanco Peak,
near Fort Garland, in Colorado, which
if not the highest, is next to the highest
peak in the Rocky Mountains. 1t is
IA, AGA feet high Over fifty of the most
elevated peaks in that range are in the
Colorado, running from 14,500, so close
that the utmost care has been required
to determine which is the highest
Popular Science Monthly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

d
1t is estimated that between $4,000 and
and 10000 persons took part in demonstra-
ton on the nth at London, the object being
to present to Parliament a petition for the
release of the Tichborne claimant, Arthur
Orton. De Morgan, their leader, wrote to
the Home Secretary, who replied that he
would receive deputation on the 18th, and
II good reasons were given he would move
that De Morgan be heard at the bar of the
House.
Prince Gortschakoff dispatched another
circular to the powers on the nth.
Gladstone's health is said to be falling.
Lockhart S Dempster, commission mer-
chants, Liverpool, have failed with s2,5OO, 900
liabilities.
The Turkish Government has ordered
stopped all messages relating to the move
ment OF troops.
The Russian Consul at Rutschuk has been
ordered to depart
There is growing discomfort among the
commercial population Of Italy with the
Governments policy.
The official papers announce that Austria
will only remain neutral so long as its in
terests in the East are not menaced.
Russia is said to be negotiating an alliance
with Persia. All Russians belonging TO the
imperial army have been ordered to join
their corps Immediately.
Hostilities have commenced around Niksic.
Asa B. Foster, the Canadian railroad king,
has failed
At Constantinople no hope Is entertained
of ayertiug war. A Vienna dispatch says the
powers are trying to induce the Sultan to
send delegates to meetthe Gar at Kischeneff
TO treat on the question OF disarmament and
a faint hope Of peace is still felt.
An early bombardment of Odessa is ex-
pected. e"if'i N"9
There is growing feeling in London that
the war win belocalized and Russia and Tur.
key only be involved in the conflict.
The Ropmanian militia and civil guards
have been called out and the order for the
mobilization OF the army issued
A snow storm was raging in Lombardy,
Italy, on the goth, seriously injurlng crops,
particularly the silk,
The Czar left st. Petersburg for Kisch-
enetf on the Goth.
BY the wrecking OF the mail boat plying
between Brest and Ushant, ON the Goth, eight
passengers and the entire crew were lost.
The quarrel between the King of Dahomey
and Great Britain has been settled.
tbs reported that In the event OF war the
! Sultan will command the Turkish troops.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

"A terrible tale of suffering and
starvation among miners in Schuykill
County, Pa, is told in the Pottsville
Chronicle by mine superintendent,
who knows whereof he speaks. He tells
of miners going TO work with empty dip-
ner kettles, not liking to- expose their
poverty who seek solitude during the
dinner hour for fear their real condition
should become known to their fellow
workmen. ~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27
Legislative.


In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
passed d--authorizing County Commits.
sioners to offer rewards for the appre-
hension of horse-thieves; appropriating
$4,000 to the Columbus Hospital for the
Insane; authorizing Probate Courts to
appoint new assignees or trustees of in
solvent estates, when from any cause the
positions shall become vacant; prescrib.
ing the fees of County Auditors; amend
ing the code of civil procedure, by maxi
ing provision for the revival of judg-
ments that have become dormant. The
appointment of Hon. II. P, Buckland, of
Fremont, to be Trustee Of the Soldiers
and, Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia,
was confirmed. In the House a mum,
Der oSlocal bills were passed. The bill
providing for the registration of voters
was passed by strict party vote. The
bill to.authroize the appointment of COM
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

an idiot He also refused to express his
opinion on the political situa tion.
The Suspension Bridge has been reopened.
The New York Journal Of Commerce Office
was damaged S25, 900 by fire on the 23d.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

"A newspaper correspondent writes
that two United States flags stand alone
in a corner of the great hall of the Prop
aganda at Rome. The story is that in
one of the Italian rebellions the leader of
the insurgents planted his cannon before
the Propaganda, intending to destroy it.
The frightened Papal authorities begged
Minister Cass to save the building by the
power of the American flag; neither the
flag of England, France or Austria would
be respected, but the American flag
would. After much hesitation Mr.. Cass
publicly removed his consulate to the
Propaganda and raised the flag of our
Union over its roof. The chief of the
insurgents swore he would not fire on
the flag, made his cannon ready and
moved away. The Propaganda was
saved, and the flags have this honor for
the good they did in the time of peril.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

Among the many gifts presented to
the Emperor William on his birthday
was an immense Brunswick sausage six
feet in height.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

New England thrift was illustrated
in the life of Farmer John COnant, of
Jaffrey, N. H., who has given $10S,OOO
to charity. One of sixteen children, he
bought farm at twcnty-six with 81 $40
given him by his father, and from this
and through judicious, non-speculative
investments he made fortune. lie
married well, studied some at home, went
to the Legislature and ranked high in
the community. He gave $40, 900 to the
Agricultural College, and contributed to
the State Insane Asylum, the New Lon
don Academy, the Jaffrey schools and
churches and deserving poor
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

