davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
Marrying In Fun.

THERE were some momentous calls
made on New Years Day by residents Of
Knderhook village. Some of its golden
youth drove hence to Chatham to see the
new year in at the hospitable mansion OF
Miss Anna Clifford. All went merry as,
not one, but two, marriage bells-as it
turned out. The fun was fast for awhile.
Young America hit upon an idea "Saay,
telleTs, let's have IA -rcddin'in The
young ladies said The idea was perfectly
splendid! Then they said: "Oh! But
who'll get marriedY' ~ will" said
young Perrine, son of that effective Dem
ocratic campaigner, E. o. Perrine, Clerk
OF the Court of Appeal, He Stood up like
a Chicagoan, as if he were used TO It.
"Oh, yes, and Lizzie, you must be the
brides This was Miss Lizzie Lee, who
lives near Troy, but was on a visit to her
aunt, Mrs. Bradley, of Kinderllook. Miss
Lizzie required the usual amount of per
suasion. But she blushingly took her
place ut last. The ladies said: "Oh,
won't it be funi Let's have two coupler
And so young Mix, son of James Mix, an
Albany ieweler, who lives in Kinderhook,
stood up. The choice of his partner was
not so unanimous as in the first case but
Miss Lizzie Dennis, of Undertook, was
finally persuaded to personate the second
bride. The places of bridesmaids and
groomsmen were quickly supplied. Upon
Mr.. Cole, a school-teacher here, fell natu
rally the lot Of reading the marriage
service. He did it as one ordained to the
office. When he said Whom God hath
joined together let no man put asunder,"
the ladies would have looked solemn if
the young gentlemen had not Just then
been insisting that no wedding ceremony
can be complete without kissing the
bride. Soon after the village church bells
had Tung their centennial chimes the
youthful party drove gayly to their homes.
The ladies gave an animated descrip-
ton next day of the loveliness of the
brides and the solemnity of the ceremony.
1t had looked, they vowed and declared,
just for all the world like marrying in
real earnest if they were going to be mar
ried tomorrow they wouldn't ask to be
married more delightfully."- than Mr.. Cole
had done it. "Whut! not the Rev Mr..
Cole here ?" asked mamma. "Why, Mr..
Cole, the teacher.n "Why, what do you
meanY Don't those silly girls know that
Mr. Cole is a real minister? Why, what
ever have they been thinking about? e.
Mammas dropped in on each other and
compared notes. 1t was even so. Only
two years ago the Rev. r. H. Cole ex-
changed his calling as an expounder of
texts for that of propounder of arithmeti-
cal problems at Undertook. The young
sters that had thus been playing with
matrimonial fire had burned their fingers
on the Rev. Cole.
Whether the young lady will be able to
stay Mrs. Perrine is not known as yet. In
the other case it is said there must be
divorce, Mr. Mix being engaged to
young lady living near Hudson.-Ne,o
York Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
Sanitary Measures.

