davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
Fishing With Dynamite.

In several of the counties in northern
Georgia, the Atlanta Constitution says,
there is much excitement over a new
and terrible method of killing fish,
which is being practiced with great
efficacy. When the Government sur
veyors were improving the beds of the
Etowah and Coosa rivers they used
dynamite in blasting rock. 1t was dis
covered that the explosions were very
fatal to the fish all around them. The
shock was so terrible that hundreds of
dead or stunned fish would rise to the
surface and be easily taken. The peo-
pie around the country heard of this
destruction of fish, and resolved to put
It to practical use. They procured a
number of dynamite cartridges and be-
gan such killing of fish as was never
heard of before. The practice rapidly
spread until now it is common in sew
eral counties in north Georgia. A place
in the stream is baited we'll for several
days until fish congregate thickly there.
Then the managers of the destructive
plans 60 to work. The dynamite car
fridge is placed deep under the water. II
is sexploded by means of a small galvaniC
batter or by some cheaper method. A
terrific stir is made in the water, and
for yards around fish are killed by the
hundreds. We learn that not far from
Cartersville, the other day, 200 pounds
of fish were thus killed in one stream,
The news of this practice is rapidly
spreading, and wherever it is heard Of
there is desire to try it. The destruc-
tion of fish in the streams and ponds is
consequently terrible. Much indigna.
ton is felt by those who deem this an
extravagant waste of fish, but there
seems to be no way to prevent it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
Rich Men in New York,

II is said, and doubtless truly, that in
1880, little less than fifty years ago,
only one citizen of New York, John
Jacob Astor, was worth more than
81 100000. Nothing can better illus
trate the growth of wealth here than
this fact, which now seems surprising
enough. Millionaires are very plenty
in these days, so very plenty that they
are hardly taken into account. Every
few days somebody dies leaving an es-
tate valued over 81, 900, 900; and yet the
mass of our old inhabitants may not
even have heard his name. II has been
asserted that there are at present in the
metropolis fully 500 men whose prop
erty is estimated at 81, 900, 900 and up
ward. Such citizens as William H.
Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Henry
Hilton, George Law, Moses Taylor,
Royal Phelps, A. A. Low, Peter Cooper,
Alexander and Robert l.. Stuart, Hor'
ace b. Clafiin, Il. S. Jaffray, James
Gordon Bennett, William II. Appleton,
August Belmont, Q. z. Huntington,
Anthony j. Drexel, Levi P. Morton
James Brown, Amos r. Reno, and
dozens of others who might be named
are presumed to be millionaires ovel
and over again. Half century haE
made wondrous changes here in Other
things than private fortunes. Their
the city had little more than 2OO,O0(
people; now, including adjacent towns
and the population properly ours with
in a radius of fifty miles of UnioI
Square, it includes not far from 1000,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
The Painted Belt.

There was a widow lady of compare
tive youth and many personal attrac-
tions residing in Canton, who had, for
some time, unsuccessfully endeavored
to induce the local dentist to accept the
rank and emoluments of her late hus-
band. The dentist, however, was a
cautious man, and although he greatly
admired the widow, declined to commit
himself. About month ago Esquire
Smedley, of Canton, gave a party.
which was altogether the most brilliant
affair of the kind within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant. The parlor of
the Smedley mansion was crowded with
guests, who overtiowed into the hall,
and rose gradually to the top OF the
staircase. In the course of the evening
the widow became somewhat faint, in
consequence of the heat, and requested
the dentist TO conduct her into the gar
den, where the fresh air might revive
her. 1t did revive her to an immense
extent, and the dentist found the gar
den such pleasant place that he de-
cided to remain with his companion
and smoke cigar.
When the pair returned to the parlor
curious phenomenon attracted un-
usual attention. The widow wore a
wide belt beautifully ornamented with
a painted vine of some undetermined
botanical species. The dentist wore a
black coat, and to the amazement of
the public, one side of his right sleeve
was seen to be decorated with the green
stem and leaves and the brilliant white
and yellow flowers of the vine that
ornamented the widows belt. The con-
clusion drawn by wicked and heartless
people was inevitable. There was no
possible defense to be made. The
widow wisely stepped out and went
home, and the dentist followed her
example, burning with rage and wish
ing that all Canton had but one back
tooth, that he might draw it with an
old-fashioned turnkey and without the
use of anesthetics. OF course the widow
lost no time in pointing out to him
that there was but one way in which he
could repair his indiscretion and undo
the injury which he had done her, and
accordingly he was within week
brought to the altar, where he expiated
his fault with much fortitude, and
furnished an awful example of the
wickedness of painted belts.-M T.
Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
A Rare Dog.

