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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-30
English Hangmen.


This curious eagerness to be appoint
ed "the laws tinisher" becomes the
more unintelligible when we consider
and the baleful, brutal traditions which
surround his office. The predecessors
of Tom Cheshire, Calcraft and Mar
wood have been through many genera
tions vile, despicable wretches, felons
in esse or nposse, thieves and murder
ers who had barely escaped the gallows,
who retained always an intimacy and
fellow-feeling with criminals, and not
seldom relapsed into crime. For ex-
ample, one Price, the hangman early
last century, was, while actually in of
flee. convicted of murder, and travelled
TO Tyburn on his own account in the
fatal cart Another, Dennis, in 1880,
having been one of the ringleaders in
the Lord George Gordon riots, accepted
pardon in order to execute his former
associates Again, the hangman's func-
tions under our old and ruthless penal
code were those of human butcher.
The gallows were like the shambles,
where hccatombs suffered. The exc
cutioner not only slew, at times he dis
membered. He performed nameless
barbarit:es, often with refined and sick
Naing cruelty, on condemned traitors;
carried their quarters and their decapi-
tated heads back to prison in basket
to be boiled previous to exposure on
Temple Bar. 1t was inevitable
that any man who discharged
such loathsome duties should de-
generate into callous. cold -blooded
ruf1ian, and the latest practitioners
can not possibly have escaped deteriora-
ton. An eXecutioner constantly and
exclusively engaged in the taking of hui
man life must by the very nature of his
vocations become brutalized. This is
established beyond doubt. 1t is idle to
talk of Calcraft as mild-natured man,
latterly of venerable appearance, and
devoted follower of Isaak Walton, fond of
flowers, estimable in his domestic rela-
tions. The fact is he was n saturnine
and truculent being. AS for Marwood,
his deterioration was marked and COM
paratively rapid. The rumor runs that
when he first sought, quite unlimited
and of his own free will, the employ
ment with which his name has since
been so intimately associated, he was q
man who lived in the odor of sanctity,
was not without repute as local preach
or. and was generally reputable mem
ber of society. The rule of nil mist
bonum may. perhaps. be invoked to
shield even a hangman's memory, and
it will be enough to hint that he was not
an irreproachable person toward the
close of his career. 1t may be stated,
too, to his discredit, that he latterly
permitted himself to add ridicule and
contumely to his CHASTITY functions.
The fact that he could make money by
their rehearsals, as happened not long
ago at certain cathedral town, where
he performed the process of pinioning
the curious at u shilling head, proves
that he must have grown singularly
depraved In his latter days. That such
an exhibition was possible Is the best ar
gument for an entire revision of our
method of giving effect to capital pun
ent,-Major griffin. IN Fortafghtty
RevieW.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-30
Tannales.

A nocturnal article Of food peculiar
to certain sections of the great metropo-
lis, New York, during the winter
months, Is "hot corn" San Fran
cisco's promenade street-corners have
never yet been occupied by hoarse-
voiced venders of shot cornl hot cornr'
but nightly, for the past couple of
years, they have been tenanted by silent,
dark-faced men, in long white busters,
who sell for "ten cents each, three for
twenty-five cents" an edible-"tam-
ales"-unknown, as regards taste and
composition, to most San Franciscoans,
and never heard of, perhaps, elsewhere
in this country.
Punctually, at about $3.50 each eve
ming, may be seen to arrive ut their
accustomed stations the tamales men.
Placing upon light folding stand the
pail, packed full of the steaming hot
tamales covered over with thicknesses
of cloth to retain the heat, and putting
beside the pail brown wrapping-paper
and n lantern, the tamales man awaits
his customers, the. last of whom may
walk away with the last tamale not
before half-past twelve or one o'clock.
There are now twelve tamales men
selling from stands" said Jose Rodri-
guez, who for some eight months has
watched with speculative eye people
pass his pail in front of the White
House, Post and Kearnv Streets, and
there are men running about. On
Market Street there are four men; on
Kearny, five; on Dupont, two, and
one on Stockton. The business is
in the hands of us Spaniards. the tam
oil INT f,.p,
Mexico, where they have been eaten
take chicken and clean it up nice and
then boil it. When it is cold we cut it
up on block as they do meat to make
Hamburg steak. Then we take suffi-
cient corn-husks and dip them in cold
water. The next step is to grind the
quantity of corn. Then we grind fine
some Chilli peppers and stew with a
little flour and lard to confer flavor, and
after little take it off and let it cool.
The corn-husks being all ready and the
meal made into thick paste, we take
a piece of chicken, two olives, a table,
spoonful of pepper, and some meal,
and arrange it on n husk. Then we
| take knife, and as one buffers bread,
spread the meal paste on other husks,
and hnally, wrap one musk so prepared
around the first husk, and keep on until
the tamales are about as big as an ear
of corn, when we tie the ends and mid
die with narrow piece of husk, and it
is done. AS soon as enough tamales
are made they are placed in an oven
and steamed until it is time to take
them down town. For corn-husks /
pay 81 for six pounds; chickens cost 95
cents each; olives, Sc for four gallons,
Chilli peppers, so cents q pound, and
corn, $1.95 sack of 100 pounds. Sat
urday nights 1 sell about twelve dozen
tamales, on Sunday nights don't come
out, on other nights six dozen. There
is five per cent. profit, and my sales are
other business. Do you know that q
tamale will sober up drunken mani"
S131 EruDcjern pnot
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-30
A Ghostly Narrative.

