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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

then go into winter-quarters and in the
spring of the coming year he hopes to pro-
ceed on sledges to the pole, with every eX-
pectation of reaching it.in due season.
They have had an Enoch Arden case !"
out at Oakland, California. Enoch went
off and left his wife and children destitute !;
kind hearted people took up subscription
for the support of the family; and soon
after the lost wanderer-whose other name
was Kaiser-returned, and proposed to as
sist in eating up the provender. The
neighbors thereupon served notice upon
him, reading thus: I'D. Kaiser, we give
you twenty-four hours to leave town. BY
order of committee of your creditors. If
not, you will receive coat of tar and
feathers" or words to sthat effect. Enoch
that is, Kaiser-read the document with
fearful eyes, sadly cast one long, lingering
farewell look upon the re9lenished pork
barrel, and turned heart broken away. He
is now moody misanthrope and vindlc-
tive bull-whacker on the plains.
THE following pleasant story is told by
a pious minister about monk OF former
days. He resolved to leave his monastery
on the ground that he there too frequently
met with causes of provocation, and was
BETRAYED into anger aud other sins. Ac-
COTuluRly, uC IClIICO ihtO ehS etSoSAef - oAAS
hope that solitude would enable him to
serve God with an easier mind. One day
his pitcher happened to upset and, when
lifted up, fell second time, which kindled
his anger to such pitch that he dashed it
to the ground and broke it into thousand
pieces. When he came to himself he
said: al now see that l cannot be at
peace even in solitude, and that the fault
lies not in others, but in myself" He
then returned to the monastery, and, after
many strenuous efforts, succeeded in SUBJ
DUNG his passions, not by flight, but by
self denial.
A SKATER in Leavenworth, Kansas, is
reported by local paper to have broken
through the ice, the other night, and to
have swan beneath it for twenty yards,
till he came to shallow place, when he
assumed the perpendicular, and burst
through the thin ice with his head, This
is likely story, says the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, but we can beat 1t all
out We knew a young man in Hunting
ton, twenty miles from this city, who once
asseverated to his friends that, on skat-
ing voyage down the river, he fell through
an air-hole, and struck bottom twenty feet
below, came up safe and f1oated down
stream quarter of a mile, occasionally
butting his head against the ice to try its
thickness, and finally came out all right at
another air-hole. Now we guess the Leav-
enworth man will knock under.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
Curious Mode of Shuflling Off this
Mortal Coil.

PERSONS have committed suicides in po-
sitions which would have been thought
impossible to produce suffocation. There
are several cases of this kind reported in
French medical journal. A man was dis
covered hanging by his pocket-handker-
chief, and suspended from rope stretched
across a granary. His legs were found
bent at right angle backward, the knees
hanging at the distance of a few inches
only from heap of grain on the floor. 1t
would appear that the man, while in the
act of hanging, must have held his legs
clear of the ground in this extraordinary
manner.
Another man hung himself from a graf
ing, which was not so high as. himself;
when found his legs were stretched out
before him; and his hips were within few
inches of the ground.
A female suspended herself so low that
she was obliged to stretch out her legs,
one in advance, resting on the heel, and
the other behind her body, resting upon
the toes.
There have been cases known in which
death has been produced by the suicide
simply leaning with the neck against
frightened cord.
A still more remarkable case was that of
schoolmaster in the neighborhood of
London, who hung himself in such man.
ner from the banister by his cravat that his
body was found resting entirely upon the
stairs. Such cases as these are often open
to medico-legal investigation, as muir
der may sometimes be very conveniently
hidden by contrivances of this character.
The suicide of the Duke de Bourbon, in
1880, was supposed, by some of the wit
nesses at the inquest, to be only hidden
assassination. However, the fact of the
suicide was clearly established. But men
have been executed on suspicion of having
murdered others, who were afterward pro-
nounced to have been veritable suicides
Many men who could swim we'll, have
been known to tie their hands and legs to-
gether before throwing themselves in the
water, lest they should be tempted, in the
dying agony, to strike out and save them
| selves.
A lunatic, some years ago, in ST. Luke's
Hospital, drowned herself in the bath
room of that institution, in most remark
able manner. She managed to secrete the
key of the bathroom, and make up a dunn
my to represent herself in bed, in order to
deceive the nurse Of the ward. In the
middle of the night she stole downstairs,
and was found, next morning, lying with
her face downward, in the shallow water
of the bath. She must have deliberately
kept herself in the horizontal position in
the most determined manner, to have eff.
fected her purpose.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
Buried Alive and Resurrected.

