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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
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crevasses in the lower Mississippi are
reported. Many tributary sstreamsy have
also overflowed, and the outlook for the home
less people inthe Inundated region is more
cherries than ever. skifmish occurred
between the. troops. of Baxter. and Brooks
at the railway bridge near Barring Cross,
Ark, on the 11th, which resulted in the
killing and wounding of several men
on each side. The Arkansas Legislature
met on the afternoon of that day and ad-
journed for want Of a quorum until the next
day. On the afternoon of the 18th the Presl-
dent telegraphed to. Baxter recommending that
the General Assembly adjourn for a reasona-
BILE time to enable Brooks 70 call in his adher-
ents in the Legislature. Baxter replied that he
would favor an adjournment for that purpose
whenever a quorum was obtained, and
that he would disband his forces
in proportion as Brooks did his.
Brooks also received a telegram from
the President advising that has forces be
disbanded. On the morning of the 1lth
Baxter issued proclamation revoking
q former proclamation declaring martial
law in Pulaski County, so far as the same
applied to members of the Legislature. The
Attorney. General telcgraphed Brooks request
ing him to abandon the State House, so as to
allow the Legislature to convene therein. In
the evening Brooks issued call convening
the Legislature in extraordinary session on
the oath. Baxter received q telegram from
the President declaring that in his opinion his
proposition was fair and reasonable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

steadily rises, passing 2i2 degrees, reaches
the boiling point of the solution; finally
the latter also boils at temperature as
high and higher than $50 degrees, accord.
Ing TO It's nature. There we have the
extraordinary result of obtaining higher
temperature, say 220 degrees, from lower
one, viz. 212 degrees.
If there is anything in nature that pos
sesses o positive character, il is light.
Yet the physicist may so reflect the light
from a given source as to destroy itself
and produce darkness. In like manner
two sounds may be made to interfere with
each other, and either produce silence or
increased intensity of sound, at the will
of the operator.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
ParadOxes.

WATER thrown into red-hot metallic
vessel ooes not boil, as we should expect,
but quietly gathers itself together, form
ing more or less perfect sphere, and in
that condition floats about gracefully on
the hot surface as 1t slowly evaporates
away. If at the same time very vapor-
liable substance, as liquid sulphurous acid,
is thrown in, the water may actually be
frozen in the red hot vessel.
Water boiled in glass flask until the
upper part of the vessel is entirely filled
with steam, and then dexterously corked
before air can ainadmission, and placed
in cold water, recommences 10 boil. The
boiling is produced by cold instead oi
heat, and the experiment is known as the
ordinary paradox.
If steam from water boiling at 212 de
grees is passed into solution of salt in
water the temperature of the solution
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
Cremation Among the Old Greeks.

THE body was placed upon a pyre built
of wood, to which fire was communicated
in the presence of those who had attended
the funeral; when the flames were extin-
guished, the bones were collected and
placed in urns made of various materials.
These were preserved in tombs, built COM
monty on the roadsides without the city
gates. The funeral took place at night.
The procession was headed by musicians /;
these were followed by hired mourners,
who lamented and sang the funeral song (;
after these came the freedmen of the de-
ceased, sometimes amounting to consid-
cradle number, wearing the cap ofliberty
Immediately preceding the corpse were
persons bearing waxen masks, represent
ing the ancestry of the deceased; the
corpse ITSELF placed upon couch, was
commonly borne by the freedmen or by
the immediate relatives; the family fol-
lowing after-the men, contrary to the
usual custom, with their heads covered,
the women with their heads bare, their
hair disheveled, and often beating their
breasts and uttering piercing cries. II
warranted by the rank OF the deceased
the procession passed through the forum,
and an Grafton was then pronounced over
the body, Finally the corpse, with the
couch upon which it was borne, was
placed upon the funeral pyre, built CON-
monty in the form of an altar, with four
equal sides. The nearest relative, with
averted face, kindled the pyre, and per
fumes, oils, articles of food, ornaments
and clothing were frequently thrown on
while it was being consumed. When the
pile was burned down the embers were
extinguished with wine, the bones and
ashes collected by the nearest kin, sprink.
led with perfumes and placed in an urn
AS the Christian religion gradually OBJ
tanned the ascendency corresponding
change took place in the mode of dispos
ing of the dead; bodies were no longer
burned, but were inferred, and the offices
of the church were substituted for the
rites of paganism.-FOrney's Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
IA THE MARKERS.
NEW YORK.


