Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-23
CURRENT ITEMS.
BosroN schoolgirls play football.


BosToN papers report the price of re.
fined sugars lower than at any time dur
ing the past ten years
FoRT SMITH, Ark, has woman black.
smith who can throw mule and shoe
him in fifteen minutes by the clock.
RUssIA-LEATnER jewelry is the latest
IL is pretty and unique, the earrings
being made Of every imaginable pat
tern.
JOHN PETERSON, who is to be hanged
in Georgia next month, has, since his SEN
tence, fallen heir to fortune of
$4,000.
THE Yoevil colonists. English) have de-
Cided not to allow saloons or "drink
shops" as they designate such places,
within the colony limits.
A TENNESSEE man wrote his will on q
paper collar, and it passed through pro-
bate as well as any other WILL though a
little unhandy about filing.
THEY feed their iuries by contract in
st. Louis The .ailer receives the pro.
posals. The last job was let at the rate of
thirty-five cents per juryman.
MISS LINNAMoRE, a San Francisco 1odv
mas brought suit against Michael Burns
the owner of vicious dog, to recover
from an assault by the latter.
A NUMBER of capitalists in New Jersey
and New York have already consummaf-
ed project for the construction of a shin
canal, running under the Palisades at the
rear OF Weehawken and Hoboken.
JUSTICE DowLINa wants $4,000 from
the New YORK Sun for saying that he
opened court, the other day, by asking
prisoner for "chaw," and woiInd nm Inv
adJourning to the front room to take n
drink.
AT small town on the Louisville G.
Nashville Railroad the other day fonr
able-bodied white men were seen in a
field playing croquet. at was" saws the
Louisville C0uriey-jOuTndI, "the subiimest
spectacle that an impoverished country
ever beheld."
THAT part of Boston which was lately
burnt down, and which has an area Of
about sixty acres, will, it is said, be so laid
out that hye main thoroughfares will form
radlf OF segment of circle of which the
centre will be the Postofice and The arc
the sea margin; the intervening streets
will be laid out as chords of this at eouaI
distances apart.
The Truckee Republican SAYS that there
is rumor to the effect that Captain lack
has divided his army of fifty men into
three divisions; the first, under the Can.
tain, is to capture and hold California. the
second is to sweep northward and subdue
Oregon, while the third forces lis way
over the mountains and sagebrush and de.
vastates Nevada and Utah.
THE 'Iron-Jawed Woman" who is on.
gagged in ennobling mouth performances
in connection with a travelling circus was
married at Hustonville, Ky, the other
day, to a gymnast connected with the
same show. An iron,jawed woman and a
gymnast in the holy bonds of matrimonvi
Wouldn't you rather see one of their little
connubial disputes than all the balance of
the circus?
IHE latest big thing" in California is
the enterprise of converting Guadaloupe
island, lying OIL the coast of Lower Calf
iorhla, into one Angora goat ranch. The
island has an area of 1856, 400 acres. and il
the property of an Incorporated company.
IL Is mountainous, well watered. and 81
present tenanted by an immense flock of
wild goats, embrasing, it is estimated,
100000 head.
Iris said that full $4,000 Jews are do.
slrous OF coming to this country from the
Old World-principally from Roumanio
the scene of their recent persecution-and
an organization of their friends in Amer.
lca has been established to help them. A
colony OF several thousand will settle near
Lincoln, Neb. Most of them are expected
10 arrive during the present year.
ONE of the new fraternities of n secret
character in their organization and work
which is to DC established in the United
States this year, is that of Forestry, which.
though only planted in England in 1916.
has now nearly half million of mem.
bers, with a cash capital of about s1 5OO
600. A High Court" of this order win
be founded in New York some time in
the autumn.
IHEFlowa Granger is irresponsible for the
statement that five men were grubbinr
hazel-brush, etc, on the farm of Thomas
Coalthrust, ten miles east of Washin pton
when they found a big snake-den, cover.
ing space of about five square feet. at
the depth of two feet in the ground Six
different varieties of Serpent snakesn
were here making their winter quarters to-
gether--the blue racer, blacksnake, green
snake, hopsesnake, viper and rattlesnake
One hundred ami four snakes were taken
out and killed, and it is not known how
many yet remained in the den.
A REMARKABLE breach of promise case
was tried in Pittsburgh court, recently.
In this case the forlorn and broken heart
ed damsel commenced suit, several months
ago, against the man who refused to fulfil
his promise of marrying her. and during
its progress married another man. The
curious incident was therefore. witnessed,
OF married woman bringing suit against
a man, who was by this time also married,
for refusing to marry her. The Jury found
1t difficult to decide what amount would
fifty heal her lacerated heart
A WILKINSON County (Ga) man be-
came convinced the. other day that a wo.
mans temper is very irregular. He had
been moulding some bullets, and had neg-
lected to cool off the sladle in which the
lead had been melted While he was
counting the bullets his wife came into the
room humming tender love song. Sud-
denly the song ceased, and the man was
made aware that something had happened
by catching an adjacent coffee-mill on the
bridge of his nose. The unhappy wife
and mother had taken this picturesque
mode of informing him that she had pick,
ed up the ladle by the hot end
THE last decision rendered by Chief
Justice Chase, Which would have an inter
est on this account alone, concerned an
accident life insurance policy. The case
came from Michigan, and was one in
which the heirs of the deceased, who had
come to his death by violence while walk
ing, sued for $4,000, the amount of an ac.
cident policy which he had taken out for
one day on the day of his death Paw,
ment was refused because the policy stip,
ulated insurance against accident and
death while "traveling by public or pri
yate conveyance in the United States OF
Dominion of Canada" The assured pro
ceeded by steamboat, after purchasing his
insurance ticket, and then walked eight
miles to his residence. 1t was during this
walk that he met his death by violence
The Michigan Courts held that the death
did not come within the terms of the con.
tract, as walking was not "traveling by
public or private conveyance" and Chief
Justice Chase's opinion affirmed the iudg.
ment of the State Comt.-ChtcaqO Tribune