Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGTON.
PRESIDENT HAYES left Washington on
Che 26th for trip to the Pacific coast.
FROM an official statement just com
pleted at the Treasury Department it appears
that the Government receipts for the fiscal
year 1880 amounted to over s333,000,000,
which Is gain Of nearly S6O0JO,OOO over the
preceding year.
DURING the two weeks ended August
2s there were issued from the mlnts by the
Treasurer OF the United States 443, ,964 stand
ard silver dollars.
THE excess of exports of merchandise
during July was s13, us, ,3O3; excess of exports
of gold and silver coin and bullion, $780, ,2l9
THE EAST.
Four steamers which arrived at New
York from Europe on the 2jth lad on board
foreign gold Of the value of s., 100000.
GENERAL THOMAS d. HoxIE was
unanimously nominated for Governor by the
New Jersey Greenback Convention on the
25th.
A YACHT was upset in a storm near
New Lots, Long Island, on the 25th, and five
persons were drowned.
A FIRE at Philadelphia on the 25th
destroyed property valued at sl75,OO0.
Two THOUSAND two hundred and
twenty-six immigrants landed at Castle Gar
den, New York City, on the 25th.
THE Industrial League of America
has issued an address on the condition of
American industries. 1t makes avery nattcr-
ing showing of increased manufactures in
iron, steel, silk, pottery and worsted. The
League proposes to organize an auxiliary
league IN each Congressional district and to
vote for no candidate for Congress who will
not before election pledge himself if elected
to do all in his power by word and act to pro-
tect American industries.
THE steam forced into the Kelly Run
colliery at Pottsville, Pa, TO extinguish the
fire which has been raging there for a month,
saturated the mine in No. 9 slope so much
that the weight Of earth above caused the
slope to cave in on the oath, carrying every
thing with IL and giving fresh impetus to the
fire.
THE New York Democratic State
Convention for the nomination of Judge OF
the Court of Appeals will be held at Saratoga
September %.
WILLIAM MULLER was burned to
death at Thomas mill at Philadelphia on the
25th ult.
The transfer of So, 600, 900, over 30O,.
900 ounces in standard gold bullion, was or
dered on the 9th ult., from the ASSAY Office in
New York City to the Mint in Philadelphia
for coinage.
AT the Charter Oak Racing Park a
Hartford, Conn, on the 9th ult, st. Julier
trotted mile in 2:1l14, beating all previous
records.
IT was reported at New York City or
the 27th ult. that large number of forged
passenger tickets over railroad lines west haC
been put out.
GENERAL N. L. JEFFERIEs Democrat
ic nominee for Congress in the Sixth Penn
sylvania District has been withdrawn and
NJ. Custer substituted
LIGHTNING struck the house of Johr
Weller, near Mihlin, Pa, on the 2Sth ult.
while the family were at dinner. Weller ant
four children were severely burned.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on thu
Lowell Il Lawrence Railroad on the night o
the 2Sth ult., near Lowell, Mass. Five youths
who had attended picnic, either for lack o
money or for sport coutrived to Chamber ol
top Of a passenger car in the returning cX
cursion train. When the train reached
bridge in the town of Tewksberry all five wer
swept off and killed. At the time it was onl
known that one had met death in this man
ner. He was thrown down between the car
on the platform, where the conductor foun
him. Some time later trackman found tn
bodies of the Others lying in the bitches, thre
on one side of the track and one on the other
In speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston
on the 2Sth ult., General Butler declared tina
he was not and should not be a candidate 70
any Office, elective or appointive, at this eleC
tion or under the incoming administration.
A FIRE took place in the flock wash
ing-room of the Pacific Mills at Lawrence
Mass, on the 2Sth ult. II is a one-story build
ing, having neither door nor window, the er
trance being through a skylight. Mcha,
Lanegran and Patrick Moriarity, being unabl
to get out, burned to death.