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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
That "New" Thing in Our Public
Schools.

EDIToR JOuRNAL;-In your reference
TO the public schools Of this village, IN
your issue Of Dec. %, you speak of "the
new system adopted for the government OF
the schools" The Granger OF last Friday,
In referring to the schools, says; "The
scholars have now adapted themselves to
the new regime, and each seems 10 possess
an individual interest in succeeding in
their studies; such being the condition Of
matters, much credit is due Prof. Smith
and his able corps Of teachers in bringing
it about" Taking a deep interest in the
| schools, have been anxious to know what
"new" thing has been introduced which
has created such revolution. BY what
new method is instruction imparted3
have always supposed that study, recitn-
ton, and instruction were the chief metho ods
for storing the minds Of pupils with knowl-
edge. II there is better method-if the
heads Of pupils can be filled with knowl-
! edge by the use OF squirt-gun at each ear
do let us know 1t and not keep US in sus-
pense respecting this wonderful "new
thing. Or, il this "new" thing is n creature
Of the Imagination spirit-form, intro.
| duced for efiect--that fact should be known,
for the reputation Of former teachers in the
| public schools should not be assniled with
out just cause, with the charge that they
failed to interest pupils in the studies pur-
sued. | have no objection TO the use Of
the columns of the JoURNAL and Granger
for the uteranee Of kind and encouraging
words in behalf Of the public schools and
those employed as teachers, but do pro-
test against anything which is calculated
to deceive the public respecting said
schools, and every effort made to build ur
the regulations Of those Of equal merit
who proceeded them.
Again permit me, in behalf Of an anX-
ious public, to call upon you for informa-
ton respecting that "ncw" thing which
has crea ted such a remarkable revelation
in our public schools. OBSERVER.
| PERRYsBURG, Jan. 2, 1877.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
RhcumntiSm.

NEwBCRGn, o., June LIST, 1874.
PETER LAWSON, Esq.-Dear Sir: was
urged by a friend to use "Lawson's Cura-
tive" as have often been afflicted with
Rt,umotism, and | am happy to say it af-
forded me immediate complete relief.
have also seen ittried in cases of Sore Throat,
T6othache and Neuralgia with success. /
give this cheerfnlly, as feel that this rem
edy should be known to all,
Yours, truly, Mrs. II. ?. WAY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
DISASTROUS FIRE AT TOXrOGANY.
whOlc BLOCH Of nuIIdlngs burned.

At 9:30 on Sunday morning last fire
broke out in the grocery store OF S. CooLY,
on Main street, Tontogany, and In two
hours time the entire block Of frame build
ings extending from the corner to the Ack-
ermau House, including two dry goods
stores, one drug store aud postollice, one
grocery store and one tailor shop, WINS en-
tirely consumed. The hotel was consider
ably blackened and had narrow escape.
A resident OF that village furnishes the
following facts and impressions concerning
the losses and origin Of the fire to the To
ledo Commercial:
The drug store Of Black & Ingraham
was not insured-loas on building $2,9OO
on stock $500, and on the household goods
of Mr.. Black, who lived up stairs, $500
The dry goods store Of VIM Allen-loSs
on building $1,000; on stock 5000 no in
surance. Dry goods store Of Geo. Reed
loss on building 81 goo; on stock $500
insurance on building, 5000. The Masonic
lodge room occupied the second floor of Mr.
Reeds building. Lose, 81 200; no insur'
ance. Mr.. Cooly's grocery and building
total loss about 81 200, about equally di
vIded between stock and building; insur-
ance $4,000. A small building used rs a
tailor shop by J. n. Ridgeway-loss, $3.50
No satisfactory cause is assigned Tor the
beginning of the hre-perhnps never will
be. II is a heavy loss to our town, and
especially TO the three first named, who
suffer heavily. Black & Ingraham seem
to he in bad luck, having burned out Al
Cnsiar in September lust, incurring loss
of $4,000.
We learn that most Of the sufferers by
the fire have engaged other buildings NnC
opened up business again. They are no
Of the kind to be intimidsted and discour
aged.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DISSOLUTION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the co7srtner
~ ship hitherto existing between Andrew
Hillabrand and Joseph II Eillabrand, in the rro-
vision X GrOcery Store, was dissolved BY mu-
tull consent on the date hereunto attached.
Nav 22i, 1916. ANDREW tlILLABRASp,
33c JOSEPH IlILLABRAEp.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

