Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-02-19
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ADO"LiNO ASD. ~ 1910
Ed. JOURNAL :-Something seems to be
the matter with your old correspondent--for
we are only occasionally represented
through the JoURNAL-so if you hear
nothing better from our place this week,
this hasty scrawl is at your service.
The weather has been intensely cold most
OF the time since January lst, with terrific
winds. Guess one of Mark Twain's 'Wahoe
Zephyrs' has emigratcd eastward and given
us call. We call it sleighing, but the sand
and snow is badly mixed on the ridges-a
freak of the aforesaid zepnyrs. This win
ter has been harvest time for the physi-
clan and undertaken, though the deaths
seem chiefly to be among the aged, and those
who were suffering from chronic COM
plants.
Mr.. Bloom, Campbell and Van Comp,
all men of years, have died within the past
week. Will we heed these oft repeated
warnings or wait till the knock is heard at
our doors
Work has stopped on the railroad in con-
sequence OF the cold, so we have not yet
had the big drunk which is pretty sure to
come When il is completed-and which can
only be equaled at a county-seat jollifca-
ton by the victorious party, whether here,
or there.
While our brethren in the West freeze
and starve, we pISte what would sdre them,
in riot and drunkenness. Yet we boast of
our civilization; yea, of our christianity too.
Shame on both.
1t is too late now to have court items in
teresting, yet venture an item or two spite
OF their age. Ills Honor, Judge Pillars, made
a temperance (?) speech here last spring in
which he said that RoW public sentiment il
sufficiently educated to sustain the rigid en-
forcement of the liquor law; and he warned
q liquor sellers that they would, in future,
suffer the extreme penalty OF their crimes.
The temperance people hoped he was honest,
and the crusade revived somewhat, but at
the next january term OF court the old,
old farce was enacted OF trial and convic-
ton at the expense Of the county, followed
by fine of "S5 and costs" and that, too,
on old offenders. How much longer must
our courts of justice (l) he run in the inter-
! ests Of men whose only business is to create
puuptIb ioI tlC BONSiHihOHk W nupPNAbI Va
criminals for il TO convict, while innocent
women and children suffer for the sins OF
others? Two divorce cases-chargc, habit.
ual drunkeness-were charged upon the
crusade by the counsel for defense and an
athamas pronounced upon the authors of
the mischief This very weighty argument
was closed, Il am told by counsel saying
that il his wife was ever fool enough TO join
in such a movement, he would leave her.
A friend at his elbow asked if she had not
already proved ono, by living with him so
long. (Smothered applaus.l
am sorry my letter must have sad
ending, but SO il Is. Some three weeks ago
the editor OF the Bowling Green Democrat
gave evidence of incipient hydrophobia,
manifested by swapping at both friend and
foe through his paper. This alarmed us
somewhat, but then we remembered that he
had shown a strong aversion to water ever
since his sojourn here; and adding TO this
| the fact that we got no paper last week we
suppose the disease has terminated fatally
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