The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-02-11

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tirely finished here taken to pieces and transpor-
ted in that state to Egypt.
Cincinnati has certainly had its full share in
the Ohio Penitentiry during the past three years.
The uDmber sent from this county in that time was
! l47. The aggregate term OF their imprisonment
456 years. Ten persons have been sentenced TO
tho penitentiary for life, and one Joseph L9fner)
to be hung
The Cincinnati Enquirer says We deeply
regret to learn by despatch from Washington,
received yesterday, from Mr. John s. g. Burt of
this city, that the Hon. William Medill of
Ohio. first Auditor in the Treasury Department,
is lying very low, and there is scarcely If any
hopes of his recovery.
EVIL DoiNGs NORTH AND SoUrH.-A Mr.. J.
Smith, in one of the interior counties of New
York, sdvertises that his wife Sarah has run off
with mulatto man, and Mr.. James A. Clark,
of Mississippi, publishes that his wife has run
off with four of his negroes,
PENNSYLVANIA LEGIsLATuRE--The Senate has
passed the joint resolution authorizing the Gov
ernor to open correspondence with the Gov
ernors of other States, for the purpose of call,
ing convention for the adoption of measures
TO prohibit notes of less denomination than
five, ten or twenty dollars.
"a LOWER DEEP. The Republic saws it is
understood at Washington, and is undoubtedly
true, that informal assurances have been given
to the Democratic leaders, by the majority of
the Supreme Court, that decision will be Civ
en-, when wanted. protecting shareholders in
Kansas against any alteration of the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, except at the time and under
the mutations expressed in the instrument
WHAT BECAME OF THE SSO0.-The $500 Of
Lawrence, Stone 81 Co.'s tariff investment which
was spent in New York, seems at last to have
been traced to the proper recipient. The Cot-
'Ter q" Enquirer states that the Journal of Com
1ntrce has the privilege Of rioting in that snug
little sum of money No wonder the Journal
last winter went off in such fine freuzy over
Free Wool. Of course it is not surprising that
the recipient of the bribe has turned out to be
Democratic paper.-Sdndusky Register.
"A terrible afTray occurred at Dubuque, Iowa,
on New Years night, in lager beer saloon, du.
ring which one Thos. Gainer, was shot down
his lace, head and neck horribly mutated with
forty shots. He died wetering in his blood;
andhis brother while weeping over his corps was
shot down beside him, his face being rIddled with
shot. Up stairs lay another brother, John Gain
er, very dangerously wounded in the head by
cut received in the house. end otherwise injured.
In an adjoining house lay still another brother,
dangerously wounded in the breast and throat
by charge of shot, Several others were seri-
onsy injured
A WOMAN SHOOTS A MAN IN THE MOUTH
Foa SLANDER--HER TRIAL AND AcoUITTAL.--
Some three months ago Mrs. Nancy Wood, of
Port Jervis, Orange conty, New York, woman
having husband and family, goaded to desper-
alton by man named Jonathan Eldridge, who
boasted that he was her paramount publicly shot
him with pistol, the bullet knocking out some
of the fellows teeth, aud iniicting severe
wound. Mrs Wood was indicted for an assault
with intent to kill and tried at the Orange coun-
ty court last week. The jury after an hours
absence, returned with verdict of acquittal
which was received with great applause by the
audience.
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. man,
whose name is West, walking in considerable
haste through the streets of a town in Indiana,
few weeks snce, was followed by another named
Carmical. Mr.. West is q member of Metho-
dist church, and Carmica member of Pres
byteran church. The Presbyterian was anx-
ous to commune with his Methodist brother !;
but the Methodist did not hold to that kind of
communion. and increased his speed. Offended
with this unbrothery conduct, the indignant
Presbyterian fred upon him with a revolver
The parties were both from the Southern States
, The Mcthodist pGs q Slaue the Presbyterian
his oluner.
i, UNUSUAL VIslroRs.--A aock of cedar birds
. were seen in New Bedford says the Mercury. on
January 20. This bird, called the Cherry bird,
, Canda- Robin RccolLcct, from the color of its
' crest and which is known as the Bombycilla
CarolncnSis, usually appears here in the latter
{ part of April or later. In 1856, June 26th was
: the date of its arrival with us. 1t is sociabe
and amiabe bird very fond of wandering, has a
faint lisp instead of song, aud is known from
: its handsome crest. 1t subsists on the berries
A OF the Virginian juniper, (red cedar,) wax-myr-
tie berry, cherries, huckleberries, &c. The
= cedar-bird was seen in Boston this week eating
T the berries of the mountain ash. In its migra-
ton il goes very far south to Mexico, and even
to the tropical forests Of Cuynenns. A visit
from these birds in mid-winter is, we believe, o
/ fact hitherto unrecorded.
THE JERKs"--The Illinois Baptist of Janu-
ary IA, says that "This strange infatuation is
: again revived in our immediate vicinity. II
n made its appearance III protracted meeting
among the M1thodists in Indian Grove. The
i ministers who conducted the meetings moved
: them from Indian Grove TO Avoca, and brought
with them five or six of the jerkers, and thus
! the contagion commenced in the latter place
y Our informant was present at several of thei
y meetings in Avoca and describes the scenes 81
very exciting, From fifty to hundred were
IS Jerking at the same time. Their hands
IS shoulders. feet, head would be violently thrown
into the most grotestque and and apparentl!
is painful shapes. The women's bonnets woult
lie y off, their hair become dishevelled and in som
/ instances snap like whip. In some instances
it attacked unbelievers in it, and unconverteC
l. men who tried to resist it by folding their arm
re and wrapping them tightly around their bodies
but in spite of themselves, their shoulders, frs
one then the other, would be jerked back, ill
!. they lost all control of themselves.
n WHOLE FAMILY IN PRIsoN--On the l2tl
u inst. a young girl about seventeen years of age
named Ann Cane, Was brought before the Polio
a Court, on charge of disorderly, conduct, an
v was sentenced to the House of Refuge until sh
10 is OF age. In passing sentence, Judge Prude
stated that she was the last of the family q
large that the father Was now confined i
Il the Penitentiry for life on charge of killing
20 10 man; that two sisters, older than the prisoner
were in the city prison, where they have bee
several times, although quite young in years
m and that still younger brother and sister wei
in the House of Refuge; and now the last {
u the family would be sent to keep them compsn!