Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-24
THE EAST.

Snow fell in Gallagher Township,
Clinton County, Pa. on the 14th.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention, held at Worcester on the 18th,
renominated the present officers, as follows:
Governor, John D. Lang; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Byron Weston; Secretary of State,
Henry B. Pierce; Attorney General, George
Marston. Daniel A. Gleason was nominated
for Treasurer and Receiver General, and
Charles r. Ladd for Auditor, both by accla-
nation.
Hon. FRED JONES was unanimously
nominated for Governor by the New Hamp-
shire Democratic State Convention on the
18th.
ONE thousand five hundred and eighty
eight immigrants arrived at New York on the
14th.
RETURNS had been received from four
hundred and seventy-two towns in Maine up
to the nth. In these Davis had - 66l, Pas-
ted 7l,7S3. Thirty-four towns were to be
heard from which last year gave Davis 635,
Fusonists 1907, scattering SEA- Fusion ma.
jority of 572. If they come the same as last
year Davis win have left 303 plurality The
official returns alone can decide the result
A VESSEL from Port de Paix, Havti,
was towed into New York harbor on the 10th,
her whole crew having been taken down with
the yellow fever. Two men died on the pas
sage
An explosion of sulphur occurred in a
colliery near Shenandoah, Pa, on the 10Th,
seriously injuring five miners.
The New Hampshire Prohibition Con-
vention, on the 10Th, nominated George D.
AIe fnrl hro
THE captains of two Gloucester,
Mass, schooners who returned with their
vessels from the Newfoundland fisheries on
tie 10th, report being boarded by a large
number of natives who used violence to pre-
vent their fishing.
FOUR hundred and ninety towns in
Maine give Davis, Rep, for Governor, 49, 9OI;
P;aisted, Fusion, 72,5SS; scattering, s3s;
Davis plurality, 713. The small towns to hear
from gave Davis last year 40, Fusion 4S5 scat
tering 80, total 555. Fusion plurality OF 395,
which, deducted, leaves Davis 31S plurality.
The Democrats claimed that the returns were
being doctored by the Republicans
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on the
afternoon of the nth in a small wooden build
ing occupied by the Union Metallic Cartridge
Company at Bridgeport, Conn.,, as a fulmi-
mating building situated some distance west of
their main factory. at the time OF the explo-
sion five persons we're at work in the buildlng
and all were killed. '
THE soldiers monument at Antietam
Cemetery was unveiled on the 18th with beau
tiful and imposing ceremonies, aud IN the
presence Of large number of spectators.
THE two hundred and fiftieth ami
Of ba caff anf ~
brated on the 18th. Business was entirely
suspended. The procession was the finest
and most complete ever witnessed in the city.
The Republicans of the Fourth Con-
gressional District of New Jersey have nomi-
mated General Judson Fitzpatrick for Con-
gress
AN Augusta, Me-, dispatch, on the
10Th stated that the election returns received
up to that time gave Davis plurality of about
200 votes. There were still few towns and
plantations TO hear from.
JOHN ROSE, in crossing the railroad
track at Herkimer, N. Y, on the. 18th, with
his wife and babe in a lumber wagon, we're
struck by the express train, and Rose and the
babe were killed and the wife badly hurt.
Roses head was knocked from his shoulders
and found some distance beyond the body.
3Ft WEST AND SOUTH.
The trial of Virgil and Hamilton
Gully on the charge of the murder of John P.
Gilmer in 1877 began at DeKalb, Miss, on
the 18TH .-ar..f .
OFFICIAL returns from all the coun-
ties in Arkansas except Chicot, Desha, Green,
Phillips and Pulaski give Churchill, DEM, a
majority of $1,000 over Parks, Gr., for Gov
ernor.
OK the night of the 14th a mob of one