Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
The crew Of the Norwegian bark Columbia,
bound from London for Quebec, report that
their vessel was struck by large fish or sea
monster and had hole knocked in her bot
tom, which caused her to fill and sink. The
crew escaped In boats and were picked up by
passing steamer and landed in New York on
the 9Th.
Davis, Republican, has probably been elected
Governor of Maine, and the election will not
have TO 20 to the Legislature. The Repub-
hcans claim large majority of the House Of
Representatives, and eighteen out OF the thir.
tyone Senators.
The striking spinners at Fall River, Mass,
appeal to the workingmen OF the United
States for aid.
The Social Science Association met at Sara
toga on the 10th. President Barnard, of CO.
lumbta College, New York, read a paper on
mono'metalisim, bi.metalsm and interna-
tional coinage, advocating a metric weight
gold coin one grain in weight, whicn would
nearest assimilate in Value to the various
coins now used in the United States, England,
France and Germany, and have the smallest
international coins of ten grains equal to Sc,
less two cents. A paper of President Porter,
of Yale College, on modern education, its op-
pOrtunities and perils, was read.
Four steamers which arrived at New
York from European ports on the 10th,
brought nearly 100000 in gold coin and
bars.
An Augusta, Me-, dispatch on the 11th,
stated that Davis, Republican candidate for
Governor, lacked 32l of a majority on the
popular vote, with ffty-six towns to be heard
from.
Chester A. Arthur has been chosen Chair
man of the New York Republican State Com
mittee.
Ex-Governor John I. Hoffman, of New
York, has resigned the Office OF Sachem of the
Tammany Society and says he will support the
Robinson State ticket.
The State Convention of the National
Greenback Labor Party OF Massachusetts, as
sembled at Boston on the 18th. The follow
ing ticket was nominated For Governor
Benjamin T. Butler; Lieutenant Governor,
Wendell Phillips; Secretary of State, Jona-
than Arnold; Treasurer, Wilbur +. Whitney /;
Auditor, Davis J. King; Attorney-Genel al,
Horace B. Sergeant. The resolutions declare
that stability in prices can only be secured by
maintaining a uniform relation between the
volume and uses of money, and this can be Sc
cured only by full legal tender paper money
issued by the Government; that legal tender
greenbacks should be substituted for National
bank notes in circulation; that the coin in the
Treasury should be used for the immediate re-
duction of the bonded debt; that the soldier
and sailor should receive dollar as good as the
bondholder; that a graduated and progressive
tax on incomes exceeding one thousand dol
lars from every source with the total exemption
OF small homesteads is right and in accord
ance with the constitutional rule that taxes
should be "equal and proportional;" that
hours of labor should be shortened; that free
school books are an important part of the sys.
TEN OF free schools, and that the contract sys-
TEN OF convict labor should be abolished. An
amendment to the fourth resolution, asserting
that equity demands that the difference be-
tween the soldiers dollar and bondholders'
dollar, with interest from date of each def
cient payment, now amounting to nearly five
hundred dollars per man, be paid to the sol
diers and sailors Of the late war, in full legal
tender money, was subsequently adopted.
In the swimming match at Bath, N. Y, on
the 14th, for the championship of the world
and $500, Ernest Won Schoening, of Brook
lyn, was the winner. Captain Webb, of En-
gland, and Daily, OF California, were comDet-
itors.
At Taghanic, N. Y, on the 13th Henry
Moelt killed his wife and her paramour.
Michael Mccormick, John w. Carroll, John
CoiTey and John Martin were seriously in
iured by the falling walls of a building in
process Of demolition at New York, on the
18th. James Gibney, fireman, while rescu.
ing the wounded was badly hurt by falling
wall.
Prescott Pillsbury, adefaulting bank cashier
at Lawrence, Mass, has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment in jail.
A vein OF silver, assaying S62 per ton in sill
yer and $50 in lead, has been discovered al
Meredith, New Hampshire.
At Binghampton, N. Y, on the 10Th, the
wife of Charles thinner became insane and
after throwing her baby, three mouths old
into well, jumped in head foremost.
The official returns from Maine, with the
exception Of twenty small towns and planta
tions, give the following result; Davis
Rep, 6S,0l2 Smith, Gr., 47,0SS; Garcelon
Dem, 2l,1Sl. The Republican plurality oyel
the Greenback ticket is %, ,924; over the Dem
ocralic ticket, 1881. The returns from tn,
} remaining towns will not essentially chang,
the result.
On the afternoon of the 18th an explosion
occurred at the Quaker City OIL Works a
Cooperyille, Pa, whereby George j. Emery
sou OF the proprietor was killed, and Andrew
Emery, another son, and James Stranger wer
fatally injured. The works had Just beel
erected and were started up for the first tim
I'm refining oil by new process
WRIST ANN SOHPrk1
President Hayes left Washington for Fr,