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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
Somnambulism- Singular Case
at Cold Spring, N. Y.

A singular case Of mysterious dis
appearance has occurred at Cold
Spring, New York Near the Cold
Spring Foundry reside Patrick Nc
Ivers and his wife, and their boy
Henry McIvers, who is little over
fourteen years of age. At the age
OF six years he showed remark
able taste for music, but his parents
were poor and unable to cultivate
it. Some time after, Governor
Paulding. one of the firm of Paul
ding & Kemble, Of Cold Spring
Foundry motor ETY., took a great
liking to the lad and resolved to
give him musical education. Prof
Appelles of West Point, was ap
pointed his instructor.
In a short time the young boy
showed great proficiency on the
violin, piano, flute, &c. His whole
mind became engrossed in the work
before him. So intent was he upon
his stu,lies that it was evident he
was working too hard. His parents
thought they observed this. and
about year ago they were about
deciding to dismiss the teacher,
fearing that the boys overwrought
brain would lead to disastrous re-
suits.
Last Sunday morning at IL o.
clok. he was in the garden watch
ing a birds nest. A comrAde came
along and wished him to take a
walk. He declined, saying he had
to feed his rabbits, and his comrade
passed on.
In few moments after he was
missed, and from that time up to
this nothing definite has been ascer-
tanned in regard to his whereabouts,
though his father has been absent
ever since, in search Of him, and
many Of the villagers have also
secured the country. Some are OF
the opinion that while in state oI
somnamhulism he has wandered
into the thieket of the adjacen,
mountains, and probably met with
a fatal fall.
A carpenter of the village says
he saw him a day or two since al
Tarrytown. Another is of the
opinion that be was at Fishkill Sta
ton at four o'clock Tuesday after
noon. He is known to walk at
times perfectly oblivious to every
thing about him, with his eyes wide
open and shining intensely. The
entire village of Cold Spring is in a
state of wonderment over the affair
and the mother of the child is al
j most heartbroken.
He had light brown hair, and
light, clear complexion; his face
being long and thin He had hazel
eyes, and his hair rolls up singu
larly over the left temple He hae
on dark gray coat and pans, black
vest, and brown cloth cap with but
toned ear laps.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
ON BLACKBERRIES,
4 BoY's COMPOSITION.

Blackberries grows on bushes
and fits in in-cups first rate. Black
berries always has a sticker, SOS
you may know where to find 'em.
When you run agin a sticker, q
berry amt fur off. Sometimes,
when you go to set down in a black
berry patch, you get right up, be-
cause you do not want to sit any
longer. Blackberries is healthy, and
sometimes is four cents a quart.
When big boys and girls 60 after
blackberries, they never git emmy,
because the girls can't climb over
the fences, and 80 they all go and
set down under tree and wait for
the fence to tumble down. No
more.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13


The New York World has the fol-
lowing to say of chignons; "They
defle collars, they exhale. grave
yard savors, and do away with one
of the pleasantest parts of a wo-
mans head, next to. her. face-the
round shapely. noddle. the wit OF
beauty unadoriied. Even the close
shorn poll of q bruiser is prefer
able in . judicious eye to the back
brain of a pretty woman folded up
with a mass of horse-hair. sea moss,
and dead folks tresses. Away with
it then, good ladies, The summer
is nigh, and its heats may reveal
those taiEts of the, chignon, which
the cold of the winter has kept in
check"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
That Fort Taken.
From the Missouri Democrat.

