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The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20
Our Best Cattle and Sheep.

One of the serious evils of the day, 80 far
as agricultural Improvement is involved, is
the almost universal practice of disposing
Of tho best and perfectly developed animals
TO the butchcr,ond retaining tho poorest and
most insignificant TO propagate from Our
herds end llocks are annually "pichcd" in
this way, and of course annuity diminished
in value by it. If farmer has agood lamb
or calf, he is usually as certain to dispose
of il as ho is TO receive an offer for IT, alll
to supply its place 10y purchase by
apoorer and less expensive ono.
The analogy between tho vegetable and
animal Kingdom is very close aud obvious,
30 far as the laws of propagationRre involv-
cd; yet very few appear to consider this
fact 90 they ought. No farmer plants poor
corn or sows poor wheat if he can avoid II;
and no enc should think of breeding well
developed animals from parents which arc
unhealthy, or physically dclormod If you
lave well formed colt, calf or lamb lot
no price induce you to part with it. 1t il
often well in agriculture, as III commerce
to disregard present profit for the sake of
future gain The "points" of animals
whether good or bad arc hereditary, and
we are often cngbed trace the progeny oI
good or indifferent animal through many
generations, ...
Witness our horses, whero tho sovora
breeds are recognizable Mt once, and by
marks which become more perfectly and
strikingly. developed with tho lapse o
every yoar. A breeder, in whose sheer
fold wo stood, was offered six hundred dol
lars each for two of the lambs before us
and yet ho declined the offer, and mos
wisely too. He has siuco taken many higl
prizes for his pure aud excellent stock, ant
it is Just reported that ho has taken one or
two pr'aes on his sheep at the last asricul
tural fair in Germany!
lle went to Spain in the first instance
and selected his flock from the best Ii,
could find in that country, If the offer hac
been 81 900 each for tho lambs ho wouc
probably have refused it. His knowedg,
and practice arc in harmony.--M H. F0'
pter.
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Notice is hereby given that Lewis Shincw and
othors havo filed petition in this Office praying
for the locating, establishing and constructing of
ditch, drain or wacr-course, under the act to pro-
vide for the locating, establishing and constructing
bitches, drains or watcr-courseS passed March 81
1881 Commencing AT the southeast corner of SEQ
tion one y, town four q range eleven (ll) east
and running north ON the township line until it in
tersccts the middle branch of the Portage river
near the east center post Of section So town 5uorh
range IL cast and there terminate;
That the Surveyor and Engineer has made
due report, setting forth the availability and ne
cessity for the proposed ditch, and that the timc
for the hearing ON said petition by the County
Commissioners, has been set on the 81 day Of
May next, at this office
GEO, N. PARSONS, Auditor
AuDlroR's OFFICE, Woop Co..,
Parry sburtr March oR tSGI IS1
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20
SWEET ConN ron lIoas,---rhe Oditor OF

SWEET Conn FOR lIoGs..--rhe oditor of
the Pontiac (Mich,) JdckSopiaR says:
During our visit at tho East we wore
asked to look at some iattng hogs in the
sty of Or. Caleb Plaistridgo, of Lebanon,
n. Ii. They were very fine oncs, but not
as good, we were told, as tho doctor
usually raises, His systom is this: For
twenty years past ho has planted one-fourth
of an acre of sweet corn, and killed three
hogs, Tho hogs have good, large airy
atty, with feeding troughs so arranged that
they cannot interfere with oach other at
feeding time, and FREQ access to u large.
dry yard. through which runs spring of
clear water, When his sweet corn is large
enough to roast, he commences feeding it.
stalk and ell, in the yard giving tham all
tic swill they will cat. This he continues
until they refuse TO eat the stalks after
which the balance of the corn is fed in the
car and tic latting process finished with
corn moal During the whole twenty years
ho has failed but twice of killing hogs of
over hvo hundred pounds weight each and
ho gives credit for most of the weight to
sweet corn. He says, properly fed il adds
at loasL two hundred pounds to each of his
hogs %Until tho frost kills il, they will cat
the sweet corn, stalks aud all,
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UAUTCIh NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that james IT, Crane aud
others have filed petition in this Office, praying
for the locating, establishing and constructing of a
ditch, drain or water course, under the act to pro
vide for the locating, establishing and constructing
ditchcs, drains or wa0r-courscs, passed March 27
1861 Commencing At the center of William Hills
lot, in section %, town 3, United States Reserve,
aud running east ON the south side Of the road, rum
ming east and west between sections 81, 2S 20 and
10, town ,, United States Reserve until it ntersccs
Wolf creek, and there terminate
That the Surveyor and Engineer has made due
report setting forth the availability and necessity
for the proposed ditch, and that the time tor the
hearing on said petition by the County Commits
next, at this Office
GEO, y, PARSONS, Auditor.
AunlroR's OFrICR, Wpop Co., q.
pcrrysburg, March 20, 1861 dSl
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Sale of Real
Estate.

