The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-01-16
1880 In ADVANCE.
NO. As.


neigborhood in one of the interior counties
of the State. We hope it is an exception
to the general character of recipes for the
disease
CURE FOR THE PoTATo RoT.-In re
Jr., of Cayuga Bridge, on the subject of the
potato disease, he informs US that he had not
been troubled with rot for some years, and
that there was an easy remedy for it, which
all might apply with very little trouble or
expense. On inquiring for this simple rem
eday, we expected to have been told that it
was a secret to be revealed only to those
who are willing to contribute handsome
reward to the discoverer. But Mr.. Barrett
freely gave us his experience, which we as
freely impart to our readers, leaving it to
them to make the experiment. if they think
proper.
Mr.. Barrett states that few years since,
he as well as most of his neighbors, lost
their entire crop of potatoes by the rot--the
next spring ne was compelled to 90 to an
other town for seed, where he procured a
supply for himself and an adjoining neigh
Dor, and where he was told how to prevent
the disease. He said he and his neighbOr
planted the seed he procured in adjoining
iields-the soil and treatment similar-only
that Mr.. Barrett applied the remedy recon-
mended to him-which consisted in Solcinc
ashes over the field once a week for six
weeks, commencing shortly after the second
hoeing Of the crop. He used from two to
three bushels of ashes per acre, which is
sufficient to give the potato tops a GOOD
busting. The result was, that his field was
entirely free from the disease, while the pota-
toes on the adjoining field, without this ap-
plication of ashes, rotted badly. Since then
Mr.. Barrett, as we'll as most of his neigh
bors, had applied ashes, and had been entire.
!y free from the disease"
In South Carolina there is no law pre-
scrlbing a marriage ceremonial. Hence the
mode of the ceremony and the character Of
the officiating functionary are left to the
choice of the parties. Judge Frost, of the
court of sessions, in a recent charge to a
jury, remarked that if man and a woman
jump over a broom, the former saying /
take this woman to be my welded wife. 50
and the latter, " take this man to be NV
welded husband" and 60 to house keeping
they are legally married-having entereu
into a bond of union which cannot be an
nulled so long as they both live.
A SEA MoUsE-A beautiful living sperj-
men of the aphrodite is exhibiting in Eng
land The fish is six inches long, and pre-
sents the general appearance of sole Il
is furnished with twpnty-six feet on either
edge of the under part of the body, the ex-
tremity of each leg or foot possessing four
or five tantacuIR. The great remarkable.
feature, however, is in the fine glossy Ala
ment of hair which fringeS the side of the
animal all round, every hair rehecting.1hc
colors Of the rainbow.
LAKE NAvIGATIoN.- The losses by steam
and sail vessels on Lake Erie, Ontario, and
Michigan, exceed 1874 900. Six steamers
two propellers, and thirty sail vessels were
entirely destroyed. 1t is cheering fact.
that no lives have been lost on any regular
steamer, except the Ocean Wave on Lake
Ontario, showing the benefit Of the new sys-
TEN of lights. AS fresh water improvements
are TO be estopped we must be thankful it is
no worse.
ERIE AFFAIRs.-The United States Court
has ordered Fitzpatrick, the Erie rioter, to
be imprisoned in Jail for violating the in
junction of Court, and has also ordered the
United States Marshal to take possession Of
the road and hold it against the mob We
may now have something done that will b.
effectual, =" " - Aa2s ."r.