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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
BROUGHT TO LIFE.
Maine Murderer, Supposed 10 be
Dead and Buried, Turns Up In
Missouri, ms Bandit chief.

More than twenty years ago, V. p. Coolidge,
q young physician of excellent standing In the
city of Augusta, Me-. murdered Edward Mat
thews, cattle drover, by enticing him into
his Office and giving him brandy in which he
had placed quantity of prussic acid Cool
idge was arrested on suspicion, and after a
long and exciting trial he was convicted and
sentenced to be hung, after the expiration of
the years Imprisonment always accorded to
those convicted of murder In that State. Dur
ing the period of his confinement, his sister, a
young and beautiful girl, was permitted to
visit him, but his health gradually gave way
and before the year expired his death was an
nounced, he was buried, and for the time for
gotten. The warden of the prison resigned
his position, married the sister, and moved to
parts unknown.
Not long after the discovery Of gold in Cal
ifornia, gentleman conversant with the case,
and who had followed others to the gold
mines, sent word to Augusta that he had
seen and conversed with the supposed dead
man. This caused considerable excitement in
that sober city, and the body supposed to be
his was exhumed. His own father swore that
the remains were not those of his son. OIL
the murdered man, but they were unsuccess-
full, and nothing had ever been heard further
concerning him until within the last thirty
days.
Recently, party travelling through Mis-
souri, met gentleman who knew the history
Of the case, and he stated that he had met
Coolidge frequently within the last two years
under an assumed name; that he recognized
him at sight, and charged him with being the
man; that he at first denied it, but finally ac-
knowledged his identity, and informed his
interrogation Of all the important facts con-
nected with his escape. He said, that while
in prison, he ate very sparingly, feigned sick
ness, and finally body was procured from
Portland and inferred as his remains, and he
was furnished with money and started for
New Orleans, where he remained but a short
time, and left, and since that time he has been
| travelling almost constantly, never stopping
long in any one place. The gentleman re-
ferred to above gave it as his opinion that,
from the description of the leader of the
Iowa train robbers, it was no other than the
escaped murderer, V. 2. Coolidge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

From Louisiana, the land of political in
trigue, orange blossoms and sugar cane comes
the following apochryphal story, which is
published with the usual mental reservation,
| and which the readers of this paper are advised
to take cum grdno sails. The incidents are
| furnished by Louisiana physician, and run
about as follows; Mr.. Frederick Hallers,
| lawyer, about two months ago married
charming young girl of sixteen. On the morn
| ing after the wedding, the young bride with
some of her friends visited her husbands
study to look over cabinet of geological
| specimens which he had beforetimes
gathered. Among these were several
round powders obtained in Arkau-
| sas. These powders on being. broken
are usually crystaized throughout and
present very beautiful appearance. On
this morning the young girls, assisted by
colored servant, broke open one of the largest
specimens, and in the center, instead of rock
crystal, was found half-pint of what looked
like water, but was really concentrated solu-
tion Of silica in water. This they put into
tumbler, and the bride, lifting it to her lips,
drank first to the health of her husband, and
then pledged her unmarried friends in the
room, wishing that they might be happy brides
like herself, and then drained the glass of its
contents. At first her action was looked upon
as merry joke, but in few minutes the
young bride complained of excessive pain in
the stomach, and in the course of three-quar-
ters of an hour she was corpse, and her
whole body became as hard and inhexible as
stone
The physician who tells the story says:
"On minute examination and inquiry found
that the dissolved silica she had taken into
her stomach had been absorbed and transmit
ted by the ehylopoetic apparatus and blood
vessels throughout the system, and that her
whole body was a petrifaction. The case
being so singular and so sudden, the husband
and the brides family consented to a partial
postmortem examination, other medical men
coming to my assistance.
"We found 1t impossible to cut through any
portion with our scalpels. DIR. Ferguson broke
his sealpel In the first attempt. We were able
only TO break through the chest with hatchet
finding extreme difficulty in entering the
thoracic cavity, the contents being all solidi-
fed The heart was found as firm and as
solid as stone, resembling piece of cornelan
as to both color and consistency.
1T Is well known by psychologists that
those proteine ompounds-albumen, ibrin,
casein and gluten-are the proximate or or.
ganic elements, along with some other ulti-
mate or inorganic elements, which constitute
the components of the human body. The pro.
teins compounds are formed BY carbon, hydro.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
AN o1D.YBAR SONG.



