Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

tional amendment making voting COM
pulsory.
THE agitation for the abolishment Of
the franking privilege began twenty-five
years ago.
A NIMBLE woman, 1877 years old, does
housework and runs on errands for liv-
ing, in Los Nietos, CAL
SPR1NeFIELD and Jefferson City, Mo-,
two of the best paying post-ofilces out of
bt. Louis, have postmistresses.
THE largest native pearl in, this coun-
try was recently found in Wabash River
muscle shell.
AN American conductor Is knocking
down" competence on the new railroad
that runs from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
A CHAMPAIGN Oil, lady writes to the
editor of the Chicago Tribune that she de-
sires to dispose of herself by lottery.
THE Powers Coal Company, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, are employing colored
miners in place of those now on strike.
| A CmoAeoAN has invented plan to do
away with the spark, smoke and cinder
nuisance on railroad trains.
AN importation of Asiatic quail for ac-
climatization, has been made at San
| Francisco. 1t Is said to be strong on the
wing, and to afford good sport.
A PHILADELPHIA court lately fined
juror $100 for disclosing the contents of
a sealed verdict before It had been read
| in court. M
| The Oldest inhabitant has taken up his
residence in Hagerstown, Wayne County,
Ind. He is now 10S
ANTHRACITE coal of good quality is re-
ported to have been found in New Mex
leo, twenty yseven miles from Santa Fe,
and near to rich mines of lead ore.
PHLADEIPHIA papers, having slain
the steam-whistle monster, have buckled
on their armor against the ringing Of
church bells on the Sabbath.
A TERRE HAUTE man who was d.
vorced thirteen years ago, recently mar.
ried his former wife in indianapolis.
Both remained -single during their sepa-
ration.
THE Lockport IN. " Circuit Court
calendar contains 600 cases against the
New York Central Railroad for over
charge of fares. And the suits are all
two years old.
VI NOW pronounce you man and-hand
over the ten dollars before go any fur
ther;" is the way the Connecticut clergy
men have of securing their fee.
THE bell used on the first steamboat
that ever sailed ON Lake Superior-the
Julia Palmer-is doing service in a mod
est house of worship at Marquette.
DIR. PETERS CLINTON, of New York,
has discovered a new planet of the tenth
magnitude, in declination north degrees,
IL minutes, right ascension, 10 degrees
and 3S minutes.
TEE Supervisors of Plymouth County,
Iowa, offer a reward of 81 500 for the dis.
covery of coal mines in that county,
which they believe will be found with
this inducement to prospectors.
AN ingenious Yankee proposes to warm
Boston on the plan of building enormous
furnaces somewhere under the pave
ments, and conducting steam through
the streets by means of iron mains.
THERE has not been single murder in
Phoebe, Nevada, since the organization
of the Vigilance Committee. The very
name Vigilante seems to preserve order
infinitely better than did all the authori
ties combined.
THE man who returned his neighbor's
borrowed umbrella was seen, a day OF
so ago, walking in company with the
young lady who passed a looking glass
without taking peep. 1t is believed
VASJ olO cuBdStu.
THE verdict of a jury in Wexford
County, Mich, in case in which the
defendant was charged with having dis
turbed religious meetings, was ''Not
guilty, but the court is recommended to
advise the prisoner not to 60 there any
more"
RosINA KRACKER, q German woman
living in Waterloo, Wisconsin, recent
lxT TNuI fAT l.,
Beaver Dam. The money paid was earn
ed by her own hands in doing washing
cleaning offices, house-cleaning and
days work"
SALMON eggs to the number of 750,00(
were recently shipped from Bremen, tC
this country. Two-thirds of these are {
present from the German Government
and they will be distributed by the Smith
sonian Institution to the various fish
breeding establishments in the country
THE Oregon papers state that since thu
fight with the Modocs Is, 900 head of cattlt
and 10, 600 head of sheep that were herde(
!; in the valleys of Sink River, Salt Rivel
and Clear Lake have been abandoned by
the herdsmen, who have returned to thu
settlements out of fear of the Indians.
THE pictures for the Daily Graphic, the
York, are to be made by the photo-litho
graphic process, by which the sketch
equal in all respects to the old copper
etchings, can be put ON the press in hal
an hour after the design enters the Office
SAN Francisco challenges New Yorl
or any other place to count Of murder
ers in proportion to population. She ha'
thirteen murderers now in the lock up
! and apartments waiting for as many
more, whose claims to entertainment are
indisputable, if they could only be found
THE blades for the new swords ordered
for the United States Army have just beer
finished at the Springfield Armory. They
are perfectly straight, thirty-one inches
long, and handsomely decorated with de
signs in asphaltum varnish. The swords
will be very light, and much more conve
nient to carry than those in use at pres
ent.
IT rs rumored that President Grant hai
signitied his intention efmaking South
ern tour in company with certain mem
bers of his Cabinet, after the close of thu
present session of Congress. The route
designated is to New Orleans ola Rich
mond, Raleigh, Columbia, Charleston
Mobile and other places. From New Or
leans he would go to Memphis, but wal
undecided whether he would return git
Knoxville or Nashville and Louisville.
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Ames Against COlfax.