The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-04-14
NO. xix
Our SCISSORS.

dow has cost about $4,000 exclusive Of gloss!
That's the way Il money goes.
"A good hook aud good oman are excel.
lent things for those who know how to eppre.
ciutc their value. There tre men however,
who judge of bolh from the beauty Of their
covering
In speaking Of the Connecticut election, the
Cincinnati BHquirer mouuulully observesi--
"There is not u Democrat now in either House
of Congress nom New Eugond,' True, o man!
And blessing ii is, It's true Toledo Blade.
How folks dillcr, We chew tobacco.
The Hindoo takes lime. The children of this
country delight in candy, those Of Africa in
rock salt y FrenChman "gocs his length" on
fried frogs, while an ESquimauX Indian thinks
tollow the climax of deirties.
Ellis WUldrup and wife. living near the
town OF Cumming Ga, left their house a Few
! nights since to visit sick neghbor, and while
they were gone their dwelling took fire, and
their four children, who We're asleep in the
building, persisted in the flames.
The Havana correspondent Of the Savanna
Republican writes; Daring the year | have
resided in this Island, the average annual num-
Der Of Africans imported has been about eight
thousand, Last year, however, that number
was nearly trcbled-tweniy three thousand hav-
ing been imported
The less OF fruit trees within the Inst ihrce
years, in Illinois, is estimated at about three
millions of dol ars, The re,entivc claycy loan
subsoils which characterizeS the prairie lands
is supposed TO be the cause, and farmers have
| adopted the plan ol ridging their orchards bv
| repeated powings, commencing at the same
ridges aud ending at the same furrows, 10
remedy the evil.
| About century ago, an Englishman
| named Jonas !lanway, on his return from
travels in the East, appeared in the streets of
London OIL rainy day, with queer notion
imported from China, in the shape of an umbrei-
| Ia IL tN,nS 4 th. Erai ,, .h,NI,,
in Europe, and aroused such indignation that
he was soon Surrounded by a furious mob, who
| pcltcd him with mud Tor daring to screen his
head end person from the rain.
DrArn FROM SEIDHTz PowpERs.-Miss Riley.
! of Indiana, who was visiting in the family of
| Hon. w Il. Niblack of the same State met her
| death in a singular mUnner. She mixed Il Seid-
iiz powder in two different glasses, aud instead
| OF pouring them together before drinking, drank
! them of separately, when the ctleryescence oc-
Cured in The stomach, partially stranglmg her.
! In the excitement dose of mustard was given
! to make her vomit what she had taken, and a
physician sent tor but before he arrived she was
Il corpse.
Dear mother said delicate little girl,
81 have broken your china vase J.
"WeN, you are naughty, careless, trouble
some little thing always in mischicl-go up
/ stairs until send for YOU" Aud this was n
Christian mothers reply to the fearful little
culpri,, who bad struggled with and conquered
| the temptation 10 tell fdlschood 70 screen
fault. With disappointed, disheartened look,
the child obeyed; and in that moment was
crushed in her little heart the sweet flower of
! truth. perhaps never TO be revived TO life OH
what were II thousand china vases in compar.
son?
WHlEE the SKUNK SKINS CO To.-The cxpla-
nation tor the winters excitement in the skunk
! ~ III nntI
our ewes fell upon an article in the n !. JoufanI
! Of C0mmerCc. The demand for these skins grew
out OF the accidental shipping of few of these
skins to London, by the Hudson Bay Company.
The adventure was SO iortunnte that the com
pany Immediately went into the business on an
extensive scale aud probably will now gut the
mOrkct.
These skins are sent to Russia anil Turkey.
some of them to Germany. The black skins
are he most valuable. Over 10000 of these
skins have been shipped from New York within
two or three months aud there are $4,000 in the
hands of one luIricr waiting shipment. nt.-Cterc-
land Herald.
s.. Louis was last August the tteaer of
most brazcn fraud, termed an election, whereby
Frank Blair was swindled out of his sfet in
Congress, aud person named J. Richard Barrett
foiSted into it by means of money taken from
| the Federal Treasury osensbly 10 pay certain
Army contractors, but really to delraud the
people OF St. Louis out OF their political rights.
st. Louis yesterday exposed and rrbuked that
scandNlous fraud by "a most overwhelming ex-
hibilOn of the popular WILL The entire Re
publican or Free Democratic ticket wns carried
by Tipo Thousand ma aiorty-the heaviest ever
given by that City for any party at any election.
It is clean sweep. We shall see whether Mr..
Dick Blrrett will have the assurances to show
himself at Washington on the back of that yer-
diet, N !. Tribune, april /.
The Hon. Owen LHvcjoy, of Illinois, in
, RECEIPT speech in the House OF Reprcsen atives,
thus describes party which is not so strong IN
the country as it once was;
| "The Slavery Democracy prates aud chatters
about negro equality Black Republicans and
D Niger stealing, TO use lis classic phrases aud
v Improved orhography. 1t has or affects to
: have, great horror oi uiggers Aud any one
4 who adyccates the principles OF human Freedom,
( MS they were cnuuciatcd and laid down in en-
/ during forms by the Fathers OF he Republic is
:. woody head ana these same Democrats have
r learned to speak of them with a peculiar nasa
6 twist You would suppose that these gentle
e men, whose oliactories so sensitive aud
l. acute, never saw Niger, eScep, in menOgerie.
Aud yet would vou believe il the very fir st
service rendered hm on earth is pertor med by a
= niger rs Az infant, he draws the mi TX which
n makes his H, sh aud bloc ond bones from the
. breast of niger; lppkS NJ in her face aud
i, smiles, and calls her by ghe cnIedr ng name VI
d mamny, and begs, perhaps, in pi-ous tones,
/ Tor the privilege Of CARRYING NANNY to the
Territories lie is undlDssed and put TO bed by
h niger. and nesles during The slumbevs of in
e fancy in the bosom o ngger he is washed,
d dressed anl tgken to the table By B,gger, tn
y eat food prepared by Niger; he is led to and
e from school By niger every service that
e childhood demands is performed by niger,
h except thst Of chastisament, WEIGH, from the
y absence of good manners INV many cases, II IS TO
/. be feared, is uot performed at r When down
c appears on his hp the tonsorial service is per-
formed by ngger AMI when he reaches man
hood he invades the niger quarters, 10 place
Is himself I'M the cndearing relation of paternity