Schenck's tariff bill is to- day a
captured battery, with its guns turn
ed on the enemy. That "bill of
abomination,' as one of the ablest
Republicans has called it, has now
been so changed that the New York
Tribune demands its defeat, the
protettionists dcnounce it as dead
as Julius Casar-and the rest of
mankind feel that great deal of
worry will be saved if Pennsylvania
will henceforth take upon herself
the strangling of her own offspring
So much has been done within two
weeks by the hearty cooperation
and intelligent eftoft of. those statinch
Republicans in the House who do
not propose to see the grand old
party ruined by making it the slave
of monopoly.
The first decisive vote was on pig
iron. During the very ardent and
able debate on that clause of the
bill, which lasted all day, Missouri
took very pro minent part; Messrs.
Finkelnburg, Asper, Boyd and Ben
jamin made earnest speeches for
reduction of duties, while only one
member, Mr.. Bardett, had the au
daciiy to assert that his constituents
desired a continuance of the pre-
sent rate. Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, a
Republican, both able and true.
poured hot shot into the camp of
the monopolists. Gen. Logan,
Messrs. Farnsworth, Judd and Hay,
Of Illinois, very ably battled for the
interests of that great agricultural
State, while Gen. Garfield, of Ohio,
representing district in which iron
is largely produced, very effectively
showed the injustice and the evil
effect of the present system. While
these and other prominent Repub-
licaas sustained the burden Of de
bate, the ablest Democratic MEM
bers also participated with excellent
effect, showing that they as parti-
zans could wish no better issue on
which to go before the people next
fall than would be presented by the
triumph Of the pig iron interest. At
last it came to vote upon an. amend
ment offered by Mr.. Butler. of
Massachusetts, to reduce the duty
to five dollars, and the reduction
was carried by only two. minority.
1t was at once realized that this
vote. unless it. could be Irecinded,
was decisive of tue fate of the bill.
No mans spirit was ever hurt by
doing its duty: on the contrary. one
good action, one temptation resis
ted and overcome, one sacrifice
purely for conscience's sake vii
prove a cordial for weak and lov
spirits. far beyop1 what either in
diligence, or diversions, or com
| aGf -
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
SHOOTING, CUTTING AND
llNCHING IN KENTUCKY.
Two Men Shot and Killed-Two
Wounded and Two Lynched.
Special Correspondent of the Cincin-
nati Gozette
r TOrrrcuIrIE Mor 9

LOUISVILLE, May 2.
An affray occurred at Glasgow,
KY, a week ago yesterday, which
has resulted in the death of four
men, and the severe wounding of
two others. On Sabbath, April
Oath, two brothers named Jhon and
Levi Shy, who it Is said were des-
perate characters, and had disgra-
ced the Tennessee militia to which
they had belonged, went into Rode
mer's store at Glasgow Junction
and ordereu bill of goods amount
ing to considerable sum of money,
which they directed the clerk, Mr.
Turner, cripple, to charge to their
account. Mr.. Turner refused to let
them have the goods without the
money. A quarrel ensued in which
the clerk was stabbed by one of the
Shys, receiving dangerous wound,
and was also severely beaten on the
head. The men then made their
escape. and were not seen again, un-
til Tuesday following, when they
came back to the place. The Sheriff
Immediately arrested the men and
placed them in charge of two men
named Walker Proctor and --
James, citizens of that place The
prisoners behaved themselves very
we'll until the southern bound train
came along, and just as it was leav-
ing they made an attempt TO get on
the train. Proctor and James pul
led them from the train, and pre-
vented their escape in that way
Then the two desperadoes, not hav-
ing been disarmed, each drew a huge
pistol and threatened to shoot Froc
tor and James. Ot.er citizens were
summoned to assist, but only one
man was armed.
The men undertook to retreat
defying the posse, and the Sheriff
ordered his men to fire upon chs
Shvs. The gentleman who had {
pistol fred on the desperadoes
missing his mark, when they begar
deliberately to fire upon the posse
They fired no less than four shots
three of which took efect-one il
the breast of James. another in the
bowels of Proctor, and another il
the thigh of Mr.. Stacker Tht
fourth shot cut the clothing of an
other gentleman.
The Shys escaped, but the citi
zens, under command of the Sheriff
turned out. and succeeded in cap
turing them before night The1
were taken to the Glasgow Jail
where>they were placed for SAT-
keeping, it being understood tia
they would not remain there long
Mr.. James died at one O'Clock
yesterday, from the effect of th'
wound in the breast. Mr.. Procto
died this morning. at about sever
o'clock. After the death of James
it being quito certain that Procto
would die, tle determination to han,
the Shys was carried into effect
About one O'Clock this mornin:
they were taken from the Jail, a
Glasgow, and both were hanged t.
a tree near the Jail. They hat
sworn they would shoot every mai
who was connected with their arrest
if they were ever released, and thi
threat served to hasten the time o
their hanging.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

