The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-06-17

URAPE CuLIuRE'-lne BelvIlle GIL Ad- |
vocate states that gentleman of that coun-
ty raised, the last year, over 400 gallons of
wine to the acre, which sells readily for one
dollar and half per gallon. The last year
was an extraordinary one. The yields of 81
and '52 were slight; 1850 gave large har-
vest, like that of last year Taking the four
years together, as an indication of the future
200 gallons may be set down as an average
vintage, which gives as the earnings of a sim
gle acre the handsome sum of $500. Large
ly over half of this is clear profit, after al
lowing for all expenses, and all the interest
on the cost of the land No article will pay
to its first cultivators a profit so great as
Catawba grapes. Messrs. Glasby, Vale &
Glasgow have opened a large cellar in ST.
Louis, for native wines, and have purchased
the whole vintage of Hermann, for the last
year, besides much Of the Illinois wines. The
first producers will probably realize large for
tunes from this new and most salutary branch
Of cultivation.-LSt Louis lntelligencer
CREsCENTs.-The crescent was the symbol
of the city of Byzantium, now Constantino-
pie, which the Turks have adopted. This
device of the Ottoman empire is of great
antiquity, as appears from several medals,
aud took its rise from an event related by
Stephens, the geographer, a native of Byzan-
tium. He tells us that Philip, the father of
Alexander the Great, meeting with mighty
difficulties in carrying out the siege of that
city, set the workmeu on a very dark night
to undermine the walls, that his troops might
enter the place without being perceived but
luckily for the basieged, the moon appearing.
discovered the design, which accordingly
miscarried. In acknowledgment of this
deliverance, SAYS he, the Byzantines erect
ed a statue TO Diana, and thus the crescent
became the symbol
The MANNER OF DOING A SERVICE TO 0TH-
ERs.-When your endeavors are directed to-
wards doing good to AN individual, in. other
words to do him service, if there b. anr op-
tion as TO the mode or way, consider and
observe what mode is most to his taste If
you serve him as you think and say. in a way
which is yours, and not his. the value of any
service may, BY an indefinite amount, be thus
reduced. In the action of serving a man.
not III the way he wishes to be served, if
carried TO a certain length. it becomes tyr
amy, not banGfCence; an exercise of power
for the satisfaction of the sell-pgaGding af-
feCtions, not an act Of baneGcence for the
qualification OF the sympathetic or social
Affections Jeremy Bentham.
BLOODY TRAGEDY on LoHG IsLAYD.--A
most awful murder was committed on Long
Island, Friday night, by which Mr. Wick
ham and wife and servant boy was nassa-
cred by an Irishman named Nicholas Balm.
The murderer had been in the employ Of Mr..
w. for some time but had been discharged
! the Tuesday preceding the murder, owing to
his threats against one of the hired girls,
whom it appears, he wished to marry. but
was rejected. He returned TO the house
Friday night and, gaining entrance by a
back way, proceeded to the room cf negro
waiting boy, whom he killed by striking
him on the head with an axe The wretch
then went to MIR. Wickhum's room. where
he succeeded 0ftey a desperate struggle in
killing both Mr. w. and Mrs w. The
terrible shouts of Mr. w. for help started
the hired girls, who sprang from the windows
+, and escaped-giving the alarm to the neigh
borhood. The murderer having dispatched
his victims, proceeded, as was evident by
his bloody tracks. to the room of the hired
girls, but finding them flown, he cleared
When the neighbOr5 came the nscveant was
gone. and up to Monday morning had eludcC
r the officers San. Reg.
, He has since been arrested.
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