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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14

voting unless he voted the Bourbon Con-
federate ticket. 1t has been shown that
the oppression of caste stripped him
of all profits attaching to labor
and all its legitimate products through
a minimum system of wages
and cast-iron contracts which re-
duced him to the most squalid con-
dition and made bare existence we'll
nigh impossible. 1t has been shown
furthermore that he was denied Justice
in the courts; that UNANIMOUSLY y-cruel
laws were enacted against him, and
that by the aid of this odious and brutal
class-legislation he could be arrested
upon the most trivial charges, sentenced
in heavy and extreme penalties, and to
satisfy them his labor could be sold to
the highest bidder, thus reducing him
to condition of slavery only differing
from his former condition in that the en-
ployer had no permanent title in him
as a chattel. 1t was demonstrate that,
under the pressure of such a combina-
tion of brutalities as the above, 600 of
the thousands of negroes in North
Carolina availed themselves of their
inherent rights, with which no one,
individual, Legislature, courts, or Con-
gress, can interfere, and sought place
where they fancied they could enjoy the
rights of citizenship, protection from
personal violence, the right to labor and
enjoy the fruits of labor, though, as
the event has shown, they found that
Mr.. Voorhees, constituency of bowling,
brutal ruffians were as pitiless as those
lhev had left Mt home
This is what Mr.. Voorhees, has estab-
lished after weeks of investigation with
prejudiced witnesses, and every word
of it was known before Mr. Voorhees,
commenced his investigation. And for
this child's play, and silly, almost
criminal, waste of time and money, the
the people of this country must put theil
han Is in their pockets and pay $4,000
II would have been much more to the
purpose, and more in accordance with
the temper of the people, if an equa
sum had been expended in Investigate
ing the infamous brutalities practiceG
upon negroes by the bowling mobs o.
Shelby County at the recent election
with the view, first, of ascertaining
whether colored citizen of Indiana has
any rights at all and, second, for the
purpose of furnishing the scoundrel,
who were guilty of these Outrages. -
Ch5cuQo Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
Rev City, Pa, Destroyed by Fire-A
Widespread COnflagratiOn.

A special frvm Bradford, Pa, on the
9th to the Chicago Tribune gives the
following account of the recent destruc-
tive fires IN the northern oil field OF
Pennsylvania:
About noon to-day, while a twenty-quart tor
pedO was being lowered in Bradley's No. u, on
the Taylor farm, the well made IA sudden flow,
caustnEan explosion, demolishing the derrick
and setting the rig on fire. The torpedo
shooter and his assistant had IA miraculous es-
cape from death, A strong west wind was
| blowing, and In an incredible short time the
| fire had spread to the adjoining wells,
The woods caught fire, and the wind
sent the flames galIoping over the ridge
| 10 Rev City, burning about 100 wells IN It's
fiery course Rev City, town OF perhaps
0iidom. The town was well built up with rude
i wooden structures. There were two main
! streets. The hre started in the west end OF
/ the place, sweeping everything before 1t. The
| Inhabitants had no time to'save anything, and
in most instances lost their all. IL did not take
| long TO burn the fatedr town. This isafternoon
| the streets were still smoking hot with the
4 heat. Not a vestige of the place eremained Men
i women and children We're huddled IN groups In
4 the woods, their compilations stained black by
| the dense sulphurous smoke which overhune
! hill and valley, reminding one of the Day OF
| Judgment. Ii was reported that two women
and five children were burned TO death. --latest
reports confirm the MINORS Names cannot
From Rew City the flames, which reached
hundredS Of teet INTO tne an, swept over hii
and valley, devastating the country, and slow
ly but surely approaching Borden City anc
| COlevlle. two prosperous oil towns. The titt
| is still raging. The loss at Rev Cityi 10 esti
4 mated at SG0,00O. Between hew City aRd Bor
hdhll about 300 wells were blIned. rs
| The sight'of the burning old running down
the hillsides and the lurid flames leaping trom
derrick to derrick was sublimely grand. A
far us the eye could reach the country wa
one living mass of tame. The smoke was nj
times so thick and sitting that one was be
| wildered which way TO turn. The flames trav
eled with the speed OF q race-horsc, and nun
dreds of men employed at the wells were com
PEELED 10 tee for their lives
Two miles from the city several wells ant
four tanks of crude oil were burned.
The EUening star puts the latest estimates o.
| loss at 800 wells one town cremated, six livel
lost, and thousands of barrels of seventy-tve
cent oil have gone to waste.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
THE Docs DIRGE.-
Feather Work.