1t was a cruel job that several men,
bers of tho fraternity of commercial
missionaries, commonly callen drum
mers, put up on brother exhorter. He
had been sent South for three months,
and therefore missed his usual trip up
North, and the boys got notice OF his
death inserted in paper and sent it to
all his customers. Then they spread
the report that his ghost continued to
travel the route he did in the flesh and
had ca led upon several old customers.
There's a good deal of superstition left
among the up-country merchants yet,
and the report made some of them
nervous. OF course Nickerson, the mis-
siouary, had heard nothing of this. 1t
was about dusk of one of the damp,
gloomy, drizzly wet days of last week
that country merchant named Corbin,
VINO does business in small New
Hampshire town, was at his desk. 1t
was dull day; there was nobody but
Corbn in the store. He had not
lighted the lamps, and in the cleaning
the place, festooned on one side with
cardinal hose and cheap shawls and on
the other, the hardware side, with hand
saws, etc., had quite weird appear
ance. Corbin was busy at his desk at
the back end of the store. Nickcrson
entered very quietly and unperceived,
and. when Corbin looked up, there
stood the drummer, directly in front of
him. Corbin always had held strong
faith in ghosts and did not for a moment
doubt that one stood before him. With
q howl OF fear he hurled the ink-stand
at the as,ounded missionary and then
bolted under the counter The mission
airy couldn't understand it. He did not
know that he had offended Corbin, but
he was indignant at being covered with
ink, and resolved on having an eXpla-
nation. So over the counter he went,
grabbed the trembling Corbin and
hauled him out. "What the tophet did
you do it forP" demanded Nickerson.
"Oh, forgive me-" pleaded Corbin. 'I
was so surprised at seeing you"
Hang you! Is that the way you act
when you're surprisedP' "Ye--yes,
sir What do you want? Why have
you come herep" $50 sell you bill
of goods, of course. Get up here and
look at my samples. Light light"
"Ye-yes." Corbin turned to get a
match, and just then Nickerson went
out to get his samples from his wagon,
and when Corbin got the lamp lighted
he looked about and no Nickerson was
to be seen. Then he was sure it was 9
ghost, and he went and locked all the
doors and crawled into the wood-boA
and pulled the lid down, and Nickersor
tried the door, found it was locked, con
cluded that Corbin was drunk or crazy
got into his wagon and drove off
Corbin stayed in the box about an hour
till number of townsmen and Cor
bins wife broke in to hunt him up, ant
then he told his story, and opinion wa;
divided as to whether he had seen 8
ghost or was drunk. Since then Nick.
erson has met with one or two Other
milder suggestions that he is a ghost
and has come to understand the affair
and has written Corbin an explanation
But Corbin has not made it public il
town, and sticks to his ghost story. HI
feels that he can't afford to be laughed
at.-BoSton Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-30