The manufacturers of the jewsharp
are beginning to get frightened at the
success of the telephone. 1t will drive
their musical instruments out of the mar
ket altogether, they say,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

NEW 1Ohh, Apfll %.
State Senator Winslow testified to-day
before the Senate Investigating Commit
tee that the statement in Tweed's alleged
confession that 100000 was placed in
his hands to secure the passage Of the
charter was false in every particular,
W. II. Hurlburt, editOr-in.chief of the
World, testified that he did not know
Tweed's confession, as published, to be
true; portion of it came from the
Worlds correspondents in Albany, and
the remainder was obtained from per
son in whom witness had confidence.
Witness refused to give the name of his
informant. Ex-senator Pierce testified
that he had no knowledge of money be-
ing paid by Tweed or anyone else to in
fluence votes on the charter. N. j. Wa
.terbury testified to going to Albany in
1870 with S. j. Tilden, A. IL. Green and
o. Ottendorfer TO defeat the passage of
the Tweed charter; they did not succeed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-27

Gen. Sherman having left his Office
early this afternoon did not become ac-
quaintcd with the action of the Cabinet
until evening The letter of the Secre-
tary of War, above mentioned, will be
transmitted to him in the morning and
he will then telegraph it to Lieut.. Gen.
Sheridan, commanding the Military Divis-
ion of the Missouri who will .ive the
necessary order for the removal of the
troops as above to Gen. Augur, in com
mand at New Orleans.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-07-05

COATES KINNEY.-An article has lately been
going the rounds of the papers, to the effect that
Coates Kinney, author of the poem, Grain on
the Roof" was recently killed by lightning, at
Deadwood, in the Black Hills. 1t has br ought
out the fact, among others, that Mr.. Kinney is
still alive and well, at Xenia, Ohio. But the st.
Joseph Gasette still insists, upon the assurance
of one who knew, that Kinney was once "Bo-
hemian" at Sedalia No., and policeman at that
place, and that Grain on the Roof" first appear
ed in frontier newspaper. The Gazctte's inform
ant may have known man named Kinney, but
that is as near the truth as he gets his story.
Coates Kinney never was what is known as
Bohemian" he never lived in. .Sedalia, or in the
State of Mssouri-perhaps the only place where
he has resided, outside the State of Ohio, was at
Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, nearly twen-
ty years ago, where he published paper, in con-
nection with B. Clarke Lundy. He shortly re-
turned to Ohio, where he has been ever since.
And his poem, "Rain on the Roof" did not orig
inally appear in any paper published nearer the
commenced writing, he signed his name Samuel
Coates Kinney; soon after, he shortened it to s.
Coates Kinney; and after he had begun to achieve
fame, he reconstructed it to Coates Kinney, max
ing compound name of it, for which act of van
ity he was much ridculed by the press. This
Improvement in the spelling of q name was but
following the example of Bayard Taylor. Who
first wrote Us James Bayard Taylor then ]. Bay.
ard Taylor, and finally, Bayard Taylor.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-07-05

KIND WORDS For oRPoMERoY.-Pomeroy goes to
Washington next week. He may conclude to
fill one Of the vacancies in the ministry. He is
q better man than half his Republican traducers
in Kansas.-St. Joseph Gazette.
We presume the old man has no designs upon
any vacancy whatever, but no one who knows
him doubts his ability to fill any position he
would accept, with credit. Among the officials
of Kansas or Missouri, either, Mr.. Ga.ette, his
betters are few and far between.-Psblic Press.
We are glad to see q growing disposition on
the part Of the press to speak its honest senti-
ments. A little more courage on the part of the
press of Kansas. and Pomeroy to-day would be
holding position of honor to which he is justly
entitled. A victim of political dead beats and
shysters, and lying traducers; the people long
since set them aside, and now that the heel Of
the assassin is taken from his neck, it is proper
they should take him by the hand and lift him
up.-Osrego IRdepexdeaf.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-07-05

THE STATE OF GoIs;AS KANSAS ,ss.
OFFICE OF COUNT CLERk 4
TRor, July J. 1sT.
NOTICE il hereby given that petition was present
~ ed to the Board Of Commissioner Of D0niphan
County Kansas their meeting the ID day Of July
1s17 asking that road be established at the following
points wt Beginning at the end Of the Township
bridge Of Iowa and Wolf River Townships running thence
in southeast direction about eighty leo rods with the
neapdernes of Wolf River the section line
section four ~ thence the said line about sixty 60D
rods thence in southwest direction about thirty (D)
southeast back the quarter section
line running thence south nearly practicable
the quarter section line Of sections four 90 and nine sl
the Of section nine 9) interesting the road
known the D. N. Conklin road Whereupon the said
Board OF County Commissioners appointed the following
David Reese viewers With ut the
place Of beginning Monday the 3oth day Of July ls
and make due report said Boar af their to &c
held on the 9Th day Of August ISL.
By order Of the Board Of County Commisaionerx.
Attest: CHARLES RAPPELYE
July ;, lsJs-iw. County Clerk.