A LETTER in the Plattsburg Register
gives an account of a tragical affair which
recently occurred at Poplar Grove, Grundy
County, Mo.
A Mr.. John Andrews, a popular and
well-to-do farmer in the neighborhood,
had dug well some forty feet deep, and
had walled it up about fifteen feet, when it
was discovered that the wall was about to
cave in. Mr.. Andrews gathered up an
armful of short boards, and went down a
pole ladder fastened to the side of the
well, to lay them across the wall, so as to
prevent the dirt, as it fell, from filling up
that part of the well walled up. He had
not more than reached the bottom, as it
was thought, before the well caved in,
filling up to few feet of the top. The
gathered, but all believing him dead, they
returned to their homes, to make arrange
ments to come the next day and dig him
out. Mrs. Andrews and two grown
daughters, and several smaller children,
refused to leave the spot, but sat on log
near the well, crying, until late in the
evening, when, all at once, they saw Mr..
Andrews emerging from the well, covered
with clay, and coming toward theml The
children all ran screaming into the house,
bolted the doors and fastened the win
dows, believing it to be their fathers
ghost. But Mrs. Andrews ran to meet
him, screaming at the top of her voice,
"Oh, Johnl oh, Johnl is that youl is
that you" When she reached him she
fell fainting at his feet.
1t seems that when he got to the bottom
of the we'll he looked up and saw the top
giving way, and believing he had not time
to make his escape, he slipped under the
boards, which he had laid acrossthe well,
when the whole thing fell in upon him.
All hope, at first, gave way, and he was
about to let himself drop into the water
below, and end at once his miserable feel
ings. But, feeling above, he found the
clay easily crumbled, and hope revived.
The pole ladder, it seems, was still stand
ing, and. getting hold of it with one hand,
he with the other scratched away for life,
the dirt falling into the water below, as he
dragged his body slowly upward. 1t
seems he did not suffer much in breathing,
as fresh air came down the pole, around
which the dirt was loosely packed. In the
incredibly short time OF seven hours he
scratched a hole some forty feet long,
through which he made his escape.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
How to Make a Place Prosperous.

There can hardly be a greater sign of
prosperity in community than a disposi-
ton to help one another, to lift a little
wnen q neighb RS wheel gets stuck in the
mud.
l knew of a place where a mans barn,
with all his winter stores of grain and
hay, was consumed in the night Imme-
diately all the men of the country side
mustered and hauled up timbers for new
barn, and then big raising came off At
ter that the sound of twenty or more ham,
mers was heard until the whole was
shingled and sided. But their deed of
kindness was not done yet; one or two
offered to take head or two of his stock
and winter them for him, thus greatly re-
ducing his loss, and assuring his heart of
the more durable riches of brotherly love
and neighborly good will. No one can
compute in money the value of one such
example of noble liberality in commu-
nifty, especially in its influence upon the
young. Where this spirit prevails there
is sure to be progress in a place even if
all improvements are in their infancy.
People will like to come and settle in a
place which bears such a good name.
Now if you desire to see your place a
growing, popular one, do what you can to
show yourself good neighbor, especially
to those who need a little extra help.
Ifa man starts tin shop or black
smiths shop in your place, don't harness
up and drive off five miles to buy your
pans and get your horses shod, just be-
cause you have been in the habit of doing
it. PatroniZe the newcomer, when you
want anything done in his line. Speak
encouragingly to him, and well of him to
your neighbors. Little words of approval
or censure go long way, and when once
you have spoken them, you cannot call
them back.
Help the sick, especially if they are
poor, for poverty and illness are indeed a
heavy burden. Perform all acts of loving
charity which fall day by day in your path,
remembering who it is that has said, " Ie
shall in nowise lose your reward. Conn
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

YoUNG PMoT.-This beautiful new
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rank among magazines. The February number
contains the continuation Of an excellent serial,
by VIM. Everett; brilliant paper on Books and
Reading, by Robt. Laird Collier; an exquisite
poem, by Edgar Fawcett; Picked Up Dinners, No.
/, by Willy Wisp, and halfdozen more articles of
decided merit, all combining to make an admira-
BILE number. Young people in their teens will find
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
A Dialogue In Wall srreet.-Itis

a DlafOgue In Nuu Streel.- n Nu-M Ct
suppose that the h5tfs Of Wall street cOnversc
about nothing but stocks and gold Sometimes they talk
about their health and they all % have trouble
-5i fsHsl The and tear OF speculation inyara
bly, tells upon the liver.
+" How do YOU think I'm looking ?- said a weIknown
Bull" to friend In the Long Room, few days affeT the
late smaslEup in god. - Do look panic struck =
mo. by Joye - was the reply; you look In Trim TO
fight a mans life Never you looking better.
I" Let tell a secret. boy. returned the great
operator: drink no wine, no brandy, no bar-room
sfimuant of kind but Just keep stamina with
occasional dose OF BTTTkEs and II you'll
do me try it for that bile the stomach
you're always complaining Of I'll furnish you the margin
FOR your next spec II IL doesn't cure you
The gentleman referred 10 (the initial OF Whose Christian
name rsry from the end Of the alphahe has
bounded confidence in the restOratve and his bright eye
firm aad wonderful powers OF endurance, prove
thai II Is weAfOundpd.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

THE LITTLE CORPORAL MAGAZINE for
February is as crisp aed pure as a northern snow
flake. Its illustrations are superb. Mr.. Sewell,
who founded The Corporal nearly six years ago,
and under whose editorship it has achieved such
an enviable name and circulation, announces, in
this number, his withdrawal from the firm of Sew
ell & Miller, who have for some time been the
publishers. This magazine will hereafter be pub
lished by JOHN E. MILLER, Chicago, Mr.. SEwELL's
former partner, and edited by Mrs. EMILY HUNT
INGToN MILLER, who has heretofore been Associ-
ate Editor
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

