Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-01-27
state md Other Items,

II is said that the recent cold period in Florida
was the severest ever known there. Thousands
of orange trees and other semi-tropical plants
were killed.
The law providing for the payment OF the
Morgan Raid claims, has been, by the Ohio Su-
preme Court, pronounced void, not having re-
ceived rwo-thrds vote in the Legislature.
The Van Vert Bulletin says Mr.. Hargo,a col
ored man of Wiltshire township, this county,
who graduated recently at the Ann Arbor,
Mich Law School, is attending Court in this
town, this week.
The portrait of Samuel Huntington, who was
Governor of Ohio from 1903 to 1910, has been
received at the State capital. 1t was painted
by Miss Ransom, Of Cleveland, who is also
painting the portrait of Ex-Governor j. ID. Cox.
Cincinnati is jubilant over the passage by
Congress Of law making large appropriation
for the work of enlargng the canal around the
Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. Her felicity
will be complete when the Kentucky Legisa-
ture passes the bill granting the right of way
fer her Southern Railroad through that State.
VaIlandigham in his sth of January Wooster
speech called out 80 for an hour of Old HEX
ory now /" An hour of Old Hickory about the
time he left Ohio for the Confederate lines
would have given him a throat affection putting
him past spouting thereafter eVermoFe.-Lancas-
ter Gazette.
The valuation of real estate property in Ohio
exempt from taxation in 1870 amounts to $jS,
726, 1856. or this sum the exemption OF church,
es amounts to SIS ,173 .528 The remainder is
divided between colleges and school buildings,
charitable institutions, and other public build
ings as court houses, jails etc.
The Poet Longfellow, on one OCCASION, was at a
dinner party at which Nicholas Longworth was
also present. Some one remarked to Mr.. Long.
fellow that his RRme and that of Mr.. Long
w0rth's started ott alike but made dissinilar
ending.
Yes replied the poet 'and it affords only
another proof, l am afraid, that worth makes
the man, the want of it the fellow
According to the report of the State School
Commissioner, there were employed in the
schools Of the state during the past year 2l 1888
different teachers.
There were employed in the primary schools
in the townships S495 gentlemen, and 1891
ladies' in high schools in the townships IL gem
tlemen, aud 6 ladies'. Two hundred teachers
were employed to manage or superintsnd
schools.
There were received in the various iutirma-
res iu this State last year, 6746 paupers ;
number of insane, 93l epileptics 357 idioiIe,
sos children under IS years of age. lOO3 :
births, 1877 deaths, 5S2; number of inmates
June 80, l,0i6.
The Jail statistics are As follows Whole
number of prisoners far the year, $3.50 A 79l
men, 42l woman, 2s7 boys, 2Hgirls, 245 insane,
IL epileptics.
John II. Surratt is going to raise money by
lecturing on the assassination conspiracy. Can't
the man pick pockets at funerals; orrob graves
or take contract for feeding an orphan asylum;
or steal the widows mite for a living without
making money out of a connection that renders
him a deaths head among living men Is
there man in Maryland where Surratt pro-
poses to commence his lecture-who can sit and
hear him lecture without being tied to the bench?
And will the girls kiss him for his mother p
Toledo Journal.