As THRoueH the forest disarrayed
BY chill November, late l strayed,
A lonely minstrel Of the wood
Was singing to the solitude;
loved thy music, thus said,
When DER thy perch the leaves were spread
Sweet was thy song, but sweeter now
Thy carol on the leafess bough.
Sing, little bird thy note shall cheer
The sadness Of the dying year.
When violeis pranled the turf with blue
And morning filled their cups with dew,
Thy slender voice with rippling trill
The budding April bowers would hll,
Nor pass Its Joyous tones away
When April rounded into May;
Thy life ehall have no second dawn.
Sing, little oirdl the spring has gone.
And remember--well-a-dayi
Thy full-blOwn summer roundelay,
And wheu behind broidered screen,
Some holy maiden sings unseen;
With answering notes the woodland rupg,
And every tree-top found tongue.
How deep the shaded the groves how fair
Sing, little bird the woods are bare
But now the summer chant is done
And mute the choral antiphon;
The birds have left the shivering pines
To fit among the trellised vines,
Or fan the afr with scented plumes
Amid the loye-sick orange blooms,
And thou art here, alOne-alone--
Sing, little bird the rest have flown.
The snow has capped yon distant HILL
AT morn the rnnLing brook will still,
From driven herds the clouds that rise
Are like the smoke Of sacrifice.
Ere long the frozen sod shall mock
The plowshare, changed TO stubborn rock,
The brawling streams shall soon be dumb
Sing, little bird the rest have come.
Fast, fast the lengthening shadows creep,
The songless fowls are half asleep,
The air grows chill, the setting sun
May leave thee ere tiny song is done,
The pulse that warns thy breast grow cold,
Thy secret die with thee, untold;
The lingering sunset still Is bright
Sing little bird, twill soon be night.
Atlantic Monthly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

gen, nitrogen and oxygen in definite proper
ton, according to Professor Kolllker, thus Q
40, II 81, N b. o 12, each having a different
amount Of phosphorus and sulphur; this
combination forming 80 many MOLE
cules. Now, silica Is q compound Of
oxygen and silicon In very small amount
of silica the number Of atoms OF silicon Is Inn
mense. The very moment the silica enters the
circulation and is distributed throughout the
atom Of silicon being set free, combines with a
proteine molecule. These proteine molecules,
which form respectively the albumen, the
fbrln, the casein, and the gluten, at once
change these organic elements Into what might
be termed petrifactive elements, destroying,
as IL were, the vital germs, and substituting
inorganic proteinaceous principles"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.

MONDAY, January 5.-Senate-The re-
port of the Secretary in reply to the resolution
calling for information as to the amount Of COM
pensation received by Senators since the organi-
zation OF the Government, was received and laid
on the table,. The House bill to repeal the Bank
rupt law was reported from the Judiciary Commit
tee, with sundry amendments. Several resolu-
tions OF inquiry and instruction were adopted "A
cilitate commerce across nayigable rivers forming
the boundaries Of States. The House Salary bill
was taken up together with the reported amend
ments striking out the first three sections and sub
sttuting therefor the section repeating the act Of
March 3, 1873 and fixing the salary as 1t was prior
to the passage of that act, and further providing
Of the departments be 5000 per annum |;
after debate, an amendment Of
fered and discussed, providing that Senators,
Representatives and Delegates Of the Forty third
Congress who have received their compensation
since March 4, 1873, at the rate OF 81 500 per an
mum, shall hereafter be paid in such monthly in
stallments as will make 1t aggregate for the whole
Congress at the rate Of 5000 per annum. Dis
cussion was had on the question OF finances. "A
message from the President transmitting the cor
respondence in regard TO the Virginius, was re-
ceiyed, laid on the table and ordered printed
Adjourned.
HOuse-Among the bills introduced and
referred were-for the appointment Of a commits
sion Of three persons on the subject Of wages and
hours Of labor, and the division Of profits between
labor and capital in the United States, and the
cial, educational and sanitary condition Of the lab
oring classes, ETC. for uniform system OF railway
transportation in the United States; to provide a
uniform currency; repeating all the acts imposing
taxation on State banks and bankers; to create
a National Board Of Trade and prescribe its duties
to legalize pontoon railway bridge across the
Mississippi River at Prairie du Chen Wis 80. The
Army Appropriation bill. appropriating $2s, ,449-
916, was reported and made the special order for
the 18th. The Supp. ementary Civil Rights bill
was debated at considerable length. :. The mes
sage from the President in relation to the steamer
Virginius was read and referred. Adjourned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

