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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

the United States at Washington, or to
the Assistant Treasurers at Baltimore,
Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, New Or
leans, New York, Philadelphia, st.
Louis and San Francisco, in coin, ma
tured coupons, coin certificates or
United States notes.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
also accept in payment call bonds, cer-
tifcates of deposit of National Banks
specially designated to receive deposits
on this account, but bonds will not be
delivered until the certificate has been
paid for by the treasury draft or by the
deposit of a like amount of coin with
the Treasurer or some Assistant Treas
urer of the United States, or until other
United States bonds of equal amount
are substituted in their stead. The
Treasurer of the United States will also
accept in payment United States cou-
pons maturing within thirty days, or
drafts in favor of himself, drawn on
New York, which will be collected and
the excess, if any, returned by check to
the depositor.
Commissions will be allowed on sub
scriptions for said bonds only as follows:
On the aggregate of subscriptions of
800, 900 and not exceeding 81 l,O0O,OO0,
between Jan. 1, 1879, and Jan. 80, 1879,
One-eighth of one per cent; on the ag-
gregate of subscriptions exceeding 81
100000 and not exceeding $40, 900,
between the same dates, one-quarter of
one per cent, and on amounts in excess
of $4,000, 900 an additional commits
sion of one-tenth of one per cent.
All blanks or forms or information
needed, will be furnished by the De-
partment without cost.
This circular is in lieu of all others
previously issued in relation to SUBJ
scriptions for four per cent. bonds, con-
soils of 1907.
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27
A Woman's Defense of a Fort.

Lord Kames, in his . Sketches of the
History of Man." relates an eXtraordi-
nary instance of presence of mind
united with courage. Some Iroquois,
in the year 1890, attacked the Fort de
Vercheres, in Canada, which belonged
to the French, and had approached
silently, hoping to scale the palisade,
when some musket shots forced them to
retire On their advancing a second
time they were again repulsed, in Won
der and amazement that they could per-
ceive no person, excepting a woman,
who was seen everywhere. This was
Madame de Vercheres, who conducted
herself with as much resolution and
courage as if supported by numerous
garrison. The idea of storming place
wholly undefended, except by women,
occasioned the Iroquois TO attack the
fortress repeatedly, but, after two days
siege, they found it necessary to retire
lest they should be intercepted in their
retreat. Two years afterward party
of the same nation so unexpectedly
made their appearance before the same
fort that a girl of fourteen, the daugh-
ter of the proprietor, had but just time
to shut the gate. With this young wo-
man there was no person whatever eX-
cept one soldier. But not at all intimi-
dated by her situation, she showed her
self sometimes in one place, sometimes
in another, frequently changing her
dress, in order to give some appear
ance of garrison, and always fired
opportunely. In short, the faint-heart-
ed Iroquois once more departed with.
out success. Thus the presence of MIND
of this young girl was the means oi
saving the fort.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

