Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-12-19
WEST AND SOUTH.

White River Valley Railroad, near Harrison
Ohio, ran into wagon crossing the road con.
tanning Peter Singer, Matt Singer, Mrs Mag.
gle Singer, Peter Moore and Miss Ella Hurley.
The first four named were instantly killed,
and Miss Hurley injured
General Grant visited indianapolis on the
9th, and met with the usual reception.
General Grant visited Louisville on the
10th, and met with very warm reception,
He was welcomed to the city by Governor
Blackburn, and responded in appropriate lam
guage
a very severe wind storm passed over the
town of Renick, Randolph County, Mo-. on
the 9th. Several houses were torn to pieces
and number of persons injured.
Unusually severe snow storms prevailed
along the line Of the Northern Pacific Railway
from Bismarck to Duluth, on the 10th.
In the Virginia General Assembly, on the
10th, three additional State officers we're elect
ed, viz: Corbin NJ. Reynolds, Treasurer; r. F.
Walker, superintendent of Public Printing;
Samuel c. Williams, Jr., Superintendent of
the Penitentiary.
The Ohio State Grange, in session at Colum-
bus on the 10th, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year. President, j. H. Brig
ham; Overseer, I. F. JOY; Lecturer, j. w.
Ogden; Steward, Davis Whippy; Treasurer,
r. Stephenson; Executive Committee, 8. H.
Ellis, A. P. Axtell, D. Grouse Business Agent,
W. H. Hill.
James Longacre was shot and killed at
Plano, ILL.,, on the 10th, by c. NJ. Bennett.
! Longacre had been engaged to Benefits sis
! ter, but the engagement had been broken.
On the day of the shooting he went to Ben
nett's house with the avowed intention of
marrying the girl anyway, but was elected.
He threatened to kill Bennett, whereupon the
latter shot him through the head. The Cor
oner's jury justified the act.
| Chief Ouray, on the 10th, delivered one of
the Indian prisoners called for by the Ute
| Commission. The Others will be turned over
as soon as captured.
General Grant arrived at Cincinnati on The
llth, and grand banquet was given in his
honor in the evening.
At Havelocks, Nevada, on the 18th, five
Cinnamon were burned to death while under
the influence of opium.
An embankment caved in upon ten or
twelve men at Plattsmouth, Neb. ON the 18th,
and three men were killed and seven badly
injured.
The Ladies' Anti-Polygamy Society of Salt
Lake City, on the 18th, resolved to send pe-
tition to Congress asking the expulsion of
Representative Cannon on the ground of his
being polygamist
The citizens of Columbus, Ohio, entertain
ed General Grant and party on the 18th.
The reception was grand success, and re-
fiected great credit on the city. In the even
ing the General and Mrs. Grant attended the
Governors Guard ball, which was held In the
City Rall, and at one o'clock the party left
for Pittsburg.
Three tons Of nitro -glycerine and mica pow
der, on Fox Island, near Amherstburg, Cana
da, exploded on the night of the 18th. The
shock wasfelt forty-four miles distant.
Judge E. s. Hammond, of the United States
Circuit Court, at Memphis, Tenn, had
novel case before him on the 18th. j. q. Bir-
mingham, of Lauderdale County, Tenu. had
been indicted for unlawfully holding two col
ored girls in slavery. 1t appears Birmingham
refuscl to recognize the abolition of slavery,
and ever since the war has claimed to own the
girls because he owned their mother. The
conduct of Birmingham excited the indigna-
tion of his neighbors, and at their instigation
the United States Grand Jury recently found
an indictment against him. Judge Ham
mond quashed the indictment, holding that
the act of Congress which says that "eyery
person who kidnaps or carries away any other
person, with intent that such other person be
sold into involuntary servitude or held as a
slave shall be punished by fine or imprlson-
ment," could not apply to any one holding or
pretending to hold in slavery In this country,
because slavery having been abolished, there
could be no slaves here, and therefore no one
could be held as a slave. This the Judge said
is an otfense not provided for by the act of
Cor gress and not punishable by indictment
in the Federal courts. The defendant was
discharged.
At Little Rock, Ark, on the morning of the
l4th, j. Gillis' livery stable and cotton COM
press adjoining were burned. GiIHs and
family occupied the second story as resi-
dencs, and when the fire was discovered, the
only safe avenue of escape was cut off.
Gillis and wife dropped their two chill
dren outof a window to the ground, both
OF whom were severely injured. Mrs. ellis
was suffocated by smoke and falling back
perished in the flames. Gllis jumped from the
window and was picked up unconscious
About ten horses, several carriages and bug
giles, and about one hundred bales of cot ton
were burned.
The committee appointed to make santa
ry survey of Memphis, Including house to
house inspection, recommend that as soon as
possible there should be carried out method
ical and thorough system of opening, venti-
lating and chilling of all houses in the city,
whether occupied or unoccupied; the use of
all polluted clsterns and wells should at once
be discontinued; that large number of
houses in the city should be condemned, torn
down, and the material destroyed by fire
system of sewerage should be introduced
that would discharge the subsoil drainage,
etc, into the Mississippi River, and that the
bayous, with a sufficient strip of ground on
each side to insure their control and freedom
from pollution, should be made the property
OF the city for securing drainage; the public
park banks should be properly grassed, con-
slant stream of clear water secured, and the
backing up of high water from the river into
the bayou should be prevented by means OF
dam.
The States and Territories west OF the Mis-
sissippi River produced 10O,0OO,0O0 bushels
more OF corn in 1879 than IN 1873.
A st. Paul, Mimi, dispatch on the 18th, re-
ported severe storm in the Red River coun-
try. Two children OF William Owen, residing
near Breckenridge, were frozen to death, and
two men, IL. G. storderk and James Nolan,
were missing, supposed 10 have been lost in
the storm and frozen.
Colonel w. K. Cook, a noted eounterfeiter,
was killed at his house, near Nicholasville,
KY, on the 10Th. He had escaped from