IN pursuance of an order, granted by the Probate
ICourt of Hancock County, Ohio, will offer fol
sale at public auctiun, on
FRIDAY, the 18th day of May, 1864,
AZ O'Clock L. NJ, at the residence Of Edward
JimiSons near said land, the following described
real estate, situate in the County of Wood aud
State of Ohio, to-wit;
The southwest quarter Of the southeast quarter
of section No, S5, township No. north, of range
No, II, containing 40 acres, more or less to be
sold free of dover, Appraised at $3T5 90.
Toms of Sale--0uo-third in hand, one-third in
one year, and one-lhird in two wears from day OF
sale, with interest. Payments to be secured by
mortgage upon the premises sold
NERl EBERSOLE,
Admir- of Wesley Bradford, deceased.
0NgAL, BLAcHFoRD u llAEsH, his Au'ys.
March 80, 1851 50lSi 90
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Sabbath asradinu.
! long TO NE THERE.

ny REv. X. n. SEvfS
have read of a world OF beauty,
Where there Is no gloomy night;
Where love is the mainspriug of duty,
And God the fountain Of light;
Aud ] long u bo there
have read of It's flowing river,
That bursts from beneath the throne,
And the beautiful trees that ever
Are found on is banks alone
Aud long TO be there
have read Of that myriad choir,
OF angels harping there
OF the holy love that burns liko fire,
AuG The shining robes they wearj
And ! long to be there
] have read Of tile sanctihcd throng
That passed from earth TO heaven,
Aud now unto in the loudcst song
or praise for their sins forgiven;
And long to be there
have read of their freedom df sin,
Aud suffering aud sorrow too
Aud the holy joy they feel within
AS their risen Lord they view;
And ! long 10 be there
long 10 rise to that world Of light,
And to breathe its balmy air;
long 10 walk with the Lamb in white,
And shout with the angels there
Oh ] long 10 ba there
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Notice is hereby given that Robert Jacobs and
others have filed petition in this office, praynG
for the locating, establishing aud constructing of
ditch, drain or water-Course under the act to pro-
vide lOrthc locating, establishing and constructing
ditchCs, drains or water-courscs passed March q,
1851 beginning at or near the southeast corner of
the north half of the southeast quarter of section
twontylour (2l), town three (3) north range eleven
(ll cast, the west side of the Port Clinton road
then running north through the land Of Patrick
McManns, George Rescndal and others, until it in
tersccts the west fork of the east branch of the
Portage rivor, near the southeast corner Of the
southeast quarter of section one u), town three (3)
north range ten (l0) east, aud there terminates
That tho Surveyor and Engineer has made due
report setting forth the availability and necessity
for the proposed ditch, and that the time for the
hearing on said petition by the County Commits
sionors, has been set on the 3d day OF May
next, Mt this office.
GEO. n. PARSONS, Auditor.
AUpToR's OFFICE, Woop Co., y.
Pcrrysburg, March 20, 1864. Ash
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20

To MIX MusTARn,-Take one-quarter of
apouhd Of English Improved Mustard. one
quarter of q pound of flour, oue-quarter of
an ounce OF cloves, one-half pound of Gin.
namon. Take the iiour and make a thin.
clear starch, strain it, then put in your
mustard, let II come to q boil, then strain
II asaln' take your spices and grind very
fine and put them in the starch and lit
them come TO boil, then strain again. then
put in enough vinegar TO mix it. ,,
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DITCII NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that r. W Mcmahon and
others have filed petition in this office, pray
ing for The locating establishing and constructing Of
ditch drain or water. course, undcrthe act to proc
vide for the locating, establishing and constructing
bitches, drains or watcrcourscs, passed March n,
1864 Beginning on the west side of the perrys-
burg and Finday road, about IA rods north Of the
southeast corner of section one -, town four (i)
norh range ten (lO) east, at point opposite a
certain ditch, running eastcTy through section six,
Portage townships thence to intersect said ditch,
Mcmahon, James Bloom, Jacob Ebcrly and others,
to the west branch Of Portage river, and there term
nGtc
That the Surveyor and Engineer has made due re-
port setting forth the availability and necessity for
the proposed ditch and that the time for the honr-
ing on said petition by the County Commissioners
has been set on the Sd day of May next, at this
Office.
GEO. N. PARSONS, Auditor.
AUplToR's OFFICE, WooD Co., o.
porIysburg, Iiarch 26, 1864. dSd
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20