It is safer to be humble with one
talent than proud with ten.
In any business never wade into
water where you cannot see the
bottom. 5-5 ?
Hold on to the truth, for it will
serve; you well and do good through
eternity.
Do not choose your friend by b is
look. handsome shoes often pinch
the feet.
For t. ose who have a living faith
there may be bitter sorrows, but
there is no despair.
As our school rooms are the nur-
series of the State, so our churches
are nurseries of Heaven.
Advice to toper-don't let your
spirits go down.
Reflection is flower Of the mind.
giving wholesome fragrance; rev
erie is the same flower when weak
and running to seed.
The Governor Of Florida said re-
Gently that the colored population
'sare worth, as freemen and citizens,
four fold more to the State in en-
hancing it's wealth and prosperity
than they were as slaves"
The poliece in Dantzig forbade
the other day a Snowman in taht
city to exibit a lnrge group of wax
figures representing the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln.
victorien Sardou, Alexander
Dumas ir., snd Edmund About,
neither Of whom fifteen years ago.
had anything but his pen, are now
together worth four million francs.
| It is rumored in Copenhagen that
the Crown Prince of Denmark and
his young Swedish wife live very
unhapilp together, and even that q
separation Of the couple is talked Of
/ The Paris police sap that at the
present time there are in that city
more penniless Americans and
iAmerican dead beats than there
were even during the grest Expos
ftion in 1867.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

The following lines were taker
from young lady's hymn book. s
few days ago, which she thought
lessly left in the church:
II look in vain-he does not come:
Dear, dear what shall Id,f
cannot listen as I ought,
Unless he listens 90.
He might have come as we'll as not;
What plaques these fellows are!
| I'l bet he's fast aslesp at home,
! or smoking a cigar"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
"Onc years seeding

=" AHke scVCH yedF'b Wc0HIHkJ
and it is a fact that great deal of
labor and loss may be avoided by
cutting down or pulling up weeds
tefore they have fipered their
seeds.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

Rest satisfied with doing we'll
leave il to others to do better.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
COLLECT MANURE.

The collection of manure from
every available source should 60 on
steadily at all times, but especially
when the season for applying it to
the soil has arrived 1t is very er-
roneous practice to sell straw or hay
off the farm; it should be consum-
ed on the premises by stock, and the
ma ure returned to the soil, to sus-
tain or increase its fertility. Stables,
byres, sheds. and pens, should he
thoroughly c!eansed and every par
ticle of manure obtained from them
added to the heap. The dropping~
of horses, neat stock, sheep, an
swine, should be evenly distribt ted
TIL. oughout the pile, and then short
ly before the manure is applied to
the soil, the whole should be turned
and thoroughly mixed. BY man
aging in this way, every part of tine
heap will be equally decomposed
and there will be no long dry wisps
of straw, such as are seen in badly
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

Happiness is not promised to the
learned but to the Goodt
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

AS she ceased weeping, he groan-
ed audib.y. There they sat, en-
twined in each others arms for
about two hours, and nary one OF
'em spoke.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
CHAPTER vi.

Her aim had been too true. She
hit him in the pit of the stomach,
and he fell at her feet a corpse.
They buried them both in one grave.
and every spring the village mai
dens plant onions over the place
where lie the lovers, at last united.
THE END
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

The old woman stood face to
face with Eugene. She asked what
he had been doing to the gal, and
he said he had done nothing. She
grabbed the remaining pie, and with
the feroeity of a tigress, chucked it
at him. r
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
THE FATAL PIH.
A Thrilling Story in Six Chap
terS.
CHAPTER 1
II,

She threw herself upon his breast
and wept.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
CHAPTER III.