rope, with safe on her back, while the
detectives paused frightened on the
brink, it might do. boston Journal Of
Commerce.
-" What" the young man asked the
young woman who was waiting for him
to ask for his hat, "what do | put you
in mind ofP' "A French clock she
said, softly. And pretty soon he arose
and went on his way. The next morn
ing he called on an eminent horologist
and asked him what was the distin-
gushing trait of French clock. The
horologist said: Why, it never goes"
And the young man was sorely cast
down, and he grieved, and told no man
of his hurt. HdlUb-E Eye.
"A correspondent wants to know
How oysters are fattenedP" We
never fattened oysters, but we suppose
they are penned up, like turkeys, a
couple of weeks before killing, and fed
on corn meal, chopped meat and mush
and milk. k.-NorristotC Herald. Hooo!
Don't you know better than thatp
"Penned upr' Hooo! All you want
to do to fatten oysters is just to pour
slops around the roots of the vine every
morning. 1t will make an astonishing
difference Graphic.
The miraculous cure of Mrs. Joseph
Davis, of Brattleboro, Vt, who is said
to have been bedridden for eighteen
months, is reported All along she has
had faith in the efficacy of prayer to
heal her, and week ago Sunday morn
ing she arose feeling perfectly well and
healthy, and sent note to the Baptist
pastor, which was read in church, say
ing that divine power had been inter-
posed in her behalf and made her well
again. She is up and about the house,
and confident that she knows the exact
hour when the cure was performed.
At an auction sale of miscellaneous
goods, the auctioneer put up wolf
skin dressing gown and invited bids.
An old man inspected it closely, seemed
to think that there was a bargain in it,
but yet he hesitated to bid. Don't t
you want that?" asked the auctioneer
q Yes, kinder" was the reply. "Then
why don't you bid and take itP"
"Well, I've bought heaps o. things in
dry goods, and so on" slowly rejoined
the old man, land 1 never yet took
home anything that the old woman
thought was worth the price. If got
that ERE robe for song, she'd grab it
up, pull at one end, chaw at the other,
and call out, Cheated again-more'n n
half cottonr That's the reason
dar'n't bidr'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27
WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Emily L. Dillman has been appointed
Postmistress at Toledo.
The Senate, on the nth, confirmed large
number of nominations, including Consuls
Collectors of Customs, Postmasters and ap-
polntments for promotion in the army, made
during the recess of Congress.
Exclusive of all demands the Treasurer ex-
poets to have s135, 100000 coin on January l.,
with which to resume specie payments.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has autho-
rized the payment of the coupon interest on
the public debt, falling due in January, with
ont rebate, and in coin OF currency as the
claimant may prefer.
Chairman Potter and Gen. Cox will be the
subcommittee Of the Potter Investigating
Committee to continue the investigation in
Louisiana. They expect to finish before Con-
gress Teassembles.
Bayard Taylor, United States Minister to
Berlin, died in that city on the afternoon of
the 10Th. Mr.. Taylor had been unwell for
some time, and recently had an operation
performed, after hich it was reported that
he was improving, and great hopes were en-
tertained of his final recovery. The fatal
symptoms came on suddenly. He had been
out of bed, and transacted some business with
officials of the American Legation on the 18th.
Secretary Schurz received telegram from
the Governor Of Washington Territory on the
10Th stating that the news from the vicinity
of the reported Indian troubles was favorable
for peaceable settlement of the difficulties.
The friends of Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsyl-
vania are urging his claims upon the Presi-
dent for the Berlin mission, made vacant by
the death of Bayard Taylor.
Gen. A. s. Williams, Democratic Represen-
tative in Congress from the Detroit, Mich,
District. died at Washington on the 2lst.
Secretary Sherman has issued a circular to
customs officers authorizing them to receive,
after the lst Of January, United States notes
as well as gold coin and standard silver
dollars in payment of duties on imports.
Congressman Beverly B. Douglas, of Vir-
ginla, died at Washington, on the 22d, after a
brief illness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27
The Late Sam Patch.

Some one inquired of the editor of the
BGtaUiGn what he knew of ''Sam Patch
and what was his real name. The edi-
tor interviewed an old citizen of Gene
see County, and answered: Z" Sam
Patch's" real name was Samuel Patch,
but by consent the uel was torn of in
his boyhood, and was never afterward
patched on. Sam was first discovered
in or about Paterson, N. j. He didn't
develop well as boy or man. He was
as good-natured as the day was long,
and as shiftless and dissipated as he
was good-natured. His surname was
placarded all over his clothes by a care
full mother, and all over his face by the
effects of the water he took in hizen."
He had, occasionally, lucid intervals.
In one of these he determined to be a
blotch on the face of creation no longer
and so hurried to the Passaic river, with
suicidal intent, and with a mighty leap
went over its beautiful falls and into its
seething waters below. But, as the la
mented Greeley had it, "thOugh he
tried to give up the ghost, the ghost re-
fused to be given up" and Sam came
out alive and well. An idea struck him.
He had new way for a lazy man to
make living, He'd jump; the crowds
would pay. He utilized his idea
Jumped falls here and there all over the
country; went to Niagara Falls and
leaped safely down that tremendous
cataract; went to Rochester, N. Y,
leaped there once in safety, tried il
again, was drunk at that time and did
not maintain his perpendicularity in
descent, and, striking the waters little
angling, was probably killed By the col
lision. His body was never found
This, his last jump, he made about for
ty-fve years ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

