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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
LATTER.

THE Court of Appeals at Albany, n.
Y, has granted a new trial to eX-Sheriff
James A. Flaclz and his son Will i'm,
convicted Il few months ago of conspir-
acy to secure n divorce for James A.
Flacll.
THE receipts of cattle at the Chicago
stoclsyards on the 18th reached $4,000,
the largest ever received in day. The
receipts of hogs reached 10000, the high
est for day since 1884, while the total
number of cars exceeded all previous
records.
AT Paris on the 18th, Notwithstanding
the contrary orders of the authorities
and the efforts of the police to enforcc
them, Il number of men and boys at
tempted to cross the Seine on the ice.
In the foolhardy attempt nine persons
lost their lives.
NEAR Westport, N. Y, on the 18th
John and William FURRY and two Ital-
ians We're instantly killed and James
O'Conncll. ac< Shane and one italian
were fatally injured at Split Rock
quarry on Lake Champlain. They were
engaged in hoisting stone into car
with Il large derrick when it suddenly
gave way, crushing the men.
GEORGE NJ. BARTHOLOMEW, formerly
presidents of the Charter Oak Life Insur-
ance Company, who fled to Canada
some years ago, returned voluntarily to
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 18th and APP
pearcd before Judge Fem in the SUI
pcrior Court and pleaded guilty to en-
bczzlement of $4,000. The judge SEN
fenced him to one year in State prison
at Wcthcrstield. bartholomew is sew
enty years old.
AT Green Creek crossing, near FIRE.
mont, o., four men in bob-sled at
tempted to cross the track of the Lake
Shore railroad, when the vehicle was
struck by an engine, and all the men
and both horses were killed. The names
of the victims were Charles Rccms, aged
eighteen; Milton Gilmore, aged fifty;
Grant Gray, aged twenty-seven; win
Babcocli, aged fourteen. All the parties
lived at Green Springs, O.
THE Senate on the 18th. after the passage OF
some public luilding bills, proceeded with ths
consideration OF the Financial bill and Mr.
Sherman made a lengthy speech in opposition
to the free coinagc amendment Messrs. ALI
son and Evarts also spoke against the free
coinage amendment and Mr.. Mcdonnell In its
support. The Senate then adjourned until tho
nth with an agreement that general debate on
the Financial bill shall C ose that EVENING".
4 he House disagreed to Senate amendments to
bills for public buildings at Akron, o.. and
Pueblo, Col. and conference was asked The
same action was taken on the bill providing for
an additional Just ce OF Tho Supreme Court of
Arizona. The Army Appropriation bill was
then taken up and debated until adjournment,
but withogt hnal action.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
august "
Flower

The Hon. ]. w. Fennimore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del, and lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap
ital of the State. The sheriff is a
gentleman fifty-nine years of age,
and this is what he says: II have
used your August Flower for sew
"eral years in my family and for my
own use, and found it does me
more good than any other remedy.
" 1 have been troubled with what T
" call Sick Headache. A pain comes
" in the back part of my head first,
" and then soon a general headache
until become sick and vomit.
" AT times, too, have a fullness
after eating, pressure after eating
at the pit of the stomach, and
sourness, when food seemed to rise
up in my throat and mouth. When
81 feel this coming OH if I take a.
" little August Flower it relieves
me, and is the best remedy have
lever taken for it. For this reason
Il take it and recommend it to
" Others as great remedy for Dys-..
"pepsia, &C." O.
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Investigation of This Mysterious and In
curable Disease.

