Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

tne same pillow FfI.
BosToN has Just launched the only clip.
per-ship built In the United States for
several years. " Atra
In view of the expected rush to Europe
next summer, the steamship companies
are goingto put the fare up.
A MAN at Fonda, New York, sued his
neighbor eight years ago for the price ofa
bushel of wheat, and the two are still
lawing it,
A BOY has won the reward and medal
offered by the Nebraska State Board of
Horticulture for tree.planting He set
out $50 trees on the day appointed.
KATIE MCDONALD is the name of
lucky waiter girl in st. Joseph (Mo.)
hotel, who has fallen heiress to fortune
of $1,000
THE establishment of diet kitchens,
from which suitably prepared food may
be issued on the reQuisition of the dis
pensary PHYSICIANS, is Charity's last pro.
ject in New York city. I'm =.
ANEW ORLEANS philsnthropist. acting
on the principle of siDailid simii5us curdn.
tur, has bequeathed complete file of The
Congressional Globe to an insane asylum in
that city. 1s
ONE of the results of having a young
medical woman as city physician in
Springfield, Mass, is that young gen.
ueman of that ilk has had himself vacci-
mated by her twenty-one times within a
few weeks.
By the adjustment Of her cotton claim
against the United States, Mrs Mcdonald,
widow lady, of Atlanta, Georgia, re.
turned from Washington to her home,
the other day, with $95,00O in her pocket.
AN ECCENTRIC old miser known as
"Black Philip" died recently near Read
ing, Pa, and after his death his heirs dug
up an old copper kettle containing 50, 900
IN coin of various denominations.
A MEMPHIS mule, Sunday, took stub
born fit, and refused to move an inch.
The ladies and gentlemen in the car
alighted and pushed the car for a square,
when finally the mule changed his mind
and started off at a gallop, leaving half of
2 the passengers behind. n 80
A FEW days ago, there arrived in
Chicago little girl, Miss Emma Rollins,
aged ten years, who had made the Jour
ney from England, travelling alone dis
tance of more than 4,000 miles, in order
to join her father, who is typefounder
living in that city.
A DECISION just rendered at Boston
establishes the accountability of employ
ers for injuries received from defective
machinery. A man employed in a mar
bic works in 1870 was seriously injured
by the fall of shaft, owing to imperfect
machinery, and has recovered $4,000
damages.
The Yonng Women's Christian Asso-
Citations in Lowell, Mass, and Portland.
Me-, have determined to open houses as
temporary homes for young women,
strangers, who come to those cities in
search of employment. Portland gentle.
men have subscribed So, 900 for this OBJ
ject.
THE body of 4 young girl that was
'snatehed" from graveyard in Owosso,
Mich., lately, was discovered by the town
authorities on the dissecting table of the
homeopathic college at Detroit, where
10 was being made the subject of an
anatomical examination by severalwomen
students. 1919.
A FREIGHT car has been en- gagged on
the Des Moines Valley Railroad, by
party of three or four families in that
vicinity, to run through to San Francisco,
for 5000 They will take their families
and necessary provisions for their trip to
California. 1t is decidedly the cheapest
plan OF emigrating We have yet heard of.
MRS. A. d. Cook died at Newbury-
port, Mass, on the I'D anniversary Of her
wedding, and in the same room in which
she was married. Singularly enough her
age is not given, but she was one of the
choir which sang at the welcome to Gen.
Washington on his visit to Newbury-
port, and she also sang at the COM
memorative service on the occasion of
the Generals death.
Rev. MR.. HAMMOND approached man
in Burlington, Iowa, while he was labor
ing there, and asked if he were Chris
tian. mo-" replied the man, ''I am
railroad man." 'Well says Mr.. Ham.
mond, 81 know of several conductors in
New England that are Christians" "That
may work down East, all right, but a
man can't be both in Iowa, responded
the employe.
RECENTLY, at Grand Rapids, Mich, a
conscience. snlitten citizen, who stole an
ak from the firm of ConeH s. Rose, of
that city, more than twenty years ago,
walked into the store of Mr.. Conell-Mr.
Rose being deceased confessed the
offense, and rendered the price of the ak.
The money was accepted, and half given
to the widow of the deceased partner of
twenty years ago.
THE Rondout On. " Freeman saws:
"Mr. Samuel Williams, the oldest printer
IN the country hereabouts, walked into
our office on Monday as spry as cricket,
and set one thousand ems for the Greeley
monument. He is eighty-four years old,
and started the Bennington NeaoS.L Letter in
1872, and after serving on the Albany
Argus for five years, started the Orange
f0f1oer. lie set his thousand ems in two
hours, which is doing we'll for man of
his age"
THE American Express Company has
recently obtained judgment for the
sum OF $24 900 against the estate of Lew.
Dolman, of st. Louis. Dolman robbed
messenger of the Express Company, in
March, 1868, near Cincinnati, Of pack
age containing nearly $4,000, and was
afterward shot and killed while attempt
ing to rob house in st. Louis.
some three years ago the wife Of Isaac
scott, New Jersey farmer, eloped with
- another man, taking with her their only
child, a daughter, aged about eleven
years. The truant wife and her paramour
went to the far West and settled at Raw
Inns, Wyoming Territory. After a long
inquiry Mr.. Scott at last learned their
whereabouts, and forwarded letters to his
daughter, who he found was harshly
treated and desired to return to her father;
and so short time ago the father went
west and claimedher, leaving his faithless
wife.
70 JUDGE GARY, of Chicago, has rendered
an opinion that there is no law on the
statute books of Illinois against what is
commonly known as "knocking down"
by railroad conductors and others. 1t is
the taking of money in an unlawful man
q ner, and not the keeping of it, that con-
stltutes the ofense known as larceny, and
hence any person who is duly authorized
TO receive money for his employer can
KNOCK down" the same with impunity,
80 far as the law is concerned.
Mr.. SHAFFER, of Highland, Clayton
County, Iowa, says the Elkader Journal,
lost span of mares in the great snow
storm. Just nineteen days afterward they
were found entirely buried in drift,