CugAp PANT We think that farmers
will lind the following profitable for house
OF fence paint: Skim milk 2 quarts; fresh
Stacked limo, 8 ounces; lmsecd oil, 6 ounces.
white burgundy pitch, . ounces Spanisl
white, 3pounds. The lime is to be Stacked
N wder, exposed TO the air. aud then
mixed with about one fourth of the milk
the oil in which the pitch is dissolved to
be added little at a time, then the rest OF
the milk, and aftcrward the Spanish white
This is sufficient TO coat twenty.sevcu
square yards. This is for white paint
II desirable, any other color may be pro.
duced Thus If cream color is desired
IN place Of part OF the Spanish white, use
yellow ochre, OF it yellow, Use tho oohrc
alone.
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ngand effective, be taken by the oldest person or
youngest child. -a-r-
Madame ZndOc POrter'S Curative
ISalSam Is and untried medicine, hut has
been used by the pubs for the past % with
paralleled success, and has acquired its present
tensive and largely increasing sale SIMPLY by being
recommended by those who have used II 10 their af
hicted friends and others.
If yOu have N Cold, II ever so slight do not
fail to give the Balsam trial. the very low price at
which it Is sold brings IT in the reach of every one
timely Of 25-cent bottle will often prove to be
worth one hundred times its cost.
Do not be put off with any other. Ask for Mad
anne ZadOc POrter'S Cough BalSam, in.
sist on having it, and take other; II your Druggist
does not have it, have him send and get it for you.
III Sold by all Druggists at 25 and so
Cents per Bottle.
WEST e. TRUAX, Toledo. Wholesale Agents.
Sold by PECK & HAMILTON, Pcrrysburg.
HALL & RUCKLE, Proprietors,
2Qzz 2lS Greenwich street. Now York.
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n S IH' $
LAMP HEATING APPARATUS.
BOlliDg--Frying-- -StCwing-- STEPPING

u by the flame ofa common lamp, at the cost
of cents worth of oil, Il very comfortable break
fast can be cOoked.--N. Y. Tribune
Simple in construction, easy kept in order
ready for use in moment y y convenient to
have on hand.-Druggists' Circular.
Fishs lamp is one of the most popular nov
elites of the day, the utility of il is unques-
tionable great saving is made in heating and
cooking small articles, and can be made to cook
meals for great many persons, which is actually
done on the ambulance cars which carry the sick
sOldiers.-S Scientific American.
For family use, hospital tent, barrack, pic
MICS, fishing nursery, sick it is an article
of comfort beyond all proportion to its cost.-IIa S
Journal of Health.
have tried the apparatus, and my wife and
proclaim the same most valuable and indiSpens-
able article, and we now wonder how we could
have 50 long done without it.-Ed. Coal Oil Cir
cuar.
X An economical contrivance for getting up
heat at short notice for nursery and general house
hold purposes, one important point is the saw
ing i'll cost over coal ircs.-N. Y. Evening Post.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20

oecuARD AND NuRsERY,-.Tho orchard
should be visited occasionally to see that
all is going ON we'll. A defective loneo,
or "a gate oareiessly left open, may be the
cause of serious injury toyomg trcos. An
Kinds OF stock will browse or young shoots
or gnow the bark of trees, aud they are to
be carefully excluded.
u limbs arc broken down by the wind,
or ny an accumulation of ice and snow,
pare the wound smooth and cover il with
wexed cloth to exclude the weather.
Water should not DO allowed TO stand
around the trees; open surface drains
whenever it can be done.
Scions may be cut at any time during
mild days. Label every variety with great
care, and preserve them from drying by
burying in earth in the cellar.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-04-20
REAPING AND MOVING MACHINES.
D U G K f Y E