investigation of This Mysterious and In
curabie Disease.
At tho Harley House, London. there is
young man, 8 native of the Congo
River Valley. who has journeyed to En-
gland for the purpose of an autopsy. He
believes himself to be in the incipient
stage Of the mysterious and incurable
disease known as the sleeping sickness,
and he has left his wife and children to
place himself and his body, after death,
at the disposal of medical men, in order
that they may so study his case as to
ascertain the cause, morbid changes,
and means of relief Of this comparative
~ unknown malady.
The young mans name Is Mankombi
and he is member of the missionary
church at the Banza Manteka station,
where not fewer than sixty OF his fell
low-converts have been carried off by
the sleeping sickness. His own sister is
dying of it; she becomes almost mania
cal at the full OF the moon. His brother
time of his departure, which was a
spontaneous action on his part, in order
that by dying in foreign land he might
perchance benefit his yet unaffected
countrymen.
Mankombi is yet we'll and able to
work, but lie is smitten with the trouble,
Us is shown to ott }rs by some little i'm
pairment of his mental alertness The
disease is not believed to be contagious,
although several memhers of the same
family may die of it 50 far as the obser-
walton of the missionaries goes no case
has been saved from fatal terminate
by treatment The duration may extend
for three years or it may be only two or
three weeks. AS the disease progresses
the patient is said to sleep his life away
although in severe cases maniacal symp-
toms develop.
Great emaciation marks the chronic
cases. "Nelavan" is a term used by
Declat and some other French writer's as
descriptive of the sleep disease of Africa
at some points to the north OF the
Congo, but on the west coast, where it
appears to be epidemic, Declat thinks
he has found some points Of resemblance
between nelaven and the CHICKEN
cholera. Mr.. Stanley makes no refer
ehce in his last volumes to the occur
renee of the disease among his carriers,
not few Of whom were probably taken
from the lower Congo districts, where
the disease is most frequent London
Medical Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
CAT AND TURTLE FIGHT.
Ono Loses Lamb and tho other Its Lif,
A Fiorcs Encounter.

Ono Loses n Lamb and tho Other Its Life
"A Fiorcs Encounter.
Elias Holt, farmer who lives In
Shade'e Valley, near Birmingham, Ala,
witnessed an interesting battle between
cat aud turtle a fow days ago, says
the Globe Democrat Holt owns n large
tomcat named Scrappor, which has for
years been the terror OF all the other
cats and all the dogs in tho neighbor-
hood. He is born fighter, and will
attack any thing when out of humor.
Holt was in the woods near his house
the other day, and heard great COM
motion in pile of dry leaves. He ap-
preached the spot to investigate, and
found his fighting Thomas cat engaged
in battle to finish with small
turtle. In the FIRST few rounds Scrapper
would leap on the back of the turtle,
and claw away at lively rate, but he
soon realized that this did his opponent
no harm, ard he changed his tactics.
Scrapper, however, was not long in dis
covering the place where tho turtles
b ad always came out and he sat down
To watch that spot. AS soon as the
turtle peered out to see If his enemy
WAC EOhO SSieppoi X hb lOi
head, but missed. This he repeated
several times, and then the turtle, keep
ing his head safely inside the she'll, put
out his feet, and started to crawl away.
Then Scrapper caught foot of the
turtle with his teeth and claws, when,
sure enough, the fight began in earnest.
The turtle pulled and struggled, but the
cat held on. Finding it could not got
away, the turtle began to fight bit it
SELF and, with q quick snap, it caught
one of the cats hind feet in rs vise-like
jaws, and held on. Scrapper pulled,
bit scratched, and emitted the most
terrific yells and screeches, but the tur-
tie would not be shaken off. Finally
Scrapper secured a good hold on the
turtles neck, where it was soft and ten
der. and he began to bite it with all tho
power he had. Both contestants were
bleeding freely by this time and the
cats leg was broken. Still they held on.
The sharp jaws of the turtle finally cut
off the cats foot and held it but a mo-
nent: later the turtles head came off,
Scrapper having bit and clawed its neck
in two. The feline lay down TO rest
awhile, and lick the bleeding stump Of
his off hind legs. AS soon as Scrapper re-
gained his breath, he picked up the tur-
ties head, and, with a savage growl,
limped off toward the house.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
DOMESTIC.