The gifts sreeeived by Yale College
during the year ended June Both, amount
to $196,2S4, which was distributed as fol,
lows; To endowment fund, $167115; to
fellowships, $4,000; to special depart
ment, $4,000; to scholarships, $1,000.
During the same time Harvard received
$15S, ,075.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

The Danbury mans last is: "The
churches were we'll filled Sunday. The
shape is an improvement, but the trim
ming is not wholly satisfactory. They
set little further back on the head than
the summer styles, we think"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
SINGULAR PETRIFACTION.

The Young Bride of a Lawyer Visits
Her Husbands Cabinet and Inquisi-
lively Breaks Open "a Geological Spec
linen, Drinks the Watery Contents
and Speedily Becomes n PetrIfed
Corpse.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

The Iowa State library at Des Moines
contains IL, ,094 volumes, exclusive of 1000
duplicates. The increase during the past
two years has been 2,075-792 by pur-
chase, 1,046 by exchange, e37 by donation ;
priation $Ss86s remain unexpended.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

"A young lady says that gentleman
ought never to feel discouraged when the
"momentous question" is negatived by the
object of his choice, "for in life, as in
grammar, we always decline before we
coDJugate."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

The annual report of the Michigan
salt inspector shows an increase over last
years product of nearly 100000 bushels,
the total production of 1873 being 4,116,.
730. The revenue received from inspec.
tion amounts TO $12,350.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

If Il wasn't for the 10-cent stamp oc.
casionally found in a paper of tobacco,
a considerable portion of the citizens of
Duluth would starye.-Oincinnati Com
mercidl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

During the past summer, L. F. Koch,
of Lagrange, Mo-. sold nearly 1900 gal.
Ions of native wines, and has on hand
1000 gallons Of his own manufacture the
present season.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

The shipments of Iowa grangeIs,
through their agents, TO the Union Stock
Yards Of Chicago for the year 1878,
amount TO over $4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

CoTToN.-Middling upland, 16016Ac.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef Cattle-$9. .0001275 Hogs
Live, IS .2505.5O; Dressed, $6.25a6.50. Sheep
Live, s.. .0O0S7 so.
BREADsrUFFs- to choice, $7.05a
7.60; white wheat extra, $7.609S10. Wheat-Nc
2 Chicago, $1.590l60; Iowa spring, $1.bSh9 80
No. Milwaukee spring, $1.6a11.63. Rye-West
ern and State, 1.O501.06c Barley-1.440145. Corn
Mixed Western ahoat, s40s5c. oats-New
Western, 6316lc.
PRovlsIoNs.-Pork-New Mess, $i6.2S016.5O
Lard-9Q9Hc.
WooL.-Common to extra, 47D58c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE STooK.-Beeves- Choice, $5.300565; good,
$4.9O95.15; medium, $4tO0475; butchers,
stock, $3.25l1440; stock cattle, 2.75G13. 65.
Hogs-Live, $49O955O; Dressed, $625a6.5O.
Sheep-Good to choice, $4.bO05.0O.
PROVISIONS Butter-ChOice, 3OQ33c. Eggs
Fresh, 2S024c. Pork-New Mess, $144O9
1445. Lard-sh9ssSc
BREADsTUFFs. Flour-White Winter, extra,
$s.7599.25; spring extra, $47506.25. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 81. .2201. .22h. Corn-No. 2, 81
954c. oats-No. 2, S9939hc Rye-No. 2, 770
771lc. Barley-No. 2, $1420I42h.
WooL.-Tub-washed, 4015Oc; fleece, washed
SS945c.; fleece, unwashed, 250S2c,; pulled,
30035c.
CINCINNATI.
BREADsFUFFs.- Fs.-Flour-$LOO0T25 Wheat
$1.55. Con-55a5sc Rye-95c. Oats-4394sc.
Barley-$1. 4511,60.
Provisions. - Pork $l5.s5015.5O Lard-sA
@8hc.
ST. LOUIS.
LIVE STooK.-Beeves-Fa 10 choice, $i25a
5.25. Hogs-Live, $5.O0054O.
BREADsTUFFs.- x Fall, SBbO07OO.
Wheat-No. 2. Red Fall, $1.6501.6S. Corn-No. 2,
51h@54c. oats--No. 2, 42l1431lc. Rye-No. q 6O0
Sic. Barley-$1.35lD1.4
Provisions. -Pork-Mess, $1450015.O0 Lard
sk@shc.
MILWAUKEE,.
BREADsTUFFs. s.--Flour-Sprng Xxx, $5.7O06. 25.
Wheat-Spring No. /, $1.24l11.241S; No. =, L210
LAX. Corn-No. 2, b7C0S71Ic. oats-No 2, 500
&C. Rye-No. /, 750761Sc Barley-No. =, $142
@1.43.
DETROIT.
BREADsruFFs = Wheat Extra, 81. 1.b911 60
Corn-62062hc. oats-48045c.
TOLEDO.
BREADsTUFFs.- -IMheat-Amber Mich. Al bOA
i.5oh No. 2 Red, S1440D1. AN. Corn-Mixed, b6H
@59c. oats-No. 1.44h046c.
CLEVELAND.
BREADsTUFFs. -Wheat-No. Red, $1.5701. SO;
No. Red, $i4S3i.49. Corn-62066c. oats-460
4Sc.
BUFFALO.
LIVE STOoK.-Beeves - $4.5O61OO. Hogs
Live, $obO0S.0O sheep-Live, S5.OO06.OO.
-
- Conversation in the Horse-car. First
Young Lady; Father says that we girls
must be economical, for the panic has
struck him. What does your father saw
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

