The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-03-17
NO. xiv
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"A fat candidate fnr Office, in Alabama, who
is said to weigh 375 pounds, asks the people TO
try him.
DEATH OF HrNRy S. Ggy.R.--Ths gentleman,
for several years u. s. Senator, from Missouri,
died on Monday. in St Louis
The Mayor of Cincinnati has had census
of the drinking saloons taken, showing a total
Of sixteen hundred and eighty eight.
"A sensation preacher recently informed his
congregation that heaven is but 500 miles
square. Heappcaled for proof to the twenty
first of Revelations.
FtxiNo,-W Waiting to get things fixed, before
getting married, is like waiting until we ses
ready to die. 'Tis a chance whether people
ever get ready in either case.
San Francisco has, every Sundy night, En-
gliSh, French and German theatres in full blast.
Probably no other city in the world of "a, 600
inhabitants could say as much.
FRvrruLNEss. This is considered mere fol-
BILE of temper, and yet there is hardly vice
which makes an individual. or q family more
wretched than peevish. complaining spirit.
a WEALTHY PA, rER.-ln Wheeling. Va, an
old man named McElroy,, who has long been
supported at the public expense, has been dis
covered to have about $40 900 at interest in
| Ohio.
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman
! Bryant, OF Mount Vernon, Ohio, was celebrated
on the ID inst. Four generations Of relatives
were present, including the mother of the bride.
an old lady Of 81.
The New York Express states, on the au-
thority of private letter from Hays county,
Texas, that -four hundred slaves, from Africa,
have been landed on the coast of Texas, within
the last few weeks.
"A man in Massachusetts, led a blooming
bride TO the altar on the Sth ultimo, became
a "a her on the 10th, aud advertised his wife on
the 18th, caulionins all persons against trusting
her on his account
Mr. Barnett, of Line ,ln county, Ky,
brought his eighteen slaves to Cincinnati and
manumitted them, u few DAYS since. The owner
was offered S2000o for the lot the day before
he gave them their freedom.
UNHAPPY MArcHEs-h year and half ego
four young ladies in Cincinnati were married in
company at the same hour Two have since
separated from their husbands, and the other
two are trying to get separated.
The Mendoza Press says that two citizens Of
that town have recently lost their wives by
elopement and that the customary salutation
in the streets, instead Of " How DO you do, sir"
has become, "ls your wife safe tins morning?"
"A beautiful oriental proverb runs thus -
:" With time aud patience the mulberry leaf be-
comes SATIN How encouraging is this lesson
to the patient and dospondng! And what
difficulty is there thut nun should quail at, when
q worm can accomplish SO much from mul-
berry leai?
}, Rev DR.. Carruthers, of Portland, Me-. in
his sermon on Sdbbarh, FEBRUARY 33, said that
was the 40lh anniversary since he was licensed
to the ministry, (Ot Is years Of ags.D during
which time he had preached the Gospel in Tar
tnry, Russia, Engand, and Canada, befor taking
his present paslorate.
t The German astronomers have taken the
position that the heat Of the earth is gradually di
minishing, aud its general tempe nature there
fore becomes lower; aud our Amrrican astrono-
mers concur in their opinion, deemed the int ;e'
cold which has been ielt in the Northern part
} of this continent within few years past as
tending to confirm its truth.
ILLUSION There is nothing SO real in this
world us illusion. All other things may desert
a man, but this fair angel never leaves him.
She holds star billion miles oveI a babys
$ head, and laughs 20 see him cawing and battling
r himself he tries to reach it, She glides before
the hoary sinner down the path which leads to
the inexorabe gnte, jingling the keys OF heaven
:, at her girdle.--I The Autocrat
: "A Mrs Gerard, Hungarian, 10 Cincinna-
= Ii and her husband had an alteration: her hus-
band accusing her OF improper intimacy with "a
o German physician. They were sitting making
e cigars, and the alteration grew very violent in
".
d. behind the counter, took pistol from nail,
. put the muzzle to her temple and blew off the
top of her head. her brains being scattered over
$ her husband, and over the cigar shop,
J MYSTERIOUS VAULT-A correspondent of the
e Cincinnati EHquirer at Jat kson Ohio, gives un
account of subterranean vault disco vered there,
i in which the air was SO impure that it was impos-
o sbe for any ono to 90 down into it," BY means
u of rake, human bones OF gigantic size have
Il h.ap pruis sd nd Iyt
II coins attached to each end. The CONS. though
i much deiaced by time, have the appearance Of
1 those in use among the Romans in the days of
Cicero Africanus, though there were evident
It traces o hieroglyphic devices that cannot be
5, deci phered.
= SHOCKING AccbENT. .-Henry 0bermoyer. son
. of William Obermoy@r, OF Washington town
u ship, living eight miles west of this place, shot
himself on Tuesday evening, 9Th. He loaded
n his rifle about 2 O'clock, TO fire al mark, and
A in stepping of his porch in presence Of his
: family, slipped, and in his effort 10 recover and
:, prevent falling the but of the gun struck the
, ground, the muzzle coming against his stomach.
is The gun discharged, aud the contents, ball,
. powder and wad went into his bowels lie lin
> gered in intense agony Until few minutes be-
q fore IL O'clock, when he died Mr.. Obermoyer
n was much respected farmer, leaves IA vile and
FIVE or six Children.-Fremsnt Journal.
A GREAT Com RoP.--About five miles be-
y low ChiIicothe Ohio, there is tract of high
D. rivrr-buttom land, known as the "Claypool
b. Farm" now owned By the widow OF James
'g Davis. The corn crop OF 1883 was gathered
and stored in tue usual manner. in rail pens
~ along the banks ofo the Sciot Ii is rough
10 way of crbbng corn, but very good one, and
n cheap. No expensive method could be adopted
% to store such crops grow upon some OF the
u great corn farms OF tie West, such as the ona
II above named. from which We are told that a, :
600 bushels of corn were sold few days ago 10
Enniet's disillery at Chillieoihe, at u cents
90 bushel This is very high price for that
le great corn-growing region. aud the quantity APP