Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

members the leading business men of th'
Northwest, has been organized. Its object i
to secure concerted action against the green
back principles. George w. Allen, of Mil
waukee, is President.
The Legislature having recently passed
law restricting the expenditures of San Fran
cisco, the affairs Of the municipality have CONF
to deadlock for want of funds
The State Auditor of Virginia made re
port to the Assembly on the 9TH that there
was but $103 in the State Treasury; that nc
money could be borrowed or collected; the
asylums were behind; he had no means tc
pay the per diem of members, and the bank;
refused further loans.
The funeral of ex-senator B. F. Wade al
tended. Among the distinguished persons
present were Hon. Zach. Chandler and ex
Vice-President Schuyler Colfax.
The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso
citation met in annual convention at Chicago
on the 9th.
A telegram from Hot Springs, Ark, on the
9th represents many persons there in actual
need of clothing and food, and supplies are
asked for. ...
The Newcomb- Buchanan Distillery Compa-
ny, of Louisville, the largest in the country,
suspended on the 9th. Harvey IL Keith, the
largest shoe-house in that city, have also sus-
pended .
Charges against Mint-Director Linderman
have been forwarded from San Francisco to
Congress. They are to the effect that he so
directs the affairs of the San Francisco mint
as to enable private individuals to make large
gains on trade dollars, and discloses prema-
tufely orders of the Treasury Department for
Illicit purposes. .a
On the 9th the propeller Hope was run down
and sunk near New Orleans, and Paul st.
Pierre, his wife and two children, passengers,
were drowned.
The Straits of Mackinaw are reported clear
of ice.
The river steamer Chester was burned at
Memphis on the morning of the 7th. She had
just arrived from st. Louis and tied up at the
elevator when the fire was discovered. The
lines were cut and the steamer floated out into
the river, and many of those on board jumped
into the river and were picked up by skiffs.
Herman, mail-agent, and Cellar, the barber,
were lost. The boat and cargo were total
loss. The boat was valued at $4,000.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 9TH said
there was no prospect for pardon for Ander-
son. The motion for a new trial had been
postponed for two weeks.
The Minnesota Legislature on the 7th passed
the School Textbook BILL confirming the con-
tract of the State with Morrill,, of St. Paul, to
furnish books for the use of all schools in the
State for fifteen years. Provision is made for
its submission to a vote of the people after a
two-years' trial.
Mrs. Kennedy, 1O6 years old, died at Chica-
go on the Sth.
The Dairy Convention at Chicago on the Stl
elected j. T. Joyce, of New York, President
and adjourned to meet in New York the first
Wednesday in March, 1879.
Charles L. Wilson, proprietor of the Chicago
EUe,ii,g Journal, died on the 9th at San An
tonic, Tex.
Hon. B. F. Wade's will has been admitted tc
probate. His wife is made executrix and sole
legatee of all his property.
A violent snow-storm ragged in Wyoming
Territory and Nebraska on the Sth and 9th
Railroad travel was suspended.
At a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS meeting of the
merchants, bankers and business men of Lou
isville, on the 9th, resolutions favoring the re
peal of the Resumption act and Bankrupt law
were adopted.
The programme of the Liberian Exodus As
sociation is now arranged and the ship Azor
which will convey the first installment of col.
ored emigrants, will soon sail from Charles
ton, S. c. 1t is claimed that $4,000 people
through the South have invested in this asso
citation and over 10000 are enrolled to &C
when occasion offers.
On the night of the 9th party Of disguised
men took Charlotte Harris (colored), accused
of instigating a boy to set fire to barn in
Rockingham County, Va, from Jail and hung
her to tree.
A tornado struck the city of Atlanta, Ga.
on the 10th, doing great damage to property
The congregation of the Episcopal Churcl
when the building was struck threw themselves
under the seats, and the whole building
crumhled into shapeless ruin, burying then
under the debris. Eighteen of the congrega
tion were seriously injured.
A baggage-car from New York was burned
on the Lake Shore Road near Edgerton, Ohio
on the llth. All the contents were destroyed
including some 5000 pounds of mail matter
chiefly for Iowa and Nebraska.
Jerry Tuliis, miser, supposed to be wortl
SO, ,000, 900, died at Cincinnati on the 9th. HI
was a bachelor and lived in the meanest man
ner, the disease OF which he died being super
induced by want of sufficient nourishment ant
exposure. His only relatives are two wild
owed sisters, nephew and cousin.
An amendment 80 strike out the wort
E"whiten in the qualification for members of tn
General Assembly was carried-74 to 4-in tn
Iowa House of Representatives or the 11th.
Relief is asked for the Hot Springs sufferers
The snow blockade continued on the Cole
RADIO, Nebraska and Wyoming railroads on tn
| llth.
A Bismarck special says Sitting Bulls BAN
are nearly starving.