Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

pay expenses,
AN Ohio man has spent $4,000 boring
for oil, and no oil yet.
ORLEANS COUNTY, N. Y, is gathering in
remarkable apple crop.
THE recent rains have filed the rivers
OF Maine with floating logs.
A CONNECTICUT girl has gone insane
from being kissed In the dark.
A NEW BEDFORD man has been fined
$40 for watching some men play ball on
Sunday.
SEVERAL families were recently sick
In Syracuse, N Y, from drinking poison.
ed milk.
NEAR Peoria, ILL.,, several cattle were
bitten by mad dog and have died from
hydrophobia.
ABOUT twice as much coal is being
shipped over the Cincinnati s. Marietta
Railroad as last year.
A TERRE HAUTE, Ind, farmer has
brought bill of $52. 80 against the county
for sheep killed by a pet wolf
CANAL boats are now towed from AL.
bany to New York City for 50 piece.
There is an opposition war on the Hud-
son.
A WOMAN at Scranton, Penn, put her
tongue to a flatiron to see if 1t was hot.
That household is remarkably quiet these
days.
A REVEREND gentleman of Oswego, N.
Y, was last week fined $3.50 for choking
his wife, which he did with view to make
her talk.
G.. BERRY, of Bethel VT, committed
suicide the other day because his father
died last year. He expected the old man
to live forever.
A PEORIA, ILL.,, barber has valuable
parrot whose appealing "Have a shave,
slrP' often induces passers-by to enter and
indulge in tonsorial delights.
A NEW secret society of mechanics,
modelled after the Patrons of Husbandry
and called "the Patrons of Industry"
has been started in New York.
A MAINE boy of eleven, who killed
girl by pointing gun at her ain sport"
has been found guilty of manslaughter,
and will be sent to the reform school,
THE salt deposit near Ann Arbor, Mich,
is beginning to attract considerable atten-
tion in the State, and parties are already
making Investigations with a view to
erecting salt works.
A WOMAN named Kate Parker is
astonishing Knoxville, Tenn, with her
skill in using the pistol. She drives a
nail at ten PAGES, and the young gallants
don't write her any love-letters.
SOMEBODY in a Georgia court zap
plauded," whereupon the judge 1--WE quote
from the Griffin Nea1s) Indignantly re-
marked: "Now, dry thatup; will let you
know that this is no camp-meeting.
A LARGE black bear took his stand on
the track of the Wisconsin Central, above
a m loo oYI
stopped the train. After looking the
thing over for few minutes he trotted
off to the woods.
A CANNON wouldn't be good for any
thing if it wouldn't go off, but they are
calling John Cannon of Sioux City, Iowa,
a good -for-nothing because he went off an
hour before the marriage ceremony and
can't he found since.
AN Iowa CRY man built himself a
$4,000 barn, and sat down in it to have
smoke and contemplated the structure.
He liked it exceedingly well, and will at
once build another on the same site, hav-
ing obtained his insurance.
A New HAVEN lady, wife of Boston
merchant, followed her husband, who
had gone out to Hamburg with his neigh
boris wife. She disguised herself, ap
preached the guilty couple, threw pepper
in the woman's eyes, and then went home
and applied for divorce.
THERE is a farm in Franklin, Me-,
whereon, every seventeenth year in the
middle of August, at nine o'clock in the
morning, the man who mows drops dead,
scythe in hand. A local paper thinks
that five minutes before nine would be a
good time to go over to the house and
get drink of cider.
THE Supreme Court of South Carolina
has decided against a railroad company
in suit brought by Knox & Gill, mer
chants of Camden, in that State, to re-
cover the excess over a fair and legal
charge for freight; and the Supreme
Court of Iowa has awarded $4,750 to q
father for the killing of his child by a
passing train.
Miss NIvEN, of Spring Brook, Luzerne
County, Pa, now sixteen years of age
when five years old had very severe at
tack of smallpox, which left her nostrils
entirely closed, and she does not remem
Der having taken breath of air throug h
them. The other day, DIR. j. w. Cobb, OF
Scranton, performed an operation upon
them, and now she has the satisfaction OF
breathing through them freely.
JOHN HARDEN, an extensive importer
of linens from Belfast, Ireland, died in.
testate, leaving an estate estimated to be
worth about $2,000,000. A woman, claim
ing to be his wife, obtained, with another
person, letters of administration empow
ering them to dispose of the property
Several of the nephews of Harden now
contest the legal right of these persons
to administer upon the estate, basing theiI
contest on the all cation that Mr.. Harden
was never married to the Administrative
This occurred in New York.
THE Barnesville (Ohio) Enterprise saws
can old gentleman and lady from Penn
sylvania are visiting our fair whose life
history is somewhat singular. 1t appears
that widow lady took an orphan boy tc
raise, and when he arrived at the age O.
eighteen she married him, she then being
in her fiftieth year Ten years ago they
took an orphan girl to raise. This sum
mer the old lady died, being ninety.sil
years of age, and in nine weeks after the
old man married the girl they had raised
he being sixty-eight years old and shC
eighteen.
MICHIGANDERs are wondering wha
their State motto means, Mr.. John +
9lois having suggested that the proper
Interpretation of "St gu9ris peninsuLan
Gm9nam, circumspice," is, " If you cove
this beautiful peninsula, beware" ant
that the motto refers to the boundary lint
troubles between Michigan and Ohio JUS
before the organization OF the former
State. Mr.. Blois's translation is more in
genious than correct. The motto car
mean nothing else than what it is gener
ally supposed to mean; Z" If you seek q
pleasant peninsula, look around you.'
Any other Interpretation would be far
fetched and unnatural.
On recent Sunday, as the Rev. Mr.
Garman, of the United Brethren Church
in York, Pa, was conducting the services
at the Union Church at Yocumtown, York
county. the sexton handed him note
After the sermon was completed the min,
lister announced that he had the pleasure
of stating that a couple in the congrega
tion desired to be united in the holy
honda Of l.antriraanIIr md III OF hl. na.. Al