Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

lie complains that none but bald.headed
emigrants go West
A IANEsvILLE (O) woman has a treas
ure of husband who has furnished her
with material for seventeen suits as dam
ages against as many different bar.keepers.
A DOG was recently taken from Cedar
Falls, Iowa, to town in Kansas, but not
liking the country, il made the return trip
alone, distance of 200 miles
The wife of a Louisville LAWYER made a
Dustle OF some important legal documents.
and court had to adjourn until she could
go home and return them in proper shape.
PORTLAND, Oregon, lately expressed two
babes distance OF several hundred miles.
with regular express tags about their
necks, and marked G. o. ID. They reached
their end without trouble.
The discovery of new volcano near
the town of Morlege on the Gulf of Cali.
fornia, is announced Within an area of
six hundred feet there are twenty vent.
holes, from which smoke is emitted.
The mortuary statistics of New York
City show that within the last twenty
years over 5000 persons have been drown.
ed IN Its adjacent waters. Hence n Life
saving Society has been organized, with
Iheo. Dwight as President.
A SWORD belonging to General Meade,
presented to him by the United States for
ms services in Mexico, was picked up by
a Confederate at Charlottesville, Va, dur
ing the war, and word has Just been sent
to the family of the late General that it is
at their disposal.
INTELLIGENCE has come to us from the
Pacific coast that the experiment made
by Seth Green in transplanting the shad
OF the Hudson to the Pacific waters has
been successful, and the shad of the Hud-
son taken to the Sacramento have been
caught in the Bay Of San Francisco of a
size for the table.
a BUFFALO miser, named Thomas B.
Newman, aged seventy-three, reputed to be
worth quarter of a million dollars, and
owner OF some of the most valuable real
estate in that city, died in the city hospit-
al recently, whittier he had been removed
few days previous from a hovel which
he had occupied for thirty-seven years. He
had no relatives in that city.
The Holt. County (Mo) Sentinel SAYS
that Miss.Stiles, daughter of C. +. Stiles,
was buried at Ross Grove recently, with
the fun honors of the Patrons of Hus.
bandry. Her dying request was to be
buried by the Patrons, of whom she was a
membeFin very high standing Three of
the Oranges participated in the burial
ceremonies. The scene was one of deep
mourning and one long to be remembered.
WILLIAM STOKES, late a ship boy on the
British scientific exploring ship Chal-
lenger, who was killed by falling block
when Oft Porto Rico, was buried in the
deepest grave on record. His body, wrap.
ped in shotted hammock, was dropped
in water close upon four miles deep,
wherein Mont Blanc, standing upon an.
other peak of equal height, would barely
appear above the surface.
THIS is the latest information we have
from the Modoc country THE warrior
stood among the rocks, whence all but
him had fled; he was the last of the
Modocs.that roamed the lava bed. The
shot fell fast, he would not go-the war.
riOr knew no fear; eight hundred of the
avenging foe assailed him front and rear.
Only one boon that Ingin craved-he
spurned to sue for guarter-the crowning
curse he might be saved, of interviewing
by reporter
The nephew of the late Thaddeus
Stevens having failed to comply with the
conditions of his will relative to abstain.
ing from the use of Intoxicating drinks
the executors are about to apply the resi-
due of his estate, estimated variOusly from
pOO,bOO w NlOO,UOO, W lllt lOuuullB Oh INT
Orphan Home in Lancaster, PENNSYLVANIA
designed by him in case of such failure
The will provides that no preference shall
be shown in respect of race, religion ol
color in admission or treatment, and tha
all the inmates shall wear the same STYLE
OF dress and eat at the same table.
The New Orleans Times relates The
following extraordinary instance of re
suscitation which happened in that city
not long since: "a child of three wear.
old died early in the morning, and was
duly laid out for interment; a competen
physician certified to the decease, and the
friends 0fthe family assembled to solemn
ize the funeral. Late in the afternoon, the
body having been coffined, and the funera
carriages waiting at the door, thunder
storm arose. 1t will be remembered tina
there were some unusually violent rever
berations during the brief term of it,
prevalence. simultaneously with one o
the most deafening of these claps, til,
child recovered its animation and resumed
all the functions of existence. 1t is nov
permanently recovered. There is nj
doubt of the facts in this case"
A REPORTER of the Detroit Free Pres
and policeman, each armed cap-a-pie
sat up one night recently in a hauntet
l0use in that city to interview ghost 70
Ghostess) which, according to all account
had been perambulating around in an uI
canny sort of manner, slamming door!
sobbing like a child, and OCCASIONAL
shrieking like all possessed. The variou
performances all came off as advertised
causing the reportorial hair 'tO stand o
end like quills upon the fretful porcJ
pine" while the valiant "cOp" handled hi
revolver nervously and entreated his con
paniOn mot to be afeard." The result {
their investigation was the discovery {
the fact that old Boreas was at the bOttor
of the mysterious demonstrations-a
open bung-hole of a barrel in the atti
furnishing the vocal part of the entertain
ment, while broken pane of glass let
II gust which closed the door without tn
aid of human hands.
A TOUCHING INCIDENTAL short tim
since, in this city, a brilliant and mucl
admired lady, who had been suffering fc
some time with trouble of the eyes, wa
led to fear speedy change for the wOrs
and Immediately consulted her physician
An examination discovered a sudden an
fatal falling in of the optic nerve, and tn
information was impaired as gently q
possible, that the patient could not retail
her sight more than a few days at mOst
and was liable to be totally deprived of
at any moment. The afflicted mother n
turned to her home, quietly made such a
rangements as would occur to one abor
to commence so dark journey of life
and then had her two little children, atti
ed in their brightest and sweetest co
tunes, brought before her; and so, wit
their little faces lifted to hers, and teal
gathering for some great misfortune th'
they hardly realized, the light faded OF
of the mOtherlS ewes. leaving an inetfaCei
BILE picture, of those dearest to her o
earth-a memory of bright faces that wi
console her in many dark hour-CO
iAgtOn (Ryl Journal
THE Hartford Comm Times says thi
Conductors Bradley, of that city who WI
killed, with others, by recent railroa
accident on-t the Hartford y WateTbuI
Road was on a'"caboose" car at the tim
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