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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

AFTER you have tried nearly everything to
get cured OF Chronic Chills and Foyer or
Fever and Ague in vain, VIC would advise you
to try DIR. f. Wilhoft's Anu-Periodic or Fever
and Ague Tonic. lt ia not pleasant to take,
but IL contains no Quinine, and never falls TO
cure. Its composition is printed on the
inside wrapper Of each bottle, and 1t is in
dorsed by the most eminent physicians. For
sale by all Druggists
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

SOME people are so constituted as to
be unable to see anything beautiful in
this life-not even in a mirror.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

THIS negro immigration is like the
aggregate liability of two of our delin-
quentsubscribers-it is an X owed us.
Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

The GILBERT STAROHRs.-Patent Gloss,
superior to any manufactured. Such is the
demand for them that they have become
household words all over the civilized world.
They are manufactured at Buffalo, N. Y, the
most extensive works of the kind In the
country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

The notorious depredator Kate-Arrh, who
has for so many years eluded the most accom-
pllshed and skillful detectives, has been
particulars ask your druggist for bottle Of
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. admitted TO bo
the best remedy for catarrh yet compounded.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

CHHw Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
Alligators Attacking Men.

Willis Claiborne and George Cairo
write to us that while duck hunting in
the Little Bayou, this week, they were
attacked by an alligator, which sud-
denly rose to the surface of the water
and attempted to crawl into the skiff in
which they were leisurely padding
along. One of the men during the ex-
element fell overheard, but managed
to get back inside the boat in time to
save himself from the jaws of the mon
ster. A slug was hastily rammed into
the gun barrel, and then fired into the
head of the vicious animal, which so
crippled it that it was afterward easily
managed. 1t was then taken to shore
and killed, and found TO measure eleven
feet in length and five feet round, the
weight being 2l5 pounds. This is the
largest alligator killed in that neighbor-
hood since the war, and it is the first
instance in our knowledge of an alligator
having attacked a boats crew. We
have frequently heard of the saurian
monster attacking persons.
The FLOridiGn contained the follow
ing account of an incident of that char
acter in the issue of the l4th of April
last: son Monday last two colored
men went fishing upon Lake Jackson,
and, after reaching the center of the
lake, they discovered huge alligator
about ten feet from the boat. The alli-
gator, nothing daunted by the presence
of the boat and the use of the paddles,
made a desperate attack upon them
and succeeded in getting its head over
the gun-wale of the boat, but the furious
blows dealt drove it of, only to return
and repeat the attack the second and
third times before they reached the
shore. 1t followed the party TO the
shore. One of the men ran up to a
house near by an obtained an axe. The
first blow with the axe enraged the
monster, which, with one fiirt of his
tail, threw the boat high upon the land.
The men succeeded in killing it, and its
hide is now in the city, being tanned,
and measures sixteen feet in length"
-PenSacoId (Fla.J AdUdnce.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07

ner and Frahk Haskill, clerks of the
hotel, entered and found Mr Chandler
lying dead. He lay upon his back
with several pillows propped up behind
his head. His face bore perfectly
Wrapped around his shoulders, as if,
having felt cold, he had sriseh and put
it there and then went back to he'd.
His hands rested on his pillow, one on
each side of his head, as though he
had been holding his coat around his
neck. His feet were partially on the
floor, giving him the aspect IF sitting
up. The face was not livid; showing
that it was not apoplexy nor any clinch-
ing of the hand Indicating commissions.
The only unnatural thing about him
was the way he reclined, which led to
a conjecture whether he had not placed
his feet on the floor in an attempt to
arise, or whether they had fallen that
way after death, One side of the body
was warm when he was found, which
would indicate that life had not long
flown. His clothes lay on the floor be-
side the bureau.
kilograms were dispatched to his on
" OhhNs NAAS' HueSOhO hlalO, lOSluOhG
Hayes, Governor Bagley, and other
friends and relatives of the deceased.
The Coroner's inquest was held at
the Grand Pacific tonight, and after
considerable evidence had been taken
the following verdict was renderedi
That Zachariah Chandler, now lying
dead at the Grand Pacific Hotel, in the
city of Chicago, County of Cook, State
of Illinos, came to his death on the
first day of November, A. D. 1879, at
the Grand Pacific Hotel in said city of
Chicago, after midnight and before
seven o'clock in the morning, from q
natural cause, which, from the evidence,
we find to be cerebral hemorrhage.
The friends and relatives of the de-
ceased objected to complete post NOR
tenn examination.
The body was taken to Detriot for
burial under escort of prominent citi-
zens of Chicago and Detroit.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07