THE Treasury surplus is again piling
up, and at the close of business on the
9th was $4,000, 900. Since the first of
the year, despite the heavy payments
on account of pensions and interest, the
receipts have largely exceeded the ex-
penditures and the surplus daily in
crcases.
Two boys named Joseph and Willie
Barren were drowned in the Mississippi
river near Cassville, Wis, on the 9th by
breaking through the ice. Their mother,
in attempting to rescue them, also broke
through the ice and but for timely as
sistance would have drowned.
AT Grcensburg, Pa, on the 9th
Colonel j. w. Moore, the millionaire
coal and coke operator, was stabbed and
severely wounded with butchers
knife in the hands of his son, Bert. The
latter was at once arrested. The cause
of the act is not known.
In is reported from Boston that a syn
dicate of English and American capital
lists wi h four or five mill ON dollars
capital is in process of formation with
he avowed object of buying up all the
rubber in the world. If the combine
succeeds the price of the article will be
much increa ed.
THREE steamships cleared from New
Orleans for New York on the 10th with
cargoes consisting of $50 hogshcads and
41,254 barrels of sugar-the largest ship
ments for one day on record.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has de-
cided that colored children must not be
Disseminated against In the public
schools.
DURING 1890 E.w York City received
77,7o2, 1855 busheis Of grain, 80, ,0s2, 900
bushels of which was delivered by canal.
The canal tonnage OF 1890 was 5,246, 1O2
tons.
TwENTY-THREE furnaces in the She
mango and Mahoning valleys were
banked on the 10th and will so remain
until their owners are able to effect
compromise with the rail- Dads center
ing at Youngstown, o., regarding the
freight rate, which the producers claim
is too high. Three thousand men are
thus thrown out of employment.
On the 18th the stone yards in Chicago
were closed indefinitely, making idle
800 men. The shutdown is the out
come of an attempt by the proprietors
10 enforce new schedule of wages,
hours and rules
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17

In reading over the literary items OF
the week, found not much to interest
me, until my eye caught sight of an
article headed "Jcnks' Dream" Imag-
inc my surprise to find it ended up with
n recommendation to use DR.. Picrce's
Pleasant Pellets. Nevertheless, being
q great sufferer from sick headache, L
determined to try them, and, to my great
joy, found prompt relief, and by their
protractcd use, complete immunity
from such attacks. Pierce's Pellets
often cure sick headache in an hour,
They are gently laxative or actively
cathartic, according to size of DOSE,
AS q pleasant laxative, take one each
night on retiring. For adults, four act
as an active, yet painless, cathartic.
Cause no gripping or sickness. Best
Liver Pill ever made. Smallest, Cheap
est, Easiest to take. For Constipation.
Indigestion and Bilious Attacks, they
have no equal.
Manufactured at the Chemical Labo-,
ratory of the WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GEORGE PERRY, sheriff of Oxford
County, Ont, who became widely known
through his connection with the i'm
prisonment and execution of Birchall,
died on the 9th. He was in his seventy
third year.
THE Secretary of War has appointed
General Charles w. Field to succeed the
late General Wilcox in the war records
office. General Field served with dis
tinction in the Confederate army.
DIR. MARY WALKER. who was recently
reported as dying on her farm near
oswego, N. ", has fully recovered.
HERMANN ALBRIGHT Won BULow, son
of the ex-Minister of the Interior of the
German Empire, has taken out his first
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
SCOTTISH STRIKES.

But Little Change in the Situation on the
Railways In the Land o. Cakes.
GLASGOW, Jan. 13.-There is no ma.
terial change in the strike situation.
Several minor accidents have occurred
on the railways during the past few
days, but they do not seem to be at
tributable to the inexperience of the
new men. The Caledonian railway has
now n full complement of workmen.
Edinburgh, Perth, Aberdeen, Sterling
and Dundee seem to be the centres of
the trouble now. At Motherwell, Ham
ilton and Paladie, where the strikers
We're reinstated upon accepting the
companies terms, is experienced the
greatest trouble.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
FOR FEMININE READERS.

BILLIARD cloth makes the dryest case
for banjo.
To oDvIATE the shiny appearance Of
silk. sponge with unsweetened gin.
IF pretty women would remain pretty
they must not permit their tempers to
become rufilcd. A rage leaves creases
and wrinkles and we all know these
give an impress of age. 411tl
A NEW bcd-sprcad is made of coarse
linen sheeting, embroidered all over in
gold-colored silk in bold, conventional
designs, wrought in the long-stem stitch
known to our grandmothers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17

-"Nothing can be done we'll that is
done in hurry" oracularly declared q
certain pompous politician of this city,
one day lately, on the steps of the city
hall. How about catching fees?"
asked q wag at his elbow. The poll
tician was fioored.-N. Y. Ledger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-17
A Hint to Hunters.

Farmer - What are you prowling
around here with gun for? There is
no game within twenty miles of here.
Nimrod-I know it. That's the very
reason Pm hunting around here. l
won't feel disappointed II don't get q
shot at any thing. Siftings-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
Pies at re- Ani..ca.

