, 1870-06-02
THE NORTHWEST.

seemed rather. shor.. it would be long
enough before it got here.
THE NORTHWEST.
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: The Galesburg Free Press, Of Msy so,
I" hea1s, from source which cannot be
doubted, that certain school teacher in this
city wzs, quite recently, guilty Of most in
human act OF cruelty. It seems that one OF
her pupils, . little boy, about 8 Year, Of nge,
had committed some petty misdemesnor, and,
after whipping hum quite sererelJ. she fur
thered his punishment in the following man
ner: She obliged him to etoop over in auch
manner that his head should hAqg down
and his back should be completely bent,
allowing him no support Whatever, except the
fore-tnger Of the left hand, which she suffered
him to rest upon the. door. In this terribly
torturt some posture she forced him to remain
passed, the victim to her singular cruelty Was
insane Incredible AZ it may seem, nothing u
yet has been done to legally investigate this
case.
An Iowa man Rdvertises his wife Is "leav-
ing his bed and board, ~ and thon applied to her
for loan Of dollar and half to pay for tho
advertisement.
Sam Allis, Of Blackford County, thought it
would be amusing to play ghost tho other
evening. He appeared to : farmer who
= strikes i've hundred from tho shoulder" and
was carried home in Z blanket
MICHIGAN.
Ben. Wade and Edwin For7ess sre at the
Mineral Springs At Eaton Rapids, tho former
seeking to be cured Of dyspepsia, and tho lat
ter of scihtica.
AT Gi1letts Lake, near Leoni, on s..ur-
day, Deacon ,stearns, his son, and George
Loaf: They Were only twenty rods from shore.
Mr. StearnB, WAS widely known in jackson
County. Whero he had lived for many years.
Tho Saginaw Courier says: !" A few darn
since, at Whitney's mill, Sand Point, on the
bay shoEe, man na,ned James Brofa was tho
gathering in logs for the mill. While floating
about on small log, about t~elve feet long
and eighteen inches through, he sutldeply
found himeelf beyond the reach Of his hand
laver and drifting swiftly to sea. Before Lis
peIilous eituAtion Was known at the mill ho
was three mites out, and with . strong north
west Tlnd and heavy sea on the lake. and it
being known that he was unable to swim, the
excitement in consequence can readily be I'M
agln@d: AS the boat belonging to the mill wns
eome i've or sl1 miles away, and the nearest
one to be had was down at the fishery, SONG
three miles, raft was hastily improvised;
Lnt who Was to SO? Although volunteers were
hazardous attempt, aud succeeded in'reHcuing
the bali dead man. AS soon IS he got On the
raft he lay unconseio'1s and did not speak for
some time"
Tho Detroit Free Press, of M.y 81, tells
the following snake story: Yesterday noon.
at the City Hall Market. seeing a farmer en-
deayosing to find purchaser for the skin Of 4
monster black snake, the sight OF which
gathered q crowd, our reporter WAS led to
make como inquiries into tho circumstances
with his snakoEhip'a capture. The
EHn WAS brought in here by Mr. f. Il. Snow, a
farmer, residing about four miles west of
Dearborn, and IVES obtained bbout tho 25th
lntt On the Goth inst. Mr: SNOW missed..a calf
about months old, which had been confined
in pen near the barn. Tho animal
Lad passed ont and gone to the woods, after.
the cattle. AL tho stock came home after sun
down, but the calf failed to zppear. Tho next
morning Snow and one OF his sons took trump
through the woods after the missing calf, but
faled to find it. The two boys, EeSt day, con
tinued the hunt, going Il! over the fRrin aud
woodH, but no trace Of the calf Was found. On
Tue f5th, snew took his oxen and proceeded to
the woods Tor the purpose Of hauling up the
pans and other utensils used in the bash last
spring to manufacture maple sugar. On ro-
Turning, the team was guidod q
ween the two farms. in order to avoid
:rosslng the growing crops. Just after CROSS
ng little creek, Shows olfactoriea wsro
greeted with eickening stencil, aud the oxen
.nufIed the air time or two and set of on
.un, pans and buckets flying over tho ground
snow looked sround for the cause OF the
stencil, believing that it had something to do
title brook about thirty feet, to higher
round, Snow found q dip in tic eoil, iutt
lnde1 rocky bank, with little grassy PENN
'ula jutting out until it made : bond
'1ound which tho creek flowed, forming
sunny, .secro spot In the CEN
el 81 this SPOT WAS tho decaying
:rawling in every direction, vere big snakes,
title snAles, old snakes. and young. until, as
iouug Ame1ics has it, Snow couldn't rest
He cav suakcs crawling toward the brook.
others coming back, others coming ont and
going into the holes in the ledge ba1ow him
ind there was-an odor arising. from tho whole
hat fairly made the air blue. Sear tho body
II the cali were dozen big snakes knottcd to-
;ether, Kissing and stirling theiE ugly heads
oEeiher until ones fcsh chilled to be-
sold them. Snow counted full fifty
arge black snakes, looked upon tho sight
Is long az hiB nost1ils would permit, aud
hen started home Tor means Of revenge. He
'ot seTera1 old barrels, filed them with straw,
OILS, and Light wood. with dozen bundles OF
traw to spare, and then returned to the
rooet.' The snakes were rs thick al ever, and
q they heard and saw the preparations making
boye them, they hissed and raised their heads
nth double venom. One Of tho boys took
traE and barrel around to the opening, and
he 1tthef and the other SOD, ut proper time,
ent down their fireworks from the Aides OF
be bank. Tho fire went of like Fourth OF
uly, making noise THAI prevented bearing
nd dispar2ging remarks from tho reptiles,
nd in about half al hour tho farmer descend
to find the ground covered with tho half
onsumed remains Of thirty or forty reptiles,
lille large number had saved themselves bv
he msrLot 80 thnt - ea,.a- S toS.an su -, -
rieii tn ese,nn o,ose ~ t1o ca,. 5 MY
.4Gu ~ eeeape atioes LUG creek anu HAs k1ued
Tue boy. a spot was found where tho calf,
trying to work around fallen tree, had
allen OF the bank, probably being badly in.
1red in the operation. and tho rentilos MIGHT
OF hare had snyfhinr. ~ d. r;tt r. Ia.t1, e.
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lgeon to the ring c;an o; Mower CountyMrhe
ried-up, consumptiye, whlte-liyercd puppy, that
aks the streets Of Austin Ike the GHOST 0l Satan
-fhe t4fHg that gathers around him the drunken