Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-06-04
FACTS Ann rTeURrS.


A FAMILY Of garbage niekers In New
York report $4,000 in bank
CNFonSIA shipped $40O0,000 worth
OF wheat and nour last year
AN English exchange heads It's financial
column: "Other Peoples Money ta
The number of students at Che Cont
mental Universities Is estimated al G5,0O0.
THE New York Citisen has passed into
the exclusive control orr. b. Roosevelt
TuE State Of Massachusetts, paid g..
5S0,7 for educational purposes last year.
JOHN q. HBENAN, the pugilist, keeps
liquor store on Union Square, New York.
A c.Am against the Mexican govern
ment Tor eiS5, 900 was sold in New York
recently for ei9.
DURING the year 1868 there were 1885,
l56 births, and 4SO,671 deaths in England
and Wales.
Mn, WHITING, OF Springfield. Macs.
has nine sons, and the initials Of all their
names are II. L. W.
JAMES WEpB, JR, one of the shoe
kings of Portland, Me, began business
| five years ago on capital of $3.50.
THE great Melbourne telescope recont-
ly purchased by the Colony Of Victoria,
Australia, cost $4,000 in gold. t.r
! RocEEFoRT, the Ldaterne man, II, is
| said, has secretly visited Paris nearly
every week since his first departure for
Belgium.
THE editor of the wfllimantic Conn
Scatind Is only fifteen years old, and
his only editorial assistant is younter
brother, rslH rs
THR receipts of the American Tract So
ciety of Boston for the past .yesr were
$4,000. The publishing business pays
all expenses. .-........ ~. -
| NASHUA, N. Y, has 5000 volumes in
Its public library, and 1,526 persons take
out books. AS yet only one book has
been lost, and that was destroyed in
burning house,
THE use of gas has been discontinued at
New London, Conn, being found too ex-
pensive, and the streets will hereafter be
lighted by kerosene. -s-
MAN in Newburyport Mass, has ten
acres of land in onions. The ten acres
give eighty miles of onions and in plant
ing, hoeing, wedding and gathering require
q thousand miles travel. -e
In New York, the other day, Judge
Bowling discharged two mon, captured
with carpet bags full of burglars tools on
the ground that it was no offcnse, legally,
to carry such implements in the day time.
THE number of paupers receiving relief
in England and Wales at the close of Jan
uary, 1869, was 02o,977-beiug an in
crease of ? per cent on the number at the
, corresponding period of 1858.
Col CHAFFIN, a Virginia dwarf, 40 years
old, twenty-five inches high and weighing
: twenty-five pounds, is accompanied in his
exhibitions by his brother, who is sixefeet
four inches high. r't'
0 THERE is nothing like sticking to one
branch of business, however small. A
f man has peddlOd popcorn on the Fitch
. burg Mass road, till he is worth upward
A of one hundred thousand dollars. And
= he still keeps at it. ls
q THE school children Of tho Quaker
c CITY have, by penny contributions, raised
6 sufficient money to pay for monument
Q TO Washington, which is to be placed in
:, front of Independence Hall on the COM
J. ing Fourth of July.
\ TIE dead body of an old negro was
d found near New Orleans, the other day,
hanging by one foot in the crotch Of a
d mulberry tree. The old man had climbed
1t after fruit, slipped and stuck there, head
v downwards, until ne died. i
THERE is a conductor on the Fitchburg
ol Railroad in Massachusetts who always
'p carries in his mouth or about his person a
Q, blossom, fresh and perfumed. The spir-
&c its told him that was the only condition by
" which he could expect TO meet his wife in
p heaven. =ftt.7 rlitEst
u WunlN mile of Elko, on the road to
a. White Pine, is large natural swimming
y. bath, where visitors can choose their tenn.
N perature, from topid to boiling. The
If depth is said to be very great, and some
say that at 200 feet no bottom has been
=, found. rI -sta
n, THE New England Agricultural Society
wv will hold its annual fair in Portland, Nc
ed from the 7th TO the 10th of September.
ry Ten thousand dollars are offered as regular
IN premiums, besides outside purses for
be horses. The Maine State Society will ex
IN hibit at the same time and place. st
It, THE New York Legislature, ut its recent
IN session, passed an act which provides that
a on the trial of indictments and in all
ks criminal proceedings, the defendant shall,
at his own request, be deemed a compe-
tent witness, but that his neglect or re-
fusal to testify shall not create any pre-.
sumption against him.
m SOME one has collected the items of ex.
IN pense for music in nine churches Of
IN San Francisco, and finds that it averages
W $2,75) in gold-considerably more than in
y, nine leading Congregational churches
G. Of Boston, which average $1,000 in cur.
le rency. Three Unitarian churches of B0s.
nc ton pay from $4,000 to $4,000 for music.
., WHEN the Emperor Alexander the Sec-
n. ond was in Paris in 1867, there were ad-
lv dressed to him so many begging letters
% that they had to be sent every morning
or on four small hand.cafts TO the hotel
m where he stopped. The Gar is said to
n have wondered greatly at these manifesto
He tions of devotion and respect, all the let
,o ters which were opened alluding in the
e1 most pathetic terms TO his magnapimityr
~ his humanity, &C.
m THE White Pine Nelos says: "Down
on Chloride Flat there is a miners cabin
II. built out of chunks of pieces of high grade
or chloride ore, estimated to be worth over
Iv $4,000 per ton. The house is 10 feet
an square, and the rock in its walls, if crushed
m would perhaps yield in the neighborhOod
a of $4,000. The miners Who own and oc
re cupy this valuable building, of course are
of doing so temporarily and will nave the
at ore of which it is constructed milled as
en- soon as practicable, or when custom mill
,is are started in the district. Never before
in in the history of mining, We Vcltpre tC
no. say, did miners who repair tie seats o
,h their trowsers with self-rising' patches
in occupy such valuable structure as this
rs, THE London Star says that great ex
ne citement was created in the B1Iware RoaC
in the other evening by the appearance of q
es horse and Jockey in full racing costume
as galloping mady towards the Marble Arch
le- A hue and cry was at once raised at sucl
10. a novel sight, but all attempts to stop thu
Of horse were unavailing until the park wal
ht reached, when, the horse getting exhaust
nd ed, the jockey managed TO pull himup
e. On inquiry ii seems that the jockey anC
pr horse were to have taken part in Mr.
a Boucicault's drama of "Tlyirs Scud,
lis then being performed at the Alfred Thea
ut tire, but Just before going on the stage th'
i'll horse trod on bag of torpedoes, used tC
ar initiate the cracking of whips, and thu
he loud bang of these torpedoes so alarmed
sir the animal that he bolted out OF a side
oh g. ~ n TINA Of hia m m