A convention Of persons interested In Lake
navigation was held at Chicago on the 18th
and 18th. Resolutions were adopted asking
Congress to make appropriations for the i'm
provement of the channels between Lakes Su-
perlor and Huron, the st. Clair fats at the De-
troit River; the early improvement Of the
harbor at the head of Lake Superior, and the
immediate acceptance by the United States of
St. Mary's Canal in accordance with the offer
of the State of Michigan, made April 3, 1869.
A passenger train on the Grand Rapids and
Indiana Railway, near Plainwell, Mich, on the
10th, struck cutter containing John Mclndre,
his wife and three children. McIndre was
instantly killed. and his wife and one child
fatally injured.
The contract for building the Missouri divi-
sion Of the Norther1 Pacific Railroad was let
on the 10Th. The first 100 miles under this
contract is to be completed by the first of next
November. A revision Of the surveys of the
second 100 miles TO Yellowstone was ordered,
preparatory to letting work on that.
The Indianapolis Savings Bank went into
liquidation on the Goth, under the direction of
the Auditor of the State.
John Postoak, a Creek Indian, and James
Diggs, colored, were executed on the same
gallows at Fort Smith, Ark, on the Goth.
The st. Louis 81 Illinois bridge was sold on
the Goth under a foreclosure of the first and
second mortgage bonds. The price paid was
S2,000,000 and the purchasers a number of
bondholders, who will form new company
called the st. Louis Bridge Company.
j. NJ. Douglass, Indian Agent at Yankton
Agency, denies the report telegraphed from
Yankton to the effect that about seventY-five
Indians had left his agency in pursuit of food.
About forty we're given leave of absence to
make short visit to a point below, but they
took their own provisions and returned in
good season. The Yankton Indians are doing
well in matters of education and self-support,
and have enough food and clothing.
The captured Cheyenne Indians are to be
taken to Fort Leavenworth with view Of
identifying those guilty of outrages during
their recent raid through the States, and all
such will be turned over to the civil authori-
ties for trial.
Two colored men summoned to appear be-
fore the United States Grand Jury at New
Orleans, as witnesses in the election troubles
were taken from the steamer Danube, at Gale
donia, La, by a constable who presented a
warrant for their arrest and started with
them toward Shreveport. When a short dis
tance from town a mob took the prisoners
from the constable and nothing more has been
heard of them. They are supposed to have
been killed.
The State Canvassing Board Of Florida com
pleted the canvass Of the disputed Congress
sional District on the 2lst, and gave the GER
tificate to Hall, Dem, his majority being thir-
teen. Two counties were thrown out Bre-
ward, which gave Democratic majority, and
Madison County, which gave a Republican
ninritr
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

ing the schedule, to have read the de-
posit to the debit of the First National
Bank. Mr.. Townsend wanted it all read
Objections were made, when Mr. Hewitt
desired to recall his amendment which was
also objected to, when that gentleman amid
great confusion and cries Of order said that
what he wanted the world TO know is that
there has been for six months an average sum
Of $50 600 600 to the credit of the United States
at that bank, as near as he could make out.
Mr.. Springer hoped that Mr.. Hewitt's words
would be read at the clerks desk in order to
give the House chance to hear them, as they
were serious arraignment of one of the de-
partments The communication was then re-
ferred to the Ways and Means Committee.
Adjourned until Jan. z, 1879
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

THE investigation recently made by
Government officers into the adultera-
tions of refined sugars have resulted in
some surprising disclosures. Chemical
analysis has shown that the sugars pro-
duced by many-we might almost say
most-of the New York and Brooklyn
refneries are adulterated. The princi-
pal substances introduced into the
sugar are glucose Gan article made
from starch), tin, and muriatic acid.
To say nothing of the fraud thus
practiced, these foreign articles must be
injurious to the health of consumers of
suganO Refined sirups are said also to
contain poisonous adulterations. The
matter is certainly one which deserves
the most thorough investigation. Re
finers who produce pure article will
not be injured, and those who do not
should be exposed for the benefit OF the
public. -Hafper's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