There are so many wonderful stories
showing the sagacity of animals going
the rounds of the papers just now, says
California paper, that we are inn
PEELED to contribute our quota by in
serting the following marvellous in
stance Of intelligence of dog occurring
in a restaurant, the other day. A lady
who had stepped in to ask direction
was about to leave the door again,
when large Newfoundland belonging
to the proprietor placed his paws
against her, and began eagerly smiling
about her clothes, at the same time
wagging his tail in a significant man
ner. The strange manner OF the dog
excited the suspicious of the proprietor.
The lady was seized, heavily manaeled
and, despite her struggles, dragged into
an eastern-oysters-f -for-two compartment
and searched. On her person was
found secreted a valuat le mince pie.
The wretched woman was condemned
10 swallow four wretched doughnuts OF
the period, while the dog was rewarded
with solid gold collar set with dia-
monds and things. The above story
seems wildly Incredible, we know, but
can be testified to 10y many eminent W.T.
nesses.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
A Boy Burned to Death by Vitriol on
Runaway Horse.


Frederick Roche, blacksmith at the
Continental shaft, in the Fifteenth
ward of this city, sent his son Adam,
aged fifteen years, to Taylorville, two
miles distant, on Saturday, for some
vitriol for use among the mules at the
mine. The boy went on horseback,
purchased the drug and started back.
On the way the cork was in some man
ner worked from the bottle, and young
Roche was made aware of the fact that
the oil was saturating his clothes by a
sharp sting of pain. Clasping his hand
on the bottle his fingers came in con-
tact with the vitriol on the neck of the
vial, and the hand was burned so that
he uttered loud cry of anguish, and
spilled more of the oil on his clothing.
In his efforts to allay his pain, the
startled horses darted off at q rapid
rate. After going short distance,
during which time the oil had found its
way down Roche's limbs, the boy, who
was in frightful paroXysm of pain, was
precipitated head forward into a gutter
by the roadside.
The affrighted horse ran to the mine,
and Roche's father hurriedly went in
quest of his son. The boy was found
dead by the roadside, and his appear
ance showed that he had undergone
terrible writhing in trying to tear his
clothing from the afflicted portions of
his body. The vitriol had eaten his
face and body, and his lower limbs had
been burned to the bone. A long cash
was found in his head, where he had
struck a large stone, and his hands
were shriveled and drawn. He had
managed to tie two mules which he
had with him to a tree, and then
crawled a short distance away. He was
scarcely recognized by his father, his
face hVving been frightfully scarred.-
Scranton, Pa, Cor. CIncin'sGti Enquirer
Dec II
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
Railroad Accidents.

In his recently-published "Notes on
Railroad Accidents" Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams, Jr, shows that the
percentage of loss and of personal in
juries on railroads is exceedingly small
when compared with the amount of
travel, and that the risks of railroad
travel are much less than they are
popularity supposed to be. He cites
statistics to prove that it is actually
safer for man or his family to travel
by rail than to stay at home, thus cor
roborating the saying attributed to
John Bright, that the safest place in
which q man could put himself was
inside first class railroad carriage of
train in full motion. During the
eight years from 1870 to 1873 the whole
number of lives lost in operating the
entire railroad system of Massachusetts
was l, 165, or an average of LAG year,
while in Boston the recorded deaths
from accidental causes during the ten
years from 1868 to 1873 was 1857 or an
annual average of 259. These results
show that in the City of Boston alone
the yearly number of deaths caused by
accidents was eighty per cent. greater
than the number reported on all the
railroads in the State. This compari-
son is not peculiar to Massachusetts,
but may be taken as approximately
accurate for other places. Indeed,
statistics were published years ago in
France showing that people were less
safe at home than while travelling on
the railroads. Another fact which will
serve to reassure the timid is, that OF
the whole number of persons acciden-
tally killed or injured on railroads, but
small proportion are passengers.
Many of those who lose their lives or
are personally injured are employees
who are exposed to risk by virtue OF
their employment, and whose famil-
iarity with danger leads them to be
careless, and even foolhardy often
times. But, as Mr.. Adams shows, the
greatest and most regular cause OF
death and injury in the operation OF
railroads is the reckless habit of walk.
ing ON the track, which is common
with too many people, and especially
with those who are more or less drunk
More than one-third of all the railroad
casualties reported in Massachusetts
are classified under the head of acci.
dents to trespassers, that is, accidents
to men, women and children, especial
ly the latter, illegally lying, walking,
or playing on the tracks, or riding or
the cars Mr.. Adams says that the
best remedy for this dangerous prac-
tice is the system of broken-stone bal.
last, covering the entire surface of the
road-bed. This has been adopted by
the Pennsylvania Railroad with the
most satisfactory results, though the
company had other objects in view
than the discomfort of pedestrians
The sharp and uneven edges of the
broken stone form surface which the
most inveterate railroad tramp viii
shun. The adoption of this system by
other corporations would not only give
their lines the best road-bed yet devised
but would be means of materially de
creasing the percentage of Academia
deaths and injuries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02