Mr. Murdock, of Columbia street, read
an item in that excellent paper, the Hack
Eye, a few days ago, which cautioned
people who used coal stoves in their
houses TO always leave window open at
night 10 secure themselves from the in
furious and often fatal effects of coal gas.
Mr.. Murdock has a coal stove in every
room in his house, and it struck him that
this advice, like everything which appears
in the Hack Eye, was good. So last
night he went TO the window of his bed
room, after suppressing the illumination,
and prepared to raise it. Ii was frozen
in its place, but Mr.. Murdoch made a
violent effort and up IL came with Jerk
Now, he did not notice that Mrs. MurdOck
had whole row of house plants cOlOnizcd
on the top of that window, and conse-
quently he was entirely unprepared for
the events that followed the abrupt move
ment of the window, and Mrs. Murdock
had not the Temotest idea that her hus-
band was going to raise the window, and
consequently she was entirely unprepared
for the events that succeeded the turning
out of the light Those events were
chiefly as Follows: A huge balm gerani-
S%, SEI iR 2 POI lof earth weighing neSrly
on the bald spot, dropping him neatly,
and when he lay prone ON his back shout
ing " Murder! murdvrF' he was bonn
barded by choice assortment of
fuchsias, carnations, begonias, tea roses,
and a lot of things he didn't
know the names Of, which pounded
him in every accessible portion of his
anatomy, emptied7 sand and black dirt in
his ears, jammed trellis sticks into him
and distributed lots of scale bugs and
plant-a.insCcts all over him, while a
,vIcious-looking old cactus pumped down
under his arm and jabbed his arm pits so
full of little prickles that he felt like Q pin
cushion. And Mrs. Murdock, who is'one
ofyour resolute women, ,thought her hus-
band was assailed by burglars; so she
raised a cry for the police, and entrenching
herself between the dressing bureau and
the wasli- stand opened CALLING and in the
main a very effective fire in the general al.
rection Of the melee, with perfumeyy bottles
soap-dishes, hard-backed hair-brushes,
cakes Of scented soap, high rheeled slip.
pers and articles of wearing apparel, rolled
up in compact spheres Explanations
ensued when the other members of the
family, startled by the DIN; came in with
lights. Mrs. Murdock calmly EXPRESSED
her opinion that her husband was a
donkey and the Hdpk-Eye was a mischief.
making nuisance aud the wounded man
after taking bath and pulling prlckles
out of his aTm.pits until he was sleepy,
went TO bed, meek ly expressing his Opin.
ion that he ewOuld rather have a case of
delirium tremens in the family thanla lot
of house plants.-BUrltRgtoa Hd,ok-Eye.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
A PAIR OF APRIL FOOLS.

Mr. SoFTHEART had always been a
romantic young man, from the earliest
years at which it was possible for him TO
claim the title man. and ne was romantic
still, now that the title young was only
accorded TO him because of his bachelor
hood.
Mr.. Softheart had never desired to be a
bachelor. He admired the other sex too
much; but, although he had been in love
with four blondes, three brunettes, and
five young ladies who were neither one
nor the other, he had never been able to
pop the question point blank, but delicate
ly hinted it in such way that his mean
ing would have been a riddle to the
Sphinx, and was naturally enough never
successful -t
Now, at forty, and CROWN extremely
stout, he was as romantic as ever; and
moreover, he was desperately in love with
a new idol--a young lady who smiled
when he appeared, gave him soft glances,
called his bouquets lovely" and pre-.
served them in water! srt
The fact is, Mr.. Softheart was very well
off, and not illSoking, and that Miss
Belinda had made up her mind to accept
his hand whenever it was offered, despite
the persistent attentions of young Mr..
ppOullSy, NilD1 tllouSh NY uO Hichnb ILL
looking, and just six-aDd twenty, was
only Government clerk, and by no
means as eligible match in consequence.
For six months Belinda Fellows had
been waiting for Mr.. SoftheaIt to propose,
and every day more certain that he posi-.
lively intended to place his mansion and
bank account at her disposal. .....
But, though Mrs. Bellows was kind
enough to allow the cook TO summon her
to consultations when Mr.. Softheart
called, and so leave the pair alone to-
gether; and although Belinda's sister,
Miss Angelina, was equally considerate,
and invariably remembered that some
thing she wanted very particularly was
upstairs when her mother went TO speak
to the cook, poor Mr.. Soltheart never
could bring himself TO the point of say
ing; "Will you have me?" II would,
he argued, confuse the young lady and
himself; and If she should say no, where
las the floor never opened ON such aw-
ful occasions to receive rejected lovers
where should he hide himself?
IN do it by letter." he said to him
self, afler long consideration. Women,
SO far, have misunderstood me. I'll do il
in black and white now-say 'Will you
marry me p in so many words, and decide
my fate"
And so, on the last day of March, Mr..
Softheart wrote, on pink-timed paper,
perfuined with Rimmers scent and edged
with gold, an offer of his hand and heart,
as plainly TO be understood as the bill
from ones baker; and, feeling that he
had done safe, though coarse, thing, he
enveloped, sealed ii, and put 1t in his
pocket before he made his evening call
on his beloved Belinda. 'i
Now it so happened that that very
evening Belinda herself had come to a
resolution, Her tweny-tiith birthday was
approaching, and she could not afford TO
waste time.n irH |
; When Mr. Sonheart reached the house
of the Bellows he found the field quite
clear. Miss Belinda had artfully con.
tsiyed that il should be SO. That per-
idlous young person had actually pur,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

