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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
Eating and Dyspepsia.

IT is an old German adage that "more
people dig their own graves with their
teeth than with spades" and verify 1t
wGuld seem so if we would look at the
immense number of dyspeptics, rheu-
matte and gouty individuals, creeping
through life in pain and wretchedness.
Yet II is next to impossible TO induce
even thinking people to control their APP
petites, and TO eat such things and at
such times as nature shows them is
necessary and right DR.. Hall declares
unhesitatingly that 1t is wrong to eat with
out an appetite, for 1t shows there is no
gastric iuice in the stomach, and that
nature does not need food, and, not need
ing IL, there being no fluid TO receive and
act upon il, it remains there only TO putri-
fy, the very thought of which should be
sufficient TO deter any man from eating
without an appetite the remainder of his
life. III tonic Is taken TO whet the ap-
petite 1t is mistaken course, for its only
result is to cause one to eat more when
already an amount has been eaten beyond
what the gastric juice is able to prepare.
The object 10 be obtained is large sup
ply of gastric juice; whatever fails to ac-
cOmplish that essential object fails TO
have any efficacy toward the cure OF dys-
peptic diseases, The formation of gastric
juice is directly propOrtloned to the wear
and tear of the system, which II is TO be
the means OF supplying, and this wear
and tear can only take place as the result
of exercise. The efficient remedy for
dyspeptics is work-out-door work-ben-
ehciaI and successful in direct proportion
as II Is agreeable, interesting and protta-
ble.,-RtraL RsD Y0rk1r.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
COptic Weddings.

A GENTLEMAN who witnessed Coptic
wedding in Cairo says that when the two
brides entered the room they were guided
TO their places. There was not the slight
est sign of recognition between them and
their respective bridsgrooms, and from
the beginning TO the end there was no
more sign of life in them than If they had
been two mummies. There was great
deal of swinging of censors, and the
priests, one after the other, read and
spelled ceremony in Coptic, a language
that is little understood even by the Copts
themselves; but il was not until the SER
vice drew TO close that anything was
said TO the two couples, when an en-
broidered scarf of some rich texture was
handed to the officiating clergyman, and
this he bound round the head of the
bridegroom, and then passing il directly
from the crown of his head repeated the
process of winding it about the head of
the bride. Afler this the priest placed a
kind OF crown or frontal diadem of gold
on the head of each person, which was
worn until the conclusion of the ceremony.
The priest also received and blessed two
rings in each case, for the bridegroom and
bride, and then, after what appeared to be
an eXhOrtation, the brides were led away
by their attendants, and the two bride
grOoms descended TO attend the entertain
ment Of their guests.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.


OUTSIDE of her own home isles, Great
Britain wields scepter over 203 900, 900
subjects.
FRoM the Girard estate in the coal re-
gion of Pennsylvania, $500, ,3j4 tons of
coal have been mined.
The cost of constructing the Suez
Canal was $98 800 900. The original es-
innate was $40, 100000.
THERE are in Austria 800 900 Jews, but
only 1000 in the army these figures have
surprised the Government, and inquiry
has been ordered.
THE Spanish army has n Generals, 1870
Lie,tenant Generals, and 1886 Major Gen
Gan SIals. There are also 1900 Brigadier
i'io 'nd several privates.
HERE a, now 1876 officers in the regu-
lar army VINO 1--we, uy long and meritori-
gus service, anu " virtue OF their intelli-
the ranks.
TWENTY THOUSAND t,uR HUNDRED
AND TEN people, mostly Agricultural la
borers, settled in Canada last yS.r oc,ainst
39,313 the previous year Only % 91I
passed through the States.
DR.. S. WILLIAMS, who has Just re-
turned home from long residence i'm
women in that country not more than
few thousand can read or write
In England lastyear there died GIG people
aged ninety y-fiVe years and more, of whom
4S6 were women. OF these, eightv-nine
had attained 100 years or more, and it is
very remarkable that no less than seventy
nine Of this number were females.
ACCORDING to a French statistician.
taly In fltn, &c
Of fifty years of age has slept 6,000 days,
worked $500 DAYS, walked 500 days
amused himself 1000 days, was eating
800, was sick 500 days, etc. He has
eaten 1900 pounds of bread, 10000
pounds OF meat, 1000 pounds of vegeta-
bles, eggs and fish and drank 900 gallons of
liquid, viz, water, coffee, tea, beer, wine,
ETC., altogether. This would make re.
spectacle lake of 300 square feet surface
and three feet deep, onwhich small steam
boats could navigate. And all this makes
up the routine of an average mans life.
TIE London Daily News publishes the
following synopsis of the annual product
of gold and silver from all sources for the
last twenty-five years: The quinquennial
average production of gold from 1852 to
1856 was e29, 900, 900; from 1857 to 1861,
e24, 800, ,000 from 1862 to 1866, e22, ,700,-
600; from 1867 to 1871, Goa, COO, 900; and
from 1871 to 1875, e2O, 400, 900; thus show
ing steady decrease, while the opposite
is the case with silver, viz: 1926, eS,-
100, 900; 1S57-'61, sc, 200, 900; 1S62-'66,
GO, 300 600; 1S67-'71, e10,6O0,00O; and
1915, e13,900,0O0. The Neos attri-
butes the great fall III silver, which
amounts to threepence in the rupee, or
about twelve per cent in India, to IFS in
creasing disuse, while the reverse holds
good of gold.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

