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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
A Bold Robbery,

BosToN, March l6.
A heavy robbery was committed this
afternoon in the Lechmere National
Bank, East Cambridge. About two
o'clock President Lewis Hall was sit
ting i'm the parlor of the bank, the busi-
ness of the day being done, and he was
about putting up the books, arranging
papers or depositing money in the
vault, when buggy containing man
and woman drove up to the Cambridge
street entrance. The man entered and
requested Hall to step to the door and
see the lady, who desired to transact
some business. Hall walked to the
sidewalk, the man accompanying him.
The woman said she desired to pur-
chase draft on the Providence Bank,
and began in deliberate manner to
count roll of money. Hall said he could
not wait while she counted the money,
and returning to his room sat down to
write. In few minutes he heard a buggy
drive hurriedly off. Suddenly suspect
ing something wrong he made hur-
ried examination and found that a
small trunk which a moment before
had contained $4,000 had been ritled.
Further examination showed that two
trunks which were in the vault, the
door of which stood partly open, had
been distracted. The trunks contained
Government bonds and other securities
amounting to $4,000, the property of
different individuals left in the custody
of Hall for safe keeping. From facts
since ascertained it is supposed the rob-
bing was done by three men and the
woman. 1t is thought two men were
concealed behind the door in the hall
of the bank building when the Presi-
dent passed out, and, though he could
not have been absent above two min
utes, they succeeded in getting off with
the money and securities.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
WASHINGTON.

Robert NJ Reynolds, Of Alabama, has been
omnated to be First Auditor of the Treas
ury.
The U. s. steamer Plymouth will sail at
once for San Domingo, the disturbances there
having caused the imprisonment of the Amer
lean Consul and the interests Of American
citizens TO be imperiled.
w. A. Howard, of Michigan, has been CON
firmed as Governor of Dakota.
Secretary Sherman has appointed a commits
sion to investigate the complaints from yari-
ous Western cities of .under-yaluations and
frauds in the New York Custom-Ilouse.
DIR. b. S. Schorn, recently discharged from
the Interior Department. shot himself at
Washington on the l2tl.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum on
the 18th received information that three Illicit
distillers imprisoned at Pickens Court House,
s. c., had been released by an armed mob,
TheCommissioner telegraphed the Collector "a
leave nothing undone to uphold the majesty
of the law.
Pensacola report states that within d
radius of seyenty-hye miles of that place the
public lands have been denuded of more tim
Der than in any other locality in the country
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
How Madison Was Hoaxed.

The Madison (Wis.) Journal of a re-
cent date says: CONSERVATION fell
upon the crowds in the hotel corridors
soon after midnight by rumor that
dispatches had come over the wires to
the effect that President Hayes had
been shot by the British Secretary OF
Legation; afterward that his own pri-
vate secretary, Rogers, had become
suddenly insane and assaulted the Pres
ident with deadly result. The stations
all along the line were raped by Super
intendent Haskins, and at three O'Clock
this morning answer came from Chlca-
90 that the rumor was true. Intense
excitement prevailed throughout the
city in the morning, as soon as the news
spread around, and the newspaper and
telegraph offices were besieged by eager
inquirers; at those points, however, the
story was believed to be hoax, and
telegraphic investigation finally proved
it to be so. As near as could be ascer-
tanned, the story was started by some
lunatic of a commercial drummer at
Evanston, H., and from thence tele,
graphed over the Northwestern States v
After women get the right to vote,
they can challenge their husbands.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

