Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

ieiet IN Lower Cal1fornia.
DOG TEAM with sledge, near Ash
land, Mimi, recently made twenty-five
miles In one hour on the ice.
CRLERY over two feet long, grown this
winter in Oregon, is something to boast
OF. and the papers there do IL.
TIRE FIRST child born in Denison City,
Texas, girl, received present of a town
lot from the railroad company.
THE LAW prohibiting minors from play
ing billiards Is strictly enforced at In.
dianapolis.
BY the completion of the Texas Central
Railroad, there is now unbroken railroad
communication between Chicago and the
Gulf.
A WOMAN servant has served a family
in Terre Haute, Ind, for thirty three con
secutive years, and has 81, 100 to show
for it.
Miss HANNAH JANE DUKE, a 500 pound
girl, has received $4O0 from a circus com
pany IN fayette, KY, for breach Of con-
tract
JACOB KEPLER, a butcher of Williams
port, Pa, won a wager by killing
and dressing for market ten sheep within
an hour.
THE Eagle Distillery at indianapolis
cost $40 000 but was sold recently for
$2l 900, leaving $25 900 to be charged to
the new temperance law.
FHE Roman spirit of a Rock Island
squire was tested and found worth 80.
the other day. He fined his boy that
much and costs, and then paid the bill.
AYoUNe LADY in Beaver Dam, Wis,
mas recently fallen heir TO fortune of
500, 600 through the death of an uncle.
Ihus are the sorrows of death alleviated.
MURRAY MORLEY, a precocious pop
corn dealer in Marshal, Mich. not vet six
years old, has the snug sum of S65 in
bank, the proceeds of his winters trade.
RHGBE A. LowRIE, of New York CITY.
has been awarded $20, 900 damages from
Abram B. Chambers for breach of prom
lse.@aW We rather guess that Abe wishes
now that he hadn't done it.
AN INDUSTRIOUS Detroit bov has gath
cred up and piled in the back yard during
the,past winter, over eleven hundred old
oyster cans. He~ has not yet decided
what use be will make of them.
THE La Crosse (Wis.) Leader relates an
instance or man being attacked by hy-
drophQbia nine years after he had been
bitten by dog, having never previously
teltany i'll effects from the same.
LEAyBNwoRTH, Kansas, is to have
new depot, which will be at least 600 feet
long and 1877 feet wide. Seven or eight
trans can enter it abreast, with abun-
dance of room for loading. The cost will
be from $500, 600 to $500, 900.
The cerebral.meningitis, or spotted
fever, is-raging fiercely on the Pacific
coast. In one instance four members of
a family died within twenty-four hours
The disease has assumed an epidemic
type and proves fatal almost invariably.
IMPRISONMENT for debt is by no means
SO generally abolished as people suppose
The Hartford Comm CoUrant mentions
that ten or twelve debtors have been
lodged in the Jail of that city during the
past winter, and three are confined there
now.s
A SMALL boy arrived at Harrisburg,
Pa, the other day, from Texas, having
been sent all the way la package, with
ticket sewed to his coat. The conduct
ors all took an interest in him, and he en-
joyed the journey hugely.
In one locality of O'Brien County,
Iowa, thirty-four young bachelors have
opened up farms, and all they want is a
cargo of feminine divinity to hedge them
round about, and make them behave
themselves.
The New YORK City police recently
bOuh pOSoCSStOu VI IHe OHlCG Oh NOTORIOUS
firm of sawdust swindIers 1T 566 Broad.
way. 1t was found by the books of the
concern that they had deposited within
six weeks over $23 900, the proceeds OF
their nefarious schemes.
A MAN who has been engaged in petty
thefts from stores in Concord, N. r. went
to them all, the other day, and made am
pie restitution, declaring, with tears in
his eyes, that he could neither eat mol
sleep, the matter lay so heavily on his
conscience. He had not been suspected
THE usual process of subdivision o
the snil into small freeholds is reversed
in Bourbon County, Ky, where, among
other similar transactions one capitalis
has bought and consolidated twenty.foul
adjoining farms, the former occupants o.
which, 1871 in number, have emigrated tt
the West.
A HOTEL proprietor at Brattleboro, Vt.
was fined 800 for selling liquor to one
armed soldier, and then,turning him int
the street, late at night, in state of in
toxcation, where he must have frozen t.
death had not a friend found and careC
for him. F
THE editors and, publishers of Main,
newspapers having met in convention a
Augusta the other day, the Portland
FfeSS vUIrsssEea to Affis.-a tI10t tIIuIU wur
gathered the very wisest and most vir
tuous little crowd of men, in the seedies
of last years clothes, that ever met a
the State capital" )"
THOMAS CALDWELL. President of tn
South Nashville Street Railway under
took to ride with new driver, the othe
night, telling him in response to the de
mandfor fare: " | own most of this road,
and getting this reply:,, " Well, you won
own itlengif You don'tpay meyour fare
That's all I've got 20 say about it,"
DENNIS A. MAHoNY, proprietor of tn
Dubuque Daily Eoening Telegraph, has en-
tered suit against the city of Dubuque 70
$40 000 and interest, for injuries inflictei
on him. whereby his right arm was broker
and permanently disabled in fall, cause,
by the streets being permitted to rem all
obstructed with snow and ice
THE MAYOR of Lafayette, Ind, is cal
rying out the Sunday ordinance to tn
strict letter of the law. Ona recent Sun
day he not only arrested keepers of So
looms, ETC., which were open, but all tn
milkmen, twenty-four railroad employe
who were about to start a train, an
the editor and compositors of the JON
1lal who were getting out Mondays ed
tlon. 80
THE Dell Rapids (Dakota) Journal i
printed after the following approve,
fashion, as explained by itself: "Thes
tough times We have to keep an eye ou
for breakers. The editor sets all tn
type, makes up the forms, washes rollers
does altthe press work, besides chopin
wood for two stoves and doing 'chore!
for both office and household We hole
in one of the neighbors to roll"
GRACE GREENWoop complains in he
Washington correspondence to the Nev
York Times, that under the present systeI
of competitive examinations middle-age
women, whatever their worth or thei
wants, are likely to be crowded out.of th
departments,by young ladies fresh froI
school examinations with few facts G