Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

Pennsylvania have closed since the elec.
tions on the license question.
A CHESTER COUNTY (Pa) judge recently
admitted to probate a last will and testa-
ment written on slate
THE California farmers have called q
state Convention to consider the propriety
OF general political movement
ONE thousand four hundred salmon were
caught in one haul at Hume's Fishery,
Oregon, recently.
SWELL youths of Gotham have their
cigars manufactured expressly for them
and ornamented with their monograms in
gold.
The man who mails a postal card con-
tanning obscene language is subject to a
fine of not less than 800 nor more than
$4,000 for each and every offense.
THREE New Hampshire brothers re.
Gently married a mother, daughter, and
a granddaughter, and it was the oldest of
the brothers that married the grand
daughter.
GOLD in paying quantities is reported
to have been found in Morgan County. Ind
A company has been formed and mining
operations will be commenced in a few
weeks
THE "Little Sisters of the Poor" have
erected and dedicated to charitable pur.
poses at Indianapolis two-story and
half frame building, capable of accommo-
dating fifty inmates.
A WOMAN named Courtney, of Torrance
Bay, Nova Scotia, has given birth to four
children, being the second time within
two years. She has had seventeen child
rem in ten years.
A LOUISVILLE man drank a Sedlitz
powder, one glass at a time, and the boil
ing operation took place inside of him.
His contortions are described as beautiful
NEAR Nebraska City lives a sixteen.
year old boy who can neither hear, see,
feel, nor speak. He is in constant motion
like Gagged hyena, but harmless. As he
is so was he born.
The shoe-heel is hereafter to be made
upon the idea of common comfort. Paris
makes the move, and of course the fashion
able world will follow. The heel will be
low, and made as near as possible like the
natural.
THE Court of Claims, in session at
Washington, lately decided large num-
Der of cotton claims, among them one in
favor of William Battersby and others for
$4S5, 242, the largest single judgment ever
rendered by the court
A MAN in Baltimore, who was on trial
Tor passing counterfeit bill, was dis
discharged because some one stole the bill
from the Justice in the courtroom. Then
they said there was no evidence to hold
him.
THERE was a rush on a savings bank in
Waltham, Mass, the other dav, and one
man was so elated to find his $3.50 all
right that he called in his friends and
went on big spree. When he woke up
next morning he hadn't cent.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company
are just now engaged in furnishing all
their conductors with new time, pieces.
They are of silver, quite large, weighing
about five ounces each, and are furnished
with all the modern improvements.
IT is stated that the grave of General
Greene, famous in the Revolution, is un-
known. His body was buried in an old
cemetery on South Broad street, Savan-
nah, on June 90, 1886, but no record being
made, the remains could never be found
A YANKEE grocer, being solicited to
contribute to the building of a new
church, promptly subscribed his name to
the paper in the following manner: "John
Jones (the only place in town where YOU
can get eleven pounds of good sugar for
dollar( twenty-five cents"
ONE popularity of the late electric
storms in Southern Iowa was that the cleo
trio current ascended from the earth as
well as descended to it. On several occa-
sions, bright flashes of flame, and even
balls of fire, shot suddenly upward from
the earth to greet the lowering Clouds
For the past two years increasing num-
bers of real canvass-back ducks have been
killed on Lake Koshkonong, Wis, where
they feed on species of celery, which is
identical with that found in Chesapeake
Bay. This bird is very rare north of
Maryland or Virginia, and is esteemed the
finest for the table of the entire species.
THE murderer Lusignani, lately hung
in New Jersey, had some native wit, if he
did part his hair in the middle. Just be-
fore he was led out to execution, one of
the priests said: II would willingly be in
your place; you will be in heaven soon"
We'll, take my place." said the prisoner,
81 will get under the bed"
A GENTLEMAN unaccustomed to the new
method of paying fare in the horse-cars
in Lawrence, Mass, was so fustered that
he threw fifty.cent scrip in the box.
Finding that he could get no change from
the driver, he began to take up fares; he
had to ride a considerable distance past
his destination before he succeeded in
getting his change.
COTTAGE rents at Long Branch vary
from 1000 to $4,000 for the season, ac-
cording to location. Lots are very high,
but sales are numerous. General Grant
owns two houses, one of which he rents to
Mr.. Jesse Seligman for $1,000. General
0. E. Babcock's new cottage will be fin
ished in July; Jay Gould is building the
finest cottage of all, and other moneyed
men are erecting some of elegant pattern.
THE Hoosac tunnel contractors have
reported to the Massachusetts Legislature
that the actual length of the boring now
to do through solid rock is about 1,720
feet, which they are shortening up at the
rate of about 300 feet per month. They ex-
pect to be entirely through the mountain
by the 18th of November next, after which
date some six months will be required to
put the tunnel in working order for regu-
lar trains.
HERE is a matrimonial experience:
About forty years ago, man who then re-
sided in SALISBURY, VT, married, and
after living with his wife three years, they
parted. He then married Manchester
lady, and they went West. They raised a
family of eight children, and the wife
died. He then returned to SALISBURY,
and took West with him another wife.
Then she died, and now he marries the
woman from whom he parted thirty-seven
years ago.
MRS BENJAMIN HASTINGS, living in the
north part of Greenfield, Mass, who has
just celebrated her SD birthday, carries
off the palm for business honor. One
day, recently, she walked into town, a
distance of five miles, and returned the
same day, making in all a distance of ten
miles, for the purpose of meeting an ap-
pointment for the payment of bill of
ten cents at one Of the dry-goods stores.
A FASHIONABLE lady passing down Third
street, at Winona, Mimi, the other day, in
animated conversation with a gentleman,
was dressed in such extreme height of
style that her "little love of bonnet"
dropped off the fourth story of her back
hair and fell 10 the sidewalk, but she
passed on in utter Oblivion of the danger