to anyone again. He received the news
Of Belinda's betrotbaI with comparative
calmness, but made his will next day in
view of suicide, and left all his fortune to
a hospital. Changing his mind, however,
he lives still, and so does Belinda. on n
second floor, where she quarrels good
deal with her husband, who has eased to
bc at all attentive and wonders vaguely
what he could have meant by it-meaning
his courtship and marriage l t'ft
And Mr.. SOfthenrt never secs Belinda,
who would be handsome still in decent
bonnet; and Belinda never sees The old
bachelor, whom she really liked, and who
is fine-looking as well as rich, without
bitter remembrance of the first of April
which made them and has leftthem a pair
of April Fools. sitI a7.lf-f 'W
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
fOhrSEedsTE[ e9NstEss.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19.-Twenty-one pc
titions from citizens Of Ohio were presented in
tbeSenate asking for aid In the construction Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr.. Davis reso-
luton for q special committee TO Investigate
the books and ACCOUNTS of the sirRoasury
Department was taken M. and furthtf de-
bateds the pending question being mo.
ton 10 amend by refernnes the subject to
the Finance Committee. Nbill was passed
AmendatOry of the act OF June 20, 1874,
amending the charter of the Freedmen's
Savings and Trust Company and for other pur.
his fesoluuoR relative to the Mississippi ec-
Hon. !. Al consti tutiOnAl amendment was in rO-
duced in the House providing against the enact
ment by Congress of any special or local law,
where general law can be made applicable, In
regard TO granting pensions, bounties, lands, re-
lief to individuals, etc, and leaving TO the courts
10 determine whether any special law could be
embraced In a general enactment. The Cenien-
nial Appropriation bill was further considered In
Committee Of the Whole, hessrs. Phillips of
Kansas, Harrison, Kelley, Reagan OF Texas and
Frye speaking In support OF, and Messrs. Coch-
rane and Tucker In opposition to, the measure.
y THURsDAYFJan. 70. Various petitions
were preseated ln the senate taking lof a repeal
Of the law reqnltine . two cent stamp TO be
afixed to bank checks. Mr.. Morton continued
his remarke on his Mississippi resolution. Bills
were lntT0duoed-tD amend tne Pacihcl Railway
acts Of July and July q 1854; to provide for
challenge. to Jurors In trials for bigamy and
polygamy in the Territory OF Utah. aud to amend
Sec. ofthe act In regard 10 courts and judicSl
ONCE in the Territory OF Utah, approved
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
Making the Most Of a Steer.