There has been some talk lately of
the first pie-maker of California. Many
an old California miner who worked in
Ell Dorado County in the early ffties
remembers Mrs. Wakefield's dried-apple
pies. She came across the plains and
started in almost as soon as she reached
Hangtown, as it was then called, at the
business of pie-making. Dried apples
were sent around Cape Horn from New
York in clipper ships. These she
bought in bags and converted into pies,
baking them in wide. deep tins. She
was never able to supply the demand,
although she charged So apiece for
them. She opened restaurant, and
her favorite plan was to sell . quarter
of one of these pies and g cup of coffee
for 81. The early miners were queer
cattle. just as soon as raw Missourian
or y down-east Yankee, who had been
raised on corn and bacon, began to
make money fast there was nothing
good enough for him to eat. He would
buy sardines at 50 tin, or canned
peaches and other fruit at from So to So
per can. So Mrs. Wakefeld's pies be-
came noted, and when any miner came
down to Hangtown with his gold dust
he was never satisfied until he had eaten
his fill Of her apple pies and carried one
or two home with him. She cleared up
several thousand dollars in two months.
st. Louis Republic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
Smart Bonnx Bloobumper.

"What fine boy Benny is getting
to be-" remarked Mr.. Bloobumper's
mother-in-law, who was taking Dime,
with Bloobumper.
Eyes, indeed" replied Bloobumper,
proudly. "He's regular logician, too;
he'll ask questions and deduce con-
illusions in mastery manner. He's
inherited his fathers brain power,
added Bloobumber, modestly.
A few moments later the conversation
turned upon mormonism and Benny in
his search for knowledge asked:
Papa. what is mormon?'
"a mormon, Benny, is man who
msrries more than one wife.
"Then you are mormon, amt you,
papa?" asked Benny, anxious to display
the deductive powers which his father
had commended.
II q mormon, Benny? Why, how in
the world did you get such an idea into
your head Is that?"
"Why, heard you tell Mr.. Spatt,
yesterday that you had married all you,
wife's family"
Mrs. Bloobumper, said that gentle
man, turning to his wife, Il thinh
Benny had better be sent to bed now.
He's been up quite late enough. "-Ou'
Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
French Law of narrlaee.

1t is not generally known as it should
be that marriage between citizen of
the United States and citizen of
France, which may be perfectly legal
in our country, is considered in France
as mock marriage and nothing more.
Such marriages occur, and that they
are productive of great misery isIevinced
from the fact that there are here in
our neighbor Republic number of
American (and EnglishD who are the
cast-oft wives of Frenchmen. A citizen
of France residing in the United States,
but not naturalized there, may marry an
American girl in the most approved of
legal ways, and returning to the coun-
try of his birth, is not, by the laws of
France, accounted married man. In
the same sense, al American may marry
nothing but death or divorce can sep
arate them. But that girl may 60 to
France and marry again as legally as if
she had never entered into the bonds of
matrimony.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
some Valuable Eggs.

There are only four eggs of the
great aux now in this country, says an
oologist, "snd they are valued at $500
each. 1t seems odd ito think of bird
becoming extinct, but no one has seen
. Labrador duck, either, since 1856.
There are but five mounted specimens
in existence, and none of the eggs are
in existence. Kirtland's warbler is an
other bird that is rare. Until recently
but seven had ever been captured, and
these all were found in region near
Cleveland, O., less than q mile square.
Specimens were worth 800 apiece.
But a little while ago naturalist who
CHANGED to visit the Bahama Islands
came upon colony of the birds, and
knowing what mine he had struck,
shot about twenty and brought them to
this country. When he began to I'M
load, the story came out and the mar
ket sagged, SO that now you can get
Kirkland for IS or So. The Connecti-
cut warbler is another bird of interest
to biologists, because no one has yet seen
its eggs. 1t passes up the Mississippi
River in the early spring and probably
mates far in the interior of British
North America, and goes south in the
fall by the way of the Atlantic seaboard.
If any one can find the nest of this lit
tie fellow with four eggs in it, if will be
5000 in his pock et.-New York Tri-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
School Blunders.

