Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-06-24
SUMMARY.

SUMMARY.
SAM PAToH1sM.-A Mr.. Hawev was
recently carried over the Canaan Fails,
about 10 feet high, in small boat, and
escaped with slight injury.
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT
The steamboat Eagle, on the Ohio river,
on the 9Th inst. short distance above
Portsmouth, was capsized, and three per-
sons drowned-a Mr.. Hubbard, from
this state, the cabin boy, and colored
woman. The boat was insured for 49,
0OO.-Ohio Argus.
ABSENCE OF MIND-An editor, in his
hurry to prepare glowing article for
his paper, which was about going to
press, put his pen on his head, and wrote
his paragraph with his spectacles but
this was not all-he handed his specta-
cles to the compositor, and then stuck
one end ofhis paragraph into the ink
stand.-B.
CoUNTERFETs-On dollar bills on
the bank of Cleveland, altered to twenty,
are,said to. be in circulation. The fig
ures 90, in large die, are impressed
in seven places, and is very clumsily
done. The bank of Cleveland has never
issued any 800 dollar blls.-Ib.
RIvALnY--The recent location of
halter in the city of Toledo, was an
nounced by an editorial flourish in the
Gazette! A late Perrysburg paper
gives notice that halter with small
capital. and son of Crispin with pret-
ty considerable kit, would meet with a
good encouragement in that town.
Cleveland Herald.
The city council of Baltimore have
passed an ordinance, authorizing the is
sue of certificates for the purpose Of sup
plying small change in the absence Of
specie. The ordinance appoints six
commissioners to issue the certificates,
to an amount not exceeding 800 900 in
the whole, in the sums of five cents, ten
cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents, and
one and two dollars.
SHAp.--Within the last two years,
shad have appeared for the first time in
several of the bayous in Louisiana, and
have found their way some 1900 miles
up the Mississippi and its noble tributa-
ries. These fish are now taken in the
Ohio, at CINCINNATI Cincinnati Her.
aid.
Last Sunday night, the train of cars
on their way from Schenectady to AL
bany, ran over a COW by which one of
the cars was broken, and the collector,
Jeremiah Reed, was killed. None of
the passengers were injured.
A law has been passed in England,
admitting temperance publications free
of duty. This is as it should be and is
a harbinger of good to the temperance
cause.
!. BANK OF OAKLAND stock OF
1 the bank of Oakland was taken up by
THE ci6zens Of this village, on Tuesday
last. Capital $4,000. Is not this cheer
ing news, and does it not plainly Indicate
! 1.-The healthy and firm condition of the in
to1ior ontiac Balance.
a stage proprietor in Northampton,
J Mass, is now keeping his horses on
wheat, which he finds more preferable
, and cheaper than corn.
The elegant steam packet ship, James
Madison. which left here for Chicago
and Intermediate ports, on Thursday
the 25th ult., returned here on Sunday
morning last, having sailed nearly two
thousand miles in ten days. This is
pretty fair for the first trip.--Detroit.
Daily Free Press.
There is something doing in the
line of boat building at this place there
are now four boats on the stocks, two oI
which are steamboats, of the first class
one Of which is to be launched in a short
time, andis to ply between Grand Haven
, and this place; the other will be finished
during the summer. Grand River Times
United States schooner Enterprise sail
led for Callao the latter part Of FEBRUARY
i United States sloop Peacock and schoo.
! Iner Boxer, were at Callao per late advi
! ces-the, former expected daily at Val