The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-13
ETrgEo is var. EaTkes! Toad
stool story. a Esiell joke and

NssESGtrNA SEaFs
Tho Horald, Leader, and lots of other agoni-
zing abolition prints, caught up as precious tit
bit and published with 4 God and Liberty -four
ish, story, manuactued by Law Student
in ValIandingham's office, Dayton, giving an ac-
count Of a"'For4Re niardc,' ii Ka1sSas" where
q "lfree State man. "Cleveander," by the
name Of "Farks' was found murdered and Kill
led p rifle ball through his head, big bowie
knife through his breast, transdXing him TO
trce and on the knife handle hung toad stod
on which was written, Let all those who are
going to vote against slavery in Kansas take
warning"
| 1t slnelt strong Of blood, and had Just tho
right kind Of odor about it to give it the fusion
relish Here it is head horns, tail and alt;
Just as it was published in the Herald and Lead
er, and is now going the rounds Of the fusion
press: A
Another Chapter ian Blood.
/ The following letter received by a gentleman
in thiscty from Kansas, speaks fer itself
| Blue SrR1NGs, near Tecumseh, K. T.,(
Il June 24th, 1856.
| Mr.. w. G. SHERwIN-DaAR Sin: We take
this method Of acqdainting you with the sad
4 fIte of vour friend. .aA
\ Yesterday morningw we Emy friend Rocks and
myseif) were going to Tecumseh, but when
1 about eleven miles from that place, we were APP
palied By the sight Of the body of a murdered
man tied firmlyto tree near the road side.--
1 de was tied with his back to a tree, with his
! hands and feet partially around it. lie had been
shot lust above the letteye with---as we suppose
"a rifle ball. A large hunting knife was stick
4 ing in his breast. 1t hadbeen driven clear thro'
hin, ana the point was two or three inches ii
the tree He was evidently murdered yester-
day or the day before. ey
There was toadstool tied 10 the knife ham
4 die, on which the following inscription was writ
! Ten: "Let all those who are going to vote against
Slavery in Kansas take warning"
We went 10 the nearest house=-Nheh WAS
about mile and half and got some help and
some tools and buried him. He was stranger
to all Of us except Mr.. Moore. who says he, the
murdered man had been boarding at his house
eleven or twelve days. His name was Labea
Farkes, and he came from Cleveland. He had
frequently said at the boarding house that she
did not intend to resort to force, but so far as
his influence at the polls went, he was going to
use it for making Kansas free state" E
company o. armed men from South Caro-
lima have been staying around Tecumseh three
, or four days a squad OF them were down this
road yesterday and the day before.
We don't any of us know where his rela-
tives live, but among the papers in his pocket.
we found aietter from you, written to him ON
4 the 9Th of Mas, and that is the reason why we
> direct this letter to you"
MARrrS RuLY, FREpERrek RooKs,
f. Il. MooRE
/ c-E Lane CO., Kansas TERRITORY.
D4 VIC. SHERw&, Dayton Ohio
tl Oh Lordyl How the old woman and babies
d.d cry, whdn they read this horrible murder Of
]poor LebanI 3Ae I1ayton Empire thus notices
0 the affair."
E "a Good FEoax-The T0ssA-stool
I Eiettcr OF Hstttsy, FsoOs<s ~ co.
4 Ii The Cincinnati Comn9icial republshing the
= well gottenup hoax which appeared on Tuesday
morning in the Gazsttc Of this city. takes occa4
= sion to note the fact that w, g. Sherwin, who
y ushered it into light, ii student in Mr. Yallan.
Il bingham office. Now It is but an act Of sim
6 pie justice to Mr.. NJ, to say that he had no
a knowledge Of or connection with this we'll ar
ranged ''selp' by which Fremont Abolitionists,
always eager for fresh outrages from Kansas, \
= have been 50 handsomely taken in and done for.
il We are authorized to say that he entirely dis
< approves of it. and had he known it at the time
~ would have advised against the whole affair."
Greedy IA the Ffenlonteys are after this sort ci
Z raw material he thinks that they are abundant!
n " able and willing to get up their own Kansas
! Q ltragos'"
We knew, without contradiction, that said
II story was 'Roorback I but still has as much
Of truth in it as most Of tho fusion stories about
" Kansas Here is a new one, gotup BY the Chi.
. cago Tnncas worth double the Dayton hoax.
\ Ggn LA DREsaisag Daedl ag
\ Diab9icsl fsd,iagel ~ The Arjeapisratioa Lapok
psi ~ Bqcbepga, PieseefqlsE, pptgkzg an ksesr
h'ae Ssd5l6tey. Lc6L ota Jor he ,Aett ySsswqpl
U WeAYe informed that the Rev of CHI
lrEoago, has received ffonia Corresponding III Ram
r sas, the fall particulars Of one OF those iiendt
! oil sagess which are the natural resnlt Of the ro.
paalof the sacred compact of 1870 lie Will
= Adeail them cfoir his congregation nest bath
nipr thyfiFst opportunity We are only permit
= tcdt9 simply STATE, that lowdays s;nce num-
3 Der Of Missouri Itutans entered the house sc
Free State man residing on Pottewatiainie crock
Y Eand h ole TRIO Hogs. Pierce Douglss and Bu.
ii khalin stoe d by with their hands ii their pock
II lets! breckenridge and Riehassssou were rsst
\ present at the time but coninga shortly atieu
I fully endorsed the deed! /. and subsequently, ase
efpart Of the pork. IS there Nortlf2 lf tlsvfs
" is, why don't il subscribe for freedom