Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-01
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| ADvIcEs from South America report
that Peru was terribly shaken by an earth
quake on the 9TH of October There was
considerable damage done TO buildings in
! lquique, and great panic among the peo-
! pie. The effects were more disastrous in
| the interior, where the towns of Plea and
Matilda were destroyed, scarcely a house
being left standing. A fire succeeded the
earthquake in Plea. At Varaipacca, the
church, Pantheon, eighteen houses, and
the dam of the river were destroyed.
! The towns of UsgamagO, Guazquina, and
Pachica also suffered severely. Very few
lives were lost The steamer Panama felt
the earthquake at sea, and Araquika had
shocks on the 4th and 10th, but no build
ings were damaged. l
THE Post Office Department in Wash
| ington recently received from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury a box containing
19500 cancelled postage and revenue
! stamps The stamps were forwarded to
The Treasury by lady residing at Bridge
port, Conn, who says that she is one of Il
! Bible-class; that she was told by the gu
perintendent of her Sunday School that II
she would collect one million stamps the
government would give her $500. She
| therefore forwarded n part of the required
number and requested pay for them pro
rata She says that If tile government
wants collector of defaced stamps she
will accept such position for q reasonable
compensation. General Terrell, Third As
sistant Postmaster General, replied to her
letter, saying that cancelled stamps possess
no value whatever, and that the newspa-
! per rumOr 10 the effect that the govern
ment will pay for such stamps is doubt
less intended for sell.
WHILE at a friends house, few even
ings ago, we took part in a conversation
on the sufferings of the houseless and
hungry people of Chicago. One OF the
company was boy of ten years, who had
two hundred dollars in savings bank,
! His father said to him, Frank, we must
all give something to the destitute and af-
! flicted men. women and children of that
city. How much will you give? You
have some money of your own in the
bank. Whatever you are willing to give,
| will send tomorrow in your name TO the
Mayor of Chicago and tell him that ii Is
from generous boy in Brooklyn, to help
keep warm the little feet and hands of the
children of Chicago The lad to whom
this fatherly speech was addressed blushed
mement, then burst into tears and out
of heart full of charity exclaimed,
Father, send it all !" And the whole
two hundred dolars-the sum total of the
boys slow savings, was sent next day on
its errand of mercy. We happen to know
that the boys father took out these two
hundred childish dollars, but put back
four hundred into their place. And we
thought of Shakspeare's line,
The quality of mercy is twice biest.
-[Vineland IN. j. Weekly.
REMOVING LARGE TREES. When it is
desirable to move large tree, the depth
of winter, when the ground lis frozen,
should be chosen for the operation. Not
only deciduous trees, but any kind of
evergreens, even hemlocks, the most diff
ficult to remove, may be safely trans
planted at this season. 1t is obvious that
the time to prepare for such work is be-
fore the ground becomes frozen. A trench
should be dug around the tree sufficiently
distant from the trunk to leave untouched
a large mass of the roots, and sufficiently
deep that they may be undermined with
out being disturbed. 1t should then be
partly filled up with leaves or coarse litter,
which will preserve the bottom from
freezing. In February or March, when
the frost is most severe, the litter may be
taken out the tree completely undermined,
and the frozen mass of earth around the
roots pried out of the hole and placed on
a stone-boat 1t may now be conveyed to
its new home, which should have been
prepared and protected from the frost.
Sufficient earth from the surface or from
some rich spot should have been placed in
the bottom of the hole, the tree planted on
/ this, and the hole filled with similar soil.
When the SDrinr arrives the tree will settle
into its place without further care, except
perhaps little filling up, and will be I'M
proved rather than injured.-[ Hearth and
/ rome