Parson BRowNLow is about us lively q
corpse "a that OF the Democracy. He has
been reported ms dead or dying may times,
but he liveth aud writes to the Cleveland
Leader as follows: 1--WE nominate the
corpse OF the Democracy for cremation. 1t
is true its soul will be burned or cremated
in the next world, but ms n sanitary meas
ure let the corpse be burned now. The
hell-deserving party is 40 rotten and cor.
rupt that ii it were buried one hundred
feet under the ground it would still stinl;
and breed pestilence
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

Eighteen Hundred md 1.-THE
Centennial year of American independence
has como and gone-numbcred with the
past, never more to be recalled 1t has left
with us many rccollections that we will be
proud to recall to memory in after years,
aud also many mournful memories will
linger with us, of homes made desolale,
millions reduced to ashes in great conlla-
grations, the fearful sacrifice of human life
on land and sea- As we sicken and turn
from the details of these horrors our eyes
fall upon the new-made graves of some Of
our ablest and best men and women. Let
us hope that the record OF the new year
may not be blackened by 70 many scenes
of horror and crime. Let the good resolves
that are made at the commencement of
every new year be kept, that at the end to
each and all us may be justly awarded
the praise, "Well done, good and faithful
servants"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
NOTICE.

The business interest Of the late DR.. E. D.
Peck will rem,ln with the several firms with
which he was cnnnected.
The Exchange Bank" will continue to do
busin,ss with increased facilities. and will be
under the personal supervision of the sIbscri-
Der. Henry Z. PKCK.
Perrysburg, o., Jan. |, 1877.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

The Toledo, Wabash s Western Rail
way Company has been reOrganiEed and
win be known hereafter As the wabash
Railway Co." The capital stock is 50 ,OOO,-
600 It is understood that Gen. ]. D. Cox
will be the General Superintendent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

The latest improvement in mills for
grinding wheat, &C., consists in the use Of
porcelain rollers for crushing the grain
previous to submitting It to the mil lsto mes
the result is an improvement in the quail
ity OF the -four, and larger yield in a
given time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

L. N. Hunt at the Hardware store il AntLor-
iEed to collect the outstanding claims due the
late firm Of Peck. Hamilton 4 Co. Those
knowing themselves to be indebted will please
give il their immediate attention.
II. 4. PFCK
3Sl ii. A. HAMILTON.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
Eo~ E<chanre.

A large hotel and eating house at AIg0na,
Iowa, the present terminus Of a railroad, with
two more in prospect. The house is 48x72,
with three stories and bA sement. and was bnilt
in 1873, at an expense Of SIS 900 10 SIS OOQ.
The present price is $4,000. There Is a mort
gage Of 50, 900 upon the properly, which has
four or Ave years to run. For the remaining
10000, other salable property will be tSken IN
any part Of the Northwest. For further inf for.
nation, address Intelligence Real Estate
Agency, Elgin, H."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

All parties indebted to the late firm Of P. ck
Ham ltnn are requested 10 call nt the Ex-
change Bank or at the office OF DR.. Hamilton
and settle same without delay.
IL A HAMILTON.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

The Memphis AvaIanche proposes that
the frothy patriots who are bowling for
war be allowed to do the fighting, while
the veterans on both sides the late war
stand behind them with fixed bayonets and
see that they toe the mark.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
What Southern Democrats Think.

Here is what the Confederate Gen. JOE
SHELLEY thinks of the Northern Democ-
racy: "If actual war should occur be-
tween the two parties, and President Grant
should find it necessary to call for volun
teers TO sustain him, should not lose two
hours in responding. speak not only for
mySelf, but am sure that my opinion
reIlects that of thousands OF those who fol-
lowed myself and other Confederate off.
ccrs. The Southern people were grossly
deceived in 1881 by the Northern Democ-
racy. They were led into ruinous war,
which ended in their disfranchisement and
! mpoyerishmen,."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker has had a meet
ing and resolved that Tilden is elected
Mary should raise brigade of "Minute
Me ."-.Sunddu JomnaL
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

During his recent journey to Washing
ton, Senator Christiancy of Michigan, was
robbed in sleeping car of $500 and his
baggage checksi the thieves secured his
baggage at Baltimore, and he arrived in
Washington without any money or a
change Of clothing. lie drew his mileage
and months pay amounting to 5000 and
that night was robbed not only of his
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

