Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-14
FACTS AND FIGURES


A New YORK policeman has resigned 10
accept legacy Of $4,000.
OF the 5000 Confederate dead buried at
Gettysburg, only 700 can be identified.
THE salary OF the Governor General Of
the Dominion has been fixed at $22 1000
year,
THE Good Templars Of Maine intend 70
run an independent Guternatorial ticket
this year
THE Total of incomes returned in Troy,
N. Y, is $3.50, 754-an increase Of $984,.
2SS over last year,
THE Charleston Is. C.) Courier thinks
that the cotton crop OF the South, this
year, will not exceed 100000 bales,
A New YoRK paper says that the very
purest milk that can be obtained in that
city contains fully one.third water.
A GENTLEMAN Of Boston, who, for over
thirty years, had been without the power
of smell, has suddenly recovered tho
faculty.
In Is stated that the number of German
newspapers published Ia the United States
| Is over $50, about 80 Of them being dailies
A DEFECTIVE officer recently sued
country official In Buffalo, for ten cents,
borrowed to buy beer. The court gave
judgment, charging $2,70 costs.
The Presbyterian Board of Education,
during the year ending April 1, aided 334
students--of which los were theological,
110 collegiate and 107 acsdemical.
| A VESSEL load Of ice was recently
emptied into the Bay at Hamilton, Cana
da, because the price TO be received would
not pay the cost of transportation.
TuE English Government, considering
the African slave trade extinct, has with.
drawn the squadron which 1t has main
tanned on that coast for many years.
IT is said that farmers made more clear
profit on sheep in the last four years, than
on any other stock, notwithstanding the
low price of wool and mutton.
MRs. CREEpoN, whose husband recently
died of hydrophobia, In Cincinnati, has
commenced suit against the owner Of the
dog, laying her damages al $4,000.
THE monument to Hsmboldt, In the
New York Central Park, will be a bronze
bust about four feet high, and will be
placed ON a stone column of height OF
from ten to twelve feet.
AT Irwintown, Pa, the other day, O
daughter, 10 years old, of Jacob Bolin, q
miner, died from the effects Of drinking
some whisky which her father had left
in the house.
PIKE, with others, was engaged In
, New Jersey marsh speculation. He bought
, out all his associates, and then announced
! that he had found in the swamp q peat
! bed worth $20,000,000.
FROM 1853 to 1SG6-a period of ID
r years-there perished, in civilized warfare,
1,7I3, ,49t men. The cost of the conflicts
in which they lost their lives was $685.,
; 600 900.
THERE are five weekly American papers
I in Paris, chiefly supported by advertise
ments seeking the eyes of A ierican trav-
y | Il, n,,I 10 Na1l &c oh llnh
i ing daily,
v MRs EUNICE NICHOLS died at Middle
4 ton, Mass, April %, aged 100 years and
t. days. On the 20th, being reminded that
s it was her one hundredsh birthday, she
n said: ooh, that is too long to live In this
c world" a.
10 WHEN Queen Victoria was married,
C twenty years age, she had twelve
n bridesmaids Every one of these young
d ladies has since been married; one has been
Ie married twice; one is now q widow; and
d three are dead.
K A FEMALE Custom House officer at New
,, York recently examined portly and dig
" nified lady, who had tust returned from
e Europe, and found that 81 100 worth of
point lace had much to do with the grace
full rounding-out OF her figure
AN enterprising speculator in Paris talks
In house. where he desires to print all the
IN daily newspapers published in the city.
I'd He says by dong so the dailies would re-
a duce their expenses 10 per cent.
er A CASE exhibiting the arrest of develop
d, ment and growth in a child, arising from
f. the intemperance of parents, has recently
n been reported by the London Pathological
I'd Society. The child, in this instance, was
n five years old, but had the intellect of an
g, infant of nine months.
% In Sweden since 1868, only seven per-
N sons have been executed, siXty-one have
N been condemned to capital punishment,
N and 235 to penal servitude for life. No ex-
"a ecutions have taken place during the last
g two years, though number OF persons
a are lying in prison under sentence OF
u death.
10 IT reads singularly, in these days of ofsteam
re that there are yet stage and post-horse
ss routes for the mail in some of the Oldest
ut sections of the country. Some 400 of these
lg medieval routes have lately been awarded
e. in the State of New York, and 55S in New
o. England.
8. THE st. Johnsburg GtIedOnfan says
e' that there is a farmer in that vicinity who
y has all his last years butter on hand
~ u, between one and two tons-for which
cs he was offered last winter fifty-two cents
III keeps his butter, which Tnl soon be q,
he n for wagon.grease.
an In London, few weeks ago, an appren
~ ~ tice stayed out beyond closing time Some
~ - fellow. app entices lowered sheets from &
e third-story window to pull him MP, bu
N the sheeting gave way, when he reached
ah the second story, and he fell onto the
q pavement, striking his head with grea
in violence against the flsgstones, and dice
N. an hour afterwards.
ne THE Pennsylvania Legislature passed
ne an act imposing penalty of S25 for tn
ly killing of any iusectiverous bird, one-hRl
by OF this fine TO be pair to the informer
ed The birds that are classed under the heaI
ri. ofinsectiverous birds, are robins, martins
AZ swallows, blue,birds, woodpecke-s, etc,
nut in fact all the various small birds generally
nh seen in that latitude.
ey A LITTLE girl at LianfihaDge -yr-Arth
gs, Wales, is said to have lived since the lOtl
m of October, 1867, without food. A com
on mittee was formed some time ago to In
he uuire into the case and three medica
as men were requested to watch the girl
res This committee watched the girl continu
ire ously from March % 10 April 0, and the.
his state that nothing whatever was given 4
nd her during that time.
irs AT Mount Clemens, Mich, about year
~ ago, two sisters-in-law got into disput
ne over baking they were engaged In, an,
re vowed never to speak to each other again
lg- They have lived in the same house sine
then, eating at the same table, and en-
gagged in work side by side but they hav
never once addressed remark to eac
other, or in any way recognized eac
;,o others presence.
a1 A CONVICT, lately released from the VeI
of mont State Penitentiary, aftef nearly tive
a,' years service, carried or. with him nea
""yy box, of his own manufacture six by nin'
U ert inches, composed of over 1000 ditteren
sso pieces, made by himself and filled VIII
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