MAY IL, lotas
CoTToN.-Middling upland, 1sQlsISo.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef Cattle-$10. 25@12.25 Hogs
Dressed, $T2507,5o. Sheep-Liye (clipped), $3.50
@S.50. t M
BREADsTUFFs.- Flour Good TO choice $4,000
675; white wheat extra, t675DT25. Wheat-No.
Chicago, $1491i.50; Iowa spring, $1.50@t.52;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.5i0l,B7 Rye-West-
ern and State, $i.OT0112. Barley-$1.6501.61.
Corn-Mixed Western adOat, s30S6c. Oats New
Western, 66@67c.
PROVISIONS Ns.-Pork-New Mess, si6.9b@1TOO.
Lard-10h @10Sc.
WooL.-Common to extra, 40065c.
MCHICAGO.
LIVE STOCK. -Besyes-C Choice, 8. s.7O96,OO; good,
$5.s5@5.sO; medium, s4.ss@5.25s butchers'
stock, e3750A75; stock. cattle, $3.b0D4.75.
IIogs-Iiye. IS, ,4oSD5.sOa Sheep Good to choice,
$7.5o@s5o. az ~ "
PROVISIONS Ns-Butter-Choice, S0133c. Eggs
Fresh, 12n@1Sc. Pork-New Mess, $16700
1875 $1O.20010.30.
BREADsTUFFs Flour - White Winter extra,
$7O00900; spring extra, $5.s7h 06.5O. Wheat
Spring, No. p $1.22G1122k. Corn--No. ., 61A
@62%c. oats-No. 2, 47047hc. Rye-No. 2, 95
@96c. Barley-No. 2, $1,4201.45.
wooL.-Tub-washed, 4SG155c. fleece washed,
S6@4Sc. fleece, unwashed, 25032c.; pulled,
35040c.
BREADsTUFFs Fs-Flour-$6.7 .7507.00. Wheat
$l.45 Corn-T2@75c. RYe-S1.os. oats-bO0
55c. Barley-$1.5501,6
PROVISIONS. - Pork -$l7.25017.50. Lard-10h
@11c.
ST. LOUIS.
LIVE SrocK.-Beeves-Fai to choice, $4.5O9
6OO. Hogs--Live, $4.5O05.7O.
TRANSFORMATIONS, Xxx Fall, $5.50O6.00.
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, $1.4661l.50 Con-No 2,
66667c Oats-No. 2, 51@51Mc. Rye-No. Q,
96@9sc. Barley-$155@1.6O. r.-re
Provisions. Ns.-Pork-Mess, $17.25017.b0. Lard
1OG1OAc. -
rs MILWAUKEE .-sss.s .ssr
BaEApsrurrs. -Flour--spring Xxx, $s7OO626
wheat-spr7ng No. ], 81. .2e9l. ae1i No. 2, $1.25g
1854. Corn-No. Q 62062hc. oats-No. 2, 40
47xc. Fye-No.1 4, 9oG9Ohc. ;Barley-No 2, SLIGO
@f65. saa- - aa aiF 81
DETROIT.
BREApsTuFFs - Wheat Extra, $1.6s@1. 90.
Corn--T4114hc oats-b5G55l4c.
-ees . d, TOLEDO.
BRgApsrurrs -wheat-Ambe Mich, $L460
146M; No. Red, $l.45Q1.46. Corn-Mixed,
7397Shc. oats-No. l, 55@56c. go
CLEVELAND.
BREApsTuFFs. .-wheat-No l Red, $1.549
1.5S; No. 2 Red, $1.46G1.47. Corn-7s979c
oats-5605Sc. E....sr- f
LIVE srocK.-Beeves- -$5. .62h h@6.6aH. Hogs
Live, $515@575. sheep-Lve (clipped), t625
@725. --F
LIVE srocK.-Beeves- $64O06.65; me-
dium, $54O0575. Hogs-Yorkers, $5.3O05.5 so;
Philadelphia, $65O616. 60. Sheep--Best (clipped),
$6.7507.50; good (clipped), $5.50@6.5o
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

gold by selling our bonds in
Europe; others to fund portion OF the
legal tender notes in bonds bearing 5 per
cent. interest, and retire them in that way,
to bring the rest to par by contraction; /;
others to fund them into bond-bearing 5
per cent. interest, to be Issued and again
funded.
While the Government is pledged to
redeem the legal-tender notes in coin, at
the earliest practicable period-while the
purpose to do so should ever be kept in
view--yet that period is by many not
deemed TO be practicable when there is
great stagnation of business, much labor
unemployed, the revenue largely fallen
off, and much distress and suffering in
every part of the country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

