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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1878
Page
3
Defiance Co. Express announces subscription rates through 1878 including yearly advance, six months, and club plans with prices. Postmasters asked to serve as agents. Ben Wave urges friends to stand true as the old ship is in danger and needs brave men. Toepo begins work on a murder trial.
The two year stay law proposed by Jim Steedman faces criticism from multiple quarters as it moves through the State Legislature. Supporters argue it provides needed safeguards while opponents warn of unintended effects on courts and residents.
Monday saw gold at a seven tenth of a cent premium, boosting greenbacks to 994 cents on the dollar. Silver also followed suit. The Bee laments space taken by National quarrel correspondents and urges the party to let up.
If Hayes could get a new man to fill the Toledo post office it would relieve the balance of the world. He suggests Major Shannon as a candidate.
The notice states that Sitting Bull's band is starving with concern raised for the welfare of the group and the wider country amid food shortages and hardship.
The latest advices indicate Randall's organ will not be published this week or the following week, and in fact it will not appear at all. This is described as sad for Randall.
Several Democratic papers counsel the State Legislature to adjourn and retreat from the public eye, though the lawmakers are unlikely to heed the suggestion and return to obscurity.
The first new silver dollar was produced last Monday at 3 18. Mints in Philadelphia and San Francisco are operating at full capacity. The message urges production momentum with the phrase send em West.
The New Hampshire election last Monday produced a Republican Governor victory. Republicans also claim control of the House with 59 seats and the Senate with four seats.
The Senate signals it will confirm no collector for New Orleans without Packard’s backing or endorsement by Packard himself. The passage asserts that Packard should hold the office.
A private letter from Eaton Rapids Michigan reports the Red Ribbon club has elected a full temperance ticket overturning the usual Democratic majority. In Cheyenne Wyoming residents face a severe snow blockade with Union Pacific trains halted since the 10th. Congress is urged to appropriate 15000 dollars for a National Park in the Yellowstone River country, a modest sum critics deem a luxury in hard times.
The speaker laments Congress being filled with many who push personal theories on finance and tariffs, arguing that if those individuals stayed obscure the country would benefit. The critic says these discussions burden the people and harm policy.
The Cincinnati Enquirer questions if the elderly figure can be president while others urge him to settle his income tax. Yet Sammy remains undeterred and presses his campaign.
The piece argues that a reduced duties stance would hurt domestic factories and workers. It criticizes Gov. Bishop for biased appointments favoring R. M. Bishop & Co. and attacks the Toledo Democrat’s stance on the issue and on party insiders.
A critical editorial charging President Hayes with capitulating to Louisiana threats. It condemns Acklin’s pardon bid for Anderson, argues for Packard as Collector of Customs in New Orleans, and asserts forbearance has limits. The piece warns that yielding would damage Hayes’s manhood and the nation.
Herman Hintz departed for the old country on Tuesday and will be absent about three months. Florida visitor Mr Lowery, jailed on a charge, was ruled an imbecile by Judge Hailey and sent to the Infirmary farm. A local businessman shipped goods to Defiance by wagon saving over half the railroad charge. Something wrong in this.
Mr Harley Hall departed Monday for California to establish a home there. The fire alarm committee ordered an 800 pound bell. Wauseon shows a debt free balance with over 1000 dollars in treasury. Taxes in the town are among the lightest in the state. Mr Cornelius Trowbridge recalled his father building the first road from Waterville to near Delta in October 1834.
Businessmen stay sober with tight money. Wood choppers note drying water in the woods. Mill machinery arriving in good order is now being installed. A Benton township resident, Peter Brady, is named penitentiary guard under the new Penitentiary bill. A petition seeks a railroad from the Wabash main line to the Antwerp Stave Factory.
Mrs. Cook progresses on a fine house in Bunnell addition while Dr. Combs breaks ground for an office on Main street opposite his future residence. Election ahead may feature three corporation tickets. St Pauls Church holds Lent services each Wednesday. Fred Brice sells hardware and tinware stock at cost to close business. A young man and another attempt to steal raw eggs, but the former squealed and paid the bill.
A boy aged Charter McKnight drowned near Perrysburg after a quarrel with a companion. Authorities investigate a possible push from the abutment. another youngster, twelve, remains silent as to how the accident happened.
The case, carried to the Supreme Court and decided this week, rules the Council may remove earth or gravel from one street to improve another street in the town.
The Sandusky County Teachers Association will convene in Clyde on Saturday March 16 at 10 a m. Dr J C Thomson of Rollersville will organize a Lodge of Knights of Honor there on Monday afternoon. A steamer, tug, and theft news follow with local incidents and a large bass haul by Thomas Silverwood in Mud Creek Bay yielding 26950 dollars.
The Auglaize County representative backed a bill in the Legislature to allow taxpayers to cover the treasury shortfall from the ring robbery. Early assurances that the money would be secured by property and not borne by taxpayers seem to face a hitch in the proceeding.
Davie writes to a Southern congressman urging removal of Jeff from the Mexican soldier pension roll to aid passage of the bill then before Congress. He requests the name be struck off for heaven's sake.
Reep remains focused on securing the Toledo post office as Civil Service reform sparks debate over kicking him and Dowling from political contention and reshaping opportunities in the region.
Recorder's office books list transfers including Thomas Strawford to Frederick Hoenberger fourteen 40 acre tract in Mark for 675 dollars Andrew Larimore to John Burgbacher 117 acres in Washington for 6000 dollars Reason Scott to James Burbower 15 acres in Farmer for 675 dollars Frederick Hoenberger to Margaret B Swob 40 acres in Mary for 675 dollars Rudulph Miller to Francis Dy Arman a lot in Defiance for 1200 dollars
Williams County notes report the Teachers Association meeting set for March 16 in Montpelier. Local trades include the Cincinnati buggy man selling cheap buggies and Jacob Rager receiving a Chester White saw-pig. Sheriff Kober sold the Edgerton Crosby House hotel to James Stuller. Storer attaches a Nonpareil Grist Mill to his saw mill for grinding. A novel wedding occurred by a Defiance County Justice for Lew Knight and Ellen Hemmenway on the county line.
Torepo forwards a lengthy 35 foot petition to Washington opposing Reed's proposed appointment. The note implies the post office will be the death of someone if the rate continues.
The Delphos area eyes a strong wheat crop next season and a booming housing demand, with people seeking quarters. An engineering party began surveying the southern extension of the Toledo Delphos and Indianapolis Narrow Gauge Railway along the canal east side toward Spencerville, then southwest to Mendon in Mercer county.
Five persons from this county were sentenced to the Penitentiary during the present term of court. A Lima woman boxed a man’s ear on Wednesday evening before the train reached Delphos. Flax Mills plan to resume soon after purchasing new machinery and installing it. Mr. David Johnson obtained an injunction to stop the Town Council from digging gravel on Market Street beside his property.
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