On the 18th a terrible colliery explosion Oc-
Cured in mine at Kearsley, near Bolton, En-
gland. About forty men were working in the
pit at the time of the explosion and all per-
ished
The steamship Sphinx, which took fire with
$500 Circassians on board, causing the loss of
100 of them, was fired by the Circassians dur
ing an emeute. They had previously plum
dered the vessel.
The corpses of the forty-four miners killed
recovered on the 18th.
The Car has authorized New York capital
lists to erect and operate grain elevators
throughout Russia.
In the British House of Commons, on the
18th, Northcote Chancellor of the Exchequcr,
stated that England will require, before en-
tering it, that every article of the treaty of
peace shall be placed before the congress in
such a manner that the congress can judge
whether the articles are to be accepted or not.
Gen. Grant and the King of Greece took
luncheon together at Athens on the 18th.
President Baez, of San Domingo has ar
rived in Porto Rico.
An Havana telegram of the 18th says Vo-
cente Garcia has proclaimed himself Dictator
of Cuba and assumed the government of the
revolution.
The Russians have occupied Fekcreken, a
half-hour's march from the Bosphorus. They
also occupy a majority of the villages around
Constantinople and continue advancing toward
that city.
At midnight of the 18th an international six
days pedestrian contest was commenced at
London. Among the contestants is OLeary,
the American champion. The men may run,
skip or walk, the one covering the most miles
in IA hours receiving $500 and champion
| belt.
Great Britain shows no abatement of energy
in her preparations forwar.
Six thousand persons have been attacked
with measles at Lyons, France.
The Turkish irregulars continue theil
rapinc, murder and devastation in Eprus,
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 18th says
ratifcations of the treaty of peace have beer
exchanged. The conditions will be published
as soon as they are communicated to the
powers.
The Porte has granted permission to En-
gland to disembark some troops on the islant
of Teudos and send more iron-clads to th
Sea Of Marmora.
Russia has consented to submit all the peac
negotiations to the congress
Between 5000 and 5000 Oldham England
weavers are on a strike Other department
are necessarily stopped Great distress pre-
walls in consequence.
The Austrian Delegations on the 18th vote
651, 600 forms for military stores
In the event of war between England an
Russia. Turkey will remain neutral.
AViennad dispatch says the emisunderstandn
between Russia and England has made N
progress toward satisfactory settlement.
Late advices report revolution at Port-au
Prince.
The Russians are reported to be concentrat
ing on the Austrian frontier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

from March 1, 1877, to March 1, 1873, was
4,009, 9,9ll--the most extensive business on
record.
The snow blockade on the Denver Pacific
Railroad was broken on the 18th. Joseph
Conney, Chas. Wilson, Card Huntz, and IL.
j. McCant of Laramie City, were caught in
the storm while hunting and the dead bodies
of all were found on the 18th.
The State Bank of Arkansas, at Hot Springs,
has gone into liquidation.
Ticket No. 1293S drew the capital prize,
$4,000, in the Louisiana State Lottery
A negro who had assaulted child at Pcnsa-
cola, Fla, causing its death, was lynchcd by a
mob on the night of the 18th. The SherifFs
posse in resisting the lynchers killed one and
wounded five dangerously
Rev. Brown Cable (colored) was hanged on
the 14th, at Winchester, Tenn, for the muir
der of Felix Gardener, in 1876. Nearly l0,-
900 people witnessed the hanging
A Sault Ste Marie dispatch of the 14th re-
ports the river nearly free from ice.
Miss Mary Hampton, Memphis school
teacher, is discovered to be a forger to the
amount of $500. a.
| Creditors of the Marsh Harvester Company,
of Sycamore and Chicago, ask that it be ad-
| Indicated bankrupt.
| RI. Rev Samuel A. McCoskey, Protestant
| Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, has resigned
the Bishopric on account of his advanced age.
! On the 18th the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania graduated 127 stu
dents.
Gus johnson was hanged at Atlanta, Ga,
on the 18th for the murder of a man named
Alfred He confessed to four murders.
The Honest Money League" was duly or
ganized at Chicago on the 18th. George w.
Allen, of Milwaukee, is President. Its plat
form of principles is as follows: "Opposition
to all paper imitation and consequent deprecia-
tion. In favor of coin and paper of equal
value and equal purchasing power, and con-
vertble into each other at the will of the
holder"
The snow at Deadwood, d. T., on the 10th
was five feet deep on the level. Communica-
tion with the outer world except by telegraph
was suspended.
The anniversary of the Paris Commune was
celebrated by the socialistic workingmen of st.
Louis on the 10th.
The Governor of Virginia has offered SlOC
reward In each case for the arrest of parties
that hanged Charlotte Harris in Rockingham
County on the 9Th.
The city of Chicago has recovered judg-
ment against the bondsmen of its defaulting
Treasurer, Gage, for the amount of the origi
nal steal, S5O7,7OS and for S1,OOO,OOO penalty
Hon John Morrissey was on the 18th pro
nounced out of danger.
o. A. Willard, managing editor of the Chi,
cago Post, died on the nth.
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal will open April
Columbia Is. Co. dispatch of the 18th say:
the force pursuing Redmond and his gang cap
tured six of them, most of whom were con
cerned in the recent rescue of L. S. prisoner:
from the Pickens County Jail. Two Of the
| three men rescued have been recantnrnl.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

