The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-02-24
XIII

Charles A. Weeks one Of the converted
actors OF the revival excitement last year. who
became minister, aud preached with much
acceptance, appeared in Toy. n. V, last week,
in The play of "Retribution." Lack Of pecunilary
means to support dying mother und two sisters
drove him back to his old profession.
! YoUNo Man ELopys WITH MS SrEp Morn
Ara young man of the mature aye of nine
teen years, who was emplUye in the Pike
House about two weeks since, eluptd with his
siep-mother on Friday evening, l4lh inst. lie
left the Pike House about two weeks ago, anil
went to hcyworih, about ten miles south of this
city. On Friday afternoon he hired a resident
OF Heyworth to bring him ;o this city, and on
arriving here he went to his fathers house, on
Center street, in the south part of the town, and
persuade his step.mother to desert his father
and olope with his fathers SOP. His father was
not OF home ut the time. The yourg scape
grace took his sep.mother to Heyworth in the
same wagon that brought him here, and the
sweet couple then stepped on board train Of
cars aud departed Tor soMe place which is sup
posed TO be not very well known. The father
of the young fellow still remains in town He
will not be likely To trouble himself much in re-
gard to the whereabouts of the runAways. Out
OF respect for his feelings We suppress hames.--
Bloomington, (Ni) PaHtagraph.
Tux Loss OF E,RLY PCRlrY or CHARACTER.
-over the beauty OF the plum and the apricot,
there grows bloom and beauty more exanisite
than the fruit itseil--a soft delicate plush that
oNerspreads its blushng cheek Now if YOU
strike your hand over that, and it is once gone
| II is gone forever for it never grows but once
Take the flower that hangs IN the morning i'm.
peared with dew-Orrayol as no queenly woman
ever was arrayed with Jewels Once shake il go
that the beads roll Oh, and YOU may sprinkle
water over IL as carefully as YOU please vet it
can never be made again what it was when that
dew fell silently on it fi0m heaven On frosty
morning you may see the panes OF glass covered
with Landscape, mountains, lakes, tees, blending
III beautiful, fantastic picture. Now Law
your hand upon the glass, and by the scrs tch of
your finger or by the warmth Of your palm, all
The delicate tracery will be obliterated So
there is in youth beauty and purity Of char
Gcter, which when once touched and detiled can
never be restored; fringe more delicate than
trost-work, and which when torn or broken
will never be re.embrodered. man who has
spotted and spoiled his garments in youth
| though he may seek to make them white again,
can never wholly do it, even were he to wash
| them with his tears. When n Young man leaves
his fathers house, with the blessings of his
| mothers tenrs still wet upon his forehead, If he
once loses that purity of character, it is loss
that he never can make whole again. Such is
The consequence of crime. It's effects cannot
be eradca,ed; it can only bs forgiven. II is a
stain of blood that we can never make white.
ana which can be washed away only in the
blood OF Christ that cleanseth from oil sin 70
| LIVING Man WITH MS BRAINS KNOCKED
Our.-The Eau Claire (Wis.) Telegraph mar
rates the following singular case of surgery.
The case is that OF James Campbell laborer in
the employ OF George &. Irvine, Esq, of Dunn
county, whose brains were literally knocked
out by the falling of tree, some six weeks ago,
and strange TO say he is not only still living,
but has regainel all his faculties, and bids fair
to recover his usual sound health. DR.. Crocker
of Dunrille, the surgeon in attendance, thus
describes the case:
81 found the patient lying insensbe, with n
large hole broken into the left side OF the skull,
just over the enr bo tn the left frontal and parietal
bones shattered, and two pieces, one an inch
and hall by two inches square driven com
pIeteiy INTO the brain, and portions OF the brain
! protrnding Alter removing the fragments OF
the bone then removed thrce-fourtls OF a wine
glass 0l brain, in con junction with three pieces
oI the tree, which had also been driven quite
into his head From the first there was CO.
plous discharge OF thin wateTy fluid from the ear
| OF course through the pustdchiun tube. | con-
sdered the case hopeless, MS for serer0l days
after The fist dressing the brain continued 10
ooze out, and pieces Us large as a walnut slough
sd OIL before the wound began 10 ciCatrze. The
case presented also a remarkable mental phe-
nomenon, which will interest phrenologisls.--
The patient before the accident was never
known 10 sing or whistle tune in his liie-but
no sooner was he able to speak than be began
TO sing with perfect correctness, ard now dis
plays taste Tor music amounting TO passion"