Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-08

date of Boston, Oct Sth"-for Il will be
remebered news travelled slowly in those
days--I find broad hints of the dissatis.
faction among the colonists which was
within the next ten or eleven years TO
breed the American Revolution. Read:
"There seems 70 be a disposition in
many Of the inhabitants of this and the
Eeighboring Governments TO clothe them.
selves with their own manufacture"
British taxation without representation
was worrying them. Again
ut is now out of fashion to put on
mourning at the funeral of the nearest
relation, which will make q saving to this
town of twenty thousand sterling per an
mum. II is surprising how suddenly as
how generally, an old custom is abolished; /;
It shows, however, the good sense OF the
town, for IL is certainly prudent to re-
trench our extravagant expenses, while
we have something left to subsst our
selves, rather than be driven to it by fatal
necessity
1--WE hear that the laudable practice of
frugaity is now introducing itself in all
the neighboring towns, an instance Of
which we have from Charlestown, at a
funeral there the beginning of last week,
which the relatives and others attended
WlJuOuJ any OJutI ulOuTulHk lOtu WulCu
Is prescribed in recent agreement.
Indeed, we are told that all the fu.
nerals of last week were conducted on the
new Plan Of Frugality.
Nothing but frugality can now save
distressed Northern Colonies from impend-
ing ruin. 1t ought to be a consolation 10
the good people of q certain province the
greatest man in it exhibits the most rigid
example of this political as well as moral
virtue"
Who could he have beenP Has his
greatness totally passed from history and
the memories of men9
Cannot you fancy the ancient editor of
the Connecticut C0urant of a hundred
years ago, in round Ben Franklin spec
tacles, wig and cue, lace cuffs coat.pocket
flaps like cellar door, long waistcoat
knee breeches stockings, low quarter
shoes with buckles on them like window
SASHA man gravely cullirg "news" from
| Boston three weeks old and "per latest
advices about Col Bouquets forces hav.
ing crossed the river at Pittsburgh only
thirty days gone by; and thrilling rumors
of war from Madrid, London, Versailles,
| Stockholm and the Hague, with the mil.
| dews of four awful months on them; and
venerable canards hundred days from
| Naples, telling how between three and
four hundred Thousand" citizens had late.
| ly died of plague in that little kingdom
q man eXulting over his little old sensa
ton dispatches and latest dates, and never
strangely enough, never having vision
| of 1868 flash through his complacent brain
with its revelations of telegraph and loco
motives-I say can't you fancy this old
muf sitting at his desk and getting off this
bit of sarcasm, and holding it up and cock
ing mis- eye at it, and reading it over, ant
chuckling to himself, and reading it again
and calling in the devil" and intlctinG
it on him, and then sending it to the print
ers perfectly satisfied that it is the best anC
boldest and the awfullest crusher thai
ever thundered from the press cant you
l will now let this old bufergo. Idon'
wish to be too hard on him, lest meet hi
musty ghost prowling about his ancien
haunts, in Hartford here, some night
Where be his comrades? Whittier
went he to take his aleG Who was he
anyhow?