OF the timber shipped from Pensacola seven
eighths is stolen.
The nomination of Reed to be Postmaster
at Toledo was considered by the Senate-Com-
mittee on Postoflices on the 14th, but no con-
clusion was reached. Reeds chances are re-
ported improving.
The subscriptions to the 4 per cent. bonds
since Jan. 16 reach s3,5O0,0O0.
On the 14th 10000 new silver dollars were
received at the Treasury.
Hon. Beverly Douglas, of Virginia, made a
drunken exhibition of himself on the floor Of
the House on the 18th.
Hon. John r. Leonard, Representative from
Louisiana, died at Havana on the 18th.
The House Civil-Service Reform Committee
has agreed upon a report recommending the
removal of Doorkeeper Polk
The bill providing for the issue of silver
bullion certificates agreed upon by the Bank
ing Committee of the House provides that
the bullion is TO be counted at its equivalent
I'm coin, less mint charges and cost OF trans
portation. Certificates will be issued by any
silver-coining mint or assay Office and be re-
deemable, either in silver bars or silver dol
lars, at the Assay Office in New York and the
mint in San Francisco. The certificates will
be legal tender in payment of all Govern
ment dues.
GOV. Hampton has offered reward of 81, 900
for the arrest of Redmond, the illicit-w hisky
brigand who headed the mob which released
the imprisoned distillers at Pickens Court
House.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that nothing but gold will purchase the silver
dollars.
National Bank notes outstanding on the 10Th,
$500, 1896.
During the week ending on the 10th the
Treasury Department purchased enough sill
yer bullion to run the mints five weeks.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that steam launches and cutters furnished
naval vessels viii hereafter be employed prin-
cipally for towing ships, etc, and not for the
exclusive use of officers.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands on
the 10th heard evidence in regard to the Nc
Garrahan claim.
The House Committee on Ways and Means
has completed its work on the Tariff bill.
The Postofiice Department is reported to
have discovered new nest of swindlers,
A Washington special says a bid Of 101 62-l0O
has been made for the entire AZ per cent.
loan remaining. Secretary Sherman demands
1043I.
The President expressed qualification with
the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court
in Anderson's case and said the entire Union
would applaud the action as patriotic and in
the interest of conciliation.
The Senate on the 18th confirmed A. W.
Beard as Collector at Boston and Charles Nc
Candless, of Pennsylvania, as Chef-Justice of
the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
How Apprentices Are Made to Work in
Ontario.

LONDON, ONT, March IL.
I. IL. Hargreaves, proprietor of a
hair factory here, was arrested last night
charged with excessive cruelty to young
apprentices, male and female Inple-
ments of torture, consisting of ropes
and pulleys, leather thongs, padlocks and
gags, were produced in court to-day.
One of the victims, Annie Sparks, re-
lated cruelties that had been practiced
on her by Hargreaves and his partner,
JaSis. She had been repeatedly
left suspended by the hands from the
ceiling of Il dark room, one time for
four days. Hargreaves would slacken
the rope at dinner time and hoist her
again at night. She described the gag
ging and flogging process as applied to
herself and several others. Hargreaves
was committed for trial. The foreman
has been arrested for completely. Jar
Wis, the partner, has absconded. Al
the close of court the police had diff.
Guilty in keeping Hargreavos from the
mob.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

Matthews and others, which appeared
in the record, was alluded to by the
Chief-Justice, who stated that it should
be treated by the public in like manner
as that of a member of the House of
Commons who attempted to influence
the decision of the court in the Itch
borne case.
1t was ordered that the verdict of the
jury be set aside and reversed and the
prisoner discharged from custody.
This decision virtually ends the pros
ecution against the members of the Re-
turning Board. The order of the court,
however, ordering the discharge of
Gen. Anderson, does not enlarge him at
once, the State having five days in which
to file an application for rehearing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

its bent position until the other end OF
the rope was fastened to the unfortu-
nate woman's neck. In another in
slant the tree was let go and the victim
was jerked into mid-air, where in few
moments she expired and the disguised
lynchers disappeared. 1t was an awful
penalty for the crime.of which she had
been accused, the like of which has
hardly ever been heard of in a civilized
community. -Richmond( Vd.J Cor. NJ y
Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

