The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-02-07
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HRiGHBoRHooD NEWS.
The Clyde Times gives an account
OF a haunted house--a vcritablo house
with an a Ia mode ghost, There arc
always strange "goings ONT there. -
Lights Of an unearthly supernatural
hue flicker at the windows, mysteri-
Gus manifestations are witnessed, and
all "pomp and circumstance " of the
travelling dond
The Fremont journal advises its
readers that the prospect of improve
ments on the Sandusky River arc
GaIteriug, aud that when Congress
passes the River and Harbor uppro.
priation bill, ego, 1000 will be appro
prated to this purpose, By a process.
Of dredging, the river will bo nayiga
bio from is mouth to the bridge at
Fremont Can't the dredging be con-
iinuod to this place so that The ears
of Tiffintes might bo deufenCd by
the whistles of steamers We guess
not.
The Sandusky Register reports a
narrow escape of two Sanduskians on
the ice. Mr. G. G. KErcu and Mr..
McNEAt, with a horse aud wagon
werc proceeding over tho ice to the
peninsula inquest Of lurs, on Friday
last. When about two miles from the
other side the horse plunged into an
air hole, and with tho wagon went to
the bottom. Mr.. Kccch and COM
panion hung on to tho ice until assis-
tance was rendered them by some
bushmen, They were nearly frozen
when rescued.
A WIN CAT SHOT. The Wynn
andot Uaioa says, we are Informed by
our young friend Henry Troup, thbt
"a wild cat, measuring four feet in
length, was shot on last Thursday,
January cath, by Mr., Porter Kline,
on the land Of John II Smith, in Pitt
township; this counly. Mr.. Kline is
inclined to think that there is anoth
er lurking round in the same locality.
This is the first wild cat that has
been seen in this county for some
time. Sportsmen fequanting tho
hunting grounds of Pitt township,
should hereafter go prepared to fight
their weight in wild cats.
Since writing the above, tho car
cass has been brought to town, and
may be seen at Quaintanco's moat
market. II is pronounced a Cata-
mount by many
Tho Bellef6ntaine Rspublican gives
an account ofa robbery of $1,000 from
Mr., Henry AustiuO Sr, of Macarthur
township, at Crostlinc.
a boyish looking man took seat
along side Of Mr.. A., aud learning
that he was going to Bellcfontaine,
remarked that that was his destination
alsO--that he was going there to live
) With an uncle, and that he had come
! all the way FROM Maine, lie soon
/, gained the confidence OF the unsus,
poctiug old gentleman, and whilo il
'he depot at Crestline, waiting for III,
} night express train, kept closo TO hi,
new acquaintance, aud succeeded Will,
the old gentleman was mapping, il
extracting his well filed pocket book
+, from hispoekot
Mr. A. feels confident that III,
: boyish looking young man, was
+" SIZE '--ono ofa numerous gang o
pick pockets thattinfest CrestlnO a
preseot and are plying their vocation
day and night.
Therefore, when you go to Crest
line, "lOokout for pick-pockets,' y a
'won as tho locomotive,
The Belmont ChrOaiclc says, thcr
Olis a great complaint among our farm
e ers Of the devaslatiops Of the rats
Z The crops are being literally eaten u
y by them, and they oven attack youn
y fruit trees aud young chickens. Th
y farmers and all others should max
n au orgauised effort 10 destroy thes
'e pests, In other parts Of tho Stat,
., men aud boys organize aud go on
l. hunt and by this means immens
10 quantities Of them are destroyed
e sometimes amounting to several thou
IS sand in q day. Tho loss occasione
!, by the rats. in the aggregate is con
81 siderable; and Il would certainly jus
u fifty extraordinary exortions TO get ri
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