The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-25

| lHC plCSCuL pOpuldIIOI 10 o. ,CUU last NO-
vember it was 60, ,l40-increase in seven
months $4,000. The number of new build
ings erected during the last year was 1000,
many of the first class. There are now 1873
vessels belonging to that port.
The Lancaster Eagle says The evidence
that Atchson joined the Know-Noth things in
Washington City for the avowed purpose Of
making use of its means to carry slavery in
to Kansas, is in existence and can be pro-
/ duced. By all means let it come.
! A convention has been called in Massa-
chusetts, of those in favor of the formation
of Republican party. The call is signed
by old Wings, Democrats and Freesoilers.
The Kansas Legislature has passed an act
excepting l60 acres of land from execution,
if lying outside town or city plat. If the
debtor live in town or city, his house and
lot if not worth more than 81 800. All the
wearing apparel and working tools are also
exempt from execution. This is very lib
eral provision.
Robert Mcknight South Carolina prin-
ter, after working at his business in that
State steadily for 81 years, has retired and
placed himself in the care of his children
in Alabama. He is 72 years old.
The amount Of taxes voted to be raised the
present year in Nantucket, is $43, 800. A
discount of five per cent. was made to those
who should pay within forty five days, and
before the expiration of that time the sum
of $38, 900 was received by the collector.
Eight immense bags full of free matter for
H. S. Geyer, U. S. Senator, and weighing in
all 1900 lbs, came to st. Louis by mail,
few days since.
Some Pittsfeld, VT, manufa cturers have
constructed a sleigh with wheels fixed in
such manner that they may be instantly
brought below the runners, thus converting
it into wagon at pleasure.
John Gilman, citizen of Dexter, Jeffer-
son county, N. Y, who had been one of
the unfortunate sympathizers'' in the Ca
madam revolt in 1888, taken prisoner and
sent to British penal colony, returned to
his family on the 26th ult., after an absence
of seventeen years.
THE COLLAR BUsINEss.-Lynn is not more
famous for shoes than Troy is for collars and
bosoms. There are fifteen of these establish
ments in Troy and it is estimated that they
turn out, on an average, $4,000 collars per
day. One establishment employs forty sew
ing machines, worked by as many young la
dies, who easily turn off fifteen dozen per
day, and it is said that they can readily earn
from Ss9 to $50 per week.
! A New WAY TO RAISE BEANs-A gentle
men at Seneca Falls, n. Y, last spring plan
ted some Lima Beans. Not being provided
with poles, he supplied their place by plan
ting in each hill sunfowers, trimming up the
stalk, so that it served the purpose of pole.
For time all went on we'll, till at length
the sunfowers growing so much faster than
! the beans, the latter were absolutely drawn
up by the roots.
The Detroit Inquirer says,an offer to sell this
fall several thousand bushels of potatoes at
three shilIings per bushel has been declined
by dealers in that city. They seem to think
! they can be obtained at lower figure. Why
don't they come down, then? We hear that
dealers in this city refuse to contract at two
shillings, and yet the market price still holds
at fifty cents per bushel.-[Blade.