Conversation in the Horse-car. First
Young Lady; Father says that we girls
must be economical, for the panic has
struck him. What does your father say :
Second Young Lady; Oh, he don't say
much; you know pa is so slow that /
don't believe he'll hear the panic is in
town till it has most gone away.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

There are $50 Odd Fellows lodges
and 90 encampments in Wisconsin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09

Cur GLASS fringe is fashionable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-09
Public Debt Statement.

The public debt statement for January is
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26
Savannah and Charleston i.

The Philadelphia New Age, of q recent
date, contains the following interesting
article:
The cities of Charleston and Savannah
are destined to become rivals Gas are New
York and Philadelphia 80 soon as the
Southern spirit of enterprise is awakened.
Both situated on the Atlantic coast within
four thousand miles of Europe, eighty five
miles from each other, possessing excellent
harbors, and multiplying their routes to
the interior. Que or the other must some
and all other products of that great inte-
rior. Each is striving strenuously for
direct lines of railroad to st. Louis and
Chicago, and each hopes one day to be the
seaport of these cities for their South
American trade. Both are Increasing
ton is leading in this. B 9TH are now
making efforts to secure lines of steamers
either to Liverpool or Bremen, or both
points. Each is soliciting cities in the
interior to pledge they will import their
goods through itself, as they export their
produce. Aud both desire to be the gate
for the inlet of Southern immigration,
which must soon be immense, for the South
and Southwest is a new country, as was
tho Northwest thirty years ago.
- Both of these cities cannot be great
shipping ports-they are too close together.
One must inevitably. The South Will have
SO much to sell and buy, and these two
places are the only Atlantic seaboard cities
eligibly located for inter. Southern Europe
trade. Which will it be- A glance at the
map, and a comparison Of facilities seem
to point to Savannah. Charleston bar has
about fifteen feet of water at best; Tybee,
at Savannah, nineteen at worst, twenty-six
at best. Both have water communication
with the immediate interior; but Charles
tnp th rath Savannah
with all Eastern Georgia, the Savannah
river essentially cutting off the whole of
this State from Charleston. Both have,
railroads. but Savannahs system is more
direct to the Mississippi river, to Chicago
and to ST. Louis. Savannah is the natural
eastern terminus of the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. From Savannah to San Diego is
almost Decline through Shreveport. This
alone may some day make her great city.
She may become the eastern entire pot for
the trans Continental traffic. Right here
is where Philadelphia is interested. 1t is
useless to kick against the inevitable, yet
our city might do something to draw in the
Southern trade, and also to hold the trans
Continental.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26

