Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
tEor the Perrysburg JournN.j


The JorRSAL is always welcome to our table.
We are glad b get the news Of the county, and
TO no par. of the paper do We look with more in
teres, than to the correspondence from the di1er
eat villages OF the county, when such CORES
pondence is reliable. American literature, at
part of it which is prepared for the public iuur-
nails by set of uewsmongers-unless corrected
by the editors-goes to press without single
criticism. IL is written as tho boy wrote his
first composition, in which he said "The horse
is useful animIl-so is the COW. horse
weighs.a thousand pounds. wish had horse ;
Aud very oftenit contains fully as much infor-
mttion. One of your corr espondeuts, &C. A. r. b"
wisl in our estimation justly criticised ia
your last issue, for his blowing but your cor
rts9ondentT"G. A. R. ''lis not the only to suf
fer by this censure. The current Of the criticism
S reflected full upon the "Agent," and not upon
sc. A. r." for whom it was justly intended.
We think If some kind friend would review some
Of the articles aud point out the errors before
publication, would save othsr villages aud
other innocent persons from sharing a similar
disgrace For instance, lot us make few quo
tItions from the "Granl Rapids Items. OF last
week, in reference to the Sabb ath School Con
cert, he says, " The exercises aud music was
we-y & 'od," and of the exhibition, ''could not
get ready in time or would have had it between
| the two holidays" ! is evident to every school,
boy, that the verbs are not used properly, and
that putting the exhibition between the two hol
| days" is dressing it tap in good Sandwich
style. In the sentence, "Go II while your young,
he uses 'your" for you re. think the sentence
has been filched from some other author, al
! though Il e quotation marks are not used. He
says, 9Th, prospect nOwils, that the holidays
will b. kept.in quiet manner by eating oysters
roa't turkey aud sich." We have heard Of pigs
aud chickens being "kept in quie, manner" by
eating cEn, but we did not know that the "holi
days Fever feas,ed on "oysters aud roast turkey,
an that such feasting had any tendency to tamt
them. Again he says, "When men who belong
TO churches and. temperance societies patruniz,
wIiskey sal ons for cigars, and wbiskey fol
me ical purposes, they will flourish" We d,
not know whether it is the "nen," the "whiskey'
the churches and temperance societies" or Tia,
whiskOy saloons" that he means will flourish ,
Another item is lik, this. "The Mason's have
some kind Of fdoin's THURSDAY eye., but as the y
are either poor or selfish, do no. let any other
persons know Of their dark deeds. II is a long
| time since they had any festival Probably they
are playing out" "Masons" in the nomirative
cas-, has the sign of the possessive The item
only needs to be repeated in ordsr to bring it..into
contempt,
! Here your correspondent ends with the follow
| ing "rhs village is bound to be something
| yet. Mr.. Clay has built stable next to his
! gothic cooper shop. Jesse Peugh built a wood
house last week, and we heaI from several 9th
or perSonsWho contempla building wood houses
They are a very useful adjunct to dwelling,
especially II dled with good wood. There is no
mistake but thatt the destiny Of this village is on
ward and NPward-0r downward" One "wood.
h use" IS an adjunct, but several wood houses
are adiuncts. This Is the grand closing ar icle,
painted aud honrisl,el Who cares about the
| "stab!es, wOod-sheds," and "gOthic cooper
shops" Of Grand Rapids, or wishes to hear them
spoken of in language that might well honor
solomon's TeHple, Hoah'S Ark or the Milan Ca
: thedralf
| In justice ts the people of woaA county, who
expect to get valuable and veItabie information
from your paper le1 US hear no more blowing
nd hoasliag fr"m IIaSkns. Graui kspids or
sBy other village " Ike calbls. AL