LADIES who live in the country and
raise poultry would find it a source of
amusement if they would save the feath-
ers of hens, roosters, peafowls, ETC., and
form them into feather-dusters, or flow
ers for winter bouquets. For the latter,
begin by making card-box with many
divisions, then with sharp scissors trim
away all the superfiuous parts and shape
the feather into an oval leaf, leaving
only short stem. Prepare a good
many in this way, carefully cutting
away part of the midrib to render it
flexible. Have some fine wire cut into
short pieces and some strands of floss
silk, and, taking piece of wire, attach
firmly to one end several stiff fibers or
few bits of down; next take one of
the leaves, and, bending it gently out
ward, fix it close to the tuft by winding
the silk tightly round the wire; repeat
until you have six or eight leaves around
the stamens, and finish your flower by
winding the whole stem with green or
brown floss. Short goose feathers form
lovely white roses by arranging several
rows of petals and using yellow centers,
while rich green leaves are made from
the beautiful tail feathers of the rooster
and the wing of the common duck.
The breasts of peafowls give us ex-
quisite blue flowers, and the different
shades of gray and wood-color found in
the plumage of the common hen will
surprise those who have not made a
study of the art of feather flower maxi
ing. For those who can see no beauty
in quiet shades there are the family
dyes, which will color feathers prettily
by first wetting well in hot water, then
dipping into a solution of red or blue,
with the addition of bit of alum to set
the color, The pmmage of birds of all
kinds (and of the wild duck in particu-
lar) will vary your collection, and form
objects of admiration and study for all.
! Ladies' Floral Cabinet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
The vcipity Of Bradfotd on the 9Th. The
conn ,o.s,i,,, ni.,,,.t y a, 4, "a ,,,,Il ~,

The vcipity Of Bradfotd on the 9Th The
connlgration originated in an oil wen which
was being torpedocd oSerhowing and catching
fire. The machinery OF 30 wells, consisting Of
engines, engine-houses, boilers, tanks belt
houses and derricks, was destroyed. Each
tank contained about 250 gallons OF oil, and
most Of them were full at the time. Rev
City was entirely destroyed, and two women
and five children were burned to death It is
estimated that about 81 600 worth of
property was entirely destroyed, and thou
sands Of m en- are thrown out of employment
and rendered homeless. H 1l.r
THE wholesale clothing house of
Whitten, Burdett q Young, Boston, and adj
joining merchants, were damaged to the ex-
tent of nearly S400,0o0 by fire and water on
the morning of the 9th.
THE Western Iron Association, met
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, and, after a
full discussion Of the question of the exist
ing dullness In the iron trade, unanimously
agreed to reduce the card rates from three
and two-tenths to two and a half cents per
pound. -...4
The New Jersey State Republican
Convention met in Trenton on the 9th and
chose delegates to the Chicago Convention
favorable to the nomination of Blaine.
The New Hampshire Republicans
selected Blaine delegates to the National Con
vention at their State Convention In Concord
on the 9th.
The coke-workers in the Connells-
vile (Pa.) district struck for an increase Of
wages on the 7th. All the works except two
or three are idle.
The Coroner's jury in the cases Of the
victims of the Madison Square Garden IN
" disaster has rendered verdict oensuTinp
the Harlem Railroad Company for employ
ing civil engineer, who was not conversanI
with the construction of buildings, as al
architect, and the Department of Buildings
for negligence. The jury recommend thai
the entire building be taken down, as they
deem It dangerous and unfit for the purposes
of public assemblages.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
PITH AND POINT.

