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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
A PATRIOTS DEATH.
Thrilling Scenes Upon the Field of Gettys-
burg After the Flight.

Thrilling Scenes Upon the Field of Gettys-
burg After the Fight.
I was twenty years old when fought
at Gettysburg, and it was on the last
day of that famous battle that / re-
ceived an ugly scalp wound. 1t was not
very severe, but being in weak condi-
ton after continuous fighting from sum
rise dizzy feeling overcame me and
fell in swoon. My comrades must
have thought was killed, for they left
me on the field with the dead and dying.
After reviving l discovered it was night,
and despite my efforts to keep awake
nature claimed its due and l fell into a
sound sleep.
was awakened by some one crawl
ing over my feet. / reached for my pis-
tol, but quickly stopped the movement
when saw it was wounded soldier.
He was crying for water, and, putting
my canteen to his mouth, / let him
drink his fill. While he was doing so /
eyed him as best my half-dormant fac
ulties would allow. He was middle
aged man, enveloped in large gray
confederate cloak A slouch hat lay
near him, and / made up my mind that
he was a confederate. He finished
drinking, handed me the canteen and
looked straight at me. And ! gazed
back at him in horror of his ghastly
wounds. His face, which had been
handsome, was torn by bullets. His
hair was matted with blood.
He seemed slightly revived and en-
deavored to speak, though it was only
in whispe~. | assisted him to sitting
posture, and between many gasps he
told me he knew he was dying and was
not afraid SO long as he died true to his
side. He begged of me to takena mes
sage, which he extracted from his belt,
to his daughter in Lancaster Pa, and
took me by the hand. His mind then
seemed to wander; he was steadily
growing weaker, and l knew the end
was near.
ventured to ask him who was his
commander and to what confederate
regiment he belonged. He looked at
my uniform, and with mighty effort
he rose to his feet, pulled his sword
(Which l had not seen before) from it's
scabbard, and, eXerting all his remain
ing strength, he cried out: "Confeder-
ate regiment! No, neverl' He gave
his sword a whirl above his head, and
in so doing his cloak fell to the
ground and left him standing before
me, the moon shining on his glittering
steel-a captain and dressed in blue. He
looked at me and smiled the smile of a
hero as he reeled and fell across my
lap dead.
tried to revive him, but my efforts
were in vain. / was taken to a hos
pital and nursed back to health, and
when / delivered his message to his
daughter / felt it my duty to console
her, and before knew it l was in love.
Well, we are both getting old now, and
my children like to hear the story of
their grandfather's heroic death.-N.Y.
Recorder.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
POULTRY PICkINGS.

A FEW old hens sitting round that lay
no eggs take the cost of their feed and
care from the profits, besides occupying
room needed by others.
IT may be strictly business to sell off
all the best fowls and keep what can
not be sold, but it is hardly treating
your own family right even if it does
make little more fnoney.
FooD that is partly decomposed IS
not fit to feed to chickens, and if given
them is liable to produce disease. 1t
will be more economical to throw away
this kind of food than to let the poultry
eat it.
IT is rarely profitable to send turkeys
to market unless they are in good
thrifty condition. Thin, poor turkeys
usually sell at the lowest prices, and
a short feeding would increase the
weight as well as secure better
prices. Even with low prices it is
rarely best TO send fowls to market in a
poor condition. The gain in weight by
feeding will nearly always return a
good profit on the cost of the feed.-St
Louis Republic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
LlNcoLN's GENIUS FOR WAR.