A semi.ofilcial paper at St. Petersburg an
nonnces that definition has been given, as
signing to the Austro German agreement its
true proportions, and basing it upon pacific
grotndo which Is open to all.
Since the 30th ult. floods in the valley OF
Tortorsa, Spain, have caused damage to tine
extent Of several million pesos. The river
Almanzora flooded its valley and destroyed
forty houses. Sixty persons we're drowned.
1t showed heavily in Aberdeenshire, En-
gland, on the 1st, and the harvest in many
neghboring districts was not completed.
The st. Petersburg Goios says the affair at
Geokc Tepe, August 29, eliminated in an in
describable panic. The percentage of the Rus
sian loss was enormous and unprecedented.
1t is the general opinion in India that the
Afghan monarchy will not be reconstructed,
but that the country will be broken into sew
eral different provinces. Eleven prisoners
have been executed for participation in the
massacre of the British Embassy.
At the municipal elections throughout En-
gland on the Let wherever political considera-
tions were involved the Liberals were mostly
triumphant.
General Soloman has been proclaimed Pres
ident of the Republic of Hayti.
The Spanish Cortes reopened on the Sd and
a message was read announcing the approach
ing marriage OF Ring Alphonso.
A Berlin telegram says Bismarck's health is
very unsatisfactory.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
Mistakes That Are Grimes"

Since the crushing defeat which the
Democracy of Ohio suffered, there
comes from various parts of the coun-
try, and particularly from the South, a
wall of anger and disgust. ave might
have expected this" writes one Demo-
crat to another in Washington, after
the commission of series of mistakes
which are crimes" Another incau-
tiously remarks that "our Hotspurs
should have been restrained for the
time"
To what mistakes" do these Demo-
Gratis referP What is there in their ma
ture which makes them crimesP When
did they learn that these mistakes were
crimesp These and many similar ques-
tions suggest themselves when Demo-
crat refers to party mistakes as crimes.
Was it the soft money lunacy that was
one of these mistakesP If so, why had
not this Democrat protested when 1t
was dangerous, and not after 1t had
ceased to exist because of Democratic
defeatP Or were they the mistakes"
of the extra session of the Democratic
Congress-t starve-the-Government
policy, the re-assertion of the right of
secession, the denial that this country
is a Nation, the notification of laws il
had no power to repeal, the turning out
of crippled Union soldiers from Offices
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
A Big Case With a Small Boy In It.

Two very rich Maryland planters
(brOthers) died about quarter
of century ago, one of them
bachelor, while the other left several
children, supposed to be illegitimate.
These latter inherited their fathers es-
tate by the terms of his will, and, on
the death of their bachelor uncle
claimed his property also, as being
heirs-at-law of man dying intestate.
Their claim was disputed by a cousin
of the deceased, who himself insisted
on being recognized as nearest of kin,
on the ground that the other claimants
were illegitimate. These latter proved
their legitimacy, after a long legal
struggle, by finding in Europe the
priest who performed the marriage
ceremony for their parents. They
therefore Obtained possession of their
uncle's estate, but not until they had
reduced themselves to poverty by a
series of contests that ended only in the
highest court of the land, many
of the leading lawyers of the
Nation having taken prominent part
in the struggle. Similar stories
have been developed in fiction, but al
VI lONOlN anu
hardened villains, an unexpected and
perfectly rapturous denouement being
brought about by a handsome lover.
But in this case the beginning of the
end was provided by that irrepressible
marplot, the small boy. The bachelor
brother, instead of dying intestate,
made a will in favor of the cousin who
fought so hard the supposed heirs at
law, and left it with Washington law
yer, who went South at the beginning
of the war, leaving with his office-boy
box of papers to be delivered to the
persons addressed in case of non-return
of the attorney, and the boy probably
forgot. A short time ago the youngster
having presumably come to mans es-
tate, recovered his memory; the will,
the existence of which had been un-
known, was sent 70 the Cousins lawyer
and the case is again to 90 before the
Supreme Court. The story is stranger
than any fiction, as all stories necessa-
rily are when the small boy has any
thing to do with the facts.-N. Y. Her.
aid,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
FOREIGN INTRLLIGENCE.

