Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-12
LOCAL MATTERS.


The Good Templars are all requested to
meet at their Hall on next Tuesday evening.
"A letter addressed "Mrs. SALLY BARaY,
Toledo, o. is held postage at the Post office.
H. wnTsE 4 Sow lost one Of their best
horses the other day from being strained in pull
ing.
One thousand cords Of A No. building
sand for sale. Inquire Of GEo. 5. and J. Fl.
MoKNfdHT.
Toledo, Dayton, Columbus, and Fremont
get medals Of progress from the Vienna Exposi-
tiUn for School Reports.
Look out for the new advertisement Of
WILLIAMS Bros & FINKBEINER, next week.
The new firm mean business.
KINDER of the Putnam County Sentinel,
calls for a few more subscribers. He has taken
in partner to share the profits, whose weight
is 1OX lbs.
We heard Of man who resides out oftown
q short distance, driving his only COW to town
the other day to settle grocery bill. And he
has family.
The officers Of the Fulton County Fair have
the thanks ofourself and lady for a"complimcn-
tary" to their fair to be held September 23d,
24Ih, 25th and Goth, 1873.
The fremen Of Bowling Green have pa
rade on the 25th inst. and ball in the evening.
The Hook 4 Ladder Co. Of this place have
an invitation and will probably attend.
A site frost on Monday morning is
warning to late corn to prepare to close busi-
ness for this year. 1t has been very warm,
however, for the past few days.
Several of the Sabbath School in Middleton
town ship cid a convention in Col RoBERTsoN's
Grove near Hull Prairie on Wednesday. The
Belville Ridge Band furnished music.
When feller makes his arm round his gall
und she was Iiken dat pooty veil, dhen dot vas
shkripture, on akount it vas maken badness
come some waist blaces. Ain't it, German
Er.
Scene in court Ju1ge--"Have you any
thing to offer tn the Court before sentence is
passed on you ?" Prisoner--"No, Judge: had
ten dollars, but my lawyer took that."-Ee.
"A reunion of the 1tth, 4ith, 50th, list
Gath, 10th aud l4Ith Ohio Regiments, is to be
held at Troy. Ohio, On the 18th and 18Th insts'
Members Of all other organizations are invited
to participate.
Township Trensurers are by law Of last
winter, required TO settle with the County Audi.
tor between the first and tenth of September in
each year, instead Of February, as heretofore.
Is this generally understood
Work on the II ydraulia Canal has got
down close to Fort Meigs and reached the In
junctod in Court at Bowling Green yesterday.
tits believed that the Injunction will be dis
Owed, when the work will proceed without
further trouble, we trust.
AT an expense Of 5000 BrIcK PoMERoY has
been engaged to tell what be knows about far
ming, at the Defiance fair, Wednesday, Septem-
Der a. the Second day Of the Defiance Comfy
Fair. Mr.. Gro. W. BEoHEL, Treasurer Of the
Society, has our thanks for a complimentary.
1t Is related that an lrishman once visited
New Hampshire and after ha wing inspected the
numerous hills and mountain ranges, exclaim-
ed "Bedad niver was in a country before
where they had so much land that they had to
stack it,"
The Cincinnati Eaq,,irer characterises the
rDbberp Of the Fairfield County Treasury, to
the amount Of one hundred and forty thousand
doll ars, as "loosness." That is a mild way Of
stating it but with Democrats such "loos-
ness" is exceedingly common.
Under the State law of Ohio it is the duty
of the School Board to teach the German Ian
guage in any the Public Schools ofthe State
as soon as seventy-fve resident citizens Of the
school district, who represent not less than for
~ scholars, demand this instruction.
We regret to learn that Mrs. Robson, moth
er Of Mrs. STEPHEN MERRY, is lying dan
gerorsy i'll at the residence of Mr.. MERRY, from
a fall received some ten days since-which frac-
tured the hip bone. She is about eighty years
rom her present illness.
Wood County lodge /. o. G.. T.
WM. Crook, Esq, W. C. T. of the Perrys-
burg lodge, has received word from GEO.
W, Hill, Esq, that the Wood County Lodge
I. o. G. r.. will meet at the Good Templars'
Hall in this place on next Thursday at 10
O'Clock A. NJ.
The news from the head center Of the
Government promises to be interesting during
the coming fall and winter, in consequence of
which we have made arrangements to have
weekly correspondence from that city. We
invite attention to our Washingto ton letter this
week.
The Napoleon Signal says: A lady corres-
pOndent writes that she knows very little about
the back pay question but she's going to draw
her back hair up over har head ace cording to
the prevailing fashion, f it lifts her off her heels
and endangers her equilibrium and she would
like to know what the newspapers are going to
do about it,"
There will be n sacramantal meeting next
Sabbath morning at the NJ. E. Church in this
place. Rev. n. B. G. [ovs starts to Confer
ence next Tue day, the session commencing on
Wednesday following at Van Vert. There is
no doubt, we presume, but what Mr.. Love will
be returned to this charge for another year, as
such seems to be the desire Of all OF his CON
gregation.
During one Of the late storms a telegraph
pole was struck by lightning and torn to pieces
near a station not many miles from here. The
wires being heavily charged with electrIcitymade
business lively for the young operator at the
station whose instrument had not been "cut Off"
He hastend to the instrument and returned the
following message: "Don't send so -
- fast"
Calcimining,-We have a specimen OF the
workmanship in our Office Of the new firm Of
CHAPEL & REEVES, Painters, Graziers, Caleb
miners, &c, which is an excellent recommen-
daton for them as workmen, also for this mode
of finishing walls and settings. Calcimine, of
necessity, has to be put on rapidly, and in few
hours is dry and the room is ready for use. 1t