CoRNELIUs VANDERBILT died at II
o'clock Yesterday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
Harper's Bazaar.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
CONTINENTAL ms. co. OF NEW YORK.
STATE OF ONO, Insurance DEPARTMEET,
CoLUMBua Ian al 1870 (

oTATk OF OuIOi INSURANCE DEP A RTMEET, !
CoLUABus, Jan. 81, 1876.
WHEREAs,-- Continental Insurance
Company, located Rt New York, in the State
of New York. has filed in this office a sworn
statement by the proper Officers thereof show
ing its condition and business aud has com
piled in all respects with the laws of this
State relating To Fire Insurance Companies in
cnrporated by other States of the United States
Now. THEREFORE,, In pursuance Of law, ],
WM. d. HILL, Superintendent Of Insur.
ance of the State of Ohin, do hereby certify that
said Company is authorized 10 trans CT its Ap-
pr0priate business of Fire insurance 10
this State, in accordance with law, during the
current year. The condition and business Of
said Company AT the date of such statement
December 3lst, 1875 } is shown as follows;
Aggregate Amount OF Available
Assets, $2SA5 l65 Ga
Aggregate Amount Of Liabilities
texcePt capital including rein
surance .....'...''.' l,ls9 152 II
Net Assets ''..''..'..'.'..'.... 656,nl3 So
Amount paid mp Capital ..... 100000 90
surplus, '.'''' ''.'''''''.. G56,0 SO
Amount OF income for the year in
Cash ''.s. 677 l55 90
Amount Of Expenditures for the
year in Cash ....- 448 h26 Is
In WITSRss WHEREBY, have berrunto snb
scribed my name and caused the
sBAL Seal Of my Office t0 be affixed, the
day aud year above written.
WA. d. HILL. Superintendent.
r. n. Miller, Agent. Perry sburg, o..
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

'''
Col. BLANroS DUNCAN, one of Ken
ucky's Democratic soma, has this to say
which concerns the Sth OF January patriots
upin this cold climate:
do not think Governor Hayes need
apprehend any, trouble. The South
will do nothing in cooperation with
the disappointed politicians who 30
londly declare for war and anarchy.
War requires organization, money and
arms. The Northern States are solid in
having Republican Legislatures-except
that one house in New Jersey is Democrat
ic, and the Senate in Indiana is a tie. The
only result Oi the vHpOrings may be as
semblages OF Democratic militia with corn
stalks, 10 wage war in their respective 10.
calIiies, by means of wordy and fierce res
olutions. OF one thing consid-
er there can be no doubt the people have
observed Hayes conduct and that Of Mr..
Tilden, and if the election should come of
tomorrow Hayes would carry every
Northern State and FIVE OF the Southern.
Ben. HILL, in letter addressed to his
constituents in Georgia, in defense of his
conservative course in the present crisis
says:
Our constitutional system Is on a magazine Of
powder, aud 1000 fools and some that are not
fools, are striking matches all around il.
None but cool men and patriots who love
country more than office, can avert the most
horrible civil war that ever disgEaced and de-
stroJed liberty and humanity. Aud yet there
was never less excuse for any war in the his-
tory Of the world. Such war ifil comes will
be the oulminAIiap Of human crime in the das-
tardly destruction of human rights by q dis
| graceful scrabble for Office.
In the late election, both Mr. Ti.den and
Mr.. Hayes received some votes. VIII Il not be
better to have either for President than to hay 6
a ruler who received 40 votes 7 He ia too
stupid for argument who does not see that the
last alternative is possible. But whoever may
or may not be made President by returning
boarls or bayonets, one thing 10 cerlain-MI
! Tildeh cannot and will not be made Presi dent
unless lie IL made 80 by fair, honest count Of
the votes of the people.
That count can he neither fair nor honest
unless II can be had under inierpretaii Ons Of
the Conslitution long accepted, and bv methods
~ procedure isng established. The party
that now de emAnds new inle rprsialians or new
| fnTm or method Of count will be 0 party IN re-
bellion aud treason against the Constitution,
the Union and the people.
| am, therefore, in favor ~ fair aud hon.
est constitutional count Of the votes OF the pe0-
pie. ] am laborlDg 10 secure that count aud
when secured, shall abide its result md
so will every "ther man, North and South Sho
Is not willing to destroy his country. ] am
brave enough 10 want peace, but not eoWardly
ennugh 10 accept dshonor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05

A Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and
Instruction"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
PREPARED MT

Dr.J.C.AYER & CO. Lowell, Mass.
Practical and Anaivtical Chemists,
AND SOLD ALL ROUND THE WORLD.
PEICE, SI.00 PER BOTTLE.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
Elias Howe Sewing Machine F.!

or which we are the Sole Agents for this
town. There are many melits connected
with this machine which we would be
glad to explain to any who may call.
SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES Of
all kinds on hand at all times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-05
Ayers Ague Cure,

Fer Fever and Ague, Interraittent Fcvor,
Chill Fever, Eernittcnt Fove-, Dumb
AGue, Periodical or Bilious Fcve-. Co.,
ind indeed ell the affections which sriso
from malaricus, march, cr Iniassnatic
pOisonB.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
FOREIGN.