Liverpool to the very heart of South
Africa, n reward Of fi 900 having been
offered for his apprehension as principal
in great London bank robbery.
"But never thought l should be the
means of helping you two gents to your
lost property" said Mr.. Smith, with
his customary placid smile, as, after the
wearisome journey, we alighted in front
of the Digger's Retreat at Wellington,
with dust. .begrimed faces and stitlened
limbs, four days later.
And, TO his credit be it said, the de-
tective would not accept n penny of
recompcnse from either Of us.
THE excitement of the little scrim-
mage was enough" he said, as we
shook hands at parting
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Thumbs and Thumb Lore.

Since the interest in palmistry has
been revived we have become more or
less inclined to regard our hands with
more than common respect as the ora
cles by which our virtues rs we'll rs our
shortcomings are registered, and on
which to great measure our veal or
woe is dependent. And as in palmistry
the thumb plays chief part, so we find
that in ancient as well as in modern
time thai member of the hand has been
of great historical and social impor-
tance. An article on "Thumb Lore in
the A'atiqaary initiates us in all the
legends which have been formed of the
thumb. We are told that sin the re-
motest days of antiquity among Goths,
Iberians and Moors the licking of tho
thumb was regarded as solemn pledge
or promise. Another custom of even
greater grace and elegance was COM
mon in Scotland, where among the
lower classes bargains were concluded
by clicking and joining of thumbs. "
But the same ceremony was not always
and everywhere sign of agreement or
form Of business; licking or biting the
thumb was often a challenge, as in
"Romeo and Juliet, !" or, as in Decker's
.Dead Term" an act to "beget quar-
rels." Sir Walter Scott also alludes to
it in this sense, and many stories are
told where the biting of the thumb, or
even of the glove, caused death end de-
struction. Kissing the thumb was re-
garded as sign Of servility, the cere-
mony being performed at interviews of
tradesmen with superior customers.
The important part which the Emper-
or's thumbs played in the days Of
gladiators is well known; not so, per-
haps. the Chinese custom which still
prevails, to preserve an impression of
The thumbs of criminals, by which, as
the thumb is said never to change in its
formation and other characteristics,
malefactors are identified on future
committals. The very Latin name
polier is by antiquaries pointed out as
being the root from which the we'd
poliiceri, "to promise or engage.h is
derived, -PaR-AaN Gazette,
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A Norwegian Carriage.

There were few other carriages on
the route as we passed, but the favorite
mode of travelling seemed to be by
cariole, vehicle which, as far as /
know, is Indigenous to this country,
and the use OF which is not likely,
should imagine, to extend. The carl
ole is sort of q cross between q sulky
and blackboard, and is little more
uncomfortable than either. 1t consists
of pair of wheels and of pair of
shafts attached to the wheels at one
end and to horse at the other. Upon
the aforesaid shafts, between the axle
and the horse's tail is poised whatl looks
like small boat, not sufficiently wide
for man of broad beam to squeeze
himself into comfortably and yet so
wide that one of clipper build must
necessarily wobble about. The legs of
the occupant in either case hang out
and find aa precarious resting place
either upon the shafts adjacent to the
flanks of the horse, or in two steps let
down therefrom, while the extremities
of the shafts, which project beknd the
wheels, have slip of board nailed
across them which serves either as a
resting place for valise or as seat
for an attendant horse-boy. 1t is in
conveyances of this kind that great
part of the travelling in Norway is ac-
complished. You hire your cariole for
so many days or weeks and journey
along, finding relays of horses, or
rather ponies, at the different post sta
tions, distant six to ten miles from each
other. The charge for these quadru-
peds is moderate-about five or six
cents mile-but they are for the most
part sorry animals and there is not
much pleasure in sitting behind them.
One pair of little horses, on the other
hand, were excellent, and they ratified
along sometimes, as in going down
hill, a little too fast. 1t is remarka-
BILE popularity in this hilly country
that they use no brakes to their car
riages, and yet they trot down steep
grades as fast as their horses can lay
legs to the ground. 1t is the system Of
training, suppose, that renders this
safe. but any other than a Norwegian
horse would most assuredly come to
grief if driven down steep hill at the
pace they drive down hills here with a
brakeless carriage crowuing on his
heels Cor. San francisco Chronicle.
An Arkansas editor announces that
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-11-30
THE GUEST.


