Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

DIX young ladies' acted as pall-bearers
at q funeral In New York City recently.
A NORTH BRDeEwATER (Mass) hotel
has corps of Chinese servants who give
entire satisfaction.
A PFTRIFIED Indian, discovered In the
bluffs on the North Platte, last summer,
has been sent to Yale College.
NEW York has followed the example of
Michigan in furnishing those who point a
gun, loaded OF unloaded, at another per-
son.
A BoY punched hole through dam at
Sparta, Wis, just to amuse himself, aud
in fifteen hours the dam was washed
away.
CHARLES HEATH goes to the Iowa Peni-
tenuary for three years and six months
for marrying four women. Rather amid
sentence
ADAM GRIM, of Watertown, Wis,
claims to be the largest bee-keeper in the
United States, with the exception of
California man.
A PREoPrrATE Detroiter is miserable at |
discovering that his wife inherited half a
million just after he had procured di- |
vorce from her
IT Is asserted that Vermont family, |
living on retired road that had been |
blocked with snow for several weeks, were |
recently found to have been keeping Mon |
day for the Sabbath.
A PASSENGER on an unusually slow rail |
road, aroused from a serene slumber by
the footing oil whistle, exclaimed petu-
lantly; "The train has caught up with
those cattle againl"
ONE of the corpses picked up at the At
lantic wreck had on quilted vest, and in
every diamond of the quilting there was a
sovereign, there being in all about eighty,
equal to about $400.
AFTER thirty years of welded life, and
half that number of pledges to the union,
a Mt. Pleasant Qowa) couple got married
again the Other day, 80 as to be able to
send certificate to Germany before re-
ceiving heavy legacy. The old certia-
cate had been lost.
A New YORKER has taken the contract
of furnishing two or three railroad COM
panies with all the tickets they require,
free of charge. He gets his remuneration
from the advertisements he is permitted
10 print on the back of each ticket.
THE City of New York is to be enlarged
by the addition of that part of Westches-
ter County comprised in the towns of Nor
risiana, West Farms and Kingsbridge. If
no unforeseen obstacle intervenes, the an
nexation will take effect on the 1st of
July.
A YOUNG lady living at Eau Claire, Wis,
disappeared the other day, and after three
hundred people had searched for five
hours, she was found sitting on the bank
of the river with her lover, squeezing
hands and talking nonsense as if nothing
had happened.
ISAAC RICE, of Henniker, N. H, has
been postmaster in that village since 1909,
having been appointed by President Mad
ison. He does not owe his place so much
to his capacity to adapt himself to differ
ent Administrations as to the fact that the
office is worth, on an average, only $25.63
per annum.
SOME weeks ago woman was re-
ceived at the Cottage Hospital of Mime
apolis, afflicted with q disease like delir-
ium tremens, caused by alcoholic drinks,
but which in her case arose from the use
of opium. She is said to be the daughter
of respectable New York physician.
John Bullock formerly known as Uncle
john who will be one hundred and four
years old in June next, had an attack of
pneumonia last week, and when conva-
lescent, remarked to one of his sons
That was severe attack: if I'd been an
old man 1 guess it would have fetched
me.''
In recent suit for damages in Boston,
brought by father whose son was run
over by heavy dray, the Superior Court
charged that inasmuch as the boy was in.
stantly killed, without any interval of con
scious suffering, no damages could legally
be claimed, and ordered verdict for the
defendant.
On recent Sunday Mike Summers, q
crazy man of Minneapolis, entered Geth
semane Church, having drawn sword in
each hand, and marching part way up the
aisle, began to hold a service by himself
He addressed the congregation, brandish
ing his sword and throwing his arms in
the air. He was promptly elected, and
the services continued.
A FUNNY lawsuit is to come off at For
Madison, Iowa. 1t is an action for $4,000
damages, brought by lady for being
forcibly elected from a church, because
she stopped her ears with her fingers dur
ing the prayer of party personally OBJ
noxious to her, and who had been instru
mental in the accommodation of herself
and husband from church membership.
A COUPLE appeared before a clergyman
in Sandy Hill, N. Y, a few days since
and desired to be united in the bonds o
matrimony. They were directed to place
themselves in position, and, just as thu
ceremony was about to begin, little
urchin forced his way into the minister
study, yelling at the top OF his voice
Don't do it, Mister; mother don't wan
yer to-" This produced "stay of pro
ceedings,' and the last seen of the dsap
pointed pair they were walking arm-in
arm in search of some one empowered Il
consummate their bliss by making tn
twain one flesh
A PATHETIC incident occurred durin,
the floods at Binghamton, n. Y. A Mrs
Fox, residing near the cemetery gate
heard, in the morning, peculiar moaning
in Of fha IN,
there she found little child waist-deep il
water and weeping near a head-stone
which marked lonely grave. Upon be
ing questioned she said that she lived
long way off. She had heard that tn
graves were covered by water, and sh
feared that her mothers would be washe
away. So she went to keep her poo
watch and ward beside it. She wa
kindly cared for, and returned to he
motherle5s home.
THE United States Consul at Dundee
Scotland writes to the Department of Ag
riculture, stating that firm in that cit
has shipped 10000 plants of what /
known as the Scotch fir, or Highland pine
for distribution in the great prairie State
of the West, The plants are sent in pack
ages, each containing $50. 1t is though
that these trees will be peculiarly suitet
to the plains, as they are very hardy, ant
of free growth. The same firm proposes,
it is acceptable to the Department, t.
make another shipment of 10000 of tn
same kind of plants. The plants averag
eighteen inches in height and the Com
missioner of Agriculture proposes to dis
tribute them in the original package
from Eew York to parties who desire 4
test their utility, and are willing to incu
the expense of tLeir transportation from
New York to their place of destination.
THE New York Tribune says that cler
gyman of that city recently received b,