Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

gets drunk, thereby yacates his office.
LADIES in Eastern cities are discarding
false hair, which is the most sensible
move of the day.
THIS season, for the first time, lumber
from the Lake Michigan districts reaches
the Atlantic Uid Detroit River.
A NEW JERSEY man who recovered
$4,000 tor having his ear pinched, is
looking for some one to pinch the other
SOMEBODY says the tariff at the extreme
ly fashionable watering-place hotels is
five dollars day; meals and lodging ex-
tra."
New YORK brewers have gone to max
ing Cincinnati and Milwaukee lager beer.
1T saves transportation and is just as trans.
porting.
BUFFALO has a police dog which has
saved several persons from drowning.
The coroners have yainly tried to kill the
canine.
Miss NELLIE THURsToN is engaged to
make balloon ascension next fall at the
Antwerp On. " Union Agricultural
Society's grounds.
THE black flint found near Fort
Bridger, Wyoming Territory is identical,
according to DR.. Leidy, with that of the
English chalk.
PRETTY country girls are employed as
walters at some of the Narragansett hotels,
but they are terribly high-toned and
aristoeratic
The wild man in the woods is in Geor.
gia now. He has got to be eight feet
high, and tears out a horses tail with one
turn of the wrist.
A LOUISVILLE woman bought feather
bed the other day, and found a shot-bag in
1t containing $40 in bank notes.
A YOUNG woman at Fall River Mass,
attempted to cowhide a young man the
other day, and came out second best.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
way is to be extended from its terminus at
the west line of Kansas to Grenada, in Col
orado
THE work of stocking the lakes and
rivers of Wisconsin with salmon trout is
being carried on in earnest. Over 10000
have already been put in this season.
NEARLY $4,000 barrels of cranberries
were received at Milwaukee during the
past year, of which %, 4S5 barrels were
shipped to Eastern and Southern markets.
A MOBILE beggar died recently, leaving
fortune of half million dollars. Though
formerly an outcast his funeral was large
ly attended by his relatives.
DOVER, VT, has not had death for five
years, and the town hearse was put up at
rattle the other day and won by a man
who is going to alter it over into a milk
cart
MAYOR SToCKLEY, of Philadelphia, has
given orders that the law prohibiting the
sale of oysters in that city in the months
of June, July and August be strictly en-
forced.
A MAN who had his new hat exchanged
for an old one in a barber shop advertises
that unless it is returned he will forward
to the wife of the person who took it the
letter found concealed in the lining of the
old one.
A CHICAGO horse doctor nearly lost his
life last week by the falling of his dia-
mond pin on one of his feet. The entire
ankle was badly crushed, and the doctors
think amputation will be necessary.
THE iron bridge over the Marias des
Cygnes, at Fontana, Kansas, $50 feet in
length, was lifted from its piers during
the late flood, and carried to a point op-
posite Newell's MILL a distance of at least
90 miles.
THE stock-yards in East ST. Louis will,
when completed be one of the largest in.
stitutions of the kind in the country
The land owned by the company consists
of 400 acres, all of which will be used for
stock purposes.
GENERAL JAcKsoN's Bible, which was
given to him during his Presidency by a
Washington lady, and after his death was
presented to the Hermitage Church in
Tennessee, was stolen from the place re-
Gently.
New JERSEY papers are telling some
fearful stories about the mosquitoes of
that State. The insects have grand roosts
like pigeons, and when they settle down
on COW she is gone up,
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for q
national convention of Irish-born citizens
to be held in Cleveland, o., about the
18th of July next for the purpose OF
forming a league similar to the German
union for social and beneficial purposes.
The daily weather map giving a com
plete and portable form of the weather
changes over the whole country, and issu
ing from the Central Signal Office a
Washington, is now offered for sale under
recent act of Congress at two cents
copy.
A MESSENGER of the Revere Nationa
Bank, of Boston, named Allen, has disap
peared with checks and drafts amounting
to about 100000, on which he had raised
about $4,000 cash. What he did with tn,
lCildlhuSl 10 uHhllONu. just ltdN
ing the bank he was informed that hi
services would no longer be required.
A PANORA Qowa) man borrowed a bug
gy of livery man, and when the bugg
came back there was a lady's breast-pin ii
it, The livery man sent it to the resi-
dence of the man who borrowed the team
The lady of the house said it did not be
long to her, but she would keep it and asl
her husband about it.
RUMNEY, Mass, has formed a town in
surance company, and will begin opera
tions in few days. 1t is stated that will
in twenty years the citizens of the tow
have paid in premiums and assessment
about $23, 800, and have received in retur
only about $4,000. They propose here
after to insure their own property.
IT is remarkable how many ways ther
are for people from the country to betra
their rusticity. During the recent jubile,
for example, there were number of al
thentic cases where ladies uttered tn
obsolescent syllables, THANK you," whe
gentlemen gave them their seats on
crowded street car.-ChicagO Times.
A LADY who was passing along ChapC
street, New Haven, wore handsome gol
chain, which attracted the attention of
dashing cut-purse Armed with shar
instrument, ne maze stroKe at the gil
tering chain, but a movement of the lad
Just at that moment caused him to fail
his object. The knife, however, struc
the ladys dress and cut it from shouldC
to shoulder.
A SLIP of the tongue on the part
Judge Grace while charging the Gran
Jury last Monday at Eddyville created COZ
siderable laughter at the Judges eXpens
In referring to the changes which the la
Legislature had made in the laws of IL
Commonwealth-to take effect next D.
cember-he said that in murder case
when the jury found verdict, they migl
fix the punishment at death, or, in the
discretion, at long term in the State lie
stature And the best of it was the Judl
didn't detect his mistake, and when to-