o thou Guest, so long delayed,
Surely. WHEN the house was mado,
In its chambers, wide and free,
Ihorc was sot place for theJ.
Surrey IN some room was spread
For thy slkc snowy bed.
Dcckod with linen white and fine,
Meet, o Guest, for use of thine.
Yet thou hast not kept the tryst.
Othor guests our lips have kissed;
Othor guests have tnrricd long,
Moved by sunshine and by song;
For tho year was bright with May,
A i the birds kept holiday,
Al tho 3 los were clonr ana blue,
When this house OF ours was new.
Youth came In wi h us to dwell.
Crowned with rose aud nsphodci,
1invo cd lOng, and even yet
Can not quito his hnunts forget.
Love haih SIT beside our board,
Brought us treasures IRON his hoard,
Trimmed our ms wi h fragrant wine,
Viu,ugc OF the hills divine.
Down our Eardcn-path has strayod
lounI Romlncc IN light arrnye1;
Joy hath lung her gaylnnds wide:
Faith sung low Mt oventidc;
Care huth ditto in and out:
sorrow rcwn her weeds about;
Hope held up hor torch on high
When clouds darkencd all the sky.
Pain, with pnllid lips and thin,
q thnth slcpt oar house wthin;
Life hath cnl cd us, loud aud long,
Wit n voice as trtfmpot ST. onE.
Sometimes wo have thought, q Guest,
TIL "a vert coming with the rest,
Watgled to eee thy shadow tall
On the inner chamber wall.
For we know that soon or late,
Th u wi enter Mt tho gute.
Cross tho tn cshold pass the door,
Glile Mt viii from iloor to iloor.
Wren thou'comcst, by this sign
We shnll know thoc, Guest divine:
Though alOn thy coming bo.
Some one must go forth with thee.
AIRS j. G. Il. DOrr, IN Hn,per's hdgdzip
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FROM MAJOR Downs, Military Instructor,
Mt. Pleasant Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y. /:
ing with Catarrh. My head and throat
ached SO severely that I was Obliged to
keep quiet. Ely's Cream Balm was sug-
gested. Within an hour from the first ap-
plication felt relieved, tho pain began to
subside. In few days I was entirely
cured. w. A. Downs.
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"A quart OF whisky was mixed with
bran-mash and given to cow at
Binghamton, N. Y, and when the hap
py feeling came the old boss sailed In
and tossed people over fences, knocked
down billboard, and upset vehicles
until the whole town had to turn out 10
suppress her. AS soon as she got sober
she Jumped down bank and broke her
neck. k.-SVracuse journal.
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A voice From tho Northwest.

MILWAUKEE, WIs.-The Daily Sentinel,
which is the leading morning paper of this
State, writes: "St. Jacobs Oil, the won
derful remedy for rheumatism, has been
used by large number OF people in this
city, and with effect truly marvellous"
THEY say that the use of tobacco stops
the growth, but the use of tobacco will
never keep man as short as the use of
liquor. Exchange.
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walnut Leaf Hair Restorer

Is entirely different from all others. It Is
as clear as water, and as its name indicates
is perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. Ii
will Immediately free the head from dan
druff, restore gray hair to its natural color,
and produce a new growth where 1t has
fallen off. Il does not in any manner af.
feet the health, which sulphur, Sugar of
have done. 1t will change light or faded
hair In q few days to q beautiful glossy
brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bot.
tie is warranted. BENTON, MYERS & Co.,
Wholesale Agents., Cleveland, Ohio. and
G. N. CRITTENToN, New York.
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DR.. r. V. PIERcE's "Golden Medical
Discovery" cures every kind of humor,
from the common pimple or eruption to the
worst scrofula.
letter.
One to five bottles cure the worst Kind of
pimples on the face.
Two to four bottles clear the system of
boils, carbuncles and sores.
Five to eight bottles cure corrupt or run
ming ulcers and the worst scrofula.
By druggists, and in half-dozen and
dozen lots at great discount.
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AFTER long Mercury and Potash treat
ment, found myself cripple from Mer-
curial Rheumatism. Tried Hot Springs
two years without relief, and was finally
cured sound and well by the use of Swift's
Hot Springs, Ark.
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WEAK lungs, splitting of blood, consump-
tion and kindred affections, cured without
physician. Address for treatise, with two
stamps, WORLDS DisPENsARY MEDICAL
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
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"a Drop Of ,Joy In rvcry word. =,