Of the association 10 be printed upon all National
Bank notes which may hereafter be laeued BY hinl
SEQ. 8. That the entire amount OF United States
notes outstanding and In circulation at any one
time shall not exceed the sum Of S999 000,000 and
within thirty days after circulating notes
TO the amount Of $10O0,000 shall from time
tons under this act II shall be the duty Of the Secre
tary Of the Treasury TO retire an amount Of United
States notes equal to 30 per cent OF the circulat
ing notes so issued, which shall be In reduction Of
tbe mhximnm amount Of ts82, ,0O0, 600 fixed by this
section, and such reduction shall continue until
The maximum amount OF United States notes out
pose he Is authorized to issue and sell at public
SALE after ten days notice Of the time and place Of
sale, sufficient amount Of bonds OF the United
states OF the character and description prescribed
In this act for United States notes to be then re-
tired and cancelled.
Essc 9. That on and sfter The 1st day Of January,
1871 any holder Of United States notes TO the
present them for payment at the ofiee Of the
Treasurer Of The United States OF At the Once OF
the Assistant Treasurer at the city Of New York,
In exchange for said notes, deliver TO such holders
an equal amount OF coupons or registered bonds
OF the United States, IN such form Is he
$50 or some multiple Of that sum, re-.
deemable in coin OF the present standard
value, at the pleasure OF the United States after
ten yeare ffom the date OF the iesue, and bearing
interest payable quarterly IN such coin at the rate
Of percent. per annum; and the Secretary Of the
Treasury may Issue the United States notes so re-
ceiyed, or, II they are cancelled, he may Issue
notes TO the amount, either TO purchase bonds
or redeem the public debt at par in coin, or TO meet
the current payments for the public service
and the said bonds and interest thereon shall b.
exempt from the payment OF all taxes or duties
Of the United States as well as from taxation In
any form by or under State, municipal, or local
authority; and said bonds shall have set forth and
expressed upon their face the above specified con-
ditions, and ehall, with their coupons, be made
payable at the Treasury Of the United States Pro
Uided however That the Secretary Of the Treasury,
in lien OF such bonds, may redeem said notes In
gold coin OF the United States.
SEc TO- That nothing In this act shall be construed
TO authorize any increase OF the principal Of the
public debt Of the United States.
Mr.. Ferry gave notice that the report did not
represent the views Of the minority Of the
committee, and said he believed such minority
represented majority of the Senate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
House.-Among the more important

House.-Among the more important
bills introduced were the following; To provide
for free banking and better security to depostors,
TO hinder usury, to give elasticity TO the currency
preserve it's value to the people, and prevent hnan
term OF President at ak years, and TO prohibit
his reelection. Bills were passed-IndiaB Ap-
propraton bill declaring subject to local. State
Railway Companies from the time that they
became entitled to them, rrespeetiye Of the time
at which patents were issucd 70 cpulun pre-
within the limits Of railway grants In cases
where such entries are made under the reg
ulations Of the Land Office; the Military
RESOLUTION was adopted-126 10 62-declarng that,
II an increase of taxation be found necessary,
such increase shall commence with the taxation Of
persons and corporations on their annual ineo
dividends and salaries. The Deficiency Appro-
priation bill ,l75)s was considered In Com
niittee Of the Whole. !. Adjonrncd.t
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
The Southern InundatiOn-A Touch
ing Appeal for Aid.

