The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-13
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
HANCOCK COUNTY.


. Mr.. Jacob Irwin, of Findlay town
ship, laid on the table of the Je6erson
ian huge sweet potato, raised on rs
farm, which weighed exactly five
,, pounds. It is the largest we have
ever seen. It would not take many
such to winter small family
a meeting held on the Fair Ground
last Saturday, it was determined to
hold a meeting Of farmers and others
interested, in Findlay, Saturday, 0c-
tober Is, for the purpose OF organizing
a Farmers Club.......-.Mr. Jesse Ew-
ing, Of Jackson township, informs Us
that a heavy hail storm visited that
portion Of the county last Monday
evening, and seriously injured the
fruit, buckwheat, &c. The hail was
from the size Of pea to a quaiPs egg,
and the storm last about twenty-five
minutes. Mr.. Ewing showed Us some
fine Winter apples, which he picked
from bis trees the next morning,
which were badly bruised and Iaeer-
ated by the hail His fine field of
{ Juckwheat vas almost completely an
initiated. During the storm last
Monday evening, the barn Mr.. G.
Hammond, of Delaware township,
was struck by lightning and, with its
contents, entirely consumed. We did
not learn the loss Of Mr.. Hammond.
The barn was insured for 81, 800.
sAEDUsKY COUNTY.
There are at least two hundred nets
set to trap fish, between Port Clinton
and Cedar Point Whitaker &
Winters Stave Factory, near Clyde,
was destroyed on Thursday of last
week. It was supposed 10 have been
set on fire. Loss estimated at about
s. 900. Insured for 81, Two
frame barns belonging to Mr.. c. Gill
son, of ElmOre, were burned, together
with all OF his grain and hay, on
Wednesday night Of last week. The
fire is supposed TO have caught from a
lantern in the hands of boy who was
in the barn during the evening. Loss
about 5000. Insured for 8, ,6OO.........
Some time during Saturday night the
grocery house of Perry Close was en-
tered by prying out a tin sheet in the
window Of the front door. Mr.. Close
having previously neglected to lock
his safe they had little trouble in
opening it, from which they abstract
ed 500 in scrip, silver and gold, be-
sides carrying off a lot of papers,
notes, &c. On the same evening the
store Of Ross & Young was entered by
pushing open the front doors; about
three dollars in small change gobbled.
No clue as yet.
HARDIN COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Republican
furnishes the following particulars of
a sad accident which occurred at
Paterson, in that Co., on Monday. last:
The citizens of our place were sud
denly called together to-day to wit
ness one of the most heart-rending
scenes which has ever tEanspired
among US. Ethan A. Pool, aged
about ten years, son of John T. Pool
Of this place, was accidently caught
under the wheels of a freight car as it
was moving on the side track, and
his lower limbs literally crushed, from
the feet to the body. He survived
but few hours, when death came to
his relief, bringing with it the conso-
lation to the heart-stricken parents
and their many sympathizing friends
and neighbOrs, Of knowing that the
sufferings Of this unfortunate child
had ceased We IS neighbors desire
to express our profound admiration of
the great fortitude, cool and despas-
siOnate firmness with which Mr.. and
Mrs. Pool bore under this appalling
and very unusual bereavement.-l
Known as they are to be kind-heart-
ed neighbors very affectionate and
tender parents, the silent looker-on
could but be impressed with the re-
Elections that they certainly possess
some most enviable traits, such as are
only of a mind well ad-
apted to the exigeneies and misfor-
tunes of this life and cannot con-
clude This brief narrative without no.
ticing the manliness of little Ethan |
Allen as he lay upon his dying couch,
perfectly conscious of his condition
and yet answering questions with a
and firming that would |
do honor to the ilIustrious soldier |
whose name he bears and calmly
TO his fate as one of ma.
ture years, he expired without a mur-
mur or q sigh, impressing the minds |
Of all who were present with a sol
emnity seldom witnessed on the most |
The abut-
ments of the new bridges viii be fin
ished to-day and we think every one
who examines them will pronounce
the work well done They are of /
Dayton stone, most of the stones be-
ing Of large size and they give prom
Use Of standing long after the pres
ent generation has passed away. i
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Mr.. Henry Heis, senior, hung him
self at Leesville, Crawford County on
last Thursday, 18th. He emigrated
from Hesse many years ago, and by I
thrift and industry became well off
he has been rather iwegu-
lar in his habits. He persistently re-
fused to permit himself to become a
ourthen on his children, and finally,
finding his life burthen to himself,
he destroyed it. His children would
have cared for him, but he
persisted in remaining independent
IF their care.
We learn that on Wednesday last a
Mr.. Jacob Rissler, living three miles
Of Shelby, Richland Coun-
5yy came near losing his life by the
careless handling of a revolver. 1t
appears that he was doing something
with the pistol, when it went off from
some cause, the ball cutting his breast
near the heart, but must have gIanc-
ed, as it would have been fatal other
wise. DR.. Jno. Mack, who was called
ed to attend him, has not been able
10 find the ball, but thinks he will re-
cover. II was a very narrow escape
and fs anntbar vrarniney tn narsons rs-