Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-30
OUR COLUMBUS LETTER.
COLUMBUS

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. oath, 1881.
After n silence of several weeks your cor
respondent again comes TO the front to give
your readers a few items from the Capital
and it may astonish them when say this
city is glutted with throng of hungry Of
flee seekers hanging around the purlieus
of the State House, awaiting the converting
of the Legislature. Pick-a.dilly collars,
rot.got whisky, and bland and anxious
smiles adorn the close-shaven faces of many
an important hanger. on.
Gov. Foster has again made his appear
ance alter his trip call around" the East
and may remain until after the holidays.
The city has been drenched with contin-
ual rain for weeks, and slop and mud now
render the sidewalks and streets almost i'm
passible, and this weather has caused any
amount of sickness, and death is making
more rapid inroads on the citizens OF Co
lumbus than any other time in the recol.
lection of the writer.
Michael O'Bnyle, Janior of the Flag
room, is now lying very sick. Poor Mike,
who lost n leg in the army, was formerly
of the Soldiers Home. At the tap of the
drum he went to the front and stayed there
till they brought him back years after all
manged and torn with the fragment of a
shell while bravely facing the hungry jaws
of battle.
Christmas is coming, and hundreds Of
little boys and girls tlrong the grocery and
store windows, looking at the 10000 toys
they long to possess, while women and girls
are wreathed in smiles, and husbands and
fathers draw long, deep sighs, as they are
compelled to dive down deep into :lieir
pockets to crafty the anxiety oi the ex
pectant ones.
"Christmas comes but once year," and
what an example the poor Nazarine set
forll, to the world Of CHARITY Charity
that richest attribute OF the soul that gem
OF Heaven; that jewel that is music 10
angels, and tl,robs in all the sunshine oi
earth, and laughs IN beauty in the bright
stars Of night, and gIisiens in the moon
beams, us they dance in magnifccnce and
grandeur on the ripping waters M they
gush unbidden into the ocean.
Captain Slemmons, Of the Adjntnni Gen.
erals office, is one of the most generous gen.
tlemen about the State House. Few men
have nobler souls, and no heart has more
Charity. Whenever opportunity offers tc
assist distress, or want and suffering I'M
/. manity presents itself, Captain Slemmons
hand and heart willingly and readily re
sponds. | mention this fact from persona
observation, and to give credit to gentle
nan and scholar possessing n pure hear
lied will, benevplenee and goodness.
, To the editor OF the JouRNAL-its intel
:. ent readers, and the good people oil Per
ligburg and the Maumee Valley-a pleas
iyS, Merry Christmas; as we inger in tn,
zap Of 1881, may ils few remaining hour
I, glide away TRANQUILITY and peacefully t'
one and all, bringing to the great store
5 house OF memory, Az its gates swing opeI
from wall TO wall many Of the good deed
we have done during this year, and for
giveness from Him, who holds in the hol
. low OF His hand, the destiny Of the Nation
of the world, for any errors we may hav
: committed. The ardent prayer, and fon'
e desire of your correspondent is, that 30 ex
cellent journal as Perrysburg affords, witt
n news for father, mother, son and daughter
a may reach every household in the North
= west, as IL is well deserving.
. Your Old Friend,
. WM. Tuos. MCDOWELL.