Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-10
CURRENT ITEMS.
GEORGE LAW lives on $40 100000.

OVER one hundred ladies are studying
law in the United States.
RHODE ISLAND has 1873 cotton manu-
tactoriesin running order.
LEAD ore has been discovered three |
miles north of Lyons, Iowa.
DEATH is as the foreshadowing of life. |
We die that we may die no more.
The Remingtons are furnishing Spain |
with rifles, and are making fortunes
PEORIA, ILL.,, claims to be the most an |
cient settlement west of the Alleghanies |
NILSSON expended $50, 900 in gold upon |
tottettes from Worth before leaving Paris |
CHICAGO has about twenty churches
now building, which will cost about |
$2,000,000. ..
IT Is estimated that the gross receipts |
of the Pennsylvania Railroad for this year
will exceed $4,000, ,000
AN experiment shipment of uncooked
meat, preserved by a freezing process, has
been dispatched from Australia for Lon
don.
INTERNAL. REVENUE receipts since the
beginning of the present year exceeded
those for the same period last year by
about $1,000,000
Mrs SERA WILBUR, of Greeley, Col,
once a Michigan schoolmarm, has plowed
and sowed thirteen acres of wheat this
season. Women have rights there.
THE Tobaceo-Leqf says: Pennsylvania,
next to Connecticut, is now raising the
most superior tobacco for smoking pur-
poses produced on the continent.
THE new Illinois homestead law ex-
empts from seizure for debt homesteads to
the value of $1,000, and adds a sewing
machine to the list of personal property
exempt.
The largest run ever made in Eureka,
Cal, was by the Richmond Reduction
Works, which, in twenty-four hours, turn
ed out 63000 pounds, nearly thirty-two
tons, of bullion
THE Lewiston (Me) Journal says that
piece of slate was taken from the Mayfield
quarry, recently, thirty-three feet long,
thirteen feet deep and three feet thick,
without crack or scar.
JAMES HoUsToN, Natividad, California
sowed 1900 pounds of white Chill club
wheat to twelve acres, and harvested A.
SO2 pounds. Some portions yielded nine
ty bushels to the acre.
The hottest military post on the North
American continent is Camp Mohave, on
the great Colorado River. For many
days during the past season the mercury
has stood at 122 degrees in the shade.
THE Dominion Government has for
warded gold watch and $500 to the Rev.
Mr.. Ancient, in acknowledgment of his
gallant conduct toward the passengers and
crew Of the ill-fated steamer Atlantic.
NEW JERSEYS contributions to the
statuary hall in the Capitol, at Washing
ton, will be semi-colossal statutes of Rich
ard Stockton, and Gen. Phil Kearney, the
former in marble, and the latter in bronze.
THE plan of correcting the echo in pub.
lie halls, by stretching wire across them
from wall to wall, has had practical
trial in the cathedral at Cork, Ireland, and
is said to have given satisfactory results
TUMMAs: "Well, Mrs. Simpson, and 'ow
be it that the milk in these parts are
rose?" "Mrs. s.: "Why, you see, Tum-
mas, this late rise in coal hev caused hiron
to go up so, that they hev riz the price of
pumps"
The amount of land devoted to wheat
culture in Great Britain is only one half
larger than that devoted to the same oh.
ject in the State of Illinois. Illinois has
100000 people to supply; Great Britain
3300O,00O.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have reduced the number of hours for
laborers and roadmen in New jersey to
eight hours per day, and the pay-rolls
will be reduced accordingly The labor
ers strike against it.
A KANSAS pastor has wisely declined
an addition of 800 to his salary, on the
ground that the hardest part of his labor
heretofore has been the collection of his
salary, and it would kill him to undertake
to collect $100 more.
The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee for
the week ending September 81, were
1000, 623 bushels, against 602 092 bushels
for the same week last year. The receipts
since January 1, 1878, were 1S66775O
bushels, against 7,390134 bushels for the
corresponding period in 1872. Shipments
for the week were 71,305 bushels and
since January 1, 17,06S, ,422 bushels
A BLIND man of Wallingford, Conn,
has won his support by saving wood,
being led to the piles of wood by
his boy, who then was wont to leave him
to go to school and at night return for
him. By slow and toilsome steps he at
length accumulated $1,000, which, a few
days since, one of his children drew
from the bank on forged order, and alb
scended with it to parts unknown.
E. s. KNIGHT of Nashua, N. H., claims
to own the oldest coin in America. 1t
was coined during the reign of Alexander
the Great, who died 1923 B. c. The front
bears the head Of the King; on the re-
verse is the figure of Hercules, also in
Greek letters "King Alexander" The
coin was found by native of Cesarea
while digging in the ground, and by him
given to missionary in Asia.
THE following sentence, written out in
full, was pronounced by justice of the
peace in Gwinnett, Ga: "let the prisner
Stan Up, sir, you has bin Found Guilty
& tried Nv the Offense NV shutin at your
Nabor. Yu shal then be took from the
bar NV this court by the honorable baleef
of this court, and carried into the adiined
county Nv rock-Dale, and thar you shall
remain in everlastin banishment forever
from the honorable county of guinnett" ("
THE amount of timber cut on the head
waters of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries during the past year was equal
to :, 1,57S 100000 feet This quantity, esti-
mating the yield of the pine lands at
10000 per acre, would require the denud-
alton of155,000 acres or nearly 250 square
miles OF land. When these pineries, the
last we have, are exhausted, the fence and
building question will present itself in a
new and troublesome aspect to the West
ern farmers.-E0ergree and Forest Tree
Gro,oer.
A STRANGE fatality has attended the
family of David Sublett, of Indiana. In
1857 daughter was murdered by her
husband, for which the soninlaw was
hanged. Two years ago son, George,
was killed by the cars while lying drunk
on the track, Shortly afterward son-in-
law was, killed in the same manner. A
year ago another son-ln-law was shot and
killed !. and now, last of all, few days
ago son was found murdered short dis
tance from the family residence.
THE Cherokee organization known as
Kee-too-wahs is a sort of Know Nothing
Indian society, with secret rules and pass
words. Its object is the preservation of
Cherokee nationally, not by unlawful
means, but by putting down intemper-
ance, and making the Indians unit for
their own welfare. That this society,"