To the People OF the United States
The undersigned citizens of the Delta of
the Mississippi, now so disastrously deluged
with The tloOd-waters, would respectfully beg
TO make the following statements and renewed
appeal for your helping hand in this unequaled
calamity.
We know full well your charities, your lib
eralites in this and in former calamities to
our own city, and other cities afflicted by pes
thence and by fire, and we would render you
on behalf of grateful people their blessings
and their thanks.
But we are compelled by the sad facts to
represent to you the vast magnitude Of the
present affiiction, passing by many-fold any
disaster that has befallen the people Of this
continent. And we regret to have to state
that its extent is not yet ascertained, but
known to be expanding. While the river has
receded somewhat along the whole flooded
front this has been at the expense OF the
flooded area. The relief apparent to strangers
is only delusion. The Delta floods
Increase as the river falls by pouring more
water on the land; and their duration must
continue for some two months to come. Most
OF the lands will be unfit for crops too late
for cultivation this year. What then is to be
done with and for the 100000 people driven
out by the waters, and with no supplies OF
any kind whatever
We would append statement of the pop
ulatioRs of various counties and parishes and
tptClIy III lDCdilicS Dul lOE tllt lcnklu IL
would give this statement and appeal. Suffice
1t, that the total amounts to 10000 people to
be subsisted and transported, sheltered,
housed and supplied with utensils for house
hold uses and implements for farming and
planting for the next four months, and many
much longer.
The enumerations in the New Orleans papers
up to the Goth, and derived from our knowi-
edge, gave an estimate of the people flooded:
LOUISIANA 1900 SQUARE MILES UNDER WATER.
Sugar producers in the parishes below RED
River. ...... ............... ... 20C0
Cotton producers on Washita and Black
Rivers ......................... 11,6O0
Cotton producers In nine parishes with u.s.
water. Observation-Disclosures. 1880
MISSISSIPPI 5000 SQUARE MILES.
On Big Black 5000, Bayou Pierre 1000,
Coles Creek 500, st. Catherine 500, Buffalo
and Homochitto 2,0O0. 5000
Coahome County (Hushpuchana and Sun
Bolivar County civilians Bayou and Bayou
Fallah, and along Mississippi Riyer)..... 5000
Washington and Isaquena Counties (Steels
Bayou, Sunhower, Yazoo and Mississippi
ARKANSAS 1000 SQUARE MILES.
Desha County ION Mississippi, Arkansas and 49,.
Bayou MaconC .,,,...,..,,,.... 5000
Arkansas ......, ...,,.,........ .......... 900
Phllnps. lUVOO
Crittenden. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Mississippi. 24OO
MISSOURI 5000 SQUARE MILES.
-Four from counties neutrality-suspicious.. 5000
Total. .................................1 .1425OO
wn do nof heIieve fhis contains an evaO0er-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

A GOOD fly paper is made as follows
Boil together equal parts by weight Of
glue and molasses spread it over COM
mon brown paper while hot with a brush.
Place sheet of the paper in every room
in your house. 1t win capture every fly
In the room within the day. The paper
can be thrown into the fire when covered
with the captured flies and a new one
used.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

AT Galway N. Y, the other day, Mr..
Edward Vines, aged sixty-tive, was mar
ried to Miss Della Shenan, aged fifteen.
1t must be a pleasing thought to Mr..
Vines that when he comes to die of old
age he win leave a widow nearly old
enough to marry,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

"A recent advertisement contains the
following startling information; "If the
gentleman who keeps a shoe store with a
red head will return the umbrella of q
young lady with the ivory handle TO the
slate.roofed grocer's shop he will hear of
something to his advantage as the same is
the gift of a diseased mother now no
more with the name engraved upon it,"
The man who would keep an umbrella
after such an appeal is unfit TO live.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

YOU'VE Greene emigrated from Maine
to New York few months ago, and
wrote home TO his ANXIOUS parents that
he was doing fne--in fact, moving in the
first circles. Il subsequently transpired
that the clarion voice of the young man
was crying apeanuts" in the first circle
of BoWery Theatre.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

A BOSTON dry goods dealer was insured
for $15, 800, and, after recent fire, for
which the insurance companies paid him
1855, gave an illustration of what the
Commercial Bulletin calls the romance
of trade" by putting out on a placard:
" 100000 worth Of dry goods, damaged
by smoke and water, will be offered at
great bargains tomorrow"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

A GOOD story and all the better in be-
ing true, is told of one of our citizens,
who let piece of ground on shares. The
man would hire the lot, but the owner,
doubtful of getting any money of the ten.
ant, proposed to let it upon the promise
of receiving half the products. Occa.
sionally during the summer he passed
the spot and was pleased with the culti-
vation it was receiving and with its
goodly show of vegetables. Harvest time
came and passed, and he heard nothing
from his tenant till, in response to a hint,
the latter sent to him watermelon and
three shriveled cucumbers Indignant at
this shabby treatment, he called upon the
man and asked him what he meant.
Why, you see, Squire" replied the
tenant, "the pesky boys stole all of your
half but the melon and the cucumbers."
-NesO Bedford Mercury,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15
No Hope Outside the Republican Party.

