The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-11-25
Interesting Variety.

The candle-box that Kansas Calhoun hid the
election returns in. under the wood pile, has
been taken to Boston for exhibition.
AN emigraut to Oregon, writing home to
one Of his friends, says we ore getting en- fine.
! ly here, and have already laid the foundation of
a much larger Jail
The Democratic party OF Milwaukee county,
! Wisconsin. has been reduced from 4 l29 in (4Sj6)
to only 600. The great Northwest will speak
out very plainly in 1860
Carlyle in his Life of Frederick the Great"
! Just published, avows himself a believer in Cal.
wins doctrine that a man is pre-apponted
from oil eternity either TO salvation or the oppo.
Site"
Joseph Blackstone, of Nobleboro Me-, a
man about forty years of age committed suicide
| in a graveyard by cutting his throat. His body
was found lying between the graves Of his faith
er and mother.
The Ceredo Crescent states that Mr.. George
Chamberlain, Of Amesbury, Mass, has purchased
tract of land in Ceredo, Eli Thayer's Virginia
settlement on which he intends to erect a large
wooen factory.
Marriages should be considered as the most
solemn league of perpetual friendship, a state
from which artihce and concealment are To be
banished forever, and in which every act of his.
stimulation is a breach of faith,
few days since, adopted resolutions expressing
the opinion that the chlIpren of our primary
schools should not be confined to study in their
seats more than three hours per day.
RonBER's CAvE.--At Clarion, Pa. n small cav
was found containing the products of burglaries
A bottle Of chloroGorm. clothing and about one
hundred dollars in iewelry were among the plum
der. The robbers have not been discovered
The mummy of an Egyptian princess, from
Egypt, has been landed in England for exhibi-
ton An embalmed cat was found in the same
case with the lady, which fact is considered sur.
| fcieut evidence that the lady was never married.
! -Ex-Governor Bebb, formerly of Ohio but
more recently of Wnnebago county, Illinois,
has become possessor of large landed estates in
Tennessee aud will, in the course OF this month
| leave for Knoxville, where he designs practcing
law in company with his son.
The Chicago Tribune tells its friends that.
as Mr.. Douglas cannot be re elected to the Sen
ate before January, and possibly not then, par
Ties who bet on the result should not vet give
i,p q the overcoats, patent leather boots, silk
dresses, troting gigs, cash, &c. which are staked"
! AN exchange paper says that while the
business men of America invariably live pooror,
dress shabbier, work harder and during more
hours than those of any other country in the
world, their wives and daughters are ten times
more idle, more extravagant and moro useless y
- The following lines are from new con-
tributor to the Visitor
The wind it bodc and fotch't the dust
Up from the rode, then nam she kust.
Kaze Dads new shirt on the line
And kotched the dcrt, as it wero hien.
--Iaidanola, lowa, Visitor.
"A Virginia gentleman proposes to donate
800 900 for the erection of all agricultural col
Iege in the vicinity of the University of Virgin
ia, on condition that the farmers Of the State
will render the donation available for the pur-
pose by contributing an additional sum of $50
0O0.
--On Wednesday, the son of George Cushell
of Ware, four years old, went into neighbor's
house, where he inhaled the steam from coffee
pot. 1t burned his mouth and for a few hours
he seemed to breathe like one having a hard cold.
In the evening he grew worse, and before morn.
ing he ded.
"A new iron gion has been discovered in
Missouri, about thirty miles from the celebrated
iron Mountain. 1t is located upon tract OF
$4,000 acres entered al the government price
within three years by Napoleon Aubachon. The
ore lies in hills, easily accessible, and is Of the
purest quality.
A WITTY REToRT" Are you worth tpo httn-
drcd and ftty dollars?' inquired government
office holder of Bennett, the coored barber as
he walked up to the balot-box to deposit his
vote. Yes sir" replied the barber, land if
was in st. Louis, / should be north Stuen hun.
drcd dOlldrS"
The submarine cable from Dover to Calais,
has ceased 10 do teIegraphic duty. 1t had been
in successful operation for years and its failure
now is proof positive that the modes of insula-
ton as yet Disco cred. are inadequate for per-
manent communication under salt water even
for short distance.
Edward Robbins, of Marion county, has
been sent to the ptnltentiarY for he. He was
convicted of murder in the second degree, in
producing the death of q woman named Nancy
Holly, by giving her some remedy To remove the
guilt Of their crimnaily.
The Banstable Patriot says that three large
hogs were killed by Hon. D. D. Bassrtt. of Hy-
anns, on Saturday last and that in a few hours
after they Were slaughtered they all seemed TO
be tainted. They were apparently in perfect
health at the time they were killed, but the
owner was obliged to bury them.
A BUD OF INFANCY.
You scarce could think so small thing
Could leave a loss so large;
Her little light such shadows fling
From dawn 10 sunsets marge.
In other springs our life may be
In banherd bloom unfurled;
But never, never match our wee
White Rose Of all the world. MASSEY.
Two German brothers in Calhoun county,
Illinois, married two German sisters. The elder
brother fell sick, and the younger ran away with
The sick mans wife. The cunvdlescent bro her
then followed with the other wife, and now
wants to swap back, but his own wife who has
tried both, says neither of the brothers is worth
having.
There being for the FIRST time Republican
majority in ths lower house of the Territorial
Legislature of Nebraska, bill has been intro
duced to prohibit slaveholding in said territory
after Jan. l, 1919. We trust it may pass, thought
the Dred Scott decision has probably deprived
II of any other than moral efiicacy.--N T.
Tribune.
The CrayOH magazinr, an American month
ly, is takrn by a large number OF artists in Rome
The Sptembsr mum Der of that periohicnl rea ched