Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
THE EAST.

Inc annual Injecting Ol lHt Vi
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was held
at Philadelphia on the 18th. In reply TO cues
tions Col. Scott stated that his salary was
S24,0O per year since the reduction. The
Vice Presidents got $4,000 and $4,000; the
other officers from 1000 to $4,000
The coinage of the new silver dollars was
commenced at the Philadelphia mint on the
1lth. The first dollar struck went to President
Hayes and the second to the Secretay Of the
Treasury.
Maine, Massachusetts,, and New Hampshire
are to have their annual fast on Thursday,
April II.
Two freshmen of Dartmouth College have
been arrested for an assault upon sophomore
and a senior.
The returns from the New Hampshire cleo
tion up to the morning of the 18th indicated
the election of Prescott (Rep) for Governor
by 1,5O0 majority. The Republicans claimed
the House by 30 majority.
The Prohibitory Liquor bill was defeated
lis to 93-in the Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatives on the 18th.
The Connecticut Legislature, on the 18th,
passed the bill recognizing the Charter Oak
Life Insurance Company on the mutual plan.
The heaviest hail-stOrm ever experienced in
West Virginia passed over jefferson County
on the night of the 1lth. Hail-stones larger
than eggs fell, unroOfng houses, breaking
| glass, and killing cattle, hogs and sheep. A
heavy rain followed, washing out the growing
wheat. The damage is estimated at $4,000
| to 100000.
Another row occurred at Princeton On. J.)
College on the 18th, between Juniors and
Seminary students. Three of the latter were
severely beaten. Six of the Juniors were ar
rested.
A new bridge over the Raritan River at New
Brunswick, n. j., to replace the one burned
| on the 9th, was completed on the 18th. 1t is
of wood, 900 feet long, cost $4,000, and 500
men were employed in its construction.
Buyers paid a fraction above par in gold foI
the new silver dollar in New York on the 14th
The Newburyport Mass Five-Cent Savings
Bank has suspended business.
The Pennsylvania Senate has adopted a res
olution urging upon Senators and Represent
atives from that State the Importance of united
action in opposing any change of the present
tariff system so far as it affects the interests
of that State.
The boy Welsh who killed his playmate a
Philadelphia has been released by the Coro
ner's jury.
Grenville Tremain, Republican candidate il
New York last fall for Attorney-General, dice
at Albany on the 18th of typhoid fever.
A bill introduced in the Pennsylvania Hous,
of Representatives on the 18th makes human
cremation a misdeamcanor punishable will
fine and imprisonment.
Joseph La Paige was executed in the Stat
Prison at Concord, NJ H., on the 10Th, for tn
murder of Josie Langmaid at Pembroke il
1875. He acknowledged his guilt and confesse,
the murder of Miss Ball at st. Albans, VT, IL
1874
On the 18th the schooner Young Americ
sailed from Buffalo for Detroit,
The schooner Carrie p. Morton and crew o
fourteen men, of Gloucester, Mass, are SUP
posed to be lost
The New York canals will open by April II
Funess, Ash Il Co., the oldest dry-goods
auction and commission house in Philadelphia
have failed.
Commodore John II. Graham, U. S. Navy
died on the 18th at Newburgh, N. Y, of ape
pleXy, aged eightyfour.
The cotton manufacturers of Fan River
Mass, have voted Is per cent. reduction {
wages, beginning April l.
lHc FtoN Oh buC lobll
charged all Union printers employed on tn
paper and filed their places with nOn-Unio
men.
On the 18th and 10th there were runs on I'll
Five-Cent, Provident and Suffolk Saving
Banks, of Boston.
A mass-meeting was held at Allentown, Pa
ON the 10th to protest against the passage {
the new Tariff bill
The U. s, sloops-of-war Portsmouth and w.
oming sailed on the 10th from New York wit
exhibits for the Paris Exposition.
During February the value of exports frol
New York was $9,734,925,
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Compani'
resumed work in eleven of their collieriss q
the 18th, on three-quaTters time, giving wol
TO 1900 men and boys.
; A. l.. Boyer and G. Sellers, officers of Il
L suspended Dime Savings Bank, Of Readn
D Pa. have been held for trial In 50, 600 bail eat
on the charge OF conspiracy TO defraud.
The Pennsylyania Coal Company resume
"A work ON the 10Th
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