A teacherin public school gave out
a list of words to be defined and put in
sentences. Among them was the word
"chasm." A little girl looked in the die
tionary, and not been quite satisfied,
inquired if "chasm" meant "gay." !;
The teacher absently replied yes,
but was astonished when she presented
her paper with this sentence: "When
l am sleepy, always chasm."
But this is hardly equal to another
teachers experience in little district
some years ago. She gave out words
for analysis. "Bank-note" was one of
them, and the teachers establishment
may be imagined when one young lady
brought the following unique analysis:
"Bank-note is compound, primitive
word, composed of bank and note
Bank is a simple word. meaning the
side of stream: NOTE to set down.
'Bank-note,' to set down by the side of
q stream" !
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
Results OF. Disl,onesIv.

The harm which few unscrupulous
men may do to great number Of hon
est ones is we'll illustrated by circular
which the United States Department OF
Agriculture has sent out.
shows, there has been a steady falling
off in the quantity and price of our
country's butter exports. During these
last years only seventeen million pounds
of butter have been sent abroad annu-
ally, against twenty million pounds a
year during the five years preceding.
The price during the past five years
has averaged from three to five cents
less than in the first five years.
During this period also lightweight
million pounds of cheese per year have
been exported at an average price of
about nine cents pound; but for the
preceding five years the exports OF
cheese averaged one hundred and twenty
million pounds at an average price of
nearly eleven cents pound.
The decline of both these items of
trade is attributed in great measure to
the expectation OF butter and cheese of
4 very bad quality. "Filled cheeses,"
said to be compounds ofskimmed milk
and grease" have been sent to Eng
land, as we'll as rancid butter and "oleo-
margarine" instead of good butter.
Much of this mischief is undoubtedly
done by INSCRIPTIONS packers or ex-
porters, who substitute wretched stuff
Tor tho COOL product of the farms; but
these packers, while they hurt the rep
atation Of oil American cheese in for
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04
1nfuer "a.

influenza is not, like soma otbar ~.
feas es, q product of advanced civiliza.
ton: 1t Is referred to by hippocrates
ara otner ancient medical writer's. and
d formidable list of epidemics in yarious
larss OF the world between the wears
il'5 and 1875 is given by Hirsch. II
Is OBVIOUS however, that no list of this
KIND can De exhaustive either as to the
actual number of the epidemics or the
area OF prevalence of the several ont
breaks. 1t is not till the sixteenth can.
tury that We meet with ANYTHING like
detailed records on the subject. and il
is tolerably safe to assume that till lone
after that time only the more serions
outbreaks were chronicled. Even at
the present day when the machinery for
the COLLECTION of statistics is so much
nearer perfection than it has ever been.
1t IL difficult and indeed impossible to
TO obtain trustworthy information as to
the prevalence and diffusion of diseases
over o very large part of the earth's
surface. Even as to China, which lies
under some suspicion of being the
natural home of influenza, as India is of
cholera, We have nothing but rumors
OF the vaguest kind.
With regard to England, we have q
fairly complete history of epidemics of
influenza which occurred in 1910, 1857,
1857, 1858, 1876, ITO, 1929, 1928,
1918, l743, 1853, 1862, 1767, 1775,
1882, 1903, 1881. 1888 and 1887. Further
ylsitatlons took place in 1S43 and 1S47-8.
besides Limited outbreaks in 1S41, lS42,
Is44, lS46-7 and 1866. That there were
other immediate epidemics which found
no medical pen to chronicle them is
shown by such accidental references as
the following, which occurs in Miss
Strickland's Life of Mary Stuart" In
letter dated November, 1862, Ran
dolph, the English resident at the
Scottish court, says: Immediately
upon the'Queen's arrival here (Holyrood)
she fell acquainted with new disease
that is common in this town, called here
the New Acquaintance" which also
passed through her whole household,
sparing neither lord, lady. nor damoi-
selle-not so much as either French or
English. 1t is pain in their heads
that have it and q soreness in their
stomach, with great cough; it re.
maineth with some longer, with others
shorter time Is it findeth apt bodies for
the nature of the disease. The Queen
kept her bed six days; there was no sp-
pearance of danger, nor many that die
OF the disease except some old folk"
The New Acquaintance" is a very
old acquaintance now. and much has
been written on it by learned doctors,
but do not know that the prominent
features of the disease have ever been
more accurately hit off than in these few
lines of Elizabeth's clear-signted envoy.
Sir MoreU Mackenzie I'M the Fort
nightly RevieU.