The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-10-11

|, The Detroit Free Press ofsthe 29tf
ult. describes an adventure by a Ger.
man NAMED Henry Osster, of NankiI
township, who was hunting a missing
cow, and got mired in a piece o.
marshy ground. The narrative con
tinues: IT, 'E -''ar'"} "t-a'1FA 21a Z,
To his right, about ten feet away
was a knoll of solid ground, on which
grew a thorn apple tree, one of 'lht
limbs extending almost over the man's
head, and about four feet beyond the
reach of his arms. Thinking that Il
he could get Possession of his gun-he
might Secure the limb. Osster took
off his suspenders, tied them together,
and mautc 4 noo<e 0 N one end. and,
after careful! and te,lious work, lassoed
the rifle and dragged it to him. This
vas alter he had been in the mire
nearly two honrs, aml quite g while
after dark He was induced to- be-
lieve that he had not sunk any for
the last half hour, but the extra weight
Of the gun as he held it up sunk him
nearly to his hips in 4 moment, and, be
quickly laid it down.
Little turfs of grass, gro wing from
spots of solid ground, not much larg-
er than his hand, were all arourd' the
man, but the moment he took hold of
one of them it would pull away, hav-
ing no real support. Osster had Il
pipe with him, and lie got this from
his coat, and twisted of the German
silver ring around the stem, The
ring he broke off between his teeth,
bent It up like Il hook, and then fast
ened it to his suspendars, determined
to make an effort to reach the limb
Time after time he made the throw,
but the hook failed 10 catch, or slipped
off, or bent out straight, and ten o
clock at night the victim was up to
his hips and slowly setting. Placing
his Cat and vest on either side, he
pushed them down with his hands,
and in this way kept his body from
settling as fest as it other wise would.
lie ceased fryingsto shout, knowing
that Eecould not expect help before
another day.
/ AssOsster did not return at dark,
Starks feared that he might have shot
himself or met with some other acct
dent, and walked a mile or so in the
direction from which the man was cx.
pected, and stopped within half a mile
of where he was sinking down to
death. Returning home, he agreed
to make a further search i'll the MORN
ing, aud when the time came got a
neighbor to go with him. They took
a direction quite distant from where
Osster was to be found, ard, to be
brief, searched the woods until nearly
noon, and then determined to 90 to
the hamlet and see if Osstcr had been
there. In coming ont Of the woods
they passed within forty rods of Oss-
ter, and YER nearly half aimiie,away,
when one of them fired "a shot at a
squirrel on the fence. ''AH night long
Osster had been slowly sinking, and
when the sim marked noon he wasQp
to his shoulders in the mire. Hear
ing the shot, he put forth all his vocal
strength into one grand shout, follow
ed by another, and his voice was heard
and recognized. Even after his friends
were within fifty feet of him, he had
to shout to guide them, as his head
was below the grass. 1t is needless to
say that they instantly set about the
work of rescuing him. Logs and.
brush werepiled into TIE swamp until
they could reach him. Finding that
they could not pull him out by the
arms, Il e mire was scooped from his
body. and he was literally pried out
by a lever inserted under his feet.