Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-30
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THERE Is an editor in Paris who has
fought 80 duels. HN NfuIH
SEVEN Americans are on the Russina
railroad statk ainsrnH snss d ~ ffin l
THE Abyssinian Expedition cost fully
ten million pounds sterling. ~.
THE great German oculist, Won Graefe.
has professional income Of $4,000 a
year. .@.
Tue emigration 70 Kansas this spring
is said to be without precedent in the his
tory Of the State W.
| IN Toulumne county, Gal, there has
been laid an iron water pipe, $500 feet
long aud II inches In diameter.
| A BRDeEPoRr (Conn) cartridge oom-
pany has received an order from Spain
for ten millions of cartridges e
JuAREz the Mexican President, Il ca
years old, but does not look to be over 40.
He has one son and six daughters. i,s.
The Empress Of Austria kissed over 100
babies while journeying through Croatia,
and smiled upon their mothers. r,ss
In England olergymen may be trans
ported for fourteen years FOR marrying
| people after ~ NJ. without special license.
TEXAS has now within her borders
more thsn 100000 head of cattle, and
can export annually 100000 beeves.
A COMPANY for the manufacture % -.
tificiai limbs has been formed at Pitts
burgh, and every member of the organi-
zstion has lost leg.
IT Is said that the trees planted by one
| Iowa farmer have raised the value of ad-
joining lands from five to ten dollars per
acre. 7'. Hi
A New YoRK miller compelled his son,
aged Ia years, TO make the preliminary
arrangements to his suicide, and then de-
liberstely killed himself. .....
THmTY.Two thousand flvo hundred and
eighty-siX emigrsnts arrived at New York,
from Jan. to April T. Last year for the
same time the number was 29,Ss9.
THE value of Canadian cattle imported
into the United States during the first
three months of 1860 was $3.50, ,e52-nearly
double the value Of those imported during
the same period of 1868.
AN English chemist, after careful en-,
alysis of "golden-hair fiuids," asserts that
they are composed of diluted nitric and
muriavic acids, with traces, in some in
stances of sulphuric acid.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that farmers who have their
grain manufactured into flour, and then
sell the flour in any manner, must pay
| hSohoS W NuS OpNSAnluSut.
THE Planters Banner says that the
planters of Louisiana will make as much
again rice in 1869 as they made last year.
The crop last year was 321, oil ,3A sacks.
A sack contains 100 pounds.
TIE oldest house in the United States
retaining its original form is TO be found
in Neponset, Mass. 1t was built by John
Minot about the year 1910, and is still in
good repair. The family still hold pos
session of IT,
AT Cornwall, Vt, recently, William.
Hurlbut starved himself to death. He
was seventy years of age a bachelor and
worth some 5000; but having lost $3.50
through robbery, he became despondent-
afraid of coming to poverty.
Mrs BEEcuER STOWE gives up her
/ Florida plantation, as she bought it at a
military tax sale, which holds not good,
and the former owner makes successful
claim paying Mrs. Stowe the price SIZE
I paid for the estate.
f THE Clinton (La) Democrat states that
a resident of that place gathers sufficient
quantity of tea leaves from the Chinese
:. tea plant grown in his garden to more than
suffice for the requirement of his house.
a hold. ..f.-.
| In Maine, during the past season. ,imice
Q have done great damage. Millions of
> young fruit trees have been killed, young
forest trees injured, and grass ruined. In
Q a Dixfield orchard containing 1000 grated
:, trees, cnly about five hundred cGn be
D saved.
D A $3.50 DIAMOND RING was lost from a
r lady's trunk broken in handling, at the
Cleveland depot, few days SINCE On
] going to look for it, she found party
/, sweeping the floor, who had swept the
ring some fifty feet without discovering it.
ONE of the Philadelphia papers sold
9 05, 900 copies of the edition containing an
account of the suicide of Twitchell and
the hanging of Eaton, and the demand
for morning journal was so great that it
was reprinted on the following morning.
> RUBY valley, in Nevada, is so-called on
r account of the immense number of rubies
| found in the sands of the mountain
| streams flowing through it. These gems,
though very beautiful and perfect, are too
I small TO be merchantable, the largest
I. only being of the size of pin-head.
MAEDLER, the German astronomer, has
measured the heighth of ,093 mountains in
the moon. twenty-five of these are high
er than Mount Blanc, which is within a
: few feet of being three miles high, and six
are above 10000 feet. The highest OBJ
served mountain in the moon is "A, ,944
feet.
THE number of bankruptcies in Eng
= land last year was 9,105, an increase of
: POI over the year previous. During the
. wear dividends were paid in LIZA, but Ia
6,4S9 there were no dividends. Thegr
, proceeds realized from bankrupt estates
. was $4250,000, and the expenses of the
bankruptcy courts amounted to 100000.
A FIRE near the Cape of Good Hope,
! caused by the long continued heat and
drouth, devastated tract of country 400
miles long, and varying in breadth from
: 10 to 150 miles. The tre broke out on
. the 9th of February, when the heat
throughout the colony was more intense
o than ever previously known. Several per
sons lost their lives
! In Portsmouth, N H., scientific indi-
T. vidual whose wife used tea pretty freely,
= and who for the last few years lad suf-
fered much from q nervous affection, re-
Gently made an analysis of the tea she
used, and found that the coloring material
was gypsum and Prussian blue, and that
the amount in pound of tea, if admins
e tered at once, would produce instant
death.
A CURIOUS case was before the New
4 York courts the other day. In 1884, John
D and Winnifred Ward were united in mar
riage, and Immediately aiter the ceremo'
: nv, Ward deserted his wife, and up to his
!. death in 1864, refused to recognize the re-
( lationship existing between them. The
5 wife, after thirty years of selfsupport
! has now recovered $4,000 from the estate
3 Of her husband.
i The suicide OF rich miser is reported
. in the London papers. She was widow
q named Harriet GRAY, 81 years Of age. She