British customhouse officials have been
supplied with photographs of the American
potato-beetle, and they have been warned to
keep sharp lookout on incoming vessels
in order TO destroy the invader.
No more Sunday trains in Canada.
The Dominion government has issued orders
that no trains shall be run on the Sabbath.
day except in cases of great emergency, and
then only on direct order of the government.
Spain has been threatened, if not by
this time made the theater OF another Afri.
can invasion, fight Of locusts from Africa
passing that way over Gibraltar on the nine.
teenth ultimo so numerous as to be two
ours passing over.
A proposition has been made by
wealthy capitalists of Europe to the Italian
government to cover the entire excavated
town OF Pompeii with roof of iron and glass.
The buildings are now crumbling, and the
trescoes are becoming ruined by exposure to
the weather..
The news from Besarabia is that the
Russian army is so little fit for long cam
paign that the Grand Duke Nicholas ha:
telegraphed that unless he receives a con
siderable reinforcement Of picked troops he
cannot commence serions operations beyond
crossing the Pruth and taking up quarters in
Rouinania.
An official dispatch sent by the Turkish
minister for foreign affairs to.the representa-
.tives Of the porte abroad states that min,
hundred and fifty houses have been rebuil
in the burnt villages OF Bulgaria, and thai
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
THE INDIANS.


During the last session the house com.
mittee on Indian affairs reported by a
majority Of one a bill to transfer the care
Of Indians from the department of the
interior to the war department. Recent
developments of the methods employed
by army officers have led to change in
the committee, and it now favors a diff.
ferent course. A sub committee, CON
sisting of Messrs Wiltshire Hooker
Page, Sparks and Seelye is considering
the subject with two propositions before
tone drawn by professor Seelye look
ing to wholly new system under which
a body corporate consisting of a scit-
perpetuating board named in the bill
would have conduct of all Indian affairs,
regulating the support of tribes, the res
ervation and sale of their lands, and
their civilization. Another plan pro.
poses to raise the rank of the Indian
commissioner, and place that officer at
the head of department like the depart
ment Of agriculture. While the course
OF all legislation is extremely doubtful
this winter, it is not improbable that
some definite action may be taken by the
house. The summary execution OF Gen.
Sheridan's order Of 1862 requiring
troops to attack all Indians found off
their reservation, where execution in
the past has, Col. Moneypenny claims,
cost fifty million dollars, is causing con
siderable criticism and, according to
the Indian commissioner, is likely to
precipitate an Indian war in the south
west
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
Army Reorganization.

The work of the commission charged
with devising plan for the reorganiza-
tion of the army has apparently come to
a dead lock, the last meeting having been
held some three weeks ago. The differ
ence OF the commission turns upon the
adoption of the German principle of a
Large company Of two hundred and fifty
men as the unit, which brought up to a
war footing, enables the war department
to double or treble the size of the army
without increasing the number Of regi-
ments or impairing its efficiency, and a
combination of the present system under
which the number of men is very small
IN proportion to the number of officers,
and the cost of the army on a peace foot
ing made very great. Most of the DEM
ocrats favor the former plan, and most of
! the republicans the latter,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
The English NAVY of the Future.

The recent experiments at Spezzia
lave shown that steel plates manage to
keep out the terrible missiles from the
one hundred ton gun, although the
metal gets fractured in the operation,
and, if we contemplate still increasing
Ithe plating of our vessels, steel will
probably replace iron in future. Against
brpedoes steel has always proved to be
IA greater protection than iron, and on
his account the change would also be
slvisable. But the recent preparations
of the admiralty seem to point rather to
sbelief in unarmOred vessels, for of the
trty ships that were under construction
D. the summer no fewer than thirty-six
We're to be unprotected with armor plat
ilp. Two of the finest of these vessels,
he Irisand the Mercury, which are scarce
ifour thousand tons measurement, but
Ne, nevertheless, to be provided with
Sgines of no less than seven thousand
hrse-power, will serve as feet dispatch
Vssels though the metal is not thick
spugh to atfor, protection from very
.Havy guns. The same may be said Of
th six steel corvet ties, which were com.
rnnced in the summer, and which are
aA considered unarmored vessels, theil
sting point being not so much theil
afnament as their speed. At present,
horever, we are at a standstill in regard
toseeau. going men ot,war, and we may
in tfew years be seriously behind Other
natons if we do not speedily come tc
sohe resolution on the subject, and pro
ce$ with the construction of one kind
of vessel or another London Dali,
MN