The Chilian iron-clad, Admiral Cochrane,
has captured the Peruvian iron-clad Huascar.
The Huascar was the most serHcable vessel
in the Peruvian navy, and has on more than
one occasion inflicted serious damage ON the
Chilian fleet.
The Prusslan Diet, on the 2Sth ult, was
opened by Emperor William, who read his
speech in person.
Four-fifths of the arabic land in Murcia,
Spain, is reported ruined by the recent inunda-
tions. Over 5000 persons are missing.
A dispatch from Bucharest says that Min.
lister Kasson is expected there shortly to
formally recognize Roumanian independence
and establish diplomatic relations between
Roumania and the United States.
An Alexandria correspondent reports that
Cleopatra's Needle, while being removed for
shipment to the United States, was seized by
creditors of the Egyptian Government.
The proceedings Of the Congress at Naples,
on the 10Th ult., to promote general disarma-
ment throughout the world, terminated IL a
scene of indescribable confusion, amidst hiss
ing, hooting and other demonstrations, owing
to the opposition Of a section who disapproyed
Of the object of the congress.
More damaging rains have occurred in
Spain. Twenty-one persons were drowned at
Vega by the overflow Of the river, and thirty
houses and 100000 pesos worth of ore were
carried away. At Malaga a water spout up
rooted trees and injured many persons. The
village of Maury and neighboring territory
and the town OF Estazde were inundated by
the overflow of the river Agly. Great damage
was done to property.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs: "Rus-
sia, convinced that she is isolated, has been
earnestly seeking to be admitted TO the Aus
tro-German understanding. 1t is almost GER
tain there will be a meeting OF the three EN-
perors."
The resolution passed by the Council Gen
eral OF the Seine in favor of plenary amnesty
has been annulled by order of the French
Government.
band of highwaymen hold the country
within three miles OF Belgrade. They murder
travellers, extort tribute from the peasantry,
and prevent the tax-gatherers from perform
ing their functions.
Koeller was elected President of the Lower
House CT the Prussian Diet ON the Both ult.
Beuda, National Liberal, and Herman, Ultra.
montane, were elected Vice Presidents.
In Halbstadt, in the Bender district, Bes-
ony were poisoned with arsenic. Over one
hundred persons were poisoned, five of whom
died.
Paris dispatch says a semi-official note
has been sent to the press stating that the
departure Of Don Carlos for England was due
to warning informing him that the Govern
ment had resolved not to tolerate the political
manifestations for which his stay in France
recently afforded pretext.
Halifax dispatch on the 31st ult., states
that reports OF disaster by the recent storm
continue to reach that place. 1t is computed
that seventy vessels were ashore in the Straits
of Cause.
Immense brush fires were raging in the
Province Of Mino Gerro Brazil, on the 18th OF
October. sixty-seyen persons perished in the
! flames,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

