Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-02-15

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the demand for tea plants exceeds the supply.
He has 100000 plants started
Legal tenders outstanding on the 9th, S349,-
no. 424. National Bank circulation outstand-
ing (currency notes., 800, 1880.
The President on the 9th appointed f. r.
Baker and f. L. Meyer Of Kansas and T. II.
Buckler and r. NJ. Mclean Of Maryland as
Honorary Commissioners to the Paris Exposi-
tion.
On the 9th Minister Foster made state
ment to the subcommittee Of the House For
eign Affairs Committee in regard to Mexican
affairs. He had notified President Diaz that
some guarantee of arrangement for the difh-
cultics on the border must be given before
this Government would recognize his, and
was informed that the Mexican Government
must be recognized before entering upon
diplomatic negotiations. In Fosters opinion
no treaty between the two countries could be
enforced without suppressing the raiders.
1t was rumored on the 9Th that Secretary
Sherman had stated that II the Silver bill be-
came law he would have TO resign.
Up to the 9th 3,940 bills and resolutions had
been introduced in Congress. Ten acts only
had been passed.
A new edition Of W. z. Chandler's letters
on the Presidents Southern policy has been
published
Polk, Doorkeeper Of the House, was exam
ined by the Ciyil-seryice Reform Committee
on the 11th and admitted that he had en-
ployed ffty-six pages where the law allowed
twenty-eight aud paid the excess in number
by reducing the salaries of the others. He
did not deny other irregularities in the matter
of his employees, but said the pressure was
great, and in all his movements he invariably
notified the Committee on Accounts.
The President has written a letter to Atty
Gen. Deyens on the subject of Anderson's
conviction, expressing regret that such pro-
ceedings should have taken place.
THE EAST.
The Mercantile Savings Institution, of Bos-
ton, has been enjoined from doing business
for the present.
An expert accountant who has made an eX-
animation of the balance sheets of the Erie
Railway for December gives the total amount
of the funded debt OF the company as SG3, ,324,
$40; floating debt 81, ,S6l, ,533; also items
amounting to S252,S5S
Augustus VI. TurRey, paying teller of the
Bank of North America, New York, is a de-
faulter to the amount of 500, 500. The bank
has recovered $1,000. Tumey had been in
the service OF the bank twenty-five years and
was much respected. The defaulter is under
arrest.
On the 7th the print-works, madder dye
house, starching, folding and steaming rooms
of the Pacific mills at Lawrence Mass, were
burned with their contents, throwing 800 oper-
atives out of employment
The committee Of the Maryland Legislature
to which the Blair memorial calling upon Con-
gress to reopen the electoral question was re-
ferred have reported unfavorably.
The Pennsylvania Senate has adopted res
olution declaring the Tariff bill now being
considered by Congress a fatal blow to the
manufacturing industries of the nation.
The Board Of Pardons will not commute the
death sentence Of Thomas P. Fisher, the Car
bon County Pa.) Molly Mcguire.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has
resolved in favor of free canals.
The dead body of Rev. A. NJ. Osgood, of
Lowell, Mass, was found on the Sth floating
in Stonington Conn harbor.
Theodore Roosevelt who was nominated re-
Gently by the President for Collector of the
Port of New York, died on the 9th.
Rev. Fathers Heinan and Bunce read in their
churches at Mauch Chunk, Pa, en- the 10th a
letter from Archbishop Wood in reference to
the recent alleged miraculous cure of sick
woman. He pronounces the affair to be de-
lusion and warns the participants not to re-
peat the offense.
Cardinal McCloskey sailed from New York
for Liverpool on the 9th, en- route to Rome.
The Dorchester and ROckport (Mass.) Saw
ings Banks are enjoined from doing further
business. Depositors will probably be paid in
time, it is stated.
| Dr. Lambert, the convicted eX-President of
the New York American Popular Life Insur-
ance Company, has secured bill of exceptions
in the State Supreme Court.
Martin Bergan, one of the murderers of
Patrick Burns, at Tuscarora, Pa, in 1870 has
been arrested at st. Catherine, Can.
The New York Fenians are actively canvass
ing for funds, and have already, it is said,
raised 100000
There was grand tariff demonstration at
Pittsburgh on the 9th. Fifteen thousandmen
marched in procession through the principal
streets with banners and music. Three meet
| ings were held simultaneously at the Exposi-
tion building, speeches being made by leading
manufacturers of the district. Resolutions
protesting against the Tariff bill now under
consideration by Congress or any change in
the present tariff were adopted.
Peter Wright IL Sons, the largest shippers
in Philadelphia, have been arrested on the
charge of defrauding the Government of i'm
port dues to the amount of $4,000.
Hon. Gideon WeIes, Secretary of the Navy
under President Lincoln, died at Hartford
Conn, ON the 11th, from the effects OF q car
buncle. He was seventy-six years of age.
Cruikshank, former Secretary of the Nation
al Trust Company, of New York, has been ar
rested for perjury.
At sale of land for taxes at Greenwood, n
Y, on the Sth, 300 armed men appeared an'
intimidated the buyers. The Sheriff tele
graphed the Governor for assistance, to whicl
the Governor responded that the Sheriff mus
exhaust his power before the aid OF the State
can be invoked.
The international Trust and Savings Com
pany, Of Jersey City, has been restrained iron
doing further business.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In a match game of billiards betweel
Sexton aud C. Dion at New Orleans on tn
5th, the former won by score of 1000 to 81
and an average of 26.
The Utah Divorce law has been amended
Hereafter bona fdd residence in the Territor
, for one year will be required before parties ca
, bring suit for divorce.
The trial of Frank Rande, the desperate
was commenced at Galesburg, ILL.,, on the 5th
; The Sheriff of Lee County, Miss, is II
portedto be adefaulter to the extent of S4O,OOC
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerc
: has adopted resolutions opposing the silve
, bill and the repeal of the Resumption bill.
BY the sinking of the steamer Leslie Taylc