championship. The former won by a
score of GOO TO 459. There was heavy
betting both at Paris and New York
AT caucus of Democratic members OF
Congress, on the evening Of the 31st ult.,
for the purpose of selecting managers to
conduct the impeachment trial Of ex.
Secretary Belknap before the Senate, the
following named gentlemen were chosen
by ballot: Lord, Mcmahon, Knott, LyndC
and jerks, Democrats, and Wheeler and
Hoar, Republicans.
Mr.. G. L. BELL, of Jackson, Miss,
testified before Clymer's investigating
committee, on the 31st ult., that he had
once been asked by Secretary Belknap to
pay $4,000 for post-tradership, but had
refused to do so. He also stated that he
had been hired by Col. Babcock, while on
the Pension Office pay-rolls as a clerk, to
purloin documents and otherwise cripple
Col. Dyer in the prosecution of the Bah
cock case at st. Louis.
A LONDON dispatch of the 1st an
nounces the closing of three of the large
iron establishments in Sheffield, Eng, ow-
ing to the great depression in the iron
trade. All the other mills there have
largely reduced the wages of their opera
tives.
LIEUT.. CAMERON, the African explorer,
reached Liverpool, England, on the I'd.
THE sixty.second birthday of Prince
Bismarck was celebrated at Berlin on the
1st
GEN. RICE, Washington attorney, was
before the sub. Judiciary Committee on
the 1st, and stated that he had received
compensation for four post-traderships
which he had procured for other parties,
but denied that Secretary Belknap had
been aware of such compensation, or had
shared the proceeds with him.
THE office of the United States Express
Company at Akron, Ohio, was robbed on
the night of the 31st ult. Of money to the
amount of $3.50 or $4,000.
ABOUT half of the business portion
of Paramount, w. Va, was recently de-
stroyed by fire, twenty-three buildings be-
ing burned. Loss about 1925, ,000
THE Mexican revolutionists under Diaz
captured the city of Matamoras, on the
morning of the I'd, without much fighting
1t appears that Gen. Toledo, the second in
command of the Government troops there,
turned traitor, and Gen. La Barra, the
Commander in Chief finding his forces
demoralized, fled across the river into
Texas.
THE Connecticut State election was held
on the Sd, and resulted in the success of
the Democratic ticket In 137 towns In
gersoll (Dem) for Governor has AZ 400
votes; Robinson (Rep) 36,5T7; Smith
Pro.) 1850; Atwater Currency Reform)
SCI. Legislature Democratic In the
third District Wait (Rep) is elected TO
Congress over Wells Dem.) to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of Mr..
Starkweather
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
The Travels OF Plants.

