Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-02-17
State aud other Items.

There are now in the Ohio Peniientiary ~
prisoners under sentence for life.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan has been bauqueted by
King Victor Emanuel, at Florence.
The Columbus Skating Rink was sold at
Sheriff7s sale for $4,000 sn the I'd. Skating
Kinks generally seems TO be nonpaying invest
menls.
General Lees physicians say that his death
was brought on by protracted grief ut the con-
dition OF the country. Remorse has been the
death of many men.
. William II. Schalenb ,ry, for the killing Of
his wife some months ago in Cleveland, has
been sentenced to be hung on the llth OF May
next.
In the Gurnsey Common Pleas Matthew
Brady was fired $50 and sent to jail for thirty
days for selling liquor, and fined also SIT and
sent TO Jail for ten days for selling liquor on Sun
day.
The Ohio Senate has passed n bill which
passed the House last session, allowing execu-
tors and administrators to settle the estate Of
deceased persons by selling such estates at pri-
vate sale under order of the Court.
! A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Lcgis-
i laturc empowering Justices and Mayors TO com
| pei intoxicated persons 10 tell OF whom they
purchase liquors, aud makes it their duty to
commence suit against the sellers.
Joshua Davis. of Columbus, Ohio, several
days ago took laughing gas in order to have q
tooth extracted. After taking the gas he was
seized with spasm, ana remained unconscious
until death resulted on Tuesday.
A shrewd farmer in the Vermont legislature
declined answering the speech of member
who was remarkable for nothing but frOthy and
pugnacous impudence and self conceIt, thus
"Mr. Speaker, | can't reply to that ere speech
Cor it wrenches me terribly to kick at nothing
The Union City Gazcte claims to have the
names of several prominent citizens of thai
place, some Of them leading church members
! who have been taken in by the counterfeit
, money swindlers of New York and have pack
ages Of the queer" waiting for them at the ex
, press Office.
The st. Joseph (Mo) Herald says ther,
} never before was so much game in that city as
at the present time, and thus enumerates
"Keno, rabbits, faro, wild turkeys, billiards
quals, seven-up, rondo, buffalo meat, Chimes
, backgammon, squirrels, monte, prairie chickens
, ten pms tame fowls Of every description, rou
: lette, black-tailed deer, euchre, bear meat
' chuck. .a-lack, mountain sheep, dominoes, sag
{ hen, pigeon hole, oysters &c."
A Minister at Alliance, Ohio, is going TO briu
> suit against a for $40 900 for marrying hin
Fourteen years ago, he married the man, wh
wanted to pay in potatoes, Tomorrow. lie sal
a he would give six bushels of potatoes down, an
: double the number of bushels every year unit
the minister was paid. As it has been fOurtee
years, and nary potato cnme yet, it amounts
: 9S, ,2gs bushels, aud at fifty cents bushel
= amounts to $46,lo4. Expensive wife that.
y Truthful James has scared Billy Mungen it
l to making a speech against the Heather Chine
: Billy saws good Democrat will stand no chanC
n agin fe ller that plays such a game of cards
e that.
(, The report that Billy Mungeu bought his hea
: of Grant at the leather store in Galena is dspl
: ted Grant never sold any such leather tina
! His calf was the best in market.--.State JoUrHo