His Sound Advice ut Critical Points of
the Great Civil Strife.
When Ewell was already in the
Shenandoah valley SiclSles, leading
iHooker's advance, was no further than
at Bealeton, two marches out from
headquarters on the Falmouth plateau.
Hooker, serenely remaining there, was
meditating the dubious exploit of strilS-
ing at Hill, still remaining on the
fredericksburg intrenchments, n pro-
3ect of which the president disapproved
in terms as quaint as they were
strategically sound. The enemy, he
wrote, would be fighting behind in
trenchments 'and. have you at disad-
vantage, and so, man for man, worst
you at that point, while his main force
would in some way be getting 'an adj
vantage of you northward. In one
word, l would not take any risk of
being entanglcd upon the river like an
OK jumped half over a fence and liable
to be torn by dogs front and rear with
out fair chance to gore one way or
kick the other" Then, Lee in full
march, on the upper Potomac, Hooker
made the wild proposal that he should
be allowed to march on Richmond,
project which might have resulted in
the fulfllment of Lees grim jest about
Swapping queens" This erratic
scheme found no favor with Lincoln,
whose answer was: II would not go
south of Rappahanock upon Lees mov-
ing north of it. If you had Richmond
invested to-day you would not be able
to take it in twenty days. think Lees
army and not Richmond is your sure
objective point"-the great fact which
the president had already comprehend
ed in the early days, and never after
left grip of. Finally Hooker struck
camp on June 13, Hill being so polite
as to see him off before he, too, moved.
He hurt Lee somewhere south of the
Potomac. 1t is quite true, if it were
anything to be proud of, that, in the
words of the biographers, Hooker twas
able at perfect leisure to choose his
time and place for crossing the river"
Indeed, with somewhat misplaced COM
plaisance, he waited" until Lees whole
army was on the north side; and, while
at length he was leisurely crossing,
Ewell and Hill and Longstreet were all
choosing at perfect leisure their times
and places for hurrying unfortunate
Pennsylvania almost to the Susquehan-
ma. Yet Hooker on the Potomac was
preferable to Hooker fiddling outside
Richmond while Rome was burning be-
yond the Virginia line, and it has to be
said that but for the president he might
have been in the former locality. Lin
coin does not appear to have written
any strategic letters to Grant Shcr-
man or Sheridan. There is an interest
ing series of letters of that character to
Burnside in East Tennessee during
Nosecrnns' evil days in Chattanooga,
out the subject is of subordinate inn
portance. Some of the presidents let
ters to Rosecrans would strengthen the
contention that he possessed strategic
genius We're there space to quote and
elucidate them. Forbes, in
North American Review
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
Made a DoIt by Being Cured.

'The war was responsible for many
queer things" said DIR. Eugene Hard
castle, st. Paul surgeon, the other
day. up in northern Minnesota lives
man who entered the service in 1861.
He was very dull fellow, almost a
fool. During one of the sorties made
by the confederates at Donelson he re-
ceived buckshot in the head. The
surgeons could not find it, and the
wound healed He returned to duty one
of the brightest men in his company, and
in time became second lieutenant At
the close of the war he returned home,
married Superior woman, prospered
in business and was elected sheriff of
his county. Three years ago his head
began to give him great deal of trou-
BILE. He came to st. Paul and located
the buckshot and removed it. He is
now as healthy as ever, but is the same
stupid dolt that he was before the fight
at Fort Donelson. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

the first so as to hold it while both
hands are employed to bind the bud
smoothly and firmly. Wind first up
ward, crossing above the bud, return
and tie below the bud as shown in Fig.
s. The most important point in tying
is to bind the bark firmly and smoothly
over the bud. After the trees have been
budded a week or two they should be
examined, and if the growth is such
that the bands cut into the stock so as
to injure it they should be loosened and
retied or cut on the back side if the bud
is well united.
The next spring after budding the
stock is cut off with sharp knife,
placing the blade on the opposite side
of the bud at the height of the cross
cut and making an upward stroke so
that the knife will come out about one
inch above the bud. When growth be-
gins rub off all buds from the stock so
that all the strength will go into the
inserted bud.-Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
GOOD LUCK MADE HIM MAD.
Disastrous Result of Finding Roll of
Bills In tho street.

