Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-11-12
The . meIancholy daysD haYe--ron,


no doubt are, "truiy thankful."
There is comfort for GoD'spoor in the
fact that potatoes and turnips can be had
this winter for fifteen cents bushel
"A Wood county man raised potato
this year nineteen inches in circumference.
Napoleon Signal.
Which is a fact; and Henry county
man tried 10 raise "beat" weighing l75
pounds but the seat Of his trowers fetched
away and he fell back into the gutter.
We are informed by dealers and ship
pers of slaves that this years crop will fall
short of the average OF recent former
years by at least two-thirds.
Hog cholera among the swine, dipthe-
ria among the children, and epizootic
among the horses, are prevailing to fright
full extent in Logan County.
The stove and some other furniture o.
our Jail was subjected TO a severe Strain on
Tuesday night That stove is now food for
the cupola Of some iron foundry.
Mrs. SUSAN BUTLER vi i'll give porty at
NoRToN's Exchange, for the Young FOLDS
this evening, and II ia hoped that those for
whose ehtertaiament the party is gotten up
will be on hand to the extent of full house.
The top.saiI schooner William Van-
nata was tugged out from our dock on
Tuesday, and sailed for Tonawanda, with
a cargo Of seventy thousand slaves, ship
ped by WILLIAMS Bros, of this place.
AT Piqua, last Sunday morning, the
body of colored woman, named MINER
VA DAVIS, was found in an alley almost in
the center of the city, with her throat cut
wide and deep.
"A little girl in Gallon, Ohio, tied
string to her little brothers tooth, tied the
other end to the stove leg, and then touched
red hot coal to the little victims nose
The tooth came out.
The Tontogany boys purchased the
brass instruments of the Arion Cornet
Band, and have organized Band at that
place, with Prof. WILLIAMS, of Haskins,
as teacher.
We had a week Of glorious Indian
Summer weather, which was shut of by
drizzling rain on Wednesday; and now the
elemental strife seems to be between Indi-
an Summer and Winter, with chances in
favor of the latter.
There were seventy mine deaths from
smallpox in Cincinnati during last month,
nearly all children between the ages of one
and ten years. This was 1875 per cent. of
the total mortality Of the city for the
month.
There are about $50 dogs in Troy that
nobody owns.-Iroy Bulletin.
They make sausages by horsepower
in Upper Sandusky.-W WauseOn EIpositor.
Let Troy send its dogs to Upper Sandus-
ky.
Mr.. FRED YEAoER is carrying fine
stock of sensonable goods and his sales this |
season far exceed that Of any year since he
has been in business. "FRED" is q clever |
gentleman TO deal with and the people are
finding it out, far and near.
Two twelve-wheeled Pullman Palace
sleeping coaches passed northward on the
D. & NJ. road few days since, consigned
to one Of the roads running out of Detroit
They were beauties, and came from the
shops OF BARRY, SMITH g. Co, Dayton.
A hummer in Toledo stole Timber
ger cheese the other day. The authorities,
remembering how the boy served the
skunk, locked the thief and cheese up in
n close cell. We can imagine nothing
more horrible than the situation of that
thief.
"A man in Springfield, Mo-, ventured
to expostulate with his wife, on Saturday
last, in regard to Some points in the archi-
lecture OF shirt that she was making for
him. By way OF reply she seized an AK
and buried the blade in his skull He has
no Use for the garment now, but this brief
domestic lesson should be remembered.
r. r. MILLER & Co. are determined |
to open up in their new and commodious
store roomS by or before the Holidays.
The windows are in and the carpenters and
plnsterers are driving their work along
rapidly, while the debris is being cleared
away and the stone pavement relald, TO
the great satisfaction of pedestrians who
"tip the fantastic toe" on dark nights.
We have reasonto believe that the Bow
ling -Greenhorns have about given up the
hope of retaining the County Seat, and
they have concluded to give PerTvsburg
all the trouble they can, IA a palliative for
their defeat. The fact that they employ
every device, except those used in honora-
BILE warfare, would seem TO prove this
view correct one.
-Perrysburgers, having lost the County
Seat, are now going to save what little they |
have left, by purchasing fire engine
IVauseon Republican.
As an assumption, the above may pass,
but as statement OF fact IL is an egregious
failure. Perrysburgers have not Lost the
County Seat. nor can they, but they pro-
pose 10 riR it at the end of the pres mt con-
test.
We notice that Lecture Associations
are being organized in nearly all the towns
of consequence in Ohio, and it seems to us
there is enough of cultivation, refinement
and taste in our town to insure a paying
attendance on a good course of lectures
during the winter. Let the matter be can
vassed by scme of our leading citizens who
have taste foe ntellectual enterta inments,
and we have no dou5t the enterprise can
be successfully accomplished.
The list Of candidates for starvation
is isbecoming alarmingIy vOluminous There
is scarcely railroad crossing, or turnpike
settlement, or school district, but has its
newspaper" and every crossroads has its
organ" The last candidate that has come
to US "P. X" is the Elmore Rfibxne. As