Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-02-13

peal duties on special articles, admonishes
us of the neeessity Of adhering more
strongly than ever TO the tariff pol
icy Of the past twenty years; that
in view Of recent events in Congress and the
Southern States, and latterly in the State OF
Maine, this is deemed fitting opportunity to
reafflrm adherence TO the following princi-
pies A union OF States with equal rights in
destructible by any unconstitutional meas
ure; protection to person, liberty and
property of citizens of the United
States in each and every portion OF
the country; strict integrity in fulfilling all
obligations State and National; perfect secur-
ity Of free thought, free speech and free press
and equal rights and privileges TO all men
everywhere, irrespective of nationality, color
or religion; free and pure ballot, thoroughly
protected so that every man entitled to cast
vote may do so, Just once at each election,
without fear or molestation; an honest count
of all votes cast and an honest return
congratulates the Republicans of Maine over
the peaceful and successful resistance to an
effort to defraud the people of that State of
the right to choose their own representa-
tives.
Adolph E Borie, Secretary of the Navy
under President Grant, died at Philadelphia
on the 5th.
meeting OF the prominent men of both
factions of the Democratic party Of New York
was he'd at Syracuse on the 5th, for the pur-
pose of harmonizing the differences. They
resolved to sink personal preiudices and pref
erences and unite the party.
An unknown vessel and all hands we're lost
in Long Island Sound on the night of the Sd.
Near Londonderry, N. H., on the 7th, Frank
Dillingham; shot his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Dilling-
ham, and then outraged her. Dillingham;
then made an unsuccessful attempt to kill
himself. Mrs. Dillingham; was alive on the
sth but no hopes were entertained Of her re-
covery. Dillingham; was arrested.
Howard Hackett and James Feeny we're
driving to Colville, Pa, on the 9th, with one
hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine when the
sleigh was upset. An explosion followed and
the two men and horses were killed, the
sleigh demolished and two houses and a barn,
one house five rods away, wrecked.
WEST AND SOUTH.
There was great excitement at Denver on
the Sd over the reported discovery of gold
near the mouth of the canon of the Platte,
about twenty miles west of Denver. Over 200
locations were made in two days.
The Milwaukee Hospital, located on the
county farm in the town of Wauwatosa, was
destroyed by fire on the morning of the Sd.
There were about sixty inmates in the build
ing, all of whom but two escaped, Mrs. Chris
tine Nelson, feeble-minded woman, ninety
M nd
At San Francisco, on the morning of the
1st, Chinese wash-bouse was DESTROYED by
fire and eleven of the inmates, supposed to
have been under the influence of opium, per-
ished in the flames.
The County Court House at Dallas, Texas,
was burned on the 9Th. Many valuable pa
pers were burned. The fire is supposed to
have been the work OF an incendary.
A negro cabin on the plantation of Capt
VIM Stock thirteen miles north of Columbia,
). G., was destroyed by fire on the night of the
Sd, aud two men, woman and six children
Perlsned III the nanes
Aninyestigation of the cohuiOioh Vi Iue hen'
lucky state prison by Legislative committee
diseloses a terrible state of affairs. The pris-
on is overcrowded, the sewerage is defective
aud general want of cleanliness prevails
nished has been insufficient in quantity
and unwholesome in quality. The clothing
and bedding were also insufficient. At one
time 200 men were in the hospital with the
scurvey, and many more we're at work, having
only slight symptom of the disease. The
hogging of convicts is also reported to have
been carried to a cruel extent.
The Tennessee Republican State Conven-
tion, to nominate a candidate for Governor
and select delegates to the Chicago Conven-
tion, has been called to meet at Nashville,
May D.
James A. Anderson, late Public Admins
traitor at Memphis, Tenn, was arrested on
the 9th on an Indictment found by the Grand
Jury charging him with the fraudulent appro-
priation of moneys collected from the estate
of minors.
The second trial of the notorious Kentucky
desperate, Grove Kennedy, who killed his
uncle at Richmond in 1875, terminated at Mt.
Vernon, KY, on the 9th, in verdict of guilty
of manslaughter, and sentence to the peniten-
tiary for twenty-one years,
The Irish societies of Chicago will not pa
rade on St. Patrick's day, but instead will
contribute an amount equal to the cost of
getting up the procession to the Irish Relief
Fund.
A resolution was adopted in the Iowa House
of Representatives, on the 9TH, for Consti.
tutional amendment making women eligible
TO the Legislature,
Three burglars entered the Knoxville, ILL.,,
bank on the night of the 9Th and after tortur-
ing the President, E. G. Runkle, to compel
him to divulge the combination of the safe,
which he was unable to do, they departed,
taking with them SO, 200 which had not been
locked up.
Three COW boys, Jim West, John Dorsey
and Tom Henry, implicated in the killing of
the City Marshal of La Vegas, N. NJ, re-
Gently, were dragged from their cells by mob
of seventy-ive armed men on the morning of
the Sth, and taken to the public square, where
West was hanged and the others shot to
death.
The Atchisop, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
was completed to Santa Fe on the 9th.
Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, addressed
a large number Of unemployed workingmen
at the Sand Lots on the 9th and gave them
to understand that within few days China
town would be legally declared a nuisance
and the work resulting from such declaration
would give them employment.
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCR.
Right Hon. Sir George Hamilton Seymour,
a retired diplomatist and Rev. Henry Moule,
a prominent philanthropist, clergyman and
sanitarian, died in England on the Sd.
An official telegram received at Madrid an