A MAN without dollar to his name
counts as much with the census-taker as
a millionaire. Detroit Free Press.
A sEAsIcK man IS not rabid, but the
passengers would feel more comfortable
all around if he could be sea-cured-
Boston AdUeTttSer.
A MAN can not properly fit himself for
life in another world without being toll
erably decent in this WORLDLY. o. Pic
dyuRe.
AT a recent election at New Rochelle,
N. Y, for School Director, for which
women appeared at the polls. The
milliners probably held their spring
openings on that day ---Philddelphtd
Chronicle. ...n
THE Detroit Free Press talks about
ga hen which will loaf around on top
Of nest full of eggs for the best part of
month" If the Free Press man thinks
it's merely fun to sit on dozen of eggs,
let him try it once.-BoSton Post
Two Boston men put 81 600 apiece
into patent medicine business; and
found, after the flight of the third part
ner with the money, that the stock con-
sisted of neatly papered and labeled
blocks of wood.
A BosToN lawyer told another law
yer, who asked him question, that he
usually received pay for his advice.
"Then," said lawyer No. 1, extending
fifty cents, I" tell me all you know and
give me back the change. ."-Al6any
Lda0 Journal.
THE Cincinnati Gazette says it has,
without Edison's aid. discovered the
talkaphone, which is pretty piece of
machinery, about five feet five inches
high. weighs about one hundred and
forty pounds, and runs until eleven
o'clock Sunday evening.
THE country politician who, when at
home, cuts bread with his jack knife and
rubs out pencil marks with the toe of an
old Arctic rubber, is the first man, when
he goes to Congress, TO tind fault with
the fine stationery.-N. Y. Herald.
SOME admiring poet said of his best
girl: q" Upon her face a thousand dim
| Piles smile for me-" Which only adds
more emphasis to the adage: Glove is
blind" How like the mischief girl
would look with thousand dimples on
her face. The poet must have meant
freckles.- Ne,0 Hacen Register.
THE other day a boy on South Hill
yelled so loud that he loosened all his
hair at the roots, and when the fright
ened neighbors rushed in to see what
the murder was about they found he was
only calling to another boy, standing
just on the other side Of marble ring
about six inches .-BurLiRgton
HaWkeue.
THE Does DIRGE.-
His bark is on the sea-
And from pa n he'll soon be free,
Nor much longer shall he chant his every day
whine;
His body's getting frail,
AMI thereon doth hang a tail,
| For he's bound for the happy land of canine
-RGckenSack Republican.
THE English language is rich in
synonymous terms. A mechanic in
search of work is "out of q iob;'' a
clerk in the same predicament is 1" dis
engaged" and professional man sim
ilarly placed is 6 at leisure The me.
chanic gets work, the clerk g connects >
himself with some establishment, and
the professional man "resumes " prac.
tice.- Philadelphia NeaCS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
Proceedings Instituted fer the I'M
peachment OF Mayor KaIIoch.

A San Francisco dispatch of the 4th
says; vr7 -zTr-- ca e
AT meeting of the Board of Supervisors
last evening the Judiciary Committee which
had been instructed 10 take into considerali ion
the utteranoes and addresses of Mayor Kali
loch, and to report what, if any, incendiary
language he has publicly used, and to report
the proper action to be taken by the Board in
the premises, filed a long report reviewing the
history of the labor agitation and the part
borne in 1t by KallOch, and finding that he has
encoura9 ed the lawless and discontented ele-
ment advised them to parade the streets,
and endeayored to keep them in such dis
position and temperament as to commit
an outbreak whenever it should suit
his purposes; that he has impeached the hon
esty OF the whole community, accused various
branches Of the City Government of corrup-
tion and dereliction of duty, and. under the
pretense of counseling the mob against viO-
lence, insidiousiy advised them to be in readi-
ness for bloodshed and the overthrow of the
authorities They expressed the opinion that
kalloch is interruptions and unprincipled and
devoid OF integrity and fidelity to the public
interests, and that the time has arrived for
the Board to express its condemnation of his
acts, and recommend that prompt action be
taken to vindicate the fair fame of the muni-
cipality by judicial inquiry into Kalloch's
case.
The motion to adopt the report was put by
Mayor. Kalloch, who announced that it was
carried.
A resolution was then adopted authorizing
the committee to cause judicial proceedings
to be instituted against the Mayor for his re-
moval from office, and empowering it to EN-
ploy counsel and prosecute the matter to a
speedy termination.
Throughout the reading of the report and
the resolution KallOch appeared cool and un-
moved, appearing to consider only the Dig
| nifty of his position as presiding officer of the
| BOARD
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
Foreign Intelligence.

