The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-02-03

tions of the occasion, and exhorting them
TO a faithful observance of duty in the case.
Cardinal Bonald, of France, responded in
behalf of the assembly. A gold medal was
then distributed, bearing the immage of the
Virgin on one side, and the following Latin
epigraph on the other, DeipaB Virgin sine
IaJc conccpte Pins TX. Pont. mur. er auri
Australia prin,itiS sibi oblatiS cudi jnssit
". id dec. MDCCCLlV."
PrTRIFEED BoDIEs.-Tha Dayton Empire
of Saturday evening gives the particulars Of
several bodies having been found in a state
Of petrifaction, in an old graveyard on the
farm of George P. 10y, three miles from
Germantown. The Empire says the body
of Mrs. 10y was TO b. removed and her
grave was opened for that purpose. She had
been buried twenty-lour years. The coffin
was perfect, but was SO heavy that it re-
quircd six men TO lift it out. The shroud and
all the covering which was upon the body
at the time Of interment, twenty-four years
ago, had disappeared not vestige of them
remained. The body was perfect, except the
right leg from the knee TO the ankle Joint,
where the flesh seemed to have wasted away,
and lay at the bottom of the coffin in sub
stance resembling ashes mixed with sand.--
With this exception of decay. the body and
! limbs exhibited the same perfectness Of eX-
terror they did when life and animation were
in the body. 1t was stone, Of drab color,
with the smile on her face which it wore
when she gave up mortality.
A grand child was also exhumed, and
! found also to be stone, but was not so per-
feet. The hair on the head was like it was
in life. One or two other bodies were taken
up, partly petrified, but mostly decayed.
FrRE IN LAFAYETTE-MAN BURNRD TO
| DEATH.-The warehouse of John Rose & Son,
together with that of f. M. Weaver and
one or two groceries, at Lafayette, were de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday the 9th inst
The fire caught in the cellar of the Messrs.
Roses warehouse. and being filled with pork,
lard and highwines, it was impossible to ar
rest the progress of the flames, and the build
ings were totally destroyed. But the most
appalling of the whole is that John Rofe
was burned in the building. He was sleep
ing over the Office, and the smoke so suffo-
Gated him that he could not get out. Whe,
the floor fell he was seen to fall in the fire,
but could not be got out, and thus was to-
tally consumed. Total loss $4,000, OF
which $4,000 was covered by insurance.
The above facts we CLEAN from the Lafayette
Journal.
The general supposition among our citi
zenS now is that Mr.. Rose, who was burned
in the warehouse of Rose & Son, was muir.
dered before the building was set on fire
1t will probably never be ascertained wheth,
er such is the fact, but circumstances which
have come to light since the fire, go to show
that if he had been sleeping, The noise and
confusion would have awakened him in time
to save himself We have class of scoun
drels among us who do not scruple to com
| NIT any offence for money, and our citizens
as well as officers, should keep an eye ou
for the villains Lafayette Courier.
A Russian ukase is published, that who
ever, ater battle, shall commit acts of cru.
: city on the wounded or unresistIng, shall
suffer the penalty of death. A levy OF lO(
men in every l,000 is ordered in the Eastern
ll.olE nf thn a. ha oxolo l..