A voice fractured the solemn
stiffness of the air. Harriet, my own
love, if 1 had mince pie to eat
Then she lifted up her tear dimmed
eyes to the starry heavens, clas ped
her hands wildly. and exclaimed ::
s'Come with me. love, to the kitchen,
and thou shalt eat thy fill. tor the re
were three Of them left from din
ner." They clasped each other by
the hand, and rushed to the pantry
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
O. FERRIS,

DHYsICIAN & SURGEON. Office in Beery's
Block, second floor, in the Office formerly oc-
supied by Ferris & Byron.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13

knowledge 10 Power
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
w. A. WIDMAN,

MERCHANT TAILOR. ard dealer in Ready
M Made Clothing, cents Furnishing Goods
ate. NO Reerys' block, Main st. U. Sandusky
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
Cne naHU, a1u TuSHeu 10 JUG paul
CHAPTER ".
Tuo noinao piaa had dieappnar

Two mince pies had disappeared.
and a third was about to share the
same sad fate, when a stealthy step
was heard. Fly, my angel, my
beau! IT'S Catherine Arabella, l
know" and she fell fainting at his
feet.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
DR. R. N MCCONNELL.

DHYSICIAN & SURGEON, offers his profes-
I sional services to the citizens of Upper
eandusky and vicinity. Office south room
NcConnel's Block, second story.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-13
FRIDAY

prepared manure. Unless a large
number Of stock are wintered, the
quantity of barn yard manure made,
will not be sufficient to manure many
acres In a suitable manner; it will
therefore heed to be supplemented
with lime, plaster, salt, wood askes,
&c. These manures being portable
may be easily applied to iallow, to
growing crops of grass or grain,
or to soil intended to produce them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-13
CANADA CRAZY.

Nothing hurts small people so much as sue
cess, and though it is rather cOmical, it ought
not to be in the least surprising that the
glorious termination of the Pigeon Hill cam
paign has nearly proved the ruin of the Cana
dian temper. Ever since the last of the army
of Erin melted away ON the frontier, the Do
miniOn has been in fume. The martial fury
carefully bottled up for two years past. has
become rather heady during its long restraint,
and when Gen. Lindsay cut the strings the
other day, it burst forth so violently that it
cannot be corked up any more. 1t was no doubt
a disappointment to these gallant defenders of
their homes and hen-roOsts that battle which
promised opportunities to so many ingloriOus
and unappreciative WellingtOns should be
broken up by Yankee constable, and the in
vaders, instead of tumbling into Canadian
graves, should be bundled into Vermont prisons.
The Home Guard of the border has, we doubt
not, worn its red sashes day and night ever
since, and TILED the fields, like the early set
tiers of New-England with sword buckled to
the side and gun slung across the shoulder.
AS for the Dominion journalists, it is but
mild metaphor to say that they write
all their leading articles i'll a mixture
of blood and gunpowder. The Fenian
brotherhood is now too mean an object for
their rage; the humiliation of the British En-
pire and a war with the United States would
hardly satisfy their cravings for devastation
President Grant, who allowed the Fenian ex-
petition TO be set on foot, must be hurled
from his chair. Mr.. Thornton, who thanked
him for stopping it, should be sent into penal
servitude for life. The English press, which
commended our good faith in dealing with the
raiders, is conducted 10y "either sycophants,
towards or traitors" Its conduct is simply
" disgr.ceful." "Sringng.n fawning." and many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-13

