Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-25
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

divided among the several FUNDS as tOl-
lows: General revenue, $7S, ,838. .85; asy-
lum, S112, ,999. 80; sinking, 1921, ,5S1 SO;
school, 800, ,269.99 OF the whole
amount there is cash in the Treasury,
S206, 6S9. 81; Auditors drafts, 1927 900,
making total of $503, ,689.67.
Miss BELLE TEMPLE, aged seventeen,
was fatally burned at Columbus on the
10th. She was carrying pan of ashes,
which contained some live Goals, out
of the house, when her apron was
blown on the Goals and took fire. The
flames at once spread and injured her
fatally.
A GRAND reception was given at Co
lumbus on the evening of the 10th by
Hon. George H. Pendleton and Mrs.
Pendleton to the General Assembly,
State officers and leading citizens. A
very large crowd was in attendance.
RAmRoAD-CoMMIssIoNER BELL took
possession of his Office on the 18th. He
has appointed his son Chief Clerk.
A CONVENTION of publishers of Ger
man newspapers was held at Columbus
on the 18th. Twenty papers were rep
resented. Commissioners were APP
pointed to secure more uniform Orthog-
raphy among German publishers, to
urge an amendment of the Postal laws,
to revise plans for collecting subscrip-
tions for newspapers, and on official
advertising. A memorial was adopted
asking the General Assembly, in the
name of the publishers of German pa
pers, which it is claimed are read by
500, 900 people in Ohio, to pass laws
which will provide for publishing in
German newspapers all legal or official
notices which are now required by law
to be published in English newspapers.
The Association of Teachers of Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan met at Toledo
on the 18th. w. w. Ross, of Fremont,
was elected President. Meetings of the
association are to be held in Toledo
the first Saturdays of February, May,
October and December.
The Tri-State Fair Association Far
will be held at Toledo the third and last
weeks of September. Last fall it cleared
enough to pay for the fairgrounds
S1S, ,009-pay all the premiums and ex-
penses and leave nice balance.
Mrs. CAvANAGH, the wife of a we'll
known citizen of Martins Ferry, while
putting coal on an open CRATE, on the
| 18th, set her dress on fire, and was so
badly burned that she died in few
hours. The flesh of her lower limbs
and arms and neck literally roasted and
fell from the bones when she moved,
and her agony before her death was be-
yond description.
A CHILD named Cross was burned to
death at Unionville on the 18th.
Miss BELLE ANDREWS, a young lady
from Maryland, tried to commit suicide
at Cardington on the 18th by taking
laudanum, but was unsuccessful. Cause
her friends didn't like her lover.
The graves of Mrs. Liener, an aged
lady, and twelvc-years-old boy named
Rail, in Forest Cemetery, Toledo, were
robbed on the nights of the 14th and
18th, and on the 18th the police ar
rested Dr. Charles Morton, of Column
bus, his brother Henry, and one Will
lam Beverly as the criminals. Henry
Morton has confessed that they took
the bodies. That of the old lady was
cut up, boxed and shipped by express
to the medical college at Ann Arbor,
Mich. The boys body is supposed to
have been sent to the Ohio Medical
College, Cincinnati.
AT Greenfield, on the night of the
18th, Mrs. Mary Green (colOred), wife
of Jefferson Green, gave birth to quad
ruplets-two males and two females.
They were remarkably well developed.
Three of them lived short time after
birth, the fourth being still-born.
CHARLES H. DIMMITT, Deputy-Audit-
or of Clermont County, who was ar
rested and released some time ago on q
charge of robbing the safe of $24, 900,
has been rearrested, together with q
man named Stenehfield.
The Prohibition State Executive Com.
mittee have issued call for State
Convention at Columbus, Feb. 21, tC
nominate State ticket.
SOME of the newspapers of the State
are boasting of old subscribers. Car
any of them boast of having on theiI
subscription books former editor o.
half a century ago? The Western StdI
can. Our old subscriber is A. H. Dun
levy, who was editor and proprietor o
the Star fifty years ago, and he ha'
been subscriber nearly seventy-tw'
years.-LebdnOn Star.
The u. S. Senate on the 21st con
firmed the following Ohio Postmasters
X. &. Kinkead, Greenfield; j. L. Jones
Cuyahoga Falls; j. F. Mcmahon, New
Livingston; H. w. Turner, Geneva; j
A. Howells, Jefferson; G. L. Boden
! schitz, Lamont.
THE President on the 21st sent to tn
I Senate the nominations of the following
, to be Postmasters: Charles f. Rick
r Massillon; Robert Cowden, Gallon; +
Lowry, Dayton; John Mckee, Hamilton
FIFTY-sIx members of the Hous
failed to respond to their names at roll
: call on the 2lst. Many Senators wer
. also absent.
LEGISLATIVE.
: Senate, Jan. 80 Messages were re
: ceived from Gov. Bishop withdrawn
Gov. Young's nomination of Newton t
: be Railroad Commissioner and nom
4 mating William Bell, Jr.; also announC
n ing the appointment of X. +. Hurlbut
@ as his private secretary and Albert A
n len as Executive Clerk, and the follow
n ing on his staff: Acknowledgement, L
n NJ. Meilley, Assistant Adjutant-Genera
| L. h. Hoagland; Judge-Advocate-GeI
: eral, S. X. Hunt; Quartermaster-Genel
a al, C. l.. Young; Surgeon-General, I
4 Burns; Chief-Engineer, f. Geiger; an
e the following Aids-de-Camp, with ran
|. of Colonel: w. A. Birchard, c. Lake
; r. Nevins, Jr., G. II. Edison, E.
r Williams, l.. F. Schmidt, X. X. Paig'
Il j. NJ. Williams, T. X. Roberts an
o NJ. L. Hall. Bills were introduced
, to reorganize the Ohio Reform SchoO
o to prevent the practice of resOrting
U. S. District Courts to oppress citizer
of Ohio and deprive them of their righ
q under the statutes of the State. III
Senate then proceeded to ballot for U.
;, Senator. Mcdonald nominated Geore
Ie II. Pendleton. Mr.. PendletOn receive
d twenty-four votes, the Republican Sci
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