Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-19
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

A EVE belonging to Isaac johnson
OF Licking County. recently gave brit
| to n lamb which had one head, two
bodies, seven legs, eight feet and two
| tails.
THE General Assembly of the State
of Ohio passed law Feb. 21, 1873
making it the duty of Assessors of per
sonal property for the year 1873 to as
certain the number of soldiers un
marked graves in their respective
wards and townships, and return cor
rect list of the same, giving the name
age, company, regiment and date oi
death of each soldier buried therein tC
the Auditors of their respective coun
ties, that durable monuments may be
erected above them. =
The State oratorical contest at Tiff
fin on the 10th was largely attended
Mr.. George b. Heazleton, of Oberlin-
subject, Conscience and History
was declared the successful competitor
-Four other colleges contested.
GALLON has population of 1850.
THE Grand Lodge of the Knights OF
Honor of the State held its annual ses.
sion at Mt. Vernon on the 10th. There
were about 100 delegates present from
siXty-nipe lodges. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year;
Grand Dictator, Ii. X. Shomo; Grand
Vice-Dictator, J.. M. Charlton; Grand
Chaplain, j. w. Holmes; Grand Guide,
j. w. Mclaughlin; Grand Reporter, j.
G. Plumer; Grand Treasurer, N. N.
Loehner; Grand Guardian, S. b. Ster-
ling; Grand Sentinel, j. ID. Lewis; Rep
resentative to the Supreme Lodge, C..
w. Fischer. Fremont was selected as
the place for holding the next annual
session.
AT Findlay, on the 9th, while Ed
ward Beard and his son were returning
home from work in wagon, the father
became very angry with his son, and
struck at him. The young man fell out
of the wagon, causing the team to take
fright and run away, throwing the old
man out, and wheel passed over his
head, breaking his skull and killing
him almost instantly.
Ten shares of Cincinnati Times stock
par value S10,000-were sold on
Change at Cincinnati on the 10th for
S310.
A YOUNG child of Lee Ward, of Har-
rison, Pickaway County, was horribly
and fatally burned by her clothing TAX
ing fire when She was standing near
the stove in her mothers kitchen on
the 1lth.
On the 18th George Mckay alias John
w. Scott, who was serving a term in
Hamilton County Jail for the robbery
the Postoffice in Green County, was
pardoned out by President Hayes, and
was taken to Mt Vernon, Ohio, where
he will be tried for the murder of John
Mccormick, wealthy hardware mer-
chant, committed in 1875.
THE law recently passed by the Leg
islature limiting the compensation of
Township Trustees and Clerks is as
follows:
sHcTIoS /. Be q Enacted b,, the General As
SeDIbiy Of the State OF ohio, That Sec. 22 of the
above-recited act be amended to read as fol
lows:
SEC. p. That each Trustee and Clerk shall be
entitled to receive one and One-half dollars for
every day he or they may, be necessarily em-
as such officers, but in no township shall the
compensation of each Trustee and Clerk exceed
$50 per annum, including services rendered un-
al. T..
Trustees shall allow the Constable reasonable
compensation for advertising the time of hold
ing township elections and notifying the several
township officers of their election, to be paid out
of the township treasury, on the order of the
Trustees, attested by the Clerk.
SEC. 2. That original Sec. - be and the same
is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
EX-STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN G.
MARSHALL, of Georgetown, Brown
County, cousin of eX-President Grant,
was found dead in his bed at hotel in
Columbus on the morning of the 18th.
He was in the city to argue a case be-
fore the Supreme Court. General ex-
haustion of the system was the cause of
his death. Deceased held the rank of
Colonel during the late war and was a
prominent member of the legal fraterni-
ty of Southern Ohio.
The Murphy State Convention as
sembled ut Columbus on the 18th.
About 100 delegates were in attendance.
The day was given to preliminary work.
A CAUCUS of the Democratic men,
bers of the House was held on the even
ing of the 10Th to consider the question
of church taxation. Resolutions de-
claring the bill to tax churches and the
amendment to the same effect to the
Tax bill to be unwise and ineXpedient,
and pledging the Democrats in the
House to vote against them, were unan-
imously adopted. 1t was agreed that
the bill redistricting the State for Con-
gressmen should be considered in joint
caucus.
THE following is the communication
presented to the House on the 18th by
Representative O'Connor:
To Whom 1t May Concern:
| hereby certify that was Deputy Warden
Of the Michigan State Prison of jackson dur
ing the years of 1869, 1870 and 1871, and that
during the year 1869 there was man by the
name of John OConnOr sent to said prison
from East Saginaw to serve three years.
His crime was grand larceny. He was well
known to me. This evening Hon. John
O'ConnOr, of the Legislature of Ohio, came
to me, and after careful scrutiny ] am sure
it is not the John O'Connor who was
in the prison. The two men resemble each
other very much. The only difference be,
tween them is that the Hon. John OCOnnor
has two fingers OFF and third finger badly
crippled on the left hand. The man who wa,
In prison had two fingers off the left hand
but the rest of his tugcrs were sound. TheI
the Hon. John O'Connor has a red spot in hi:
left cheek. The man who was in prison haC
no spot in his face. In other respects they
resemble each other in appearance, but wal
perfectly acquainted with the prisoner an(
can testify that he is not identical with tn,
Hon. John OConnor, JOIN X. MARTIN.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate, AprH DIR. Alfred Ball wa.
confirmed as Trustee of the Athen,
Asylum. A resolution for an investi
| cation of the Southern Railroad wa.