Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

A CONVICT at Elmira dug his way out
of Jail with a tablespoon last week.
THE Rhode Island Medical Society has
determined to admit women to full mem
bership.
Two BOYS, the oldest fifteen, stole
Georgia locomotive, the other day, ana
ruin It fifty miles.
IMMENSE white sunshades small circus
tents, in fact-are the correct thing for
fashionable demoiselles who intend TO
visit the seaside this season.
THOMAS L. FREEMAN who has served
five years of a nineteen years sentence lor
murder in the Tennessee State prison, has
just been proved wholly innocent OF the
crime whereof he was accused
THE fashion papers say the Rutabagas
beg pardon, we mean the Rabagas-ls
the popular bonnet this season. You will
know IL when you see it, for the rim turns
up all around like sailor hat.
HENRY o. PRArT, NJ. c. elect, of Iowa,
left his native village (Foxcroft, Mel
fourteen wears ago as an ox-teamster, and
having never seen his parents since, now
returns to visit them, member OF Con-
gress.
Mrs. TAYLOR, of st. Louis, has obtain
ed Judgment of $4,000 against the Iron
Mountain road for the killing of her hus-
band who was switchman, and was
crushed to death while coupling two cars
that were not properly constructed.
Two LYNN boys Just in their teens,
few DAYS since stole sloop at that place,
and set sail for Florida, where an uncle OF
one of them resides; but their visions of
orange.groves were cut short by the boat
grounding in Lynn harbor.
THE handsomest dressed woman in New
| York Just now is the wife of street con-
tractor. Her dresses are made in Paris,
and the custom-house duties on them are
sufficient to buy an entire outfit for any
ordinary woman.
A MATRIMONIAL engagement was effect
ed by Atlantic cable last week. The lady
was in London and Romeo was in New
| York. "Will you have me?" cost four dol
lars, gold, exclusive of address; and
"Yes,' cost one dollar. Cheap at half the
price.
| THADDEUs STEVENS Caledonia (Pa)
Iron Works, with $4,000 acres OF land, are
to be sold, aud the proceeds given to erect,
establish and endOw House of Refuge
in Lancaster, for the relief of homeless,
INDECENT orphans who have lost either
parent.
AN attempt is shortly to be made to
cross the Pacific, from San Francisco to
Japan, in small sloop thirty feet long.
She is named the Dolphin, and will carry
a crew of three men in addition to the cap
tain. The object is to hunt sea-otter,
which are stated to be very plentiful on
the Japanese coast.
THERE is family living on Michigan
avenue, Chicago, the members OF which
have a common birthday. The father is
fortv-fve, the mother forty-two, and they
| I. al, ooraI and
thirteen. Each ones birthday is the 10th OF
April.
THE most fashionable entertainments
are now lighted by wax candles, their
lights being more "becomingn to feminine
compilations than the glare of gas. 1t is
sad fact that to many frequenters thereof
utter darkness would be the most becom-
ing thing imaginable.
In Bedford County, Pa, recently,
spigot worked out of whisky barrel dur
| ing the night, and several gallons OF the
liquor ran out on the floor of the cellar
where the barrels where stored. The fol-
lowing morning a number of rats were
found lying in the liquor in complete
state of intoXication.
| GENERAL MEYER, Chief of the Signal
Service Department has secured the ser
vices of Professor Tyndall to superintend
the device and construction of the electri-
cal instruments to be used at the signal
stations of the army for making regular
simultaneous observations of the electrical
conditions of the atmosphere.
Two KILBoURNE CITY (Wis.) boys who
had been reading Ledger stories, stole
a skiff, filled it with provisions,
blankets, kettles, axes etc, and
started down the Wisconsin River
to seek their fortune They were arrested
at Portage, and sentenced to the State Re
form School until they are twenty-one
years old.
SCENE IN A HORSE CAR.-Car stops:
smiling young lady enters every seat full.
An old gentleman rises at the opposite
end. 90, don't rise" said the lovely girl.
II can just as well stand" Il don't care
whether you sit or stand" he replied, Pm
going to get out"
Two RESPECTABLE young men have just
been found guilty by the Criminal Court
at Murfreesboro, Tenn, under an indict-
ment for disturbing public worship, and
fined $50 and costs each, amounting to
about $75. Their offense was whispering
to young ladies in church.
THE sons and daughters of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, resident in different parts
of the country, are hidden to come home
on the approaching Fourth of July, to cell
ebrate that National Festival by a grand
reunion. In 1858, in response to like in
vitation, they came focking from all di-
rections, and the event was one of never
to-be-forgotten enjoyment
SOME pestilential fellow in Troy, n Y,
has been misdirecting his inventive facul-
ties by putting into the toy-shops of that
city patent bean-slinger. The beans are
| bnrlA1 with urant yiOlanna O1nnh
shat they crash through plate-glass win
dows with as much ease as pistol bullets,
and citizens walk the streets with fear and
trembling. But the small boys are jubi-
liant.
A FEW weeks ago Mr. Frederick Kalb-
fleisch, of Holland, read in German
newspaper that ex-Mayor Kalbfeisch, of
Brooklyn, was seriously ill. The ex-
Mayor was Fredericks brother, and this
announcement was.the first intimation he
had had ofhis whereabouts since Mr.. Kalb-
fieisch emigrated from Holland, fifty years
J ago, Quite sociable family.
THE Nashville Union and american says;
This paper took great pride in publish
ing to the world, three months since, the
gratifying fact that the ladies of one of
our churches had pledged themselves to
discountenrnce extravaganza and folly, by
appearing at church in the future in cali
co dresses. We are now enabled to report
that the commendableSresolv is carried
into effect, one lady member of that
church having made her appearance at
divine worship attired in calico dress,
which cost, with all its frills, founces,
frizzes, folds, frumples, fringes, fixings,
turbelows and ilagree work, only $780,"
The great Chicago fire is not yet alto
gether a thing of the past, as only the
other day-being something over year
and half since the little blaze referred
to came off-two gentlemen while passing
along by the ruins of the Catholic Broth
ers' school, had their attention attracted
by the escape of smoke, and, out of curl
osity, they instituted an investigation.
| A l1er making an excavation a small nile