New YORK, March IL.
A supplementary telegram from Har-
risburg, Va. where Charlotte Harris was
hanged the other night on blackjack
tree by masked men, says it took five
men to bend the sapling down, which
being accomplished, a rope suspended
from the tree was fastened to the wom-
ans neck and the tree then allowed to
go up again. The woman was tossed
in the air and landed on the opposite
side of the tree, which was propped up
with fence-rail, and there she was left
hanging. This occurred on Wednesday
night last. The body was not cut down
until the following Friday afternoon.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

Our in Californiu, the land of the
glorious climate, the first six months
of the year they pray for rain, the re-
naming six months they run away
from floods.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22
WEST AND SOUTH

The total number OF hogs packed in Chicago
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-22

After women get the right to vote,
they can challenge their husbands.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-11
+. s, There's q triain but still EN-,

T.. s. There's q trihin but still en-
barrassing trouble akkurred, The
unprecedented run on Bascom Ia COLI
sequence Nv the plentllulness Nv money
exhausted his stock Nv likkers yester'
day, and he sent TO Louisville for
more. The likker merchants Nv that
mcisenary city ez a matter Nv form
generally require Bascom to pay for
goods aforo they ship them, TO avoid
mistakes, lie sent on q thousand
dollars Nv our money, and they retooz'
cd to take 1t Wat to do wo don't
know. We don't see why our money
woodent go In Louisville,
II will take two weeks to ship G.
nough grain to Looisvillcllo exchange
for the likker, aud then comes another
terrible quandary. Bascom demands
tho grain Nv the bank aud wants to
pay for it in bank ishoo ! And he
insists at lcvln IT at its wuth in Loois-
vile Finanseerip aint the eazyest
biznis in the world, Our money start
cd well onuii on the cirkle, but there
seems to be a break in in, Efwo let
Bascom hev that grain and take orr
own money for it whore ez our profit !?
IF We don't let him hev the grain the
Corners will die Nv drought. And CT
he gets it our money must be taken
for it, that's all he's got Knight cut
the Gorjcn knot by iaillin, but then
the wheat wood be attached. | shell
hold no aud sec what week will
bring forth, Providence never deserted
mo yit. p. V. N.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-11
Mr.. NASBY ON FINANCES.

The Corners hev red the speeches
Nv Hon. Ole Bill Allen and that other
gilcloss patriot General Samyooel Cary
Nv Ohio, on the momerchus subrick
NV More Money, till they hev bin
worked upto state Of absloot madnis.
the Corners are jist the same cz all
other impecoonius people-they want
More Money and the idee Nv Honest Ole
Bill Allen, that to git all 700 he'd to
do wus to ishoo it, fills our idees Nv
finanse eggsockly. 1t is simple effect
GOAL and ezily understood.
l determined to put the idee into prac.
ticc, and to that end sejested to my
friends the organizasheu Nv bank NV
ishoo under the name and title Nv the
"Onlimited Trust and Confidence
Company Nv Con fedrit X Roads.
l he'd sum truble to git the citizens
into 1t but | finally succeeded. l ex-
planned to the repolethat more money
wood be an advantage to the debtor
class, which ez ninth,tenths Nv EN- wus
in debt to Bascom, settled them.
They hailed with joy any movement
that wood wipe out their scores and
give EN- new credit at his bar.
To Bascom and to them ez I in
tended to hev in the management l
showed the more money meant increas-
ed trade, and ez the money wood all
be lshood on our credit it woodnt
cost anything but the printing we
coodent lose anything. So the bank
wuz started. wuz made President
1ssaker Gavit, Cashier Bascom
Vice. President, with bord ov Direct.
tars consisting of Kernel McPelter
and the venerbal Deekin Pogram.
We put the Deekin on becoz he is
bald-headed, and threfore respectable.
His bizins is to sit in the front window
reeding an inhasten paper. 1t inspires
confidence. Yoo hev to watch him
to keep him from heving the paper
up side down, but in this community
that don't matter, ez very few know
the difference more'n he does.
1t was forchgnit that our bank;n
room WIZ lokatid immejitly under the
printin offs, ez we ken let the printed
notes which we ishoo down to the
presidents desk by a rope. 1t saves
abor, which is great point in an in
,titooshen like ours.
The theory on which our paper is
shood is very simple. The company
shoo it and the people take it. We
new no time fixed fer redemshen, for
the beauty NV the biznis is that we
lon't never intend to redeem. Our
notes reeds:
The Onlimited Trust and Confidence
Company NV Contedrit x Road(which
S in the State of Kentucky promises
o pay the bearer one dollar.
We don't say when or where or
low, and therein is the strentg NV the
enterprise.
Our first ishoo was received with
ome hesitashum.
"Where is our seccority,' demanded
me farmer to whom we offered it in
for a load NV wheat.
"Fai,h in the company !" l answered
ookiug at him pityingly. "Gaze on
o that face" resoomed pintin at
Deekln, Pogram who rather spoiled
he effect by brushing off fly thet
,ed lit on bis nose "look at that face
and then ask for secoority.
"When will it be redeemed 7" askt
mother. I
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-11
On Seeing u Mule Kick u Man
Through the Roof or q shed.