The citizens of Memphis who have been alb
sent during the prevalence OF the epidemic
are returning to the city, and business is again
reyiving. The camps around the city have
been broken up.
ire at Colfax, Cal, on the 2Sth ult., de-
stroyed the Chinese quarter and business
block Chinawoman perished in the flames.
About 2, 200 delegates were In attendance at
the annual meeting of the American Mission
airy Association, which began at Chicago on
the 2Sth ult
The Holbrook-Underwood feud, in Carter
County, KY, is likely to be revived The Hol-
brooks have warned the Underwood women
and children to leave the county, and threat
en- to kill any person who testiAes before the
Grand Jury about the killing of the Under
woods. 1t is feared that four of the Under
woods, now in the West, will return and re-
veDge the murder OF their father and brothers.
special TO the Chicago Tribune from
Keokuk, Iowa, on the 29th ult., states that
the trial OF Bill Young for the murder of
Louis Spencer and four children closed in
Cahoka, Mo-, on the 25th, resulting in YER
dict OF not guilty. The elimination of the
case, however, came on the Goth ult The cir
cumstantial evidence was strong, but was
weakened by the dasco OF a detectiyes evil
dence Although Young was acquitted the
belief In his guilt was very decided among the
citizens, and they determined to lynch him.
On the afternoon OF the 28th Young married
Lydia Bray, OF Ohio, at Keokuk and on the
following evening the couple started for their
home In Luray. AS their train passed
through Cahoka Young and his wife allghted,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
Advice to a Young MS1i

Be contented, my son. You need not
be satisfied with what you are; you
don't Waiit to live without ambition; so
long as you live, sttite 20 5e something
better and higher and sttbHget 10
morrow than you are to-day, but don {
worry; d6h't fret. Wear your ready
made clothes with the air OF d prince,
until you can do better; eat your twenty
five-cent dinner with the manner of a
man who is accustomed to fare sumptu-
otsly every day on course dinners, and
likes this sort Of q thing for change.
Keep the sunshine in your heart and it
will shine out of your face. The world
is always grateful to a st1nny tempered
man, just because he is go6d enough
and gracious enough to live In IT,
Laugh, my son, if your stomach is so
empty that you cannot tell whether
your pain is in your liver or your back
bone; wear your hat iauntily if it is SO
full of holes that you can't see the grease
and weather stains that cover 1t; speak
cheerily, thodgh you have TO- wear your
overcoat every time your shirt goes 20
the laundry. 1t won't be an easy thing
to do, right along; the days will come
Wu6H SOOu luuulS6uCe III In0 - UlueS
would seem like Paradise; there will be
hours when you would rather swear
than laugh, when yod would rather
growl and wall than look pleasaut3
there will be times when in spite Of
your strength and manhood and good
resolutions, you will go away by your
self and groen and bury your face in
your hands and cry like girl; l know
1t, son. But don't make habit of it,
and don't let any Que see you do it. 1t
is dangerous luxury, son, and should
only be INDUCED in at very long inter-
walls and on rare occasions. Cultivate
contentment; if you have no gloves, put
your hands in your pockets; if your
coat Is out at the elbows, back up
against the fence; If you have no hat,
you will never become bald. And when
prosperity comes not if, but when
you will be prouder of your good nature
in the dark days of adversely, my son,
than you can be of all the honors and
all the fame and position that prosperity
and success can bring you. Never
worry, son; don't fret it will only make
your face thin and your hair turn gray.
-Haaok-Eye.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
THE EAST,