Disastrous Result of Finding Roll of
Bills In tho street.
"I have friend who was driven mad
by n marvellous freak of good luck"
said a visitor from Milwaukee recently.
He was young newspaper reporter
who was just learning the business and
who had eEcd out n precarious exist
ence for year on twelve dollars a
week Walking along street one day
he found three thousand seven hundred
dollars wrapped up in a bundle with
rubber string around it. Frenzied with
delight at his good fortune, he struck
bee line for the newspaper Office where
he was employed, resigned his position
without assigning any cause, and left
Milwaukee on the first train going to
Chicago. In that city he lived riotously
for eight months, and, though he read
advertisements in the papers of the un-
fortunate bank collector who had lost
the money offering one-half of it if the
finder would return it, he paid no atten-
tion to these appeals.
"At the end of that time he blew in
all the money and then came back to
Milwaukee But he was different
man Aiohi WhuU llS was WDtll lC lclu III
such delirious glee. His old position at
an increased salary was offered to him,
but this he refused, though he didn't
have a cent. He did no work, nor did
he want any. He put in his time walk
ing up and down the street on which he
had found the money. Day in and day
out he tramped that street, with his
head bent forward like man looking
for pin on the sidewalk. He kept this
up for nearly a month. Continual and
dogged disappointment made the strain
too great for him to bear. His mind
broke down under it, and he was car
ried to the asylum raving maniac.
He is in the asylum now, his lunacy is
pronounced incurable, and he is the
most pitiable, abject creature / ever
saw. st Louis Globe-Democrat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

The announcement that the North Western
Line, comprising over 5000 miles of thor
oughly equipped railway, has arranged torun
two low rate Harvest Excursions during the
months of August and September, will be
gladly received by those who are Interested
In the development of the great West and
Northwest, as well as by those who desire
to visit this wonderfully productive region
at season of the year when exact demon-
stration can be made of the merits and ad-
vantages it offers to home seekers aud those
in search OF safe and profitable investments,
These excursions will leave Chicago on
August Both and Sept eth, and tickets can
be purchased at the very low rate of one
fare for the round trip to points in Iowa,
Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Ne
braska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho
and Montana. They will be strictly first
class in every particular and will be good
for return passage at any time within TWEEN
ty days from date of purchase. Full infor-
nation concerning rates and arrangements
for these excursions can be obtained upon
application to any coupon ticket agent, or to
| W. A. Thrall G.. P. Il. A., Chicago d North.
Western Railway, Chicago
| IT is an easy matter these days to warn
up for any emergency.-Bingham Re
publican.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
THE IDEAL WIFE.
She Should Be Kind, and Above All,
Womanly.

Womanly.
Perhaps the first qualification for an
ideal wife is that she should be woman
ly, kind, sympathetic and, above all
things, tolerant of faults in others; and,
although possessed of what is called
''soul," she should not underrate the
necessity of domestication, for the two
can well go together.
Then if she be of a refined, sensitive
nature, with good intellectual capacity,
she should, when moulded to her hus-
bands nature, prove to be an ideal wife.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon
the fact that man should look for a
woman with somewhat similar tastes
to those possessed by himself. Many a
noble woman has been rendered miser-
able all her days by marriage with a
man of entirely opposite tastes and in
clinations.
Take an instance. A young man,
good-hearted, manly, and altogether a
good sort of fellow, whose reputation
as an athlete is proverbial, but whose
intellectual capacity is not of very first
class, married woman of highly
sensitive and artistic nature, and the
consequences are disastrous
Though both respect each other, she
feels it deeply because he did not evince
deep interest in her work, and he on
his part feels the same want of unison.
Such couples cannot be happy together.
Therefore it is in my opinion abso-
lutely necessary that, to be idyllic, a
woman should to degree harmonic in
her tastes with her husband; otherwise,
be she good woman as she may, her
husband will not see in her his ideal
London Answers
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

