Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-04-18

| Inc NaJlOnhl Executive committee o. che
Colored Emigration Society has requested the
Government TO aid the destitute colored emf.
grants arriving at st. Louis and other points
from the South.
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, on the
14th, received telegram from Fort sill say
ing there is not the slightest foundation for
the report OF Cheyenne outbreak.
Secretary Evarts, on the 14th, telegraphed
the United States Minister to Russia to CON
vev to the Czsr President Hayes congratula-
tions upon his escape from assassination.
THE EAST.
The steamer Surblton which left New York
for Rotterdam Feb Is, has not been heard
from since and is supposed to be lost. She
had no passengers and was commanded by
Capt J. w. Abbott, aud had crew OF twenty
eight persons.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature, on the
Sth, bill was introduced approprlating $780,
900 for the relief Of widows aud orphans of
those killed in the Pttsburg riot of 1877.
large meeting Of colored people was held
at Philadelphia on the evening of the Sth for the
purpose ofraising means for colored refugees
from the South, now in st. Louis. Addresses
were made by Bishop Payne and others, after
which quite largo sum was raised.
dog show was opened at Gilmore's Gar
den in New York City on the Sth. Seven han
| drcd dogs were on exhibition, several of them
being valued by the owners at 5000 to SlO,-
600.
number Of representative colored men of
Boston held a meeting on the evening of the
9th to consider plans for furthering the negro
exodus from the South. 1t was resolved to
call meeting at an early day and arrange for
means to transport as many as may be desir-
Gus OF leaving for new homes in this West.
The Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives, on the 9th, by a vote OF 103 to 90 indefi.
nitely postponed the so-calIed Pittsburg riot
act.
The members of the Western Nail Associa-
tion declare that they are being driven out of
the markets by Eastern manufacturers who
pay from 1915 to 50 per cent. less for the vari-
Gus classes OF skilled labor. In view OF these
facts the skilled operators In the associations
mills have been asked 70 consent to a reduc-
tion in wages to the prices paid in Eastern
mills for similar work.
Rev John Miller, d. D., late Professor of
the Theological Seminary at Princeton, n.
j., has been formally deposed from the min
New Brunswick.
The Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill
on the 10th, to give women the right to
vote for members of the school committees.
bill allowing them to vote on municipal
affairs in cities and towns was rejected.
John Phair was hanged at Windsor, Vt, on
the 10th, for the murder OF Mrs. Ann Frieze,
June 9th, 1874. He had been reprieved three
times and his counsel, on the morning of the
execution, asked the Governor for another re-
prieve to allow session of the Legislature
to intervene, but the Governor denied the pc
tition.
George Hass, Of Shohola, Pa, cut his wife's
throat and then drowned himself on the 10th
inst.
At the final meeting of the managers of the
trunk lines at New York on the llth, it was
resolved that the Presidents of such lines
would not hereafter participate in any lower
than tariff.rates on east bound business, that
is on basis of twenty cents per hundred
pounds of grain and twenty,ii five cents for
fourth class from Chicago to New York, un-
less on property in transit. On west-bound
freight it was determined to divert freight to
other roads from those which allowed rebates,
a strict maintenance of tariff rates. The
agreement was signed by William H. Wander
bilt, of the New York Central, j. W. Garrett,
of the Baltimore II Ohio, H. j. Jewett, of the
Erie, and q. B. Roberts, of the Pennsylvania.
The Newark, N. j., Home Fire Insurance
Company has reinsured its risks in other COM
nies and closed up its business.
The British Government has sent an agent
to New York to purchase mules for service in
South Africa.
Horace Maynard, United States Minister to
Turkey, after a brief visit to this country, has
returned to his post.
The Providence (Pa.) Savings Bank and
Trust Company has suspended. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, about 100000, more than
half of which can not be collected.
The proposition of the coal mine managers
in the New Castle, Pa, district that wages be
reduced six to seven and one-half per cent
for various classes of work has been rejected
by the miners. Meetings were held on the
18th at which 1900 miners were present and
determination was expressed to resist the
managers demands.
Gen. Richard Taylor, who gained consider
able notoriety as an officer in the Confed-
cAaOo dtul9i uied aL N6H lOTk on Ine lSLn.
He had been unwell for sometime.
The directors OF the Scranton, Pa, Trust
Company and Savings Bank made an assign
ment on the 14th for the benefit OF its cred
itors.
John P. Phar, who was hanged at Windsor,
Vt, on the 10th, left a statement declaring
his innocence and that justice was not done
him.