Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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600 men. ~
ONE-QUARTER Of the houses on the
island of Malta are hotels
TuE six Methodist branches in England
have G42,S92 members.
A FIRM In Leipsio lately celebrated tho
completion of their I've thousandth piano.
In Lcicestershiro there is lunatic who
has been kept in chains for sixty years.
In 1867 the number of arrests for habit
ual drunkenness, in London, was 100,357.
| THE North German army contains 172
| ministers, 113 of whom are Protestants
and 90 are Roman Catholics.
In 1869 the English Chancellor of, the
Exchequer received, as conscience money,
the sum of $20,970.
THE largest crop uf.cotton ever pro
duccd in the South was In 1860. II stood
in the market at $tG0,000,000 in gold
The Moravian statistics show AS9j COM
municants are in GermeGy, 3,90S in Great
Britain, and GIGS in North America.
STATISTICS show that about six thou
sand vehicles and three thousand pedestri-
ans go through the Washington street
tunnel, in Chicago, daily.
THE amount of the peach and black
berry crop ut st. Joseph, Mich, this year,
| is estimated at 100000 baskets of the for
mer, and $4,000 bushels of the latter.
AMONG the bridal presents received the
| other day by young lady in New York
the daughter of a mllionaire-was $70,-
600 house, with $4,000 worth of furni-
ture.
MpLLE CARLoTTA PATTI has an En-
| glish sparrow that accompanies her ON all
her travels, She picked IL up ON the read
side, several years since, with both its legs
broken.
lT is estimated tha. about $50O,000 Of
the new issue of ten and fifteen cent frac-
tional currency is kept out of circulation,
by people keeping one of each for sam
pies.
TUE Charleston Courier says the NOR
tality of the-negro population in that city,
since the close of the war; as compared
with that of the whites, has been more
than two to one.
THE one hundredth anniversary of tho
| death of George Whitfield will occur Sep
tember 30, 1870, and will probably be
commemorated at Newburyport, Mass.
He was buried there uDder the pulpit of
the church where he had recently
preached.
WILLIAM TRACEY is the name of an es-
Unable keeper who has recently becn-dis-
missed from n Yorkshire insane asylum,
because when it was his duty to give u pa
tient u warm bath he deputed the task
to two Mnatics who boiled the man to
death.
From return recently made by the
British and Foreign Bible Society, it ap.
pears that by means of that agency there
have been distributed, up to 1869, 1920
1856 copies of the Holy Scriptures, the eX-
penditurcs incurred during the sixty-fivo
years of the socicty's existence having
been e8,553464.
FoR the last ninety years Christ's
Church, philadelphia, has had practically
but two rectors, Bishop White, who served
from 1879 to 1896, and the Rev. DR.. Ben
:. jamin Dorr, who died few daysago. The
Rev. John w. James, who succeeded
, Bishop White and preceded DIR. Dorr,
survived the former but one month.
TIE Cleveland Herald says: We saw
in II street car in this city, a few days
since, an expensively. dressed woman not
only tell stranger to give up his seal, but,
upon his doing so, tender him five cents
and loudly insist on his taking it. She
said she was rich enough to pay for
everything she had, and didn't ask no fa-
vors from nobody without paying for it. >"
In England, recently, the pedestrian,
Mountioy, who is over GO years OF age,
undertook to travel $50 miles by foot in
three days. He started from the Bellevue
Hotel Chpham. common. On the hrst
day he travelled 80 miles in 10 hours and
40 minutes; on the second he occupied IA
hours in the 80 miles journey and on the
third he finished the 100 miles, and per
formed 80 miles in thirteen hours and at
o'clock he came to the winning goal and
accomplished his feat. 'iri sel
THE movement in favor of woman suf.
frage has reached more advanced state,
in England than in this country. Women
now have the privilege of votingir muni-
cipal affairs, and there are already be-
tween two and three thousand female vo-
tiers ON the municipal register Mt Leicester,
the total number on the roll Being only
about sixteen thousand. There is astrong
j woman's rights party in Leicester, ana the
new voters are forming associations so AZ
to make the most Of their lately acquired
privilege.
THE official statement of passengers ar
rived in the United States during the year
ending June 80, 1869, has been compiled
at the Bureau of Statistics. The total
number arrived was 3S9,651, of whom
| 24O,477 were males, and 149,174 females.
Ofthese, 53,342 were cabin, and 33G,3O9
stcerage passengers The actual immi-
grants numbered 352 $50, ofWnom PA ,74S
we're males, and 1877, ,S91 females. or these
| immigrants, 132,05l came from deIHany,
go, PIG from England aud Scotland, GLASS
from Ireland, "a, ,224 from Sweden, lSiO6S'
from Norway, and H. 1874 from CHINA
BRANDING TEXAS. CATTLEAThe .Sdoc
/ and Leather Detler says: "On the large
ranches there arc many thousand head pf
cattle, and about twice q year the ranch.
| men 90 out with the branding irons of the
| owner, to drive up and brandaH the calves.
of the herd. 1t is curious fact that these
herds all run together, and yet seldom or
never become united. The stock raiser
4 may have dozen herds, with as many diff
/ ferent brands, all grazing together, but
each retains its separate individuality,
We do not know that this peculiarly has
ever been accounted for, but it . often the
| case that all the cattle of particular brand
will be sold, and then the herdsmen VIII
90 out ON the praiIies, and by aid of their
| Glasses, find the particular herd, and drive
them in, when there WIN be found 40 cat,
| he of other brands in the whole herd.
The common law in Texas seeras be
that any cattle found roaming without be-
ing branded become the property OF the
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