70 lift the bark.
The conditions for success are, 1, the
stock must be in a vigorous growing
state so that the bark will peel easily;
;, the bud must be well matured; 8,
The knife must be sharp; 4, the work
must be done rapidly; 5, the buds
must be firmly and evenly bound in
place.
When everything is ready the first
Thing is to prepare lot of bud sticks,
shown in Fig. 2. Shoots of medium
size are selected, taking care to get
only those that have but one leaf to a
joint. The lie aves are cut off as shown,
leaving about one-fourth of an inch of
the stem. These sticks are the growing
wood of the present year.
Make u cross cut about two inches
from the ground, then longitudinal
one on the north side of the tree, so as
not to be injured by freezing and thaw-
ing. At the same time raise the bark a
little, as shown in Fig. 8. A bud stick
is then taken and cut is made through
the bark about one-half inch above the
bud, taking only a very thin portion of
the wood. The length of the cut must
be varied for the different kinds of
trees, say one-haf inch long for
peaches and one inch for pears, cher
ries and apples. The prepared bud is
shown in Fig. 4.
After the bud is cut the '>wer end is
inserted under 'he raised lark of the
stock and pressed down. When the
bud is in position, as shown in Fig. 5, it
is tied by holding one end of the band
in the left hand, placing it against the
stock, and winding the other end over
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
Hame OldaCh estnuh.

"How beautiful the trees are lcav-
ing," he said as they looked at them in
the moonlight from the parlor window
about IL p m.
"Yes," she murmurcd d sleepily, land
how unlike them you are, Mr., Stayfor-
ever"
What are those two tall trees by the
gate?" he inquired, ignoring her re-
mark.
"Those," she snapped, resemble
you"
"In what way, may ask?"
"They are chestnuts."
A moment later the door shut slam
bangly and the hurried footsteps of the
late young man broke the midnight
silence.-Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

Wife-While was at the dressmaler's
this morning that extravagant Mrs.
Flypp came in and ordered u seventy
five dollar dress.
Husband-Umph! 1t was only last
week that her husband borrowed five
hundred from me. BY the way, what
did you get?
Wife-O, couldn't let her get ahead
of me, so ordered one for eighty dol
lars.-Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
Low RATES TO THE WEST.
Harvest Excursions.

The Chicago, Rock Island IL Pacific Rail-
way will sell tickets at Half Fare for 3 Har-
vest Excursions Dates are August Both,
Sept 9th, and to especial territory Oct.
25th.
Ask your nearest ticket agent for full
particulars, or address Jno. Sebastian, e.
L. u p. A, Chicago, Ill
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
Children Tease

For DIR. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure.
Whyl Because it cures violent Group,
tickling cough, Whooping Cough, and Diph.
liberia, pithon causing dsdrrdngement of any
kind. 1t is pleasant to the taste and does
not cause nausea 1t does not contain
opium. so cents. For sale by all promi-
nent druggists throughout the state. A. p.
HoxsIE, Buffalo, N. Y, manufacturer and
sole proprietor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

twenty jumping ToOthaches Rolled Into
One
Fall far short of infiammatory rheumatism
into which its incipient form, unchecked, is
prone to develop. Besides, rheumatism if
unrelieved is always liable, in one of its err
raticleaps, to light on the heart and termi-
nate life. Checkmate it at the start with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is also
an infallible remedy for malarial and liver
complaints, inactivity of the kidneys, dys-
pepsia, constipation, nervousness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

JAGsoN says you can take a tramp to
task, but you can't make him do it-Elmira
Gazette
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

The jealousy which almost always
exists between different arms of the
military service used to be illustrated
by the dialogues which took place be-
tween cavalrymen and infantrymen
during the civil war. 1t was favorite
and brutal joke on the part of the cav
alrymcn, who affected to despise the
loot soldiers, to shout to some soldiers
as the cavalry were passing the in
fantry on the march:
Are you tired of wallling?"
Whereupon, if the infantryman, sup
posing that he was going to get lift,
responded "Yes!" the cavalryman would
say well, try running while!"
The infantrymen, for their part, ridi-
culed the cavalrymen numerically
when they We're in camp, where the
cavalrymen We're compelled to spend
much of their time in acting as body
servants to their horses.
A cavalryman was one day engaged
IN laboriously cleaning down" his
raw-boned steed. An infantryman
sauntered up, and with his hands be-
hind his back, leisurely inspected the
operation.
"Hullo, Johnw said the cavalryman.
''Think you'd like to be in the cav
alry2"
only us hors""--youth's Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