AN Ohio man has been mulcted in
the sum of twenty-five dollars for steal
ing harness from one Alexander Hy-
men. And he goto off cheap. Hymen's
halter alone has cost many man
thousands; there's no knowing what a
complete harness would have come to.
Boston Transcript.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

MAMMA (who has been screaming at
the top of her voice for over ten min
utes to Johnny, who has just crawled
down from the haylofD: "You
naughty, naughty boyl Why didn't you
answer me beforeP" Johnny (very inno-
cently); 81 didn't hear you till you
called free or four times"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

A KIND father-a man well-to-do-
took his sick son 10 the doctor last
week, and told him if he could cure the
boy for less than the cost of funeral
to 90 ahead, but if he couldn't, the
youth must take his chances.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

DIR. BROWN SEQUARD, in late letter
to the French Biographical Society
states that milk moderately warmed
if injected slowly into human artery
will revive a dying patient quiet a.
much as injections of blood. He cites
number of cases in which he success
fully tried the experiment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

WE understand two blarsted English
men have been caught fishing in Um-
bagog Lake, on the American side.
Now Mr.. Evarts. file your set OF.
We've rot EN- Boston Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

The question has been asked; Can
a Christian go to the circusP' Yes,
until he's married, and then in most
cases the circus comes to him,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

The detectives of New York have
nearly reached the conclusion that the
late Mr.. Stewart didn't have any body.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

The price of bread in England now
is precisely the same as it was in ITO.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-27

Have you drawnup your New Years
resolutionsp
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
Hard to Digest.

AT a certain boarding house in this
city is young man whose occupation is
the " art preservative," and whose labors
occupy him during those hours when the
majority of mankind is asleep. Of course
he gets hungry, and is accustomed to get
a lunch when he starts out for his nightly
toll. This lunch is done up in paper
and placed on table in the hall of the
boarding house, from which the young
man takes it when he goes out. One
evening this week, as he went out, he
saw two bundles lying upon the table
and unthinkingly took the one nearest
and carried it away. About midnight
that unfailing monitor, an empty
stomach, warned him that lunch time
had arrived, and with high hopes and a
keen appetite he took out his bundle
and opened it, but was struck all aback
to find instead of his coveted a small
package of neatly folded handkerchiefs,
which had been placed upon the table by
the laundrymen for one of the other
boarders. Language fails to do justice
to the denouement, and SO we draw the
curtain.-NeW Bedford Ereninq Standard.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
Our Orthography.

No wonder that foreigners complain
of the difficulty of learning the English
language, for our spelling is wofully bad.
Why do we need phi to produce the
sound we give to f, when f will do as
well? Of what use is in woulds could
and should? Why not put x, y, and z.
and call them silent letters? Is b any
benefit in doubt, or in double? So it
is all through the wide range of the Eng
lish language. We are hampered and
bound to the discordant cord of custom,
yet we must follow the rules; we must
begoverned by the standards Why do
we drag out p-h-t-h-:-s-i-c and then call
it tizzik? We write through when thru
would be better. We laugh as English
men because they omit the sound of the
h where it is written and apply the letter
where it does not exist. Thus: "The
hox it is orn and broke is hoff," instead
of: "The OK hit his horn," etc., acdyet
we pronounce honor as though it was
spelled onur, according to Webster, why
not write it so? Either our pronuncia-
tion or spelling, in thousands of in
stances. is wrong. Because of this, lexi-
are obliged to spell many
common words for Us, that we may
know their correct pronunciation. We
need rules in spelling.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
The Niles Singing Statue.