Alexander brought rice from Persia to
the Mediterranean, the Arabs carried it to
Egypt, the Moors to Spain, the Spaniards
to America Lucullus brought the cherry
tree (Which takes its name from Cerasus,
the city of Pontus, where he found it,) to
Rome, as a trophy of his Mithridatic
campaign; and 120 years later, or in A.
d. as, as Pliny tells US, it was carried to
England Caesar is said to have given
barley to both Germany and Britain. Ac-
cording to Strabo, wheat came originally
from the banks of the Indus, but it had
reach, d the Mediterranean before the
dawn of authentic history. Both barley
and wheat came to the New World with
its conquerors and colonists, and the
maize which they found here soon went
to Europe in exchange. 1t was known in
Englandi less than fifty years after the
discovery of America; ii was introduced
to the Mediterranean countries by way OF
Spain at the end of the sixteenth century,
and the Venetians soon carried it 10
the Levant. Later it travelled up the Dan
ube to Hungary, and gradually spread
eastward to China. While it was thus
invading the regions formerly devoted to
rice, the latter, as we have said, was es-
tablishing itself in this country.
The sugar-cane, which, with its sweet
product, was known TO the Greeks and
Romans only as a curiosity, seems to have
been cultivated in india and China from
the earliest times. Its Introduction into
Europe was one of the results of the CRU
sades, and thence it was transplanted TO
Madeira, ard early in the sixteenth cen
tury from that island to the West Indies.
The original home of King Cotton" was
probably in Persia or India, though it is
also mentioned in the early annals Of
Egypt, and had spread throughout Africa
in very ancient times.
The potato was found in Peru and Chill
by the first explorers of those countries,
who soon carried it to Spain. 1t is said
to have reached Burgundy in 1860, and
Italy about the same time. 1t appears to
have been brought from Virginia TO Ire
land by Hawkins, slave-trader, in 1865;
and to England in 1885 by Drake, who
presented some tubers to Gerard, who
planted them in his garden in London and
described the plant in his Herbal, and it
was also introduced by Raleigh at about
the same date. But It was slow to attract
attention, and it was not till nearly a cen
tury later that it began to be much cult
vated. IL 1868 the Royal Society pub
lished rules for its culture. and from that
time it rapidly gained favor. The Dutch
carried it TO the Cape Of Good Hope in
1900, and thence it made its way to India.
Journal Of ChemiStry
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
Farragut Lashed to the Rigging.

REAR-ADMIRAL JENKINS writes to Ap,
pleton's Journal: AT a. NJ. Aug. 5, 1864
that portion of Admiral Farraguts fleet
which had been previously selected to
pass Forts Morgan and Gaines, and to at
tack the Confederate iron-clad Tennessee
and gunboats in Mobile Bay, got under
way and proceeded according to orders.
AS the leading essel got within range OF
the guns of the fort, water. and lighthouse
batteries, and both sides had opened fire,
Admiral Farragut ascended the starboard
mizZen rigging (shrouds) of the Hartford
to about midway between the mizzen-tOp
and hammock.rail, or poop-deck, of the
vessel. The starboard side of the vessel
faced the enemy's batteries, while the
enemy's vessels were nearly ahead, and
firing raking shot. The late Captain
Percival Drayton, then in command of
the Hartford, and at the same time Ad
miral Farragut's Chief Of Staff, observ
ing the position of the Admiral in th c
mizzen- rigging and nearly over his head,
and considering the position very dan
gerous one, owing to the great liability OF
the rigging (shrouds) to be cut from under
his feet or above where he was holding
on with one hand, very quietly ordered
the signal quartermaster, whose station in
battle was near him, to get piece OF
small stuff (small line or rope) and go up
and pass il around the Admiral's body
and the shrouds. This duty the Quarter
master performed so quietly and gently
that the Admiral was not at the moment
aware of what was being done for his
safety. These details were given to me
by my late friend Capt. Drayton, few
hours after the action in Mobile Bay end
ed. The gallant and lamented Capt.
Drayton is not able TO verify his narrative,
but it is probable the cool old signal quar-
termaster is yet living, and, doubt not,
if he be able, that he will confirm what
have related.
1t is well remembered in the navy that
in 1862, when Admiral Farragut in the
Hartford passed, with part of his then
fleet, the Confederate batteries at Vicks-
burg, he took about the same position in
the mizzen-rigging of the vessel which he
subsequently occupied in the action in
Mobile Bay, on the morning of Aug. 5,
1864, and that during the action raking
shot or shell struck the forward part of
the shrouds below the Admiral, cutting
away all of them but two or three. Had
all of the shrouds been cut away at that
time, the Admiral would almost certainly
have been knocked into the river and
drowned, or on board and probably killed
by the fall. 1t was, therefore, very natural
that considerate and careful officer, like
Capt. Drayton, knowing rs we all knew,
the Admiral's apparent total Obliviousness
of mis- own risks and dangers, should have
kept watchful eye upon the Admiral's S
movements about the vessel while in ac-
ton
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