AT the abattoirs of New York there is
nothing of steer lost after it is slaugh-
tered; every part OF its substance is used
for some purpose, even to the blood. The
handling of the bullocks after they are
penned up for slaughter is thus described
by a correspondent of the New York
Bulletin
The way they kill steer is this: A
man gets in behind the steers and throws
rope around the hind leg of one. Then
he signals two men who pull ON a wind
lass till the head of the steer is above the
ground. Then the throat is cut and the
blood flows into pans. A steer generally
gives three panfuls of blood. Then The
lot of savages the skinner, logger and
entrail drawer-pounce upon the carcass
as very hungry man assails beefsteak,
and in very short time IL is carcass of
dressed beef, ready for market. The
butchers pay rental for pens for storage
and slaughter, and bring their stock over
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
"The Abattoir Company make every
thing pay profit. They salt the hides
down long enough to set the hair. Then
they shake out the salt and ship them to
Europe and all parts of the United States.
The unstable portions of the hides are
made into glue, the horns into buttons,
combs, etc, and the inside of them into
bone lime; the bones into various articles
OF commerce. The fat is rendered and
the Offal made into a fertilizer at The
MeadoWs-a station about four miles out
on the road from Jersey City, where the
hog abattoir and the repair shops are
situated.
"The blood is poured from the pans
into iron tanks and run under ckme-
pipe to cook 1t goes up an elevator and
down the chute, then TO dryer, and by
various systems of manipulation finally
reaches the stage where il is reduced go
per cent. and contains II per cent. ammo
mia. 1t is almost an impalpable powder,
and is worth fifty dollars per ton. This
place turns out a ton and a half of il per
day. @ Pa arrI
"The Abattoir Company do not allow
anything pieces, bones, horns,
blood or offal of any kind-to be thrown
away, because there is money in every
particle of the beef. They have the offal
and bones carted away to their destina-
tiops-the bone factory and fertilizing es-
tablishment-immediately upon the accu-
mutation of carload, and the place is
cleaned up every day. r
"The theory that filth congregates
about an abattOir, or that the river is
filled up by the offal thrown overheard,
is dispelled by the facts. The Board of
Health of Jersey City are convinced that
there is nothing about a well-conducted
abattoir that is deleterious to the public
health"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

"A little controversy regarding the
relative strength of the lion and tiger has
been sustained among certain correspond
ents TO Mature. The latest writer-Mr
Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin
declares that every person well acquainted
with both animals will concede that the
tiger is the stronger. Mr.. Haughton
states that the strength of the lion in the
fore-limbs is only 500 per cent. Of that of
the tiger, and that the strength Of the
hind legs is only $50 per cent. Of that OF
the tiger, may add" he says, THAT
five men can easily hold down lion,
while Il requires nine men 10 control
tigersl Martial also, states that the tiger
always killed the lisns in the amphitheater
The lion is in truth a pretentious hum
bug, and owes his reputation to his i'm
posing name, and he win run away like
whipped cur under circumstances in
which the tiger will boldly attack and
kill" s7fti.r
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

FIvEchildren of Mr.. Alexander Ellerbe,
of Marion, s. g., were burned to death, a
few days ago, in their fathers house,
which was destroyed by fire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE failure of large silk.housc, with
over $1,0O0,00O liabilities, was announced
from Lyons, France, onsthe 18th.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE corpse of the late Chevalier Rossi
was publicly crcmated in the Monumental
Cemetery, at Milan, Italy, on the 93d.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

"a MoTnER STEWART, Of Ohio crusade re-
nown, recently made her first appearance
before a London audience, ..s-..
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28
Z CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE Ohio Republican State Convention
. will be eiheld at Columbus on the 29ths Of
March. .atatfO hEn U-E
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

Too many new buildings, and conse-
quently a reduction Of rents, Is one feat.
ture Of the review Of Boston for 1915.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE Berlin police have discovered that
Thomassen, the dynamite ffend, was
charged, in 1866, with scutting ship on
board of which lie had goods insured in
England for se24,0 900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

A PROPOSED political banquet to Gam
betta, al Marsoilles, has been fofbildenb by
the French commander.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention has been called TO meet at
Lancaster on the 22d OF March
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

7 AREcENT Paris telegram says another
conspiracy. against the life of Prince
Milan had been discovered at Belgrade,
and that it had extended so far as TO
menace an insurrection and perhaps
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

g WORK in the anthracite coal mines of
Pennsylvania is to be suspended from Feb
Z to March IL, inclusive. This action has
been taken in consequence of overproduc-
tion and the accumulation of unsold coal
upon the market. - - 2. y
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

sTHB Wisconsin. Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Madi-
sonon the 22d of February, to select dele
gates TO the National Convention and to
nominate State Electoral ticket
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE firm of Jordan, Clark 81 Co., one
of the leading Wholesale clothing firms in
Boston, has suspended, owing to the
Justification of their books by their con-
fidehtial .book-keepcr, Frank Sanford,
who has fed to Canada.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