A published correspondence between the
New ork. Newfoundland and London, and
the International Ocean Telegraph Com
NAMES. furnishes some facts not at all credita-
BILE to the latter organization. The |. .. /.
Company charges for telegram from Havana
TO any office in Great Britain, Ireland or
France, $l5 for 10 words; but a telegram from
Great Britain or France to New-fork and
thence to Havana is but Sl2 30. This unjust
discrimination against the messages which
cross the Atlantic is so great that 1t Is con-
siderably cheaper to send telegram from
London to Salt Lake City, and thence through
this city to Havana, than directly through the
two cables. To a request that this injustice
be remedied, the |. o. I. Company makes an
offer to reduce its tolls if the other companies
will reduce theirs in the same proportion.
But. as everybody knows, the cost OF mes
sage by the Atlantic cable has been reduced
already from 800 to 81 80 A compu-
tation shows that if the Cuba tel
egraph tariff were based upon the same
proportion to cost of construction OF
its cable as that of the lines crossing
the Atlantic, the I. o. T. Co., where
if now charges So, would only receive
20 cents if based on length OF lines, only 80
cents. But having an exclusive right by Act
of Congress for "A years to connect the United
States with the West India Islands, the |. o. T..
Company take advantage of their monopoly
The price limited by Congress was 50 80, un-
doubtedly meaning currency and exclusive OF
date, address and sigature; but even this lib
eral tariff was deemed insufficient by the |. o..
Is, who demand gold for every word, and
charge as much on a European dispatch over
their short line as the cost of sending 1t across
the Atlantic. We have a gentle hint for this
Cuban Telegraphic Company. If it cannot act
with decent regard for its charter, and for the
rights of the people under it, Congress can
find way to quicken its perceptions, and the
way may prove costly to its stockholders. II
they are wise they will take the hint.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-13
DJYONS FREE RUSSIdp

All penny-a line boOk-writers should take
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon as their exemplar, ana
endeavOr to attain, if possible, some OF his IN
efiable audacity. 1t seems to afford that frOthy
and cOmplacent gentleman as much moral sup
port az conscientious integrity does to ordinary
men. Finding the amusing fctions which he
published upon this country successful as a
speculation. he has lately made a journey d Ia
Munchausen over Russia The English, how
ever, have not quite so greedy an appetite Tor
abuse of the subjects of the Car as for the
Yankees, and have picked Mr.. Dixon's glow
ing pages to pieces with good deal OF zeal.
They were eager to prove him at fault IN
Russian history or ecclesiastical matters,
though they were quite ready to credit his as
sertion that yankee laws, creeds, and man
"ners were largely borrowed from the Red-
"skns;" that the Shakers and Oneida Free
Lovers represented our domestic life, and that
the majority of American mothers were con-
stantly employed in stTangling their y0nng
children The Free Russians have energet-
ically entered their protest against being thus
hasbed up into such very unclean rdgoufs as
Mr.. Dixon is accustomed to set before his
readers. Professor Kapustin writes to the st.
Petcrsburgh Goioss, in consequence of some
remarks associating him with the English au-
thor, to disclam all responsibility for Free
Russia -
"My respect for the author" he says, "made me en-
deavor to induce him TO abandon all idea OF writing
about country perfectly unknown to him. at least to
postpone doing did not succeed will not under
take to enumerate the of which this composition
on Russia is full Having read it in proof only still
hope that much which excites laughter in s pages to
be attributed only to the cOmpOs0rs Nevertheless the
views expressed belong the writer and the boness
and originality which distinguish them awaken this sad
thought That there exists in Europe nation of which
II ia permitted TO speak unrestranedly without knowing
its language and without taking the trouble 10 become
| acquainted with its life even at secondhand"
| This is rather sharp dealing with literary
| harlequin. But Mr.. Dixon rises to the occa-
sion. The GolOss must have been humbugged,
he says; Prof. Kapustin never could have
written the letter. But if he did, has not the
world heard, through Reuters kilograms, that
| His Majesty the Car has accepted the purple
velvet hot pressed copy of Free Russia
presented to him by Mr.. Hepworth Dixon
Has he not thanked him for it through pri-
vate secretary7 That test is sufficient. In
which lodging behind the throne, book and
all, Mr.. Dixon shows how accurate is his
knowledge of the English idea of royalty. The
amount of malicious falsehOod which can be
| covered or converted into truth for British
eyes by the agis of an imperial letter, from a
private secretary, is for Americans impossible
| to conjecture.