In the case of John O'Neil the Northum-
berland County Mollie Mcguire the Pennsyl-
vania Board of Pardons has agreed to recon-
mend the Communication of the death penalty
to life Imprisonment.
A stowaway was found in the hold of
the steamship England which arrived at New
York City from Liverpool on the 2Sth ult
lie had been with Jut food and drink for thir-
teen days, and died soon after being discoy-
cred.
The tug boat Daniel Brown exploded her
boiler In the East River, New York CITY, on
the 29th ult., instantly killing the fireman
and deck hand and seriously injuring the
engineer and cook The tug was blown into
fragments.
Admiral John j. Abernethy died at New
York on the 29th ult, aged seventy-fve. He
was for many years Medical Director in the
United States NAVY.
About S3O,OOO,000 in gold arrived in the
United States from foreign ports during the
month of September.
The recommendation of the PENNSYLVANIA
Board OF Pardons for the Communication of the
Death sentence to imprisonment for life in
the case OF John O'Neill, the Molle Mcguire,
has been approved by Governor Hoyt.
For the month ending Sept 80, 1879. the
excess of exports over imports from the
United States, of merchandise, was S2O,620.-
OS'; for the twelve months ending at that
date. 1856, ,s46,217.
fire at Parker, Pa, on the morning of the
SOth ult., destroyed almost the entire business
portion OF the city, including seventy dwell
lngs and business houses. Most of the busi-
ness houses were partially covered by insur-
ance. Estimated loss, S300,OO0 The fire is
believed to have been the work of an incen.
diary.
Jacob Abbott, the author, died at his resi-
dence at Pennington, Me-, on the 3lst ult.,
aged seventy-six.
Ma1or-General Joseph Hooker died at Gar
den City, l.. l., on the afternoon of the 3lst
ult. General Hooker had been in his usual
health until an hour before his death, and
proposed going to New York on the following
day to attend to business matters.
The Grand Jury at Camden, N. j., has found
indictments against John Ewing, John Ell
wood, j. A. Vertz and G. A Redman, charged
with causing the accident on the Philadel-
phia & Atlantic Narrow Guage Railroad
near Clemeuton Station, N. j., on the 18th of
Augustus by which four persons were killed.
The indictments are for manslaughter.
Judge Blotchford's overruling of defend
ants demurrer in the income tax suit brought
by the Government against Samuel j. Tilden
was filed in the Clerks office of the United
States Court at New York on the 1st. The
costs were taxed and defendant was given sixty
days from hearing of decree to answer bill OF
complaint.
George Tassie, David Rupp, j. Kinney,
Zach. Thomas and d. Jenkins were killed by
afire-damp explosion in a coal mine at Mill
Creek, Pa, on the I'd.
very heavy snow fell throughout the New
England States on the Sd.
The steamships Rhein and Britannia, which
arrived at New York on the Sd, brought ST.
$40 600 in British gold bars and American
gold coin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
Proclamation of the President Appointing
Day for Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1879,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1879,
The following proclamation was is
sued by the President to-day;
At no recurrence of the season which the
devout habit of religious people has made
the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty
God and humbly invoking his continued IA
vor, has the material prosperity enjoyed by
our whole conntry been more conspicuous,
more manifold, or more universal. Dur
ing the past year, also, unbroken peace
with all foreign Nations, the general preva-
lence of domestic tranquility, the supremacy
and security OF the great institutions of civil
and religious freedom, have gladdened the
hearts of our people and confirmed their at
tachment to their Government, which the wis
dom and courage of our ancestors so ftly
framed and the wisdom and courage of their
descendants have so firmly maintained to be
the habitation of liberty and justice to success
sive generations. Now, therefore, l. Rutherford
B. Hayes, President of the United States, do
appoint Thursday, the 9th day of November,
instant, as day of National thanksgiving and
prayer, and l earnestly recommend that, with
drawing themselves from secular cares and la
bors, the people of the United States do meet
together on that day in their respective places
of worship, there to give thanks and praise to
Almighty God for his mercies, and to devout-
ly beseech their continuance.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this Sd day
of November, in the year of our Lord 1879,
and Of the independence of the United States
the 104th. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
By the President, VIM NJ. EvARTs,
Secretary of State.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-11-07
The State of Texas.

TEXAS is the greatest stock State in
the Union. 1t is estimated that during
the past ten years 5000, 900 head of cat
tie have been driven from the State,
without counting the number that have
been shipped by sea and rail. Taking
the average net receipts to stock raisers
at 81 per head, the estimate is $24, ,OO4,-
96l worth of cattle have been convert
ed into money in ten years. A novel
feature of the cattle trade is the co-ope-
ration of the mosquito in the manage
ment of the range. One of the largest
owners says that without the aid of the
mosquito three times as many men
would be required to herd and gather.
Out of the mosquito season the cattle
get as wild as deer, but under the influ-
ence of these pests, they congregate and
become docile aud easy to manage.
And now since the mosquito is encour-
aged and utilized as cattle tanner, let
it not be said that he was made in vain,
and let them all migrate to Texas, where
they can be made useful. Western FaTns
Journal