Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-18

and in the disputed States as to their local af-
fairs, to q rallroad-subsidy bargain.
r. r. Wetmore, ex-Vice-President Of the
Security Insurance Company Of New York,
convicted Of conspiracy, has been sentenced
to years imprisonment and TO pay a fine of
$3.50.
An application has been made for receiver
for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company.
At meeting of bank Presidents of Boston,
Philadelphia and New York in the latter city,
on the 9th, committee was appointed to me-
morialize Congress against the passage Of the
pending Silver bill, and to petition that any
enactment authorizing the coinage Of silver
except for change shall regulate the value
thereof by its bullion contents.
The shoemakers of Lynn, Mass, are on
strike.
The New Hampshire Republican Convention
was held at Concord on the 9th. Charles II.
Bell presided. Nominations were made b.
F. Prescott for Governor, and d. f. Willard
for Railroad Commissioner. Resolutions were
adopted-reaffirming the Cincinnati platform;
approving the Presidents efforts TO secure to
the whole country the blessings Of just, eff
cient and honest Administration; -ooudennIng
as recreant and runous the attempt of.the
Democratic House TO destroy the Resumption
act denouncing the Silver bill; favoring uni
versal education, compulsory IL need be; OPP
posing subsidies to private corporations and
interests unqualihedly indorsing the Admin
istraton, and condemning all attempts to re-
open the Presidential controversy or question
the title of the President to his office.
The PENNSYLVANIA Supreme Court has af
irmed the sentence of death passed upon the
Mollie Maguires, Hester, Tulley, McCue and
Kehoe.
The Shoe and Leather Board of Trade of
Baltimore denounce the Bland Silver bill and
postponement of gold resumption.
The New York Assembly has passed a reso-
luton opposing the passage of the Bland bill
-105 to II.
The Independent Greenback party Of New
York has sent petition to Congress to pass
the following laws:
FirSt-Remonetize silver coin containing the
same amount and quality of silver it pos
sessed in 1870, and provide for its coinage and
issue without limit, making it full legal
tender for its face value in payment OF all
debts, public or private. Socond-Repeal the
act by which the Government is pledged to
resume payments Jan. l, 1873
The Supreme Council of the Order Of Amer
lean Union has adopted resolutions recogniz-
ing in the death Of Victor Emmanuel the loss
of man who had made himself dear TO all
lovers Of civil and religious liberty The Or
der now has between 800, 600 and 1000 mem
bers.
John F. Henry, Curran IL Co.. of New York,
one Of the largest patent-medicine firms in the
United States, failed on the 18th.
Great damage was caused by heavy gale
which prevailed on the coast of Maine on the
night of the 10th. A number of vessels were
blown ashore and went to pieces, trees and
fences were prostrated, barns blown down and
houses unroofed.
A temporary injunction was granted on the
11th against the Charter Oak Life Insurance
Company.
The Cotton Exchange of New York oppose
the Bland Silver bill.
The State Savings Bank at Trenton, N. j.,
has failed.
No clew had been discovered to the where
abouts Of Thomas Lord, the aged millionaire
who recently married the Widow Hicks at
New York. up to the l4th.
In the lower house of the Pennsylvania
Legislature on the 11th a resolution for the
appointment of a joint committee to inquire
into the circumstances of the railroad riots,
to ascertain the causes as well as the results
of the same, and report to the Legislature was
indefinitely postponed. The resolution, tel
eeram says, was the beginning of an effort to
make the State responsible for payment of the
damages by the riots
E. ]. Dunning, New York note-broker, has
failed. Liabilities S9OO,OOO. The failures of
Henry, Curran II Co. and Hegeman n Co.,
wholesale druggists, were results of Dunning's
failure.
Buffalo bankers oppose the Silver bill
President Seelye, of Amherst College, who
was member of the Indian Committee when
in Congress, pronounces the proceedings of
the late Board of Inquiry into the Indian man
agement gross travesty upon justice, which
was procured by unscrupulous enemies of the
late Chief Clerk, Galpin.