Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

A DRUGGIST at Alton, Iowa, has been
sued for $4,000 damages by a married
woman, for selling liquor to her hus-
band.
THE young ladies OF Vassar College
have formed an "Anti.falling in .love-be-
foreyousare- -out. .of-school" club.
A YANKEE offers to clear the Nile Of
allits crocodiles within two years II the
viceroy of Egypt will come down with
Buzz SAW 1TEM.-Henry Stonaker, of
Palestine, Tex. In his life he was lovely,
and in his death he was divided.
SEVENTY. FIVE of the business men of
Mendoza, III. have subscribed $25 each TO
pay the expenses OF prospecting for coal
in that vicinity, t
THE right of street car conductor to
eject a smallpox patient from his car is
to be contested in the Boston courts.
A "HoMEsPUN" association is being or |
ganized at Des Moines, Iowa, the mem
bers of which are pledged to wear no |
goods not made in that city.
New JERSEY expects to hang two men |
in April, one in May, and three in June,
besides supplying the usual quantity of
champagne.
TIE Psnnsylranian, at Oil City, has sus-
pended because the editor and his wife
couldn't agree about his employing female
compositors.
THE Polk County, Iowa, Agricultural
Society this year offers premium for
the best preserved man and woman sew
enty years of age; also, for the largest
living family.
VANDERBILT says that the traffic be-
tween the cities of New York and Boston
is so constantly growing that new route
is needed every ten years.
ACARRoLLToN (Ky.) dentist sent dol
lar to the editor of the Democrat, asking
that false notice of his death be cor.
rected. The correction was made.
The Board of Supervisors of Greene
County, Iowa, have allowed John Gray,
an enterprising farmer, 81 600 deduction
from the valuation of his property for
taxes, for planting twelve acres of fruit
trees.
A LARGE number of taxpayers of Jer-
sey City, N. j., recently held a meeting
and resolved not to pay any more taxes
to the State until the law exempting rail-
roads from taxation is repealed.
THE proprietors of the Legal Tender
mine, at Clancy, Montana, have struck
vein twenty-seven inches wide, aver
aging $4,000 per ton. This is the great
tSJ bbIlko cNcT lldh0 III tu0 lOIllIOIy'
The ore is galena, with sulphate, ruby
and native silver.
JOHN MIsHLER, of Harrison, Delaware
County, Ind, s. years old, claims to be
the champion hunter of the State. He
says he has killed in his time 410 deer, 80
bears and 25 wolves. He has lived in
Harrison for the last twenty-five years.
CoMMoDoRE VANDERBILT has pur-
nhaaad tho annthUact nf Third
avenue and Forty-second street, New
York, for 100000, and intends to erect a
large marble building, to be known as the
Grand Central Bank.
THE most remarkable chime of bells in
this country is on the chapel of Notre
Dame University, near South Bend, Ind.
1t consists of twenty-four bells, the larg-
est weighing IA, 900 fbs., ranging through
two octaves. 1t may be heard in its deep
reverberations for twenty miles away.
ONE of the foundries at Peekskill, N.
Y, has "salamander," as it is termed
furnace in which the molten iron has
been permitted to grow cold, and as not
even August weather will thaw it out, it
has got to be removed by drilling, which
will cost 100000.
FOURTEEN deaths have occurred recent
ly in the vicinity of Naples, Scott Coun
ty, Ill, by cerebro spinal meningitis
The disease was rapidly increasing, and
the people of the neighborhood were be-
coming greatly alarmed at its disastrous
spread.
MILLERIsM is reviving in Vermont
The world, it is there affirmed by some
is coming to an end toward the close oi
the present year. Others think that the
catastrophe will occur during the present
winter. There are a good many meetings
and there is good deal of preaching and
excitement.
A PROPOSITION was seriously made In
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven
tion the other day, that the punishment
offraud at elections be changing by the
neck until dead, without the benefit Of
clergymen, of executive clemency or any
other benefit whatever"
THERE is in New York a professiona
'face MAKER" who sits as a model for the
artist who manufactures grotesque masks
for carnival times. The fiexibility of his
features is said to be so wonderful that, il
necessary, he could elude the recognition
of the smartest detectives.
IKE new code of California establishes
such complete equality in the marriage
state, and so does away with the old no
tion that man and his wife are on,
flesh, that the two can contract with an(
sue each ether the same as if they haC
never been married. The marriage O
minors changes the status from minors t.
adults.
CARS are being built for mail trains be
tween New York and. Chicago, to consis
of three cars and one locomotive. NJ
stoppages are to be made except for Goa
and water, and the trains are expected I,
make the distance between the two cite
in twenty-four hours, running about fort,
miles an hour.
MR.. GEORGE lie BARRE, of Pennsyl
vania, is held up by the New York Herald
as the oldest man in America. His year
number 116, he was too old for the wa
Of 1912, and he shook hands with Wash
ington. In addition to this, he has hat
itually used whisky and tobacco for
century.
GENERAL DIX is so pestered with az
plicants for office that he has this motto
posted upon every window and door G
the Executive Chamber and his dwelling
IF any office seeker presents himsel
here during the next four hours, 'shoo
him on the spotr" In this manner, lii
tie quiet is obtained, and an opportunit
had TO attend to State affairs.
SOME genius has come to the relief G
the poor but ambitious amateurs VIII
want to kill somebody, and has invented
pocket pistol which sells for $3.50. Q
the six murders committed in New Yorh
in one week, three were performed wit
that economical but effective weapon
Nothing like bringing luxuries With
the reach OF the common people.
AN Athol Mass man, long resident i
California, is about to bring courtshi
Of twenty-five years to a happy termin,
ton. Ten years ago he started hom
ward for the same laudable purpose, bI
was waylaid and robbed of his all. II
went back to the golden State, gained al
other fortune, and this time has reache
home safely.
IT ia reported that a chest containin
$4,000 in specie has been dug up at Car