81 have laid out penny in 'Zad-
kier s Almanac, says Mr.. Labouchere,
"snd am filled with terror at the va
rious troubles which are predicted for
next yePr. In January wars and ru-
mors of wars still afflict the British
people and do injury to their trade and
commerce, for Mars was setting at the
winter solstice and affecting the ascend
ing planet, Venus, by opposition aspect.
Ireland will be disquieted, deeds of
violence will be perpetrated in the
Emerald Isle, and epidemic diseases
will be fatally prevalent therein. Saturn
is still slowly passing through the sign
Aries, hence Old England's troubles
will be thickening, her death rate high
and her enemies numerous. Denmark
and Germany will be far from prosper
Gus, and the state of Russia will be la
mentable. Poland will be disturbed,
Persia, Asia Minor, Cyprus and the
Archipelago will be the scenes of mar
tial deeds and martial epidemics. The
11th of the month brings Mars into an
evil configuration with the place of the
sun at the birth of an English Prince,
warning him to beware of accidents and
over-exertion. "In February, at the
moment of the new moon, on the 10th
inst, the luminaries will be in q square
aspect with Mars. This is evil for
the ruling powers, and forbodes de-
termined onslaught on the Government;
nevertheless, as Jupiter will be strong
ly posted in the eleventh hour, the
Government will weather the storm"
In March "the Divorce Court will be
busily occupied and many eases of
cruelty to women will be brought be-
fore the police courts, for Venus op-
poses Uranus on the oath inst" In
April "the presence of old Saturn in
Aries will involve this country in some
trouble, but he is shOrn of most of his
power to do mischief now that Jupiter
hastens to overtake him." In May
excitement will be at fever heat in
New York, and the marshaling of
troops will move the martial instincts
of the American people," while in Lon
don " a metropolitan theater is threat
ened with destruction, for Mars transits
the place of the moon at the vernal in
gress." But in October the outlook is
especially bad for us. Holders of
foreign bonds must look out for squalls,
for at the moment of full moon Mars
will be with the sun in the second
house and Saturn with the moon in the
eighth. These evil-omened positions
indicate q turbulent condition of poll.
tics as we'll as of the weather, and Sc
we're strain will be placed upon the
revenues of Great Britain" The curious
thing connected with all this nonsense
is that there are numbers who believe
in its prophetic wisdom, for Zadttep
Almanac has an enormous sale.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Grand Jury at New Orleans, on the
22d, indicted three Of the directors of the sus-
pended Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe De.
posit Company for wrongfully and feloniously
concealing facts within their knowledge rela-
tive TO the condition of the bank with intent
TO deceive the public.
Nearly all the striking workmen at the
Chicago stock yards resumed work on the
22d, the packers having acceded to their de-
mand that no men outside the union should
be employed.
In the Republican caucus Of the members
the Tennessee Legislature, on the 22d, a
resolution was adopted recommending Gener-
al Grant for President.
The buildings OF the Carlton College at
Northheld, Mimi, were burned on the 2Sd.
Eight roughs boarded a train at Camden
(Md) station on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road on the night of the Gath, and Just as the
train started they drove a eolored man from
the cars, attacked another, who ned for safety
10 the ladies' car, where he was pursued by
the roughs, who then made an indiscriminatt
assault upon the passengers, cutting one mar
badly, and shooting a colored woman in the
neck. Other passengers were badly bruised
Bernard Picker, an old German resident o.
Delphos, Ohio, was called 10 his door by LOUD
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02

MacEvoy's recovery had been within
the scope ofpossibility he had not ex-
pected IL.
MacEvoy was buried on Tuesday aft
ernoon. In the forenoon several ply
sicians from this city again asked per-
mission to make post-mortem exam
ination of his head, but were refused
by the father of the lad in the same
language he had used to other appli-
cants for the same privilege: "I care
little for science. 1t could not save my
boy, and so he is under no obligations
to it. His remains shall not be mutil-
ated." 1t being feared, on account of
the great interest shown in the case by
the medical fraternity, that some of
them would attempt to resurrect the
body a strict watch will be kept over
the grave. The family of the lad are
poor, but the different mem bers will
take turns in watching. Mr.. MacEvoy
prevented even the probing of the
wound after death,-M Y. Herald,
Nor, II.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
The MohammsdAn Religion Making Head
way,

DIR. Dollinger. authority in such mat
ters, makes this interesting statement;
" At Sierra Leone Moslem university
is hourishing, in which are being edu-
Gated a thousand young men whose
lives will be as absolutely surrendered
to the cause the school represents as
were the lives of the early soldiers of
the crescent, who counted it joy to fall
in its defense on the field of battle. In
China the followers of this ancient
symbol have increased beyond compu-
tation, fifty thousand residing in Ton
quin alone. Among the Malayans and
the islanders Of the Eastern Archipel-
ago it is reported that $4,000, 900 have
been won over to its support; and still
one-ffth of the dwellers on the earth
are enrolled as its army, of whom 50,-
600. 900 at least are subjects OF Her
Majesty Queen Victoria. "-St' Lot1is
RepabIiedn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
A German Discovery.

