Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-22
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From Warren County, Ky, is reported
marriage between boy aged thirteen
and girl aged eleven.
A LADY in Hartford, Conn, gives no.
tice that she will assume no debts of her
husbands contracting.
The Atlantic e Pacific Railroad are
planting locust trees along their road, to
be used hereafter for ties.
UTAH has several thousand tons of
wheat left over from last year, and is now
sending IL to San Francisco.
A BALTIMORE duck swallowed light.
ed fre-cracker, and shortly after felt de-
cidedly patriotic in its stomach
A GROCER al Huntsville, Ala, found
the sweets of death by falling head-first
into hogshead full of molasses.
A GREEN milk-ticket left in pail of
milk at Brockport, N. Y, poisoned fam.
lily OF five persons. They will recover,
AN Indiana paper predicts that every
stumpspeaker this fall will have hay
seed in his hair and wear blue overalls.
ONE pint of whisky, swallowed on a
wager, settled the accounts of Morris
hochelle, an Antwerp (Ohio) shoemaker.
A TEXAS paper speaks of lady at
Dallas who has bonnet worn by her
SiN~' Sio'i"iAOVhOi, TWO nunuTCu years
ago.
AN Iowa farmer locked up his daugh.
ter's clothing so that she couldn't clone.
but she put on one of his suits, and slim
ped out and was married
A FEMALE barber in Detroit handles
the brush and shears with great dexteri.
ty, and otherwise exhibits woman's efforts
to racer self to independence.
A MAN in Colorado hoe oI,;nnod . L,..
drcd prairie dogs East, with the intention.
1t is thought, of raising the animal for the
market.
THE Philadelphia North american fav.
ors the combustion of the offal of cities
and the sale of the ashes for agricultural
purposes.
JOHN POPE, of Vicksburg, rose at mid
night to throw his boots at howling cat
and he found smart fire just getting un.
der way in his kitchen.
THE Chicago & Alton Railroad is about
to withdraw the palace car from that
road and substitute cheap lunch houses
along the line of the road therefor.
Los ANGELES, Cal, has a full.grown
meriDo sheep that walks on four hind
legs and two forward ones, and wears
fleece weighing thirty or thirty-five
pounds.
BENJAMIN ExUM, of Franklin County.
Ky, has beard of imposing dimensions,
and is pledged not to harvest it until the
Southern Confederacy establishes its indie.
pendence.
"A IExAN town was recently visited bv
clergyman for the first time in its his
tory, and the hospitable inhabitants pro.
posed getting up a horse race for his en-.
tertainment.
1T is stated that cultivation of pepper.
mint In Wayne County, N. Y, is quite ex.
tensive this season. Every other crop is
neglected for mint" with large majority
OF farmers in that county.
HERE is project on foot, suggested
by the Iowa outrage, to have each train OF
cars on Western railroads provided with
mltrallleuse, to be worked from the
root OF the car by an experienced gun.
ner.
PEOPLE never will be satisfied In the
west there is buxom lass who measures
six feet seven and half inches in her
stocking feet, and yet she continues tc
grow and refuses to be satisfied with anv
thing less than eight feet.
THE father of one of the principals in
the Troy IN. " prize-fght wagered hi,
larm up In Vermont and three horse.
against $4,000 that his offspring woulC
beat his man. and he won, though the odd!
against him were six to one.
PATIENT industry is not always reward
ed. There is, in the Albany penitentiary
convict, who toiled no less than eigh
teen months to perfect false key Itwa!
completed on recent Tuesday, and tha
very day the guard took it from him.
The precocity of the rising generation
mas Deen further illustrated by an eight
year-old cracksman, of Rochester, N. Y
who successfully executed burglary il
that city, and was only caught through
lndlscreet display Of some of his booty.
The Oshkosh northeastern learns tha
prairie chickens are very plenty this sea
son, more so than in several years in som
localities. The probabilities are that th
ducks will also be extraordinarily plenti
tul, and the hunters may expect som
huge sport when shooting-time comes.
The disconsolate widower is in Delf
ware. The last words of his late denarte
were: Henry, if you marry again, rt
member that it only takes cupful O
sugar TO sWeeten quart of gooseberries
lie is satisfied he will not see her lik
again.
A RELIGIOUS paper in Ohio was sent ft
nine years to a subscriber who never pai
cent for it. The other day the newspi
per wasreturned to the patient and Ion,
suffering publisher with the affecting pei
cll-note on its margin: "Gone to a bette
world"
SOMEBODY, whether in pursuit of know
edge or out of mere love of mischief, trie
chemical experiment in the st. John
bury (Vt) Cemetery, recently. He bathe
nine granite monuments with muriati
acid. The effect of this acid upon graz
ite is to give it the color of rusty shec
iron.
THE people of Nebraska are determine
on fair play The other day twenty-six
the sovereign voters of that State stoo
around for half an hour to see that ma
who had beaten his wife with harnes
strap, got fair play at the hands of a con
mittee of married ladies who were fioy
ging him.
FOND DU LAG Wis, voted one of her A
dermen cane for being the homelie
man in town. When the votes wei
counted up and the result announced, Nj
McHenry took off his coat and maule
that crowd of friends and acquaintance
until the sacredness of the ballot box W,
forever destroyed.
A COUNTY clerk in q western CITY r
fused to issue marriage license becaui
the man was only four feet high, viii
the woman was six. He knew somethir
about domestic life with the proportion
reversed, and couldn't assist fellow
buy into lottery when the odds were
fearfully against him.
A GENTLEMAN in Salem, Mass, receive
recently, a legacy of $4,000 from your
man who had died at the West and
whom several years ago, he had give
work on pile-driving job when the youI
man was in destitute condition. L
the man who doesn't own pile-driv
borrow one and set all the loafers
work
A Troy father tied his fourteen-ye
old daughter hand and foot, and kept h
in that condition for two weeks to preve
her attending pic.nics About that tin
She fell from 1he iii ird. .storu windn,