Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

ment.
1T has been decided TO remove the North
ern Pacific Railroad offices from Brainerd
to st. Paul, Mimi
A wooD-HAU1ER of Omaha has his old
age giltedged by an inheritance of $4,000
from Montreal aunt
BAnNUM has engaged forty-hve Indians
from Nebraska, whom he intends TO send
TO the Vienna Exposition.
WHEN the new Postoffice In Boston Is
completed the various newspapers will re.
ceive their exchanges direct by pneumatic
tubes.
COPPER two-cent pieces will become
precious keepsakes in the remote future.
The new coinage act abolishes that coin,
and no more will he put in circulation.
JUDGE KANARD, native Indian, is hold
ing his court at Taskeetown, Indian Terri
tory, and breaches every night during the
session. He belongs to the Baptist denom-
nation
THE epizootic has been traced to its
fountain-head. II originated with the
ponies of the Piegan Indians, and descend
ed first into Upper Canada, whence it ex-
tended to the rest of the world.
THE bones of great mastodon, lately
eXhumed near Laketown, Wabash County,
Ind, are now on exhibition at Peru. They
show the animal to have been some forty
feet in length by eighteen feet in height.
THE Fort Scott, Humboldt and Western
Railroad have negotiated their securities
on the. European market and the work of
tracklaying will be commenced imme-
diately between Fort Scott and Humboldt.
THE largest catalogue of stars that has
ever been published in America is now
about to appear from the United States
Naval Observatory at Washington, This
publication has been long expected by as
tronomers.
STREET car conductor in Detroit
picked up navy revolver from the floor
as several passengers were departing. A
welldressed woman claimed It, with the
remark: "That's the second time I've lost
that pocket-companion to-day"
COLONEL +. L. DRAKE, the first to bore
for petroleum in Venango County, is now
living in Bethlehem, Pa, in very feeble
health and very reduced circumstances
Like many other great discoverers, he has
never profited much by his discovery.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew, in
Middletown, Conn, the other evening"
complained that one of the oysters was
full OF bones, and careful, if not attractive
examination showed that it contained
pea to a pins head
A JUNIOR who violently assaulted fresh
man at New Haven, Ct, because he refus
ed to give up "beaver' hat that he wore
was promptly expelled by the governing
board, and the rule has since been estab-
lished that any attempt at "hazing" or
similar outrages committed upon students
will be followed by the immediate expul-
sion of the offender
A CANNON weighing about 1000 pounds
arrived recently at Sheboygan, Mich, from
Germany, addressed to Rev. Edward
Schlotheim, pastor of the Lutheran
Church. 1t was captured by the Germans
at the battle of Sedan, and was sent to Mr.
Schlotheim by the Emperor of Germany,
free of charge to New York, to be made
into bell for his church in Sheboygan.
A PARTY of twenty, including women,
left Boston, for Petersburg, Kansas, a few
days ago, to join other members of their
families who had gone out ahead to pre-
pare for them. They belong TO the Massa-
chusetts colony, which has grown to be
an organization of considerable proper
tons, and numbers among its members
many of New England's better class of
mechanics and farmers
BEWARE of females with three arms.
They have no right to such profusion of !
limbs, and carry them for no good pur-
pose. A man in New York stage, the |
other night, felt hand cropping in his |
pocket on the side next to a well-dressed |
woman. AT the same time, a neat, gloved |
hand rested on her lap on the same side, |
and selZlng this as she was leaving the |
vehicle, he pulled her arm off
THE Legislature of Kentucky has re-
Gently passed bill that on the affidavit |
Cf rncnonta1,la nft
who, through excessive use of opium, |
arsenic, hashish, or any drug, has become |
incompetent to manage himself or his |
estate, may be confined in any asylum |
and placed under guardianship, as in the |
case of habitual drunkards or lunatics.
A DECIDEDLY curious suit has just been |
decided at Manchester, n Fl. Some time |
since, horse belonging to David j. Moul- |
ton, of Weare, was frightened by the sud- |
den barking of dog owned by Benjamin |
Holt, of Dunbarton, and inflicted severe |
injuries upon the formers five-year-old |
daughter. Moulton brought suit for dam |
ages, and the supreme judicial court has !
just awarded him 81 ,450. Owners of bark |
ing dogs take notice.
THE iGovernor of Georgia has issued |
invitations to the Governors of twenty |
two Western and Southern States and the |
members of the Committee on Water |
Lines of Congress, to take part in the de- |
liberations of the Convention to be held |
in Atlanta on the Goth of May, to take into |
consideration the subject of water COM
munication with the ocean through the |
State of Georgia.
A MAN from Leon County was arrested |
and fined in Bryan City, Texas, for carry |
ing concealed weapons, who had upon his |
person, when searched, two siX.shooters, |
one derringer, a pair of brass-knuckks, |
three items" and a pair of "sevens" "a |
poker "full'), together with one of the lar |
gest knives the editor of the Bryan appeal |
ever saw, and seven or eight morphine |
powders. In extenuation of this extraor- |
dinary outfit, he pleaded ignorance of the |
laws and fashions of civilized society, and |
was released by paying minimum fine |
g. THE pleasure of travelling in palace cars |
is not to be confined to the human race |
The Palace Stock Car Company is organ |
izing for the purpose of affording the max |
imum of comfort to beef cattle on their |
way to market. The cars are intended to |
be run without change from Denison, the |
great shipping depot for Texas cattle, to |
Eastern cities, The animals can be fed |
and watered while en- route. They can |
sleep comfortably and will arrive at their |
destination in good condition.
AN,Auburn fisherman, few days ago,
while fishing through a hole in the ice, |
caught "A trout so large he could not be |
brought through the orifice The fisher
man, however, gently played with his |
fish with one hand while he chopped ice |
with the other, until the opening had been
enlarged sufficiently, then with skillful |
jerk he brought out dead cat with a
brick on its neck, the entire prize weigh |
ing over nine pounds. The profanity that
ensued caused a heavy thaw for sixty rods
in all directions
IT has recently been ascertained that q
norton of the wreck. of the Confederate