A German physician who has given
much attention to the subject has come
to the conclusion that the only way to
preserve peace among the women of q
household when, as in weather like the
present, they are kept within doors, is
to oblige them to absolute silence.
When women are much thrown to.
gether their tongues, he says, should
remain in state of perfect quieseence.
They may converse with each other, if
necessary, by means of signs and SYM
bols, but should ON no account utter a
word. He has found by experience that
this regimen, when strictly adhered to,
produces the happiest results. In one
or two cases he has actually known
feelings of mutual regard and esteem
to arise between women who could not
open their mouths previously without
disagreeable consequences. Their ap.
petites also improved in so marked q
degree that they could go ON eating
luncheon till tea time. Pail Mall Ga
zette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02
Popular Medical Science.

Glenn Berry, the sable PHILOSOPHER of
Carson, spent few days in this city
last week. He was sorry to find his
old friend, Marcus Aurelius johnson,
confined to his bed when he called.
"Why, Marcus, what on erf's de
matter widjuP'
dunno, Clem-dunno 'zactly. Doc
Bronson sez de disease hasn't gone
long 'nuf ter make Direct doggyneses
of it, but he believes it's de roomytism
or the newralzy."
"Wen, if dat's what de matter, Jest
know how ter fix you. Seen lots of it
cured down der in Carson. Der was
Guv'nor Kinkead, an ole Jasper Bah
cock, an Farmer Treadway, an lot
o. dem kind o. fellers all had de roomy-
tism or'de newralgy, or some udder
mighty reliable disease of de same GIN
raj nature-an' I've seen all dem cured.
You jes' send fo' yo' doctor, an tell him
to cut button-hole in yo' hide whar dc
pain does de mos work, an TO take a
seeringe an squirt bout half a pint
mawfeen in dar. OATS what'n cure
you, Marcus-you hear me. I'm q
talkin', chile--cure you shuah. OATS
what we call de sutterranean iniecshin,
and don't you forget it, FIrgi,siC
(Nev.J ChrOHicIe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02

the front wheels of an open lumber
wagon, and who was evidently dis
turbed about something. I" I say, mis-
ter" said the rustic, scratching his
head with the butt of his whip; this
here's the road to Frisco, amt itP"
Certainly; but, old man, what have
you done with your hind wheelsp"
"Great Scottr' exclaimed the old
party, rubbing his specs and looking
behind him, if l haven't gone and
lost them wheels. That explains the
whole thing, though, stranger; seemed
like I'd been going up such an alfred
long hill was beginning to think Ihad
lost the way" San francisco Paper.
MIR. Alden, the New York Times
humorist, appears on the surface of the
literary sea again just long enough to
say: There is no part of the human
frame which is more unsatisfactory
than the liver. No boy ever had any
fun with his liver, and no man ever
found his liver q source of pleasure OF
means of improvement. The Turks,
it is true, believe that the liver is the
seat of their affections, and in theil
poetry and love letters express their
ardent desire to win the livers of de-
sirable persons of the opposite se;>.
This, however, is one of the errors of
the Mohammedan faith. We know
that TO speak of two livers which beat
as one is gross anatomical error"
The late Mr.. Macadam, before the
introduction of the two-inch ring and
six-ounce weight for testing the gauge
of stones used to bid the stOnebreakers
use their own mouths as gauge; if the
stone would not go into their mouth it
was too large for the road. While SUI
perintending the making of road Mr..
Macadam one day perceived some stone
of extraordinary size. His wrath was
kindled against the stonebreaker, a
canny Scotchman, whom he forthwith
accused of having failed to test the
stones. The man denied the accusa-
ton, and solved the mystery by open
ing his mouth, which was of enormous
capacity and entirely bereft of teeth
NJ Y. Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-02

600. Then Chambers street was far up
town, the City-Hall Park was the prin-
cipal park, we had no hotels, newspa-
pers, libraries, theatres worthy of the
name, we had no crossing steam
ers, no modern improvements, few for
eign fashions, no regularly recurring
defalcations, little official or Legislative
corruption, no stupendous municipal
debt, no reckless ambitions, no boom
ing" Wall Street, not many luxuries,
but an amazing amount of public and
private honesty. What revolutions fifty
years have produced! When we lock
back through the light of history, 1t
seems as if 1880 must have been all of
five centuries AGO. Y TEnles.