Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-02-06
THE EAST.

j. X. Bumbaugh, railway postal clerk of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, between Plttsburg
and Harrisburg, was arrested on the 9th ult.,
for rObhing the mails.
The Governor of Rhode Island, in his an
nual message, recommends that women be
given the right to vote on school questions.
Henry Morris, convict, has confessed to
having started the recent fire in the BROOKLYN,
N. Y, Penitentiary
The New Jersey Republican Convention, to
elect delegates to the National Convention,
has been called for May 6.
The New York Graphic published dispatch
from Odessa on the 29th ult., containing a
rumor that Russian transport vessel with
1000 troops aboard, had been lost in the Cas-
plan Sea, and most, if not all, the soldiers per-
ished.
An Augusta dispatch of the Goth ult states
that seven Fusion Senators took their seats in
the Republican Legislature that day. In the
House twenty-five Fusionists took their seats.
Everybody appeared willing TO accept the sit
uation. Absolute quiet had been restored.
Charles +. Freeman, the Pocassett child
murderer, was arraigned before the Supreme
Court at Barnstable, Mass, on the 29th ult
The physicians declared him insane and he
was remanded to the May term, when II his
condition is the same he will be placed in a
lunatic asylum.
Fifty thousand shares of Central Pacific
stock we're sold by the Syndicate Committee
In New York on the Goth ult. The sales
ranged from 9l11 toS711.
Miss Francis e. Willard has resigned the
presidency OF the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union Of Illinois, and will 90 to New
York to devote her time to the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union, of
which she is president.
The long standing suit OF the st. Louis,
Alton q Terre Haute Railroad Company
against Samuel j. Tilden and others was ended
on the Both ult. by virtual confession OF iudg-
ment and the repayment of several hundred
thousand dollars.
At Mount Washington, N. H., on the 1st
there was the greatest change OF weather ever
known on that mountain in the same length
OF time, the thermometer at noon being nine.
teen degrees above and at nine O'Clock In the
evening twenty-seven degrees below zero.
The Independent Republican Central Com
mtttee, Of New York, known as "Scratchers,n
adopted resolution on the 3lst ult. against
the nomination of General Grant or Senator
Blaine.
An express train, on the 1st, killed Henry
Grant and George Adds aud severely wound
ed William Rhodes, who were crossing the
track In carriage at Chester, Pa.
Sidney b. Thomas, Mark Faldon, John BOYD
and Thomas Stewart, convicted of making
fraudulent election returns in Philadelphia,
have been sentenced to pay fine of 800 and
costs and undergo imprisonment for one year.
Mrs. Lewis, claiming to be the widow of
Joseph L. Lewis, of Jersey City, N. j., who
left million dollars to the Government, and
all who were associated with her in the recent
contest Of the will were arrested on the Slst
ult.
The Fusionist Secretary OF Maine, op the
Slst ult., delivered all the State property in
his possession to the Republican Secretary Of
State.
Rev. Edward Cowley was arrested at New
York on the Slst on indictments charging
him with starving, beating and cruelly,ill-treat-
Ing the children OF the shepherds Fold"