cared for you, till was afraid had lost
you forever"
&c &c am glad you didn't come, Nellie 1t
was was post bitter medicine, but needed It,
innnIoS amu SS-Nuld not have got my lesson half
iealneu, il,l Elw we will be so good and
lopinS od W. snia' ,1 more than make our loss
the dear old ada davs 81 Wyliing down at her as in
for that home which We ~ he he brightor .
and dearer than ever hCoe W Was II hefnro snr1'
In this very room they Id taken tho
solemn vow to love and ch,.;sh aonb &
other, years ago. Tonight, they i1,oated vde =
ii before God, with better idea oi ;ts
meaning, and firm resolve to keep it til
death should part them.
A few days more and they were back in
their own home, doubly dear in that it had
so nearly gone from their grasp forever
As the years 60 by, and they are more and
more united, Nellie wonders If she ever
came so near losing her happiness, and il
John Eaton ever needed his lesson. ~
Elizabeth Wood, in Western Rural.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

The highest clerical salary paid in
New York is said to be that of the Rev
Morgan Dix, of Trinity Church, who gets
$4,000. In England salaries are higher.
The Archbishop of Canterbury gets about
$75, 900 a year, and the humblest Bishop
about $4,000. Deans get from $4,000 TO
SIS 600, and CanOns about the same. But
some of the rural clergy and those in the
smaller towns receive salaries which keep
them and their families down almost to a
starvation point.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
The Floods of New England.

BosToN, March "a.
THE damage by the freshet on Saturday
over New England must have been over
81 100000, and perhaps dozen lives
were lost. Miniature Mill-River disasters
were seen on all sides. The city was com
paratively unharmed, choked sewers and
cesslpools being the worst damaged. At
Clinton, Messy Pond, which furnishes a
broad plateau of $50 acres, gave way and
was soon drained A tannery was knocked
from its foundation, four tenement houses
hoated off, and 100 rods of fence and
road were washed away. At Fullerville
the wooden mill buildings were swept
away and not a vestige left. The damage
in the Shetucket, Quinebang, and Yontie
Valleys alone was hundreds of thousands.
In Norwich the churches were deserted and
thousands were excitedly helping 10 save
property. AT the foot of Shetucket-street
Hill the water was two feet deep, and on
the wharves themselves, ordinarily eight
feet or more above the water, men were
navigating in boats and on rails. The
Baltic dam gave way at about noon, and
soon the stream began to rise rapidly, and
on It's foaming bosom came down bales of
cotton, whisky Barrels, a buZZ-saw and
tables and all sorts of furniture. The
water was thirteen inches higher than in
the great flood of 1857, and five inches
higher than in 1907, when there was a
destructive freshet at Baltimore. A boat
was capsized and four lives lost at Yer
sailles. Mrs. Coleman, who had become
a mother but three days before, jumped
from window and was drowned with
her babe. AT Taftville George Blackman
was caught while in boat, with the debris,
and borne helplessly over the dam, stand
ing erect.
Details continue to be received of losses
by Saturdays storm. Dams continued
breaking yesterday and to-day. Losses
in the nefghborhood of Clinton, Mass,
aggregate $3.50, 900, and about Norwich,
Conn, to-day, five men were drowned by
the washing away of dam embankment
which they were Strengthening. The ag-
gregate loss in New England is enormous
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
Plant n Centennial Tree.

