Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-22
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

a wide berth. The chain-gang punish
ment was inaugurated on the 1lth by
putting twelve vagabond tramps at
work on the streets.
ONE firm at Xenia had slaughtered
10000 hogs up to the 18th.
The Dayton Asylum for the Insane
contains 21S male and 232 female pa
tients. Among these $50 patients are
five male and seven females colored.
The youngest is girl of eleven years.
A mother with son and daughter, a
mother and daughter, and, until re-
Gently, a husband and wife are among
the number.
THERE is trouble among the Nationals
at Toledo.
WEBB, the murderer of w. S. Finney
at Mansfield, has been sentenced to be
hung May 81.
A JURY at Cincinnati has rendered q
verdict that the writing purporting to be
the will of Timothy Kirby, the deceased
millionaire, was not his will. The case
will be appealed.
GEN. AND Mrs. d. MCLEOD celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary of their mar
riage at Cleveland on the 18th. The
General is now in his ninety-ninth year
and is hale and hearty. He fought at
the battle of Waterloo, was present at
the burial of Sir John Moore, and was
at the head of the Canada rebellion.
A large reward was offered for his head,
but he escaped to Cleveland, where for
many years he has resided He was subse-
quently pardoned by the Queen and re-
ceived two gold medals in token of his
bravery while in the English army.
Mrs. JOHN DEsHLER, widow of
wealthy Columbus banker who died in
January, died at Columbus on the 18th.
By her will she bequeaths $4,000 to
the Charitable Board of the Presbyteri-
an Church, of Columbus; 81, 800 to the
Columbus Benevolent Society; $4,000
to the Orphans Home at Hamilton;
$40, 900 and the family residence, val
ued at S35, 900, for the establishment of
an art gallery, and 100000 for the
building, and supporting of Columbus
law library and lectures.
THE State Board of Public Works
held its annual meeting at Columbus on
the 18th and organized by re-electing
its old ofiicers-Peter Thatcher being
chosen President, and A. o. B. New
berg Secretary. VIM. S. Williams, of
Canton, was chosen Resident Engineer
for the First District; A. j. Cridor, of
Chillicothe, for the Second District;
and Jno. w. Erwin, of Hamilton, for
the Third; M. G. West, of Fremont, Su-
perintendent of the Western Reserve
and Maumee Canal. In the afternoon
the joint committee of the Senate and
House had meeting with the board to
discuss what should be done with the
canals. A committee was appointed,
consisting of Senators Steedman and
Wilson and Representatives Clough,
Sawyer and Sturgeon, to confer with
the Attorney-General and members of
the Public Works and report as to the
best means for maintaining the canals
and preserving the rights of the State.
THE Trustees of the State Archeo-
logical Association met at Columbus on
the 18th and adopted memorial to the
General Assembly asking an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the purpose of estab-
fishing an. archaeological museum in
the Capitol and gathering specimens
therefor.
The house of V. Leftridge (colored), =,
near Ironton, caught fire and was
burned to the ground on the 18th. Three
children, who were alone in the house,
were consumed in the flames.
THE canal lessees have submitted a
proposition to sell to the State all their
dredges, scows, horses, and considera-
BILE other material for 100000, if the
State will release them from all claims.
This property is estimated to be worth
about 100000.
AT Germantown. on the 18th, while a
four-years-old daughter of John E. Esh-
Gilman was playing, she fell upon and
cut her gums, and before medical aid
could be procured bled to death from
the wound.
A MAN named Ashworth, residing
near Eaton, was fatally injured on the
10Th, while telling a tree, by limb
striking him over the head and fractur-
ing his skull.
The President on the 18th nominated
William x. Kurtz to be Postmaster at
Athens.
THE U. S. Senate on the 18th con-
tirmed S. L. Grosvenor as Postmaster at
Marietta.
GEN. GARFIELD has presented a petit
ton to Congress from the people along
the line of the Ashtabula & Youngstown
Railroad. asking for an appropriation
of $780, 900 for the extension of the pier
at Ashtabula harbor.
BISHOP JAMES WHELAN, at one time
Provincial of st. Joseph Province, OF
the Dominican order, and later Bishop
of the See of Nashville, died at Zanes.
vile on the 18th. He resigned his
Bishopric in 1864 He was regarded rs
one of the strongest men, intellectually,
of his denomination in America.