Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

TIE Tombs prison in New York has |
been condemned by the engineers, and It's
demolition has been recommended.
CHARLES MOORE and Frank Morton
have been convicted of sawdust swindling |
in New York, and sentenced to years
Imprisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000.
A BosToN girl who was married four |
years ago in dress worth $4,000 may |
now be seen splitting her own kindlings |
and doing her own washing.
THERE is an honest man in San Fran |
cisco He is tobacconist who has put |
out a sign reading: "Imported cigars of
our own manufacture"
CAsT-IRoN monuments for the boundary |
line between Oregon and Nevada are in |
process of construction at the Occidental |
Foundry, San Francisco 81, ...--. = |
Two young ladies, very well connected !
have been sent to Jail for seven days in |
Richmond, Va, for stealing human hair |
from hairdresser's shop.
ANEW YORK dry-goods merchant re-
ports among the items of sales, last week,
twenty camel's-hair shawls at $4,000 each,
five of which were disposed of to one fam
lily. t.,hss
WOMEN who hold $4,000 worth of prop
erty, and pay taxes on 1t, are declared by
the Judiciary Committee of the New Iork
in that State. 80 .
THE State Treasurer of Iowa has given
notice that the State of Iowa is prepared
TO redeem all its outstanding warrants, and.
they will cease to draw interest on and
after the 22d of April 1878.
THE number of persons out of employ
ment in Philadelphia is appalling. One
insertion of little advertisement for n
clerk in railroad Office brought 095 APP
plieants in a single day
THE office of dog-killer pays better than
any other Office in st. Louis. Last year
the city dog-killer snuffed out the light of
5000 CANNES, and pocketed therefor the
snug competence of $4,000.
THE Legislature of Kentucky has en-
acted that married women may receive di-
rectly from their employers the wages or
compensation for labor performed by
them, and that the money so earned shall
be free from the debts and control of their
husbands.
SOME of the voters in one of the White
Mountain districts went 125 miles by rail
to- the voting place on the recent election
day. The long journey was taken on ac-
count of the depth of snow in the Notch
through which they had to pass
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE says it takes
an attack of malarial fever or two to teach
the Northern man that he cannot labor the
day through under tropical sun as he
can in the mountains of New Hampshire
A CHICAGO policeman, after service of
twenty-five years, has just retired on a for
tune of 100000 1t is proper to state that
the bulk of this handsome property was
made by lucky investments in real estate,
and was not altogether the accumulatiOns
of his salary.
A MASSACHUSETTS man has a dog-that'
watches for the afternoon train regularly
every day, gets the evening paper which
the expressman throws of, and conveys it
to his master. He knows the time when
the train is due as well as his master, and
if it is late he waits for it.
THE Willimantic Comm Journal says
that Leonard Uncas, grandson of the Gel
ebrated Indian chief, and the last of his
name, died in that village recently, aged
seventy years. He had resided in that vi
cinity most of his life, was an expert
fisher and hunter and q hard-working
man.
PHILADELPHIA has discovered that one
of the most noted street beggars, whose
income from fraud is oftentimes thirty dol
lars day, lives in an aristocratic quarter,
loans money at usury, and gets drunk
nightly. Another, u deformed young
woman, owns row of houses, and is
large uedler III real estate.
SIXTY acres of the farm owned by the
late Edwin Forrest, near Philadelphia,
which he named "Springbrook," )" has been
set apart by his executors for the Home
for aged and INDECENT actors provided
for in his will. The Home will be sur
rounded by a magnificent park, to which
the public will have free admittance.
The postmistress at Villa Ridge, Ill,
has resigned in order to get married. In
her letter of resignation that she sent to
the Postmaster-General, she remarked that
she would rather have one man where she
could lay her hands on him when she
wanted him, than to be handling mail
bags irregularly on a small salary, and
getting sworn at by people who expected
letters that never came.
THE Pulaski CTenn) Citizen learns of a
young man of that town who made an en-
gagement to call upon certain Giles
County young lady, who had fire and a
light in the parlor,. dressed herself and
waited all the appointed evening in vain.
Next day the old lady sent round to that
young man a neat bill of one dollar for
those fire and light 80
AT Point Creek, Jackson County, KY.
a trader had bought sheep of resident
Resident had one more to sell, when the
following conversation ensued: Trader
-"I'll give you SO for that Sheep Resi-
dent--"It's worth So" T.-"It ain,
worth So" R-"Ifs worth So" TT
amt" r. drawing large nayyE-
What's that sheep worth?" T-"Undel
the circumstances, l think it's worth nigl
onto $6." They traded forthwith.
A REMARKABLE IEvENTION.-One o
the most important improvements ever per
fected in musical instruments has lately
been introduced by Geo. Woods & Co., il
their improved Parlor Organs. 1t con
sists of o piano of exqisite quality Of tom
which will never require tuning. The in
strument was lately introduced at a musi
cal soiree in Baltimore, and received tn
corttfai applause and Endorsement Of TIN
many eminent professionals present.-BOS
ton Journal.
THE PostOff1ce Department has orderet
that postmasters whose salary does not eX
ceed 81 900 per annum may be permittet
to hold local civil offices, such as probat
Judges, town clerks, etc Heretofore tn
amount has been restricted to $780, an,
numerous instances have come TO tn
knowledge of the Department that grea
hardships would result if postmaster
were obliged to throw up that salary t
hold little local office.
A VERMONT dog was heart broken q
the recent death of a horse owned by il
master. He followed as chief mOurner +
point on mountain, two miles from tn
stable, where the dead horse was dumpe
over ledge, and the laborers left hir
gazing down upon the body of his oil
companion and whining piteously. Aftel
ward they returned, and found him lyin
in the snow beside the body, and som
force was necessary to get him to tn
sleigh TO take him home.
LAST fall John Foster of Boston, place
$1,000 in the hands of the chief of polio
to be eiloaned to such working girls as ha
persons depending on them for assistance
and who would perfer to accept the none