Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-30
FROM BELLVILLE RIDGE.

ED. JOURNAL There may he some
anxiety in the minds Of some Of the many
readers Of your excellent paper, in regard
TO the Whereabouts Of your correspondent
from this place. os when last heard from
he was sticking in the mud in Van Vert
Co. ] am happy to state that he is once
more on terra frmd. I"arriv" home just
in time to receive an orler from Head
quarters (from my worser half To take q
hand in house cleaning, which l very re-
luotan'ly obeyed, after trying in vain to
make it appear that my presence in fsf-
din Co. was absolutely necessary. Oh,
horror Of horrors; removing old stoves,
shaking carpets, &c. almost wish l were
Batch"
Corn planting is about over IN this vioin-
ity and the work Of re-plannng has conf
menced. The farmers are experiencing a
good deal Of trouble with their seed corn /;
it is very difficult to procure seed that will
grow. This is always the case after an
unusually cold winter. II farmers would
take pains to select seed corn in the h OF
the year and put II in some place where il
would not he e posed to HE severe freezing
weather, incident to this climate, this
difficulty would not be experienced. The
prospect Tor an abundant wheat crop is
good at this writing. Since the rains the
wheat has come out beyond all expecta-
tion. The meadows also are looming up
mnguifcently, while oats looks sickly
Uncle Joe Egbert claims that he has
good prospect for an abundant apple crop,
while others say that their prospect is far
from being good.
The BelvilIe Ridge Cornet Band is mum.
bered with the things that were. It died
n few days since, and Prof. Belville took
the corpse to Stony Ridge for interment.
But some time in the near future we ex-
pect resurrection of the old instruments
near the Empire House. .'"'
SUICIDE.
Was it suicide, or N,s it murder One
of D. NJ. Shoemakers horses came up miss
ing one morning last week. Dave put in
several days hard walking limiting for his
horse, hut all in vain. Toward the latter
part of the week, the body of the horse was
discovered in a well on the farm of VIM.
Roller Esq. 1t seems that Mr.. Roller had
borrowed the horse to drill corn with, and
turned it in the clover field for the night.
Right here the mystery comes in. The
well in which the horse was found Is in
another field, some 20 rods distant, a toll
erably good fence between the two fields,
and the horse was never known TO
jump. Having two good eyes, and going
into the well backward is rather mysterious,
to say the least. At the same time it ia
hard TO believe that either Roller or Shoe
maker has an enemy who would serve
them such dastardly trick, as they are
both perfect gentlemen. Detectives have
been set to work and it is hoped that the
mystery will be terrified out soon.
Our S. S. has been reorganized and is in
good running order, with Chas. E Brown,
Supt., and Enos Belville, Asst. Supt. AS
Charlie is quite young, we thought 1t adj
visable to put Uucle Enos in as assistant,
40 that he can keep Charlie straight. The
U. 3. Society have organized Sabbath
School on the Center Ditch, H. ". Eghert,
Supt. This ia the first organization of the
kind they ever had on the ditch, and we
hone they may keep it up, for certainly a
little moral training would do Young
America no harm over there.
There il a reverend gentleman living not
over a thousand miles from here, who was
so unfortunate as to get hold of a horse
that does not prove to be as sound as he
might be. Now the Rev. gentleman wants
to get rid of that hoss," but don't wish
TO take the responsibility upon himself so
lie has suggested TO Mr.. - "a noted
horse jockey to take the animal and trade
il uff for n good one, and-and take the
chances of "eternal damnation" upon
himself. Now, Mr.. Editor, il this is in
accordance with the teachings of inspira-
ton, must confess that l do not understand
the teachings Of the hook of books, and, as
this Rev. gentleman has said that he was
sent out tn preach to the heathen," I
would suggest that he do his own "horse-
jockeying," and let the heather do his
which he SAYS he will do, if not molested
by any false teachers"
But forgot that You have kindly asked
the correspondents of the JOURNAL to
simmer down n little" Excuse me this
time; and believe me,
Yours Truly, GRIDIRoN.
May 25, 1879.