The best Cog Machine in the country. Both
these machines are WARRANTED to do their work in
the most perfect manner. Sample Machines on
hand to show customers,
d. KREPS.
PerrySburg, March %, 1864. 47tf
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DEDEMPFION NOTICE..g. n. FIN

n ~ 7 = HVlN ~ n ~. ~ - FINUN y
~ or his asslgnecs will take notice that William
Sktlen, deposited in tho Treasury Of Wood County,
Ohio, Sin Dollars aud rSenty.twO Gents, TO redeem
the southeast quarter Of the northwest quarter Section
~ Town Three (l North, Range Nine (9l east Forty
COZ acres, sold at the Delinquent Tax sale, January
10Th 1854.
AUnu0R's OFFtcE, Wood County, o,
PerryshOrg, March ~, 1864. f9ds
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THE GREAT CAUSE OF

HUMAN MISERY, Just published, in Sealed
Il lIEnvelope. Price, Six Cents. A lecture on the
Nature, Treatment and Radical Cure of Seminal
Weakness, or Spermatonhea, induced by Self
Abuse Involuntary Emissions, lmpotency, Nerv
Gus Debility, and Impedmeuts to Marriage gener
ally Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits; Mental and
Physical 1ncapacity, &c.-By ROB. j, CULVER
WELL, NJ. D., Author of the Green Book, &c.
The world-renowned author, in this admirable
Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience
that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be
etlectually removed without medicine, and without
dangerous surgical operations, bougies, instru-
ments, rings, cordials pointing out mode of
cure at once certain and eIfectual, by which every
sufferer no matter what his condition may be, may
cure himself, cheaply, privately, and radically
thousands.
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to any ad-
dress, ON the receipt of six cents, or two postage
stamps, by addressing the publishers,
45v1 CHAS. J. e. KLINE x CO.,
l27 Bowery, New York, Post Office Box 1886.
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NoTHINe that is not wholesome, genial aud restor-
ative in its nature enters into the composition of Ho
sTETrERs STOMACH BITTERs. This popular prepa-
ration contains no mineral of any kind, no deadly
botanical element, fiery excitant; but it is COM
binaton of the extracts of rare basamic herbs and
plants, with the purest and mildest of all diiusive
stmulants. s,.y-rst,
II is well to be forearmed against disease and 50
far as the human system can be protected by human
means against maladies engendered by an unwhole-
some atmosphere, impure water and other external
causes, IosTETTER's BIrTERs may be reliedon as
safeguard. a.tI'1 -ftru.
In districts infested with Fever and Aguc, it has
been found nallible preventive and irresistible
as remedy, and thousands who resort to ii under
apprehension of attack, escape the scourge; and
thousands who neglect to avail themselves of its
protective qualities in advance are cured BY very
brief course of this marvellous medicine. Fever and
Ague patients, after being piled with quinine for
months in vain, until fairly saturated with that dan
gerous alkaloid, are not unfrequently restored to
health within a few days by the use Of HosTErTERs
BITTERs.
The weak stomach is rapidly invigorated and the
appetite by this agreeable Tonic and hence
it works wonders in cases of Dyspepsia and in less
confirmed forms of Indigestion, Acting as gentle
and painless aperient a5 well as upon the liver, it
also invariably relieves the Constipation superin-
duced by irregular action of the digestive and
tive organs. .''''- l''aa .- u
Persons of feeble habit liable to Nervous Attacks,
Lowness ofSpieits and Fits Of Languor, find prompt
and permanent relief from the BIrTBRs. The test-
mony on this point is most conclusive and from both
sexes. eH'terT
The agony of Bilious Collie is Immediately as
suaged by single dose of the stnulant, and by oc-
casonaly resortng to it, the return of the complaint
may be prevented.
AS a General Tonic HosTETTER's BITTERs pro-
duce effects which must be experienced witnessed
before they be fully appreciated. In cases of
Constitutional Weakness, Premature Decay, ana
Debility and Decrepitude arising from Old Age, it
exercises the electric influence. In the GONZALES
ofn all disc IL "A daliOltrI
invigorant When the powers ofnature are relaxed,
it opei ltes to reinforce and re-establish them.
Last, but not least it is TnE Only SAFE STiMU-
LIANT being manufactured from sound and innocu-
ous materials, and entirely free from the acid ee
ments present more or less in all the ordinary toncs
and somaclics of the day. a traS
No family medicine has been so universally, and,
it may be truly added, DEsERyEpLY popular with
the intelligent portion of the community, as lIo-
sTETTERs DITTERs. ..-
Prepared by HOSTETTER g. SMITH,
Pittsburg, Penn.
Sold by all Druggists, Grocers and Storckeepcrs
everywhere. 27zz
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HELMBOLD'S saa
GENUINE PREPARATIONS.

COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU,
Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel and Dropsical Swcllings.
This medicine increases the power of Digestion,
and excites the absorbcnts into healthy action, by
which the watery or calcarcous depositions, and
all unnatural enlargements are reduced, as we'll
as Pain and Inflammation.
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LIrE's PrhsIs, "A Christians life is laid
in the loom OF limo TO u pattern which he
forth, carrying tho thread, which is white
OF black, as the pattern moods; and ia tho
end, when God Shall Gn up tho finished
garment, and all it's changing bucs shall
glance out II will then appear that the
doep aud dark oolors were as noodul to
beauty as the bright and high colors.
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DRORArE NOrICE.-Notee Is hereby given
that's, W St John, Admiuistratnr OF the estate %
Richard smith. deceased, has hled his ANAL accounts
for the settlement % Sah estate In the Probate Court Of
Wool County Ohio, aud the same Is SCI for hearing on
The 2,th day of April, =. n. lS6i,
EDWIN FULLER, Probate Judge.
fcrrySburg, MaTyh "a is6t, asa
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Wall Paper.

A VERY LARGE STOCK Of WALL and
~ WINDOW PAPER, Just received al the
Drug Store, which We will sell at the very lowest
figure.
PEGK HAMILTON.
Perysburg, April %, 1858. 81
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GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY
IMPORTERS AND JoIBE Rs,
Ism 81 Vesey ST., New York,

SCHOOL EXAMINERS, NOTICE,-The
- BOARD Withhold their regular session forthe
examination Of Teachers, on the
First Friday In May, 1S6t, at West Milsroye.
First frldayln June, 1864, at Perry sburg.
First FRIDAY N July, 1854, at Portage
Examinations W.; commence punotuslly at Q A. NJ
Applicants need not apply for Special Examination
Hoard.
All correspondence with the Examiners should be
directed TO the unders gped, at Rowling Green.
SO Nv WOODfifRV C1a.k .
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TUX OUrER TgNLg,--We don't wonder
thatmeu enter venerable churches with awe;
that the altar checks thoir leyity; chat tho
solemn pictures aud muto symbols give
sacred instruction 10 sensitive natures. But
we do wonder that the great ONter Temple
and its almrs, and sentences, and symbols
and carvings, and paintings untouched hy
human fingers, and close lmked in associa-
tion with the hand and mind Of God, should
draw SO ittle attention and win 50 litIo
feelng.-H ~. Brecher.
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HE AT
American Tea Company,
81 Vesey street, New York,

Since its organization, has created new era in the
history of
SELLING TEAS in this COUNTRY.
4 IL. our Teas are selected by a Professional
~ Tea-!aster, expressly and exclusively for U.S.
andwenever charge over Two Cents( OF Cents )per
pound above the cost of original packages.
We have but One Price to every one for each
quality, and that price is always marked on each
sample package at our store in plain figures
We issue Monthly Price List of our Teas, which
will be sent free to all who or Ter tive advise
every Tea Seller to see it, It comprises a full as
sortmen, selected for every locality in the States
Provinces, South America and the West Indies
In this list each kind is divided into Four Classes or
qualities namely: Cargo, High Cargo Fine Finest
that every one may understand from description
and the prices annexed, that the Company are de-
ermined To undersell the whole tea trade.
We guarantee to sell all Teas in original pack
ages at not over Two Gents per pound above cost
believing this To be attractive to the many who have
heretofore beon paying Enormous Profits.
Our business is largely done on ORDERS which we
always execute as well and promptly as though the
buyer came himself, giving true weights and tares
ana a!"ays guaranteeing everything our response
bility enabling us TO do all we promise Every
dealer can order his teas direct from the Company
and parties doing business within Five Hundred
(500) miles of New York, can Return Tea bought
OF us, If they are not cheaper than they can buy
elsewhere, and the purchaser dissatisfied with his
bargain, within fourteen days (l4), aud have the
money refunded to them. Those who are over Five
Hundred miles can have thirty days (30) and the
same privileges extended to them.
Besides these advantages the Company will pay
All Expenses, both ways, if the Teas are returned
GREAT AMERICAN TEA c0MpANY,
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The Bi3le is window in this prison
Of life through which we look into etorn-
ily.