ADVANTAGES OF CRYING.-A French
physician is out with long dissertation on
the advantages of grooming and crying in
general, and especially during operations.
He contends that grooming and crying are
the two grand operations by which nature
allays anguish; that those patients who
give way to their natural feelings more
speedily recover from accidents and opera
tions than those WHIP suppose it unworthy
for a man to betray such symptoms OF
cowardice as either to cry or groan. He
tells of man who reduced his pulse from
l26 to GO in the course of two hours by
giving vent to his emotions. If people feel
at all unhappy about anything let them GO
to their rooms and comfort themselves with
loud boohoo, and they will feel hundred
per cent better afterwards. In accordance
with the above, the crying of children
should not be too greatly discouraged. II
1t ls Systematically suppressed, the result
may be the st. Eitus' dance, cpiIeptic & -,
or some other disease of the nervous sys-
tenn What is natural is nearly always
useful, and nothing can be moro natural
than the crying of children when ANYTHING
occurs to give them either physical OF
mental pain. Probably most persons have
experienced the effects of tears in relieving
great sorrow. 1t is even curious how the
feelings are allayed by free indulgence in
groans and signs. Then let parents show
more indulgence to noisy bursts of grief
on the part of children as we'll as of grown
persons, and regard the eyes and mouth as
safety valves through which nature dis
charges her surplus steam.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26

The NEW Hot alum
water is a recent suggestion as an insect
cide:> 1t will destroy red and black ants,
cGckrofches, spiders, chlntz, bugs, and ali
the crawling pests which infest our houses
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve it in
four quarts of boiling water; let it stand
on the fire until the alum disa ppears; then
apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling
hot, to every joiat aud crevice in your
closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves, and tie
like. Brush the crevices in the floor of the
skirting or mop boards, if you suspect they
harbor vermin. If, in withdrawing cell.
ing, plenty of alum is added to the lime, it
will also serve to keep insects at distance.
Cockroaches will flee the paint which has
been washed in cold alum water. Sugar
barrels aud boxes can be freed from ants by
drawing wide chalk mark just around the
edge of the top of them. The mark must
be unbroken, or they will creep over in,
but a continuous chalk line half an inch in
width will set their depredatiors at naught.
Powdered alum or borax will keep the
chintz bug at a respectable distance, aud
travellers should always carry packa ge of
it in their hand bags, to scatter over and
under their pillows, in places where they
have reason TO suspect the presence of
such bedfclIows.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26

Recent evidence about the last allied war
against China shows that at the taking of the
summer palace one building was full of silks,
the produce of tax which requires every
manufacturer to send in the first piece he
makes of each sort A part of these were used
instead of ropes, which were wanting, to pick
ct the French horses. Then there was a palace
full of drawings, series of four Thousand,
illustrating the whole history of China. The
soldiers, ignorant of their value, trod them
under foot and used them for kindling fires
Then there was the carriage palace, in which
were found the magnificent coaches which
were presented to the Emperor of China by an
English embassy in 1918. Since then they had
never been used. The iron work was loose,
and the leather had become hard and brittle as
wood. One palace was full of furs.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26

A New York Assemblyman broke out as
follows about the death of Sumner "Riv-
ers shall yet flow, lakes shall sparkle, and
broad oceans roll where rock ribbed noun
tains now rear their frownng height to
heaven over sites where populous cities
now stand, trackless forests shall again be
spread; those mysterious pyramids ofEgppt,
against which the pillows of time have
dashed for SO many centuries, shall yet
bow their proud antiquity and faud burial
in the black ocean of oblivion copstela-
tons that DOW blaze on high will fade from
the azure fields they beautify, and new
born gloIies shall, in the armament, de-
clare the star-wrt couusels of the living
God but he to whose memory we are met
to night torender the humble tribute of
our love, has left name that shall mark
the destroying influence of ages-a record
that, rising like bow of glory DER his
grave, shall track its imperial arch through
time, and, bending beyond the skies, shall
reach into eternity"
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26

Senator Jones, of Nevada, who quite as
tonished the Senate with his recent sound
speech on the finances, in which he so badly
worsted Mr.. Morton, is burly, broad
shouldered gentleman, about forty years of
age. A native of Wales, he was taken to
Ohio when year old, and went to the
Pacific coast when gold was first discovered
there. After having served in both inches
of the California Legislature be removed in
1860 to Nevada, where in tine he became
the proprietor of stock in a silver niue
which yields an annual profit of five million
dollars. "Pelley," of the Boston Journal,
writes: 90 1t is long time siBce maiden
speech has produced such an impression in
the senate chamber, and when Mr.. Jones
concluded he received quite an ovation"