DIR. r. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Three
months ago / was broken out with large
ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and
face. procured your "Golden Medical
Discovery" and "Purgative Pelletsn and
have taken six bottles, and to-day am In
good health, oil those ugly ulcers having
healthy condition. thought at one time
that could not be cured. Although can
but poorly express my gratitude to you,
yet there is drop Of joy in every word
write. Yours truly,
JAMES o. BELLS, Fiemington, N. J.
discovery" sold by druggists.
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"A woman, of Norwich. N. Y. ate
burat bread recently and soon after
died, on account OF the perforation Of
hpr stomach by the charred bread, so Ii
Il elRmed by physicians, - R@gatQ Er'
press
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SwIFT's Specific Is. S. s.) has relieved
ue of an obstinate case of Dry letter, which
had troubled me for twenty-five years, and
had baffied all sorts of treatment.
Rev. l. r. BRANHAM, Macon, Ga.
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THE difference between advertising and
advertiser is, the former always pays
while tho latter sometimes does not
Detroit Post
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LORD CoLERIDaE said that John Bright
built himself up on Milton. II Mr.. Bright
were an American and an Arkansaw man.
he would have built himself up IA Bacon.
-ArEdnsdlp TraUeuer
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TESTED BY TINE. For Throat Diseases,
Colds, and Coughs, BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs have proved their efficacy by test
of many years. Sold ONLY In 6ores.
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YALE COLLEGE students are organizing
brass band. Thus there will be a consid-
cradle addition TO the number OF college
tooters.-Nelo Hduen Register.
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A LEEDS paper says that n young widow
in that city, who writes well, is training
herself for an editor. Who is the editor? !?
Detroit Free Press.
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ENaLIsHMEN when travelling through the
boundless West are struck with tho
enormous amount of land to the acre.
Ghicd0O HsroId
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says: 81 have taken Browns Iron Bitters,
and consider it one Of the best medicines
knowu,O
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Rock HILL, 8. C.-Rev. j. s. White says:
VI used Browns Iron Bitters for general
debility. 1t restored me to strength and
vigor."
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Blood PoisonIng-An Alarming Discovery.
Half the people are suffering and many
die from this fatal complaint. Diseases OF
the kidneys and liver are the principal
causes. As cure we can only recommend
German Hop Bitters.-Jour7adl of Health.
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THE greatest Engine in the world is this
new Baxter portable, in use all over the
world. Descriptive circulars free. Address
]. G. TODD, II Barclay, St., New York.
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THE fisherman Is the one who has to
scratch for living, at least you continually
hear of his having a bite. Yonkers States
man.
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THE canned fruit market is said to be
jammed.-N. Y Nelus.
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FREDDY: "Oh, mamma, pve dot such
an awful headache in my stomach."-
Alta California.
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If annicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
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STRONG butter-an eight-year-old RAM
Detroit Post.
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BILL-CoLLEcTING is easier said than
"dun. ."-C Chicago Netos.
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REMARKABLE for overcoming diseases
caused by impure water, decaying vegeta-
tion, etc., is Browns Iron Bitters.
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HaIe's Honey OF Horehound and Tar
For coughs and colds is renowned. Pixies
toothache drops cure in one minute.
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IT takes "buclset shop" to make man
turn pale.-Ine Eue.
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is discarded lover beau not?-Od
City Derrick.
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An Arkansas editor announces that
he is compelled to retire from his paper
on account of being SO afflicted with
the gout.
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PIso's CURE will cure Coughs, Asthma,
Bronchitis and Consumption. 25 cents.
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Look Well to the Name.
The only genuine German Hop Bitters have
the word "German" blown in the bottle.