Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-07-04
CURRENT ITEMS.

thinks OF stirring out between ten and four
O'Clock.
IT has been decided by court In Bos-
ton that If man can rent a building for
the purpose of selling liquor, he need not
pay any rent for it.
Mrs. LYsTER, aged ninety-one years,
was buried at Graysville, Ind, recently, in
her wedding garments, which she wore
seventy-three years ago They were of
linen which she herself had spun, and
woven.
A DELAWARE peach grower, disregard
ing the prophecies with regard to the de-
struction of the world in 1880, has con-
tracted to furnish a New York grocer
with peaches for ten years at forty cents a
basket.
ANNA FIELD, a girl of seventeen, and b.
T. Royal, man of sixty y-eight, became ac-
quainted on a Pacific Railway train,
going from San Francisco to Chicago, and
learning their destination was the same,
united, at Omaha, their fates and fortunes
in ma4rimony.
THE expectation of Arab horses from
the provinces of Bagdad and Syria has
been prohibited for the next seven years,
with view to preserving the breed, which
has been seriously diminishing in those
parts OI une empire
A YOUNG couple were married in Bid
deford, Me-, recently, and the same night
applied at the police station for lodging,
alleging that owing to some trouble with
the parents of one of them, they had no
home or money.
A NICELY dressed gentleman applied for
marriage license at Dover, Tenn, the
other day, but when he spoke the lady's
name the polite County Clerk suggested
that, if it was all the same to him, he
would prefer that he should name some
other party, as the one mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening.
A LATE Kentuckian bequeathed his two
daughters $4,000, and left debts of only
S5S. The administrator prevailed upon
them to put the estate into the courts, and
it came out last week, after two years.
course, when every cent of the $4,000 was
found to have been swallowed by insatiate
justice,
GRADING out in California, in the San
Diego country, must be exciting business.
The World, of San Diego, mentions an in
stance where the workmen grading for a
railway near that city, came upon a col
ony of tarantulas These venomous spiders
attacked the Irishmen and actually drove
the men into the water, the only safe re-
treat against those animals
EVEN burglars are sometimes handy to
have around. This was the case the other
day at the Jail at Springfield, Mass, when
it was found impossible to open a locked
door. Locksmiths were sent for and
worked hours without success upon it,
and finally the sheriff called upon an old
burglar who was in custody to try his hand
at it. He opened it in few moments.
A CoLoRED youth in Thomasville, Ga,
was hired by a charitable man to carry a
shoulder of pork to any poor family he
could find. He went to every house in
town, but all denied that they were poor
In some instances he was even pursued tC
the front gates by excited females, who ex
pressed desire to curl his hair with the
small end of broom.
Miss ALICE JOHNSON, an attractive
young woman, started barber shop in {
Kansas town the other day. All the wives
in town seemed moved by common i'm
pulse to present their husbands with somt
little love-token. By remarkable coin
cidence they all selected razors and brush
es and mugs.
Personal item from the Cuba On. Y.
Herald. "Uncle Abner Huntley of thi!
place, who will be one hundred and si1
years old in August next, was seen riding
through our streets on Thursday last seat
ed on high. spirited black horse, which
he has broken to ride since his one hun
dredth birthday! The old gentleman sit
as straight as pine, and keeps his saddle
with all the ease of and more grace thai
the best riders among our young men,"
A LITTLE Too CANDID.-Some tim
since a Greenfield farmer and his wifi
int fl,a nit ho IoI |,
woman's life insured for $1,000. Las
week she was thrown from a buggy ant
badly hurt, and yesterday the agent cam
across the husband on the street and in
quired how the wife was getting along
The farmer heaved sigh, looked put out
and replied: "Well, I'm afraid she is &C
ing to get well !"-Detrott Free Press.
INCENDIARIsM-The National Board O
Fire Underwriters, at their late meeting
in the city of New York, resolved to rails
fund of 100000 for the detection, con
viction, and punishment of parties en-
gagged in the nefarious business of in
cendiarism and arson. The EXecutiv
Committee of that Board, at their meetin
on May 13, 1878, carried out the resolution
and opened the subscription. This is
step in the right direction.
THE farm lands of California are ger
orally deteriorating, according to the Sa
Francisco Bulletin. During the last te
or fifteen years the crops have constant
been growing smaller. The trouble is a
tributable to bad system of agriculture
and the failure to SOW crops of fertile
ing character. The evil is widesprea
and serious, and, if not abated, will inte
tere with the progress and prosperity {
the State.
TEMPLE, Me-, has an old lady name
Hathaway, who is just ninety-nin yeal
old. She chews and smokes tobacco an
has done so since she was girl. Sl
formerly drank spirituous liquors, bl
ceased using them some years ago on a.
count of the high price, poor quality, an
difficulty of obtaining supply under til
Maine prohibitory laws. She does ht
own work, building fires, sweeping, cool
ing, and discharging all the ordinary dl
ties of the head of household
A VERY learned family this is in d.
Moines, Iowa. The father is clergyma
and can do all the spiritual duty of Il
house; the mother is physician, and (
the domestic circle can be physicked fl
nothing; the young lady is studying lay
and will be able to make her own wri
for breach of promise-a most dangerol
are said to be of the quiet sort, industl
ously working in their several vocation
and never making any fuss about an
thing.
PROFESSOR w. G. KERR, State Geologi
for North Carolina, has discovered til
the supposed "silver caves" in MitchC
County are probably mica mines work,
by the contemporaries Of the noun
builders. This view is substantiated
recent discoveries in the West of plates
mica cut into different shapes, and pos
bly, intended as mirrors and window
Since there is none of this mineral in h
Mississippi Valley, it is possible til
these Carolina caves were eXcavatio
made in search of it.
THE Paducah Kentucktan says IN
w. p. Miles, a commercial traveller for
Evansville house, was spending night
his old home in Smithland not long sim