ACCORDING 70 a Berlin telegram OF
the 4th the Prince of Montenegro had mott
fed the Great Powers of Europe that he did
not intend to waste any powder on the pre-
datory bands Of Albanians resisting the prog
ress of his troops and the execution Of the
treaty Of Berlin. II there must be war he
intended to declare it against the Turks,
whom he charg~ with instigatiag the trouble.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14

Is THERE A CENTRAL SUNP-Madler
announced his belief that Alcyone, the
chief star of the Pleiades (the Seven
Sisters), was the central star of the
universe, which led men to think that
the stellar system, like the solar sys-
TEN, revolves round center. The
only evidence Madler had for this opin-
ion was the drift of the stars of the
constellation Taurus in one direction.
This has since been proved to be no
evidence, as similar drifts have BE- el
observed in other directions. Mr.
Proctor comes forward with his opin on
that the whole theory is myth, and not
supported by any astronomical fact.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
The Distress in the West of IreIan l..
NEW York. May 8.

IN L Os
James Redpath, in a letter from
Mayo, Ireland, tells this story:
walter NJ. Bourke is the largest landlord
proprietor in Clare, and his tenants are the
poorest people in it. He borrowed el00 from
the Board OF Works to give employment to
his tenants. He employed those tenants who
had not paid their rent, and agreed TO pay
them six shillings per week, but he keptit for
rent due"
Speaking of the people, the writer says:
" found them, in the west, sad and desper-
ate. The people are care-wOrn and broken
hearted. Old men and boys old women and
girls young men and maidens-all are grave
or haggard, and every household is as if the
plague of the tiHst-born had smitteu it that
day. The famine has famed their restless apir-
its, and they crowd around a bit of peat fire
without utterfng word Often they do not
look second time at stranger who comes
into their cabin" -
Father Corbtt assured Mr.. Redpath that the
political agitation put $3,00O000 into the ten
ants pockets, by preventing unjust additions
to the rack-rent, and it gave them whole
swamps of peat The priest also said that
Sir Robert Bloss has an annual rental of El0.-
000. He gave 490 10 the reliet fund, the only
one of twenty great landlords who gave any
thing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
LATER.

GENERAL FISK presented to the Meth
odist Geaeral Conference at Cincinnati on
the Sth the report of the Commission ap-
pointed to adjust the differences between the
Northern and Southern branches of the
Church. The report set forth that all the
differences had been amicably adiusted; that
harmony should be establishe |, and the two
Churches should work together. The report
oecasioned an exciting de bate, but it was at
last ratified.
JAMES B. WEAVER, The Greenback
member of Congress from the Seventh Iowa
District, was renominated on the 9th.
AN explosion of gunpOwder occurred
at Faido in the st. Gothard Tunnel en the
9th, and eighteen persons were killed or
wounded.
AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 9Th two
boys named Ray McCrosan, aged four, and
Thomas F. Garland, aged five, playing with
matches in barn, made bonfire. The barn
was burned, and the two boys were roasted
so as to have no resemblance to human
beings.
Hon. GEORGE Brown. editor of the
Toronto Globe, who was shot few weeks ago
by discharged employe, died on the 9th.
The United States Senate was not in
session ON the Sth. In the House the Con-
ference Committees report on the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was agreed
to, and few private bills were passed. The
Pennsy ylvania contested election case of Curtin
VS.. Yocum was taken uD, and Mr. BeltZhoover
advocated the majority report, which recon-
mended the passage of a resolution declaring
the seat vacant, but stated it to be his inten-
ton to offer an amendment declaring Mr..
Curtin entitled to the seat.
INFORMATION was received in Wash
ington on the Sth, by cable that the Nicara-
guam Government had granted liberal con-
| cesson to Americans for an Inter-oceanic
Ship Canal Company.
SECRETARY SCHURz, receiving infor-
nation on the Sth of another raid upon In
dian Territory, called upon the President and
asked him for help. Additional troops would
be ordered to proceed at once TO the protec-
ton of the reservation, and those trespassers
who had already entered the territory would
be driven out
Mrs. JOSEPHINE r. STONE is one OF
the delegates from the Fourth Massachusetts,
District to the National Greenback Conven,
ton,
AN express train on the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain II Southern Railroad ran into
a wash-out near Bismarck, Mo, on the 9th
demolishing the locomotive and one ol
two cars, and killing the engineer and fire.
man.
CLARENCE DAVIS trial in Chicago fol
bigamy ended on the stn-in verdict o.
guilty, the jury fixing the penalty at imprison
ment for five years and fine of $1,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14