Ethan Allen, who recently died in
Worcester, Mass, at the age of sixty-four,
preceded Colt in the manufacture OF revol-
yers One of his earliest inventions was
the pepper.box revolver" produced in
1915. He leaves large fortune.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

I'm the last four years Mrs. Van Cott,
the Methodist revivalist of New England,
has preached 341 sermons, held 296
PRAYER meetings, attended love feasts,
iectured, written SAB letters, travelled 5000
miles, and brought 1,500 converts into
tho church
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
ARTHUR's LApY's HOME MAGAZINE

ARTHUR's LADY's HOME MAGAZINE.
steel fashion plate; two charming pictures The
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valuable information is contained in the Mothers
and Household Departments. T. S. ARTHUR &
Sons, Philadelphia. Terms, 81 ayear; copies for
IS. A great variety of useful and elegant pre-
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

History repeats itself. We are all ia
miliar with the story of the gentlemanly
pickpocket who abstracted theslady's purse
and left in her pocket his solitaire diamond
ring in exchange. 1t has happened again
in Broadway stage, and the ring is worth
81 500
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

number contains several very pretty pictures, and
large amount of entertaining and instructive lit
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

WOODS HOUSEHOLD MAGAzINE.-A
Temperance Story, by Mary Denison, entitled
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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

The skins of fifteen hundred alligators
and fifty anacondas were tanned for manu-
facture into boots and shoes, in Boston last
year
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

sea Moss Farine from pure Irish Mos, tor Blanc
Nance Puddlngs Custars, Creams &C.. &c, The cheap
eat hesihiest and most delicious food In ths world.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02

THE AMERICAN BUILDER for February
is beautiful number. 1t contains valuable edito-
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Among the contributed papers are: "Some Home
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Drains and Draining 1.-THE Engineer and the
Landscape Gardener" and L" Methods of Building
Peculiar to our Country" The illustrations COM
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PENELOPE.
BY r. BRET HARrE-1ILusrRArED BY o. ]. Horkrs

Simpsons Bar, 1881
So you've come yer agen
And one answer won't do?
Well, of all the derned men
That I've struck, it is you.
, Sal! 'yer's that derned fool from Simpsons,
Cavortin round yer in the dew.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-02
PRussINe's White Wine Vinegar Is most
uperb article for table use. Warranted pure.


II you do not feel well you send for doctor, he
calls upon You, looks wise, scrawls some hero
glyphics upon piece Of paper which you take to
drug store and there pay 30 cents to 81 90, be-
sides the doctors fee, for remedy nine times out
9f ten not half so good DIR. MoRsE's INDIAN
ROOT PILLS, which cost but IS cents per box Do
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They are prepared from a formula pronounced by
the most learned physicians of our country to be
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TheMoRsE's INDIAN RooT Pills cure Headache,
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DON'T TANPER WITH A CoUGH.-Perhaps in the
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susceptible, the cough is most neglected in its
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as temporary aflction-unpleasant and nothing
more-but to those who have paid dearly for ex
perience, 1t is the signal of attack for the mos
fearful Of all ldiseases-Consumption A cougf
viii lead to Consumption-if not checked-so SURF
as the rivulet leads tn the river yet II IL enemy
easy to thwart, IL met by the proper remedy. Al
lens Lung BaLSdm il the great cough remedy o
the age, and 1t has earned its reputation by meri
| alone. 1t can be procured at any Drug or Medi
| cine store.
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The PHRENoLoGICAL JOURNAL AND
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Couvh.-Tne administrators

Coughs The administrator
of medicinal preparations in the form Of
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-07
EDITORIALS
On all Public Questions.
TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS
From all parts of the world
MARKET REPORTS,

Giving a comprehensive Review Of Trade IN
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ties, The Inspectors are not detectives.
They prosecute those who are eomplsined
OF By persons maliciously inclined, but II
no one complains Of these aWbreakerH
they 90 free, and these great calsmities
continue % occur. IL would be impossi-
bic for your inspectors to visit each boat
that arrived at snd departed from this
port, to examine her accommodations for
deck passengers and the number on
board Il WOuld require a force similar
to that employed to prevent smuggling
on the Canadian borders. Let
Q sch steamer be visited by an
9fhCsr on her arrival and upon
her departure, and II her officers or own
ers have Jailed to comply with the law,
let them paw the penalty. II is a we'll
known fact that there ID not one steam
boat on the Western rivers that has aC-
commOdstiOns for deck passengers, as re-
Quirsd by law, bat that any number Of
passengers are received and transported
by them, with no perths or protection
sgainst accidents; that the deck-room is
usually stored with freight, leaving no
space for passengers that deck passeu-
gers lie about on the freight; that no sub
sstelce is furnished by the steamboat
OwBerE, and that deck passengers are re-
quired to subsist thenaselves-au Of which
is contrary to law. Il viii be readily
seen that ths great loss of life on our
