Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-28


and three other convicts were engaged in
loading up wagons with spokes, which
were taken out of the yard TO the rear of
prison, and there unloaded. Being for
little time out of sight of the keepers,
O'Toole jumped into the wagon, and his
fellow convicts corded up the spokes
around him, and soon the driver came in
and started out with the wagon, but while
IL was being unloaded he caught glimpse
of the striped pants, and, without saying
word, he drove back and unloaded Mike
inside the walls.
THE Suspension Bridge Journal of a
recent date has the following: ARRIVED
on the evening of June 30, gentleman of
means, an Englishman by birth, and put
up at the Monteagle House. He left Bos.
ton on the 18th of June, distance 500 miles,
and walked to this place in twelve days.
He takes this way of seeing the country.
He carried q valise and contents, which
weigh fifty pounds, strapped on his back
He says that he came from the old country
purposely to see this country, and prefers
to view 1t on foot, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific that when he arrives back to
England he can give full description of
this country to his friends. June 30 he
left the Monteagle on his journey through
Canada, to Chicago, from there to Omaha
and San Francisco, his journeys end. He
will return by rail to New York, whence
he will take steamer again to England"
FORTUNE, success, fame, position are
never gained, but by piously, determined.
ly, bravely sticking, living to thing till
it is fairly accomplished. In short you
must carry thing through if you want
to be nybody or anything. No matter if
1t does cost you the pleasure, the society,
the thousand pearly qualifications of life,
No matter for these. Stick to the thing
and carry it through. Believe you were
made for the matter, and that no one else
can do it. Put forth your whole energies.
Be awake, electrify yourself; go forth to
the task. Only once learn to carry a
thing through in all its completeness and
proportion, and you will become hero.
You will think better of yourself; others
will think better of you. The world in
its very heart admircs the stern, deter
mined doer. 1t sees in him its best sight,
its brightest object, its richest treasure.
Drive right along, then, in whatever you
undertake. Consider yourself amply suf-
hcient for the deed. You'll be successful.
A CHINAMAN who was murdered in San
Francisco recently was given grand fl-
sympathizers parading in a long process
sion, headed by a discordant band of
Chinese musicians. The murdered man
had been laid out in new suit of clothes,
with quantity of feathers around his
head. In his hands were placed dirk
knife and other weapons, with which he is
expected to pitch into his murderers when
they arrive in another world-if he can
find them. From the shoes the soles
were removed, the uppers being left. This
was done SO that he might step softly and
reverentially into the presence of hi:
Joss. AS usual, quantity of Chinese
| provisions were put into the coffin and lef
at the grave. Chinese wine-rice spirits
was also left at the grave; but alas! the
profane Mclean " ruflians of the Colder
City always follow these professions, anC
ruthlessly gobble all they can find eatablt
and drinkable as soon as the backs of the
living Celestials are turned.
A PERSON walking through the street!
of Charleston, S. c., will see large black
turkey -buzzard here and there quarrelinl
with dog about the possession of bone
These turkey -buzzards, or carrion birds a.
they are more familiarity known, are one
OF the institutions of the city, and are al
tame and docile as the common cur dog
which wander through the streets. They
have been in the habit of visiting the citl
for almost century past, and have becom
so useful that the laws of the State pro
hlbit any interference whatever with them
The children, dogs, poultry and all othe
street habitues are on intimate terms witt
them. They are very industrious, and cal
be depended upon to clean the city of al
refuse and filth which may be thrown upol
the streets. They live a mile or two ou
in the country, and spend their days in In
city, around the market, where they dev
our the otfal as soon as the butchers throw
1t In the street. They are pronounced b,
those who have tried them to be the bes
scavengers in the world.
THE Norwalk Comm Gazette says tina
Captain Il. f. Homan, an Arctic navigator
now resident of that town, has the irol
head of the whale "gig" or harpoon, take
by him from the side of an Arctic whale
and which has caused so mitch interest an
comment among scholars and the press
The harpoon, it will be remembered, wa
shot into the whale but was wrehehed of
from boat belonging 70 the Ansel Gibb!
from New Bedford, in the ice foes of Re
pulse Bay, Greenland, on the Atlantic sid
OF the continent. Captain Homan Eal
pooned this same whale on Monday, Al
gust IL, of last year, in latitude 70 degrees
longitude 40 degrees, at about 10 p. m
but yet in full daylight, off Wainrigt
Inlet, on the northern coast of Alaska, o
the Pacific side of the continent. Sir
gularly enough, one of Captain Homan
, whalemen was on the Ansel Gibbs at tn
! time the whale was first struck and th
. harpoOn wrenched off, and his first an
: second mates were also in different vesse
in the same Atlantic fleet, and knowing I
the circumstances of its loss. This prove
an open polar sea, and northwest passag
for the Arctic whale never leaves the +,
, gion of ice.
A ST. LOUIS paper states that country
I man came to that city, the other day,
get divorce from his wife, While wall
ing to the courtroom he espied a hug
, sea.turtle reposing upon its back in froi
of restaurant and, allured by the sigh
,, stopped to examine it thoroughly. Mea,
: while his wife was at work for hersel
, and, when finally he hurried on to I'll
courtroom, he learned to his dismay, tht
, the case had been decided against him, an
his wife had obtained divorce He di
, not care SO much about the loss of h
! wife, as he had engaged another in antic
patton of getting a divorce himself; bl
, as the wife bad obtained decree again
him, he was, by the law, precluded frol
taking unto himself another rib until ii
! lapse of five years. He was almost franti
as he had the wedding clothes ready, an
was to have been married the next da
His lawyer made motion for arehearin
and it was set for argument in two day
) But the woman was again too smart Fl
him, for she, too, had husband in wal
1 ing, and as soon as the decree was al
!, nounced, she went out and married h,
! man, without stopping to examine Il
anatomy of turtle, or any other fish.
The Judiciary and the Democracy.