PRIDE often takes fall; other fellows
take drop asionally.-Blnghamton Re-
publican.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the Springtme
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for
all the family and costs only 50 cents; the
large size 81. Try it and be pleased. Man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
TREE PROPAGATION.
rho Operation of Budding Faithfully De-
scribcd by an Expert.

rho Operation of Budding Faithfully De-
scribcd by an Expert.
Many trees are propagated by bud
ding, which is done from the middle of
July to the first of September, when
the bark lifts readily without split
ting. Seedlings of the present years
growth are generally budded, although
Dne and two-year old trees may be
worked. When budding young stocks
they should be carefully prepared by
trimming off all lower branches and
leaves for or inches from the
ground. The material for t, ing may
be the fiber obtained from the mats
that come around Russian iron or the
fibrous bark of the Eastwood. This is
cut into lengths of 10 to IL inches and
separated into thin, smooth bands ONE
fourth of an inch wide. Cotton warp,
obtained from cotton factories, is used
extensively. The material must be
such as will not shrink when wet nor
expand or loosen when dry. The bud
ding knife must be sharp with blade
rounded at the end, as shown in the
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Best OF All

IT is wise chicken that keeps away from
the camp-meeuing.-B American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

THE tramp is free from the worry and
vexation of labor roubles.-Picayune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03
THE WRONG HOG,
rug.tive Federal Mistaken For a Root
Ing Porker.

A rug.tive Federal Mistaken For a Root
Ing Porker.
A Rhode Island soldier, while on picket
guard, was rushed upon by party of
confederate cavalry. He fired at the
foremost of them and ran. Before him
was an open field about fifty rods across,
bounded by an old log fence, and be-
yond that thicket of briers and under
brush. For this bushy retreat the sol
dier started, half dozen horsemen
after him. Fortunately for the fugitive,
the rain had softened the soil, and the
horses slumped through the turf so
badly that pursuit was slow.
A pistol ball passed through the run
ner's hat but he reached the fence and
with one bound landed on the top, in
tending to give long spring ahead;
but the old fence crumbled beneath his
weight, and down he went.
But luck favored him again, for hog
had rooted out gutter at this place,
and ut the moment was lying in it. The
soldier fell plump into the hole, and the
frightened hog uttered one squeal and
scampered into the underbrush, leaving
the newcomer in possession of the wal
low and buried under the debris of the
fence.
A minute more and up dashed the
horsemen. Hearing the rustic of the
fleeing hog in the bushes, they supposed
it to be the picket and dashed through
the gap in the fence and hastened on.
When they were well out of sight the
fugitive crawled out from the mud hole
and ran back to camp.
The following day one of the same
horsemen was taken prisoner. Our hero
recognized him at once.
Il say" he asked did you catch that
hog yesterday?"
"Wc did that retorted the prisoner,
'but it wasn't the one we We're after!"
Youths Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-09-03

IT is an easy matter these days to warm
up for any emergency.-Bingha Re-
publican.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1892-04-29
A Woman Politician.

Lady Sandhurst, who died recently
in England, was one of the most active
workers in partisan politics as well as in
reforms and charities. An American
writer in one of our reviews, comment
ing on the death of Lady Sandhurst,
says, "She belonged to type far more
common in England than in America
the public woman, jealous for reforms,
active in charities and philanthropies,
and rs pronounced a partisan in politics
as Sir William Harcourt himself"
But this country, that should have
been in advance of England in the pos
session of this type of woman, is now
rapidly following in the footsteps of the
mother country, and able and cultivated
women are appearing to take their places
as pronounced politicians, and TO adj
vance the best interests of both men and
women. The examples of England's
best and bravest and noble women
ladies like this one and many others
may well inspire our educated American
women 10 take a more active and ear
nest interest in our public and political
affairs. Boston Traveller.