o mule
What strong snd eomplcate machinery
What sudden and preclpliate extremes
Mans judgment and his yislon must be keen
or he
Win hesitate to orouse thee from thy dreams
A rugged school
Trained thy great Quadrieeps eriensor
10 bust a keg Of nails, kick down fence OF
Lift man, o mule.
Say, mule,
Thou wasn't not always thus insoluble,
Inaenaats to kindly touch or word
Not always have thy accents, loud and yoluble,
Mons fearful heart with 0re,iful tel or
stiredi
Has your harsh idle
Always impelled him, with emotions feet,
To ny tho founding OF Thy later feet .
Say, gentle mule
Speak, mule
Why didst thou, with intense Vitality
Lift through tho hingeless roof OF yondcr
she'd
A man ; an earth.born child Of Immortality,
Because no passed thee with incautious
treali
iie was no fool
That Laso- born, soulloss mulos should kick
him. No;
IIo wassa scholar; IN a. NJ, aPh. D., d.,
oh
Whoa, muo
Burlington Hdcitye.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-11
WHOLE NO. 1880
Humorous Waits.

The young man had given his
views about everything TO everybody
for an uncomfortable half hour, when
tho old man said, with nice courtesy ,
~ beg your pardon, sir, but IL you
begin teaching everybody at eighteen,
when do you intend to begin learning
anything''
It Is we'll to look at both sides Of q
ian. On a "heatcd" Sunday in Phila.
dclphia recently the minister was fan,
ming himself vigorously. IIe did not
see, but the congregation did, that
the reverse ef his fan bore tho III
scrlption, 'Buy Boggle's Biaers."
Of all things known farmers agreo
that mortgage is easiest 10 plant and
hardest to raise,
"Arc you the mate Of this shipi"
said a newly'arrived passenger to the
cook. "No, sir. am the man that
cooks the mate" said the Hibernian.
"Thank heaven" said n tormented
passenger, "thcrc are no newsboys in
heaven" "No," replied the newsboy,
"but what comfort do yOu find in
thatH" The man didn't say, and ev-
erybody else looked ased.-[Bur.
lington Hawkeye.
The country is full Of poets, schol.
ars and deep thinkers, but the man
has not been born who can tell why
the sleeves of summer undershirts aie
always five inches too long.
Mrs. Partington, in illustration Of
the proverb, "a soft answer turneth
away wrath" says that sit is better to
speak paregorically Of person than
to be all the time flnging epitaphs at
him."
"Why does lightning so rarely
strike twice in the same place I" Pro.
tessor Workman asked the new boy in
the class in natural philosophy. "Huh,'
said the new boy, sit never needs to-"
And it is little singular that nobody
had thought of that reason before
burlington Hawkeye.
Some recently discovered inscrip-
tons on burned bricks bring to light
the astonishing revelation that King
Ahasuerus hanged Haman because he
invented the ACCORDION and put the
price down to one dollar and seventy
five cents so that every young man
might have one Bur. Hawkeye.
When tooth begins to feel as if
there was a chicken scratching at its
root it's time to pullet out.-Sunday
Times. And stop the scratching on
that acher.-West Jersey Press.
The fall of man has got around
again. Apples are ripe, but we must
remember that Adam and Eve, unfor.
tunately got hold of one with large
sized worm attached to it'll Whitehall
Times.