A traveller with Gen. Grant in the
east thus tells of this giant: All that is
left of Memnonism are the two colossal
statues, the one to the north being the
statue that, according to the historians
and priests, used to utter sound every
morning when the sun rose. The statute
is silent enough now, and is monolith
about fifty feet high. A good part of
the base is buried in the ground, but
they loom up over the plain-as, in fact,
we did see them-miles and miles away.
You may have an idea of the size when
YOU know that the statue measures Is
feet 8 inches across the shoulders, Is
feet inches from the top of the shout
ders to the elbow, and the other portions
of the body in due proportion. No trace
can be found of the cause of the vocal
sunrise phenomenon. One theory is
that the priests used to climb into the
reeesses in the body and perform Jug
gler's trick. | do not think so badly Of
the Egyptian priests who, | suppose,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
HippophagY.

=" | went ON Saturday" writes Paris
correspondent, "to a horsehesh dinner
given by a NJ Ducroix, veterinary-in-
chief to the etat major of Paris. 1t was
prepared by an ordinary cook, the host
wishing his guests to know that the food
placed before them owed none of its pal
atable virtues to extraordinary culinary
science. Everything except the sweets
at dessert were OF chevaline extraction.
| thought the soup better than buillion
made from beef. The bouilli WIS very
toothsome; cheval a la mode was very
excellent; but the browning dish was a
roast filet, which was very tender and
succulent. There was no. flavor or odor
that in the remotest way reminded one of
the stable. The weak point of the feast
was the salad, which was dressed with
oil taken from horses feet. NJ Ducroix
is an enthusiast, and dreams of nothing
less than cheapening meat, and render
ing the lives of horses tolerable by get
ting people to become hippophagists.
If the ultimate fate of the
horse was to be sent to
the butchers shambles instead of to the
slaughter-house, cabmen, he opines,
would be more merclful to the beasts
they drive, and the poor would be able
to fall back from deer beef and mutton
upon cheaper and more nutritive meat.
Since hippophagy has been introduced
here more than twelve thousand horses
annually have fallen into the stewpans
and soup pots of the French capital. 1t
appears, indeed, that the supply is
scarcely equal to the demand. On sit
ting down | felt, | confess, somewhat
nervous. 1t occurred to me that sundry
chevaline diseases were taken by inocula-
ton. M. Ducroix. who suspected my
misgivings, informed me that the inspec-
ton of horsefesh for the flesh market is
more close than that of beef The living
animal has to pass veterinary surgeon,
and when it is reduced to the condition
of butchers meat it is again subjected
to microscopic examination. Some
members of the society for the protec-
ton of animals have invited M. Ducroix
to London to make arrangements for q
horsefesh banquet at the Crystal Palace
prepared by French cook.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27
An Englishman,s Sabbath

When the Emperor Nicholas was in
England, in 1914, industry in Russia
could hardly be said to exist, and the
car was extremely anxious to introduce
machinery of all sorts into his arsenals,
so as to become independent of foreign
makers. With this object he visited a
number of large establishments in the
midland counties and the north; and
one Sunday morning Mr.. James Mas
myth, the inventor of the steam hammer,
and proprietor of large works at Patri-
croft, was much surprised at the appear
ance in his garden of an officer in car
riage and gorgeous uniform, whose
chdsseaw, still more gorgeous than his
master, was sent up to disturb the old
gentleman's sabbath rest by loudly an
nouncing Prince K" The prince
himself walked in, smoking a cigarette,
and informed Mr. Nasmyth in good Eng
lish that the car intended to honor the
Patricroft works with a visit on that
afternoon.
"lndeed!" replied their owner, Il re-
greet that his majesty will not see much,
as it is Sunday.
"But it would be easy" rejoined the
aide-de-camp, coolly helping himself to a
bon-bon which his chasseur banded him
out of a handsome box, "to start the
works for a few hours. Mr.. Nasmyth
might be sure of his majesty's favor"
"Sir," eeplied Mr.. Nasmyth, "the
favor of my God is more important to
me than that of your master. And if |
were inclined to break the Sabbath for
him nv men would not -
Would you not start the works for
Queen Victoria, on Sundayw asked the
astonished aide-de-camp.
C. Our gracious majesty" replied the
old Briton, "would never suggest such a
thing"
The car did not visit Patricroft.