The reforms that are needed in the Re-
publican party can only be accomplished
from within, and the surest way to accom-
plish them is to support worthy
candidates on an unimpeachable plat
form. 1t is only by this means that
party can be purified and led on to higher
ground. The Republican party has still
future before it, for it has still work to
accomplish. Those who speak for re-
forming it and Christening it by allowing
the Democracy to defeat it really wish it
to be destroyed And when the Republi-
can party is destroyed what is to take It's
place? Not new party formed of the
purest and best of both the old ones, but
the party which honored Tweed as a
statesman, and to-day honors Fernando
Wood and accepts him as the expounder
of its nciples.-NetO HdUen Palladium
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

/ IAN uncle left eleven silver spoons to
hisnephew IN his awill, adding: "He
knows the reason have not left him the
whole dozenh The nephew had stolen
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-15

With approyalof Hon 1. M. wmTz,
N-a4 Mayor OF New Orleans.
Audlwe are authorized to add the earnest
90 operation Of the delegations in the House
OF Representatives. and the Senate from the
States involved In. the inundaticn,
Washington City, May 4, 1874.
The daily gazette., 1874-11-23
What whislxey and Tobnees Peys On
Grants halmry. -. =

The report of the. Commissioner on In.
ternal Revenue shows that the receipts
from distilled spirits for the last year were
only $49, 900, falling-off of 50, ,6552s1
from the receipts for the previous year;
and that the receipts from tobacco
were only $33, "a, ,876 being decrease Of
N,143, ,427 from the receipts for tho fiscal
year OF 1878. When it il remembered
that the whole amount OF receipts from
internal revenue is less than $lO3, ,OOO. 600.
and that OF this amount about $82, ,OO0, 900
comes from the tax on tobacco and the
Intoxicating beverages, it must be seen
that the falling off OF nearly 81, ,OOO. 900 in
the receipts from these two sources in q
single year Is very serious matter. This
revenue must be maintained for the sup
port OF the Government, and It stands
to reason that in case the people cease
drinking and eschew chewing, the bur-
den of taxation will have to be laid upon
the nrticle which stands next to the reg
ular distilled spirits as regards intoxica-
ting properties. 1t has been proven by
chemical analysis that most of the So
called "bitters," SO popular among the
total prohibitionists Of New England,
contain from 80 to SO per cent. alcohol,
and consequently they rank next to hard
whiskey as regards Intoxicating proper.
ties. What kind Of O face would the
average blue-law Yankee make if on 60
ing to his grocer's some fine day he
should discover that on every bottle of
his precious bitters was stuck afifty cent
adhesive stamp, the sum of which, of
course, would have been added to the
price. which had obtained in "those good
old days Of honest whiskey."
The daily gazette., 1874-11-23
Iron, Do1ver,...
A GRAVE RuMoR--THE CHANCELLOR in
DovER--LEcTURE, &C.
Correspondence Of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
DOVER. Nov. 81, 1874.
II is rumored around town that I .
G. West, the murderer of Cooch Tur
ner, is soon to be pardoned by Gov.
Ponder. 1t is to be hoped that this is
not true. 1t is the opinion of nine
tenths Of the people of this county,
that West was guilty: of a horrible
murder, surpassed by none that ever
occurred lin this country, and that he
ought to have suffered the severest
penalty Of the law. And as he was
cleared in the case of murder, and SEN
fenced to bo imprisoned only five years
for attempted arson, it is worse than
ridiculous to pardon him at this time.
Chancellor Salisbury and.his fam
lily removed to this town on Wednes.
day: The Chancellor is'looking very
well.
The lecture of Rev. Mr.. Hughes,
OF Philadelphia, at Wyoming, on Tues
DAY evening, was grand success, and
is the first of series of lectures for
the benefit of the M. L. Church of that
place. Rev. DIR. Matlack, of Middle.
town, will lecture there Tuesday night
week. ,'
The annual fair of the tBand of
Cheerful Walkers" of the Presbyterian
Church of Dover, will take place in
Burton's Building, on Thursday and
Friday evenings, where ice cream and
other good things will be served.
The Presbyterians of this place are
placing an iron tense around their
church and grounds at cost of about
5000. ,-'~,l
The ladies of the Baptist Church of
Magnolia are to have Thanksgiving
Festival on Thursday evening for the
benefit Of their church.
A Centennial Tea Party will be
held in Lebanon the same afternoon
and evening under the auspice, of
the Diamond State Lodge of Good
Templars. =. .f....
A nock-tie and tea party will be
held in Canterbury on Wednesday
evening for the benefit of the Good
Templars there. G.