A NEW MEASURING IMPLEMENr.--A
remarkable implement was lately de-
scribed before the "Soeiete d Encour-
agement pour rIndustrie Nationale''
Ii is called profilograph, because when
in use it mechanically traces ON paper
the outlines of the ground over which
it travels. A foreign contemporary de-
scribes it as small carriage mounted
on two wheels, drawn by one man, and
attended by another who marks the
levels of the proper places, and under
meath hangs an iron rod with large
ball at its lower end serving as PEN
dulum. This pendulum maintains a
constant vertical position, while the
machine inclines in one direction or the
other, according as it ascends or de-
scends slope. To the upper end of
the rod is fitted a pencil, which marks
on sheet of paper the ups and downs
of the country traversed, whether on
an ordinary road or across trackless
fields The exact profile is thus re-
corded to a given scale. At the same
time one Of the wheels acting as a
chain-bearer measures and indicates
the distance travelled throughout the
survey,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14

B9-Voorhees' exodus investigation
has already cost the country about
S25,000, and for all the good it has
done the money might as well have
been thrown into the sea. Better, in
fact, for the investigation has placed
the American Congress before the
world in the position of denying the
right of American citizens to move from
one State to another Since the investiga-
ton began about one hundred and fifty
witnesses have been examined, most of
them personal on political friends OF
Senator Voorhees,, who wanted to visit
Washington, and who were brought
there at public expense, - Indianapolis
Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-14
AN application has been received at
lancashire, England, from the United States

AN application has been received at
Lancashire, England, from the United States
for one hundred female weavers.
The Canton of Appenzell, Switzer-
land, has voted by large majority to restore
capital punishment for murder and incendi-
arism. rw a 81. ~ #
A RECENT explosion in coal mine
near Nagasahi, in Japan, killed about fifty
persons.
The directors of the West of England
and South Wales Bank, which suspended in
1878, who were indicted on the charge of fall
styling accounts and conspiracy to defraud,
have been acquitted. I .FFf. {
A MESSAGE was received in London
on the 9th from the King of Siam saying that
his journey abroad had been abandoned for
the present on account Of ill-health
On the night of the 4th at Chatham,
Ont, the house of James Gage was DESTROYED
by fire. Four of Cages children and the
daughter Of a neighbor named Wade perished
in the flames.
GEORGE ELIOT. the well-known
writer, was married to a Mr.. Cross, in Lon
don on the 9th. ---
A MADRID (Spain) dispatch of the
9th reports the discovery Of an incipient rev.
olution in the central provinces Of Cuba.
The LeVdnt Herald of Constantnople
has been suspended and its editor imprisoned
/ for limiting that the Government had better
begin reforming before the English Cabinet
"recognizes the necessity of executing the
'bag-and-baggage' policy
ACCORDING to Paris telegrams of the
7th eighty cotton factories at Roubax, Tour
Going and Rouen had been closed in eonse-
quence of the workmen demanding more
pay and less hours of labor. 1t was stated
that 25,OO0 operatives in those cities were
| idle.
The man who not lSng ago murdered
contractor on a French express train com
mitted suicide on the 9TH by hanging himself
with the bandages of the wounds he received
in the struggle with his victim.
A DUBLIN telegram of the 7th saws
the distress at Kiireed, County Galway, had
become greatly intensified, and that hundreds
would perish unless food were sent immed
ately.
| A C0NsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
9TH says the inhabitants of the town of Bitlis
in Turkey, were Ia a state of revolt because
| of the scarcity of food
The roof of portion of the st.
| Gothard tunnel fell on the 9th. Three work
men were killed.
The most of the British iron-work.
ers, who recently struck against reduction
| of wages, have resumed work at a discount
of five per cent. on pre- vious wages.