Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-08-09

For some time, as we learn by CORE
spondent of the Boston Times, there has
been what is known as a district tele-
graph in Brooklyn, N. Y, and now the
system is extended to New York City.
Every house whose occupant chooses to
pay thirty dollars year can have an in
strument in convenient place, by which
messenger can be summoned at any mo-
ment. and the company agrees that when
ever the signal is given the messenger
shall be at hand in three minutes. There
are three knobs on the instrument, one
being for messenger, one for police
man, and one for an officer of the Fire
Department.
A YEAR or more ago, a resident of the
city of Chicago embezzled about $700
from his employer and disappeared A
few days ago, a Chicago detective hap.
pened to see the mans name in Detroit
paper, and he laid his plans to catch the
fellow. He arrived here yesterday, with
a member of the firm which had been
swindled, proceeded up Monroe avenue
very cautiously, and slipped into the
house where their supposed victim was
employed. He came to time when called
upon, but was no more the man wanted
than any other Detroiter. He carries the
right name, but he didn't have just the
look desired by the detectiye-DetrOit
Free Press.
A DR.. BOURNE, of San Francisco, Cali
fOrnia, has just completed trip on foot
from Portland, Oregon, to that city. The
distance is 800 miles, His hours of ac-
tual walking were 302. He consumed
forty pounds of unbolted bread, or crack
ers, during the journey. His other food
was CtpWpl frpit an1 NUotar TTa Lost a Ua
pounds weight of flesh during the trip.
The doctor is siXty-six years of age. He
has been a vegetarian for nearly third
of a century, and has all that time been
preaching its doctrines without success.
His late trip was his last grand demonstra-
tiont TO mankind in order to convince them
of the virtue of his teachings and of un-
bolted bread. He {raveled over noun
tains at the snow line and in valleys with
the thermometer at ninety five degrees in
the shade, and arrived at his destination
in good health.
A NEW York dispatch says; "The
health officers are making most vigorous
preparations to provide for the arrival of
any ships with cholera on board, the
scOurge having reached the Baltic Sea,
between which and this country there is
a heavy passenger trade, and q large
Polish immigration. Thirteen steam YES
sells ply between New York and the Bal,
tic. 1t is assumed to be wellestablished
fact now that cholera spreads by personal
contact and follows lines of travel so the
health authorities here will resist the
disease by every possible means. AT the
quarantine plans have been so matured
that if ship should arrive tomorrow
with 500 cases of cholera on board, the
hospital operations would be prompt and
ample The health officer expects cholera
cases among Immigrants, but is confident
the disease can be arrested in the Lower
Bay"
STRANGE AND FATAL HALLUoINATIoN.
"A resident of York County, Pa, who
was the possessor of competency sufli-
cient to support himself and family dur
ing their natural lives, became possessed
of the idea that they were all coming to
want and would die of starvation. This
hallucination took such firm hold upon
his mind that no persuasion on the part
of his friends was sufficient to divest him
of it. Day after day it grew stronger for
years His greatest anxiety seemed TO be
for his family, and he determined, in or.
der to save them, he would be compelled
to starye himself This he carried into
execution, and recently became victim
of this all absorbing and fatal illusion OF
his life, and death occurred from actual
starvation, voluntarily and persistently