Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-12


At a conference of about 200 Prohibition.
lists at Boston, on the 2d, resolutions were
adopted urging the duty OF temperance Re-
publicans attending the caucus, and opposing
the nomination of any man for office who ia.
vors or advocates the use and sale of intoIi.
eating liquor as a beverage.
Drews, Stichler, Hummel and Brandt, con.
victed Of the murder OF Raber, near Lebanon
Pa, several months ago, will be hanged No
vember IA.
A family at Elizabeth, n. j., named Cusick
consisting Of father, mother and four children
were poisoned on the % by eating toadstools
mistakiDg them for mushrooms. Two of the
children died, and the other two were not ex
pect6d to live. The parents will recover.
The Massachusetts, Democratic State Cen.
tral Committee has decided that it cannot
recognize the Butler party as Democrats.
The New York Republican State Conven
tion, held at Saratoga on the 81, nominated
the following ticket: For Governor, A. B
Cornell; Lieutenant-Governor, George G.
Hoskins; Secretary of State; Joseph B. Carr
Comptroller, James w, Wadsworth; Treasur.
er, Nathan ID. Wendell; Attorney General
Hamilton Ward; State Engineer and Survey
or, Howard Soule. Resolutions were adopted
declaring that the Republic of the United
States is Nation and not league and that
the opposite doctrine of State sovereignty 1:
the baneful mother of notification, secession
and anarchy; that to refuse the necessary sup
plies for the Government with the design OF
compelling the unwilling consent OF co-or
dinate and independent branch to oiiou.
measures is revolution, and to refuse appro
nriatiOnS for ba "a
binding laws is nullifcation that the safet,
OF the Republic demands free and pure elec
tions; ;.denounces the Democratic Congress TO,
attempting to break down the National elec
tion laws; the course of the Republican Sena
tors and Representatives In Congress for theiI
resistance to this attempt, and President
Hayes for his veto messages is heartily an
proved; that the Republican party neither
1ustiies nor tolerates military inter
ference with elections that the sue
cessiul resumption of specie payments
despite Democratic prediction and hostility
is the crowning element of the Republican
financial policy; that the whole currency
should be kept at par with the monetar,
standard OF the commercial world, and any at
tempt to debase the standard, to depreciat,
paper or to deterioate coin, should be firmly
resisted; protests against the partisan greed
which expels old Union soldiers from theil
welldeserved rewards, and advances Confed
crate soldiers to their places; that .mon
eyed and transportation corporations are mo-
alone the works of private enterprise but ar,
created Tor public use and with due regard II
vested rights, and it is a clear province anC
the plain duty of the State to so superyis,
and regulate such corporations as to secur,
Just and impartial treatment Of all interested
to foster the industrial and agricultural wei
fare of the people, and with liberal polio,
favor public waterways to maintain the com
mercial supremacy of the State.
The New York Prohibition State Convan
ton, held at Syracuse on the Sd, nominatet
the Following ticket: For Governor, Prof
John W. Mears; Lieutenant Governor, Jane
H. Bronson; Secretary of State, Alphonso A
Hopkins; Comptroller, Caleb w. Allie; Treas
urer, Stephen Merritt; State Engineer, Johl
d. Hooder; Attorney General, Walter Far
rington.
Charles Demond, late Treasurer of tn
Massachusetts, Home Missionary Society, wa
arrested on the 4th charged with embezzIe
ment. Various Irregularities in his ofiicis
conduct were discovered last spring, and al
examination of the books show that Tn
amount OF the defalcation is between 500 90
and $4,000.
The Methodist Church at Henderstown, Pa
was completely demolished by a cyclone O.
the 4th. The school building was badly dam
aged and number of dwellings and othe
buildings were unroofed
Mrs Kate Sprague has filed petition |
the Supreme Court of Rhode Island askin
Tor the appointment of a trustee of her proI
erty and estate In South Kingstown, tha
State.
The sailing yacht West Wind capsized an
sunk Immediately in Henderson Bay, NY. n
the "th' Ihere were nine persons on boarC
seven OF whom were drowned. The other tw
ciung to spar and were saved.
Leonard, son of Nathaniel Monte6or,
OF London, and a nephew of the lat
Hon Anthony Rothschlld, died at Newpor
K. l., on the 9th. He arrived 10 this countr
August 3.
Charles Demond, the defaulting Treasur,
OF the Massachusetts, Missionary societ,
was indicted for embezzlement, at Bosto
on the 9th, and in default of bail committe
TO jail.
George b. Durfee, late Treasurer of IL
Mechanics Mil at Fall River, Mass, has bee
indicted for embezzlement.
Gold continues TO a,cumulate IN the vaul
of the sub-Treasury at New York City. II
Assistant Treasurer there writes that the
really is no demand for gold. The amount
certificates outstanding remains nearly st
tionary.
Returns received from the Maine electlC