Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

Assistant Lighthouse-keeper at Dunkirk,
New York.
A Mr.. RoBINsoN, from Minnesota, aged
1872, passed through Milwaukee, Wis, the
other day, to visit a young son in Illinois,
aged 90.
THE father of Fralich hanged at SYRIA
cuse the other day. occupied a window
where he could get good view of the ex-
eoution.
THE complete file of the Charleston Is.
C.) Courier, for seventy years, was bought
by @. A. Spofford for So ,250, for the Con
gressional library.
A man was fined $5 and costs, at Dun.
leith, Ill, for cutting of colts car with
jack-knife, and perpetrating other cruelties
on the helpless animal.
THE heirs of one Peter Gleason have es-
tablished their claim to $4,000000 worth
of real estate in the city of Trenton, N. j.,
which had mostly been leased for long
terms by another party, who came into
fraudulent possession of it
AMONG new colors are ainon, a greenish
yellow; alligator, a purplish blue; cor
beau, crow color; GEORGE; lichen, a gray
ish blue; suede; paon, peacock color; ap-
ricot; nicolo; blanc ct perle; blanc ct ar
gent; blanc ct or, and blanc ct bleu.
THE salt well near Leavenworth,
Crawford County, Ind, which is 1865
feet deep, and has, for several years,
yielded paying brine, has suddenly ceased
to be salty, but is pouring forth coal oil
in strange abundance.
INTENDING visitors to the great Austrian
exposition will do well to look to their
vaccination marks as well as to their let
ters of credit, the deaths from smallpox
in Vienna, at last accounts, averaging six
ty week.
FIFTEEN hundred singing birds of diff
ferent varieties, imported from Germany
by a society organized for that purpose,
were turned loose in the suburbs of Gin
cinnati recently. The object is to domes-
ticate them in this country if possible.
WHILE tearing down an outbuilding at
the Yarboro House in Raleigh, N. G., a col
ored waiter found a package of money
containing some 100000 in old State bank
notes, some Confederate bonds, $500 in
gold and silver, and two watches. There
is no clue as TO when they were placed
there or by whom. .--
WHEN fuel is burned in an open fire
place, at least sevenc cighths of the actual
or potential heat passes up the chimney
unused. About one-half is carried of
with the smoke, one-fourth with the cur
rent which flows in between the mantel
piece and the fire. and the remaining loss
is represented by the unburncd carbon
aceous matter in the smoke.
4 WOMAN in Reading, Pa, used to buy
peaches when they were sixty cents /
quarter of peck; when her husband re
monstrated with her for her extravaganza
she would burst into tears, and say shc
was not eXtravagant, because when shC
bought those peaches she intended to pu
them in the refrigerator and keep then
until they got cheaper.
A PHILADELPHIA woman wanted safi
place in which to secrete her money, SOM
81, 400, and so placed it in that ingeniou
article of feminine apparel known as
hustle. Unfortunately another woman
wit cOntrived plan to chloroform he
and relieve her of her funds, which wa
successfully accomplished, and the dai
ing operator got off safely with her booty
AYoUNG man advertised for correspOn
dcnce with ladies in Cleveland a shor
time ago. Some fellow answered, and ap
pointed an interview one night on Eucli,
avenue. One of their number dressed il
woman's clothes and met the advertise
and then another pretending to be he
brother, belabored the romantic youth witt
stuffed club, purposely prepared. He RAJ
away crying loudly for the police.
AN Indianapolis weman has notifiet
several soda-water vendors not to sell he
husband any more of that seductive com
pound of sugar, water and wind. His OF
ganism is so sensitive (she says this) tn
promise of a drink of whisky intoxicate
him, and two glasses of common sod
causes him to step higher than hors
with the spring halt, and his spirit to soa
among the stars.
Nf -.
ing documents and searching records, pr,
paratory to commencing suit to recove
possession of tract of land four mile
square in Livingston County, n. Y, o
which the village of Mt. Morris has bee
built. Allen claims to be lineal descend
ant of Ebenezer Allen, to whom the Ian
was ceded by Indians in trust for hi
daughters, and who improperly dispose
of it to Robert Morris, who, in turn, sol
it to individuals. Lawyers inform ALE
that his claim is good.
PROFESSOR LIEBIG, writing on the c
fects- of various stimulants, describes IL
red wines as in some cases beneficial, {
at all events the least hurtful; white win,
generally are detrimental to the nervol
system sherry and strong cider intoxica
more rapidly than most wines, and have
peculiar influence on the gastric iuic
Beer produces heavy and dull intoxic
ton, although the drinker of it is not a.
to get thin. But the consumers of whisl
and brandy ''are going to certain death
AT San Francisco, recently Miss Heller
Frazer was awarded verdict of $500
by a tender-hearted jury as a soliatum f
blighted affections, breach of promis
etc, etc. The trifler with her maiden
fections was well-known lawyer bearir
the eminently proper name of Thrift, al
how he allowed himself to be beguil
into such an unthrifty piece of busine
as paying $4,000 for few hours prot
less filtration is one of the mysteries
the case which we cannot fully undo
stand
THE other morning a tolerably we
dressed but wild-eyed gentleman call,
Mayor Macauley to one side, in the Ci
Court room, and said he wanted son
thing done with his wife. whats 1
matter?" inquired his Honor. "She kee
giving me pills." was the reply
wouldn't take 'em," said his Honor.
can't help it," said the injured husban
she gives 'em TO me when I'm asleep
"I'd wear a muzzle," said his HOnt
The injured husband started He hadl
thought of that.-LndianapOIts Herald.
CHURCH and State are at variance
Portsmouth, N. II. The people of I'll
town have procured the passage of an
dinance forbidding the violent ringing
church bells, and on Easter mornir
when Che rector of the Episcopal chur
ordered the sexton to usher in the day wi
a lively ringing of the bells, that offici
fearing the terror of the law more tn
the denunciation of his spiritual advis
flatly refused. Thereupon the rector 81
his son, and there was an alarm betim
that dismal, stormy morning, bringi
hundreds of people from their couch
and stirring up fire of indignation Il
will not be quenched, except by the res
nation of the rector.
A LITTLE circumstance came to light
New York, a few days ago, that illustra