Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-11
QUA CALIFORNIA LETTER
YusA CITY, May rs, 1880


Prospects here are cheering in the hish-
est degree Anyone who would travel
through our county now would be charmed
with the golden prospects. Everywhere
tie dust yet. The wheat fields, reaching
from each side Of the horizon, now wave
in the breeze, being all headed out and be-
ginning to ill. This year the stand Of
wheat on the ground here il fully equal to
the fine fields which nre seen in a good
year, on the farms Of your own thrift-wor-
thy grangers, hut here all is wheat, and il
Ia all nearly alike. The season, however il
quite late. The immense glaciers all
around us in the mountains have con-
tributed to hold back the season. This i'm.
mense snow field also feeds every ravine
with a gushing rill OF water 40 that the
mining in the mountains never was more
hourshing, and altogether California seems
to be in a most flourishing and happy con-
diIon.
This is the month for picnics and il
would do you good 10 attend one. Every
body expects 10 meet everybody else at the
May pcnics; but will not describe the
scenes or order OF exercises as did so last
year, only will remind you that straw
berries aud cherries are abundant, and all
our fine roses are in their gayest livery.
| will give you short sketch Of man
from Ohio, which / have heard related
here and which have reason 10 believe is
true.
A man named McNulty, timer, from
Mansfield, Ohio, came to California some
| thirty years ago, and realized q handsome
| fortune at his trade by making tin and cop
per rockers and various necessary appn-
ratus for tho use of the miners. So sue
cessful was he that when the city Of Sac
ramento suffered the great COZ fagration
which laid it in ashes about quarter OF o
century ago, McNnlty owned great part
OF the business portion Of the city. 1t is
said that on the night Of the great fire,
while other men walked vacantly about,
wringing their hands and amenting their
losses, I've stood for sometime in n thought
lul posture, then turned quickly but silently
from the scene OF destruction, procured n
feet horse and started by the light Of his
burning buildings and rode like "John
Gilquin across the PLAINS in the direc.
tion OF the Sierras, and by the next morn
ing before the news reached the numbering
distric's, he had purchased every foot { I
lumber and had control Of every sawmill
at Grass Valley and Nevada City. Per.
haps no other human being on earth ex.
cept an American would have stood by
the freight of his own property and laid
plan by which to overcome his loss, and
at once turn disaster into immense specu-
lation. But McNulty, by quickly yielding
that which was beyond his control, and
taking instant advantage of the circum.
stances gained, il is said, four times al
much ns he lost by the fire.
Yours, in friendship, S. II. RAUB.
HUMOROUS SKETCH.
A certain man in the war being on guard
and wishing TO visit q near hen roost, pre-
vailed on raw son OF Erin to take his bea
for little while, charging him not to nj
low any one to cross the line without ad
vancing the countersign (Which was Pc
tersburg") "). When the sentinel returned
with his poultry under his great coat. lie
wished to pass the line and deposit his con
templated breakfast before he resumed his
post. He therefore changed his habit {
little and approached his substitute who
bravely called ont 10 him, Halt advance
and say Pathersburg or yes can't get in"
| & II r