In Connecticut, the Secretary of the
Board of Education has issued call upon
the people, urging each one to plant a
Centennial Tree. This is good sugges-
tion, Trees, in civilized community,
are evidences of good taste, refinement
and culture. They are handsome and
valuable. The tree planted to-day, will
afford pleasure TO thousands of admiring
eyes during the coming century of our
nations existence and confer untold
blessings upon coming generations. The
tree planted this year, will be preserved
and cared for by all. The knowledge that
ii was planted upon the Tooth anniversary
of American independence, would cause
all to watch it with peculiar interest
Plant tree, then; it will do good.-
Toledo Blade.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

Iron filings are recommended in all
the books for making magnetic curves,
but eNpcrimenteTs have found that mag
netic oxide OF iron is much 70 be pre-
ferred for this purpose, II is easily pull
verired 10 any desired degree Of 1neness,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

1t has begun 70 dawn upon the edu-
Gated minds of Europe that in the matter
of school books America is far ahead of
the Old World, where conservative intiu.
ences have resisted innovations and
changes which our experience has shown
TO be great improvements on the old sys-
tenn OF instruction. This has lately been
conceded in marked manner in the able
report on the educational department of
the recent Vienna Exposition, made by
Nj. Buisson, Fellow of the University Of
France. The school books exhibited by
American publishers attracted great at
tention and were made a special study by
those who were interested in popular edu.
cation,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE steamer Jowad was recently
wrecked in the Arabian Sea. She had
500 pilgrims ON board, and of these only
three escaped
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

The largest soap boiler in the world
probably, may be seen at the corner oi
West and Washington streets, New York
1t will hold 1,200,O0 pounds of soap. Il
was built in 1872, and is constructed ol
wrought iron. It extends from the ground
floor of the building up through five
stories, and is quite curiosity in its line
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

." Two INDICTED whisky men, Adler and
Furst, have been convicted on fifty-seven
counts at st. Joseph, Mo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

The French Senate has unanimously
approved the bill raising the state of siege
throughout France.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE New Jersey Democratic State Con-
vehtion, for the selection of delegates to
the National Convention, has been called
to meet at Trenton on the 23d of May.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

A RESOLUTION in favor of woman-suf.
frage was recently defeated in the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives, by a
vote OF 1877 to n.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

How to make good thing last-Make
everything else trst,-N y, Commercial
AdpatIser
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

If men would set good examples they
might hatch better habits,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

BoTH houses of the Massachusetts
Legislature have passed the bill to legal
ize the marriage Of Mr.. James Parton
and the niece of his former wife, now
deceased
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

FoBR of the sixteen boilers belonging
to the Fletcher mill, at Providence, r. L.,
exploded few mornings ago, killing two
men and wounding more or less seriously
n number of others.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE jury in the case of Pahlman and
Rush, on trial in Chicago for whisky
frauds, have rendered verdict of guilty
on four of the six counts of the indict-
ment against them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention appointed by the recent
Mississippi State Convention are unin-
structed as regards candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice. President Among the dele
gates are ex-Gov. Ames, Senator Alcorn
and eX-Gov. Powers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

ELIZABETH T. GREENFIELD, the colored
singer, known throughout the country a
few years ago, under the name of the
BLACK Swan" died recently at Philadel-
phia, at the age Of sixty eight years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

Gov. KELLOGG has accepted the resig-
nation of b. T. Beauregard, the obnoxious
colored tax collector at Baton Rouge, La,
and appointed Henry B. Bobbin to sue.
ceed him.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

The organization of British rifle team
to participate in the Centennial shooting
matches at Philadelphia, has been aban-
doned, in consequence of the separate
action of the Scotch and Irish Rifle Asso-
ciatiOns.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

The debt statement shows a reduction
of the public debt during the month OF
$4,240,SG6. Cash in the Treasury, coin,
$7s,756, 1914; currency, 1906, ,626; special
deposits for the redemption of certificates
of deposit, $34, ,23O, 900. Debt less cash
in Treasury, $2,110,719, ,439.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE complete vote for Governor in New
Hampshire, at the recent election, was as
follows Cheney (Rep.) 41,765; Marcy
Dem.), 3S,12S; Kendall and scattering,
305. Total, S0,28S.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

By the explosion of locomotive boiler
on the Glasgow & Southern Railroad, in
Scotland, few days ago, five persons
were instantly killed and nine others bad.
ly injured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-04-07

THE substitute for Senator Morton's
resolution calling for an investigation of
the election in Mississippi, recently adopt
ed by the United States Senate, provides
for the appointment of committee of
five Senators to conduct such investiga-
ton