The Grand jury at Jacksonville, Fla,
makes the following disclosures We
find that there are three prisoners In the
Jail who have been there nearly two years
for the pitiful sum of $40 costs each.
These prisoners have cost the county
nearly 5000. We recommend that the
County Commissioners pay the fines, re-
lease the prisoners and thereby save money
for the county"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE latest counterfeit circular shows
that there are in circulation spurious
bills of the First National Bank of In
dianapolis, the First National Bank of
New Albany and the First National and
Richmond National Of Richmond.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

The Republican members of the Maine
Legislature, in caucus on the evening of
the goth, chose delegates to the Nation
al Republican Convention and unani
mously adopted a resolution in favor of
Hon. James u. Blaine for President of the
United States.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

THE Congressional Texas Border Com
mittce has appointed subcommittee TO
examine the information in the War De-
partment on the subject of raids from
Mexico, etc. The committee will not visit
Texas, but will send there for persons and
papers. a.trr crl,.rfE III
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

GEORGE HENRY JACOBS was hung at
Joliet, H., on the 21st for the murder of
q lis wife on the 26th of last May. Mar
shall Grain, hired assassin of one of the
parties to the Williamson County ven
delta, was also hanged on the 2lst, at
Marion Ill. Ill.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

AT a recent meeting of friends of the
grcenback at Madison, Wis, State Cen
tral Comnittee was appointed, consisting
Of one member from the State-at-large and
ono from each Congressional district. A
committee was also appointed TO draw up
declaration of principles.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

Miss DoNA HERNDoN, residing near
Springfield, H., few days ago spilled
upon her person some burning fluid from
a lamp in her hand and became enveloped
in flame, and was horribly and fatally
burned. On the same day, at Delphos,
Ohio, a saloon-keeper named George
Sheeter poured lot of coal-oil into a
stove to hurry up the fire, and was seri-
ously burned
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

IN. Pupka, of Vienna, has published
an account of his experiments in lining
steam boilers with sheets of copper in
order TO hinder incrustatiOn, He states
that of the three plates which formed the
bottom OF a locomotive boiler the two at
the ends were covered with asheet of cop,
per ,04 inch in thickness, the middle
one being left bare, and the machine was
used steadily for two years, and in dis
tricts where the water is of excessively
bad quality, On removing the tubes a
layer of incrustati0n four inches thick
was. found on the iron, surface while a
deposit varying from only .0S- to .12
inch thick appeared on the copper, The
iron also WAS found eorroded in many
places TO a depth of ,02 inch, but the
copper had remained perfectly clean and
bright M. Pupka states that the texture
of the incrustation showed grains Of a
larger size on the iron than on the cop.
per .'t ~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

A COLLISION recently occurred on the
Great Northern Railway in England,
which caused the death of thirteen per-
sons and injured many others. The col
lision took place in the midst of blind
ing snow-storm. Among those killed was
the son of Dion Boucicault
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-01-28

.i. THE revival meetings of Messrs Moody
and Sankey in Philadelphia have been
brought to a close, Mr.. Moody is re-
ported as saying that he regarded the re-
vival in that city as the most successful
he had ever been Instrumental in effect
ring The number of meetings and Bible
readings held during the eight weeks of
=, their continuance was .249. The grand
} ltoiAljof Attendants upon the services is es
timated at 9OO, 600, comprising some 3OO,
~ 600 different persons, The expenses of
q 4 the revival were about, $50, 900. AT the
Il r closing meeting, held on the evening of
the t0th-tthe twenty first anniversary of
R the Young Mems Christian Association
over 1900 people We're present, and as
many more were turned away, tor want of
room. A collection Of over 100000 was
taken up to aid tie, completion of a new
building for the Y. NJ, C. A. One lady,
whose son had been. converted, sent ms a
thank offering diamond ring, for which
gentleman gave 81 900.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-10

WE ARE AUTHORIZED AND RE.
w quested 10 announce n, A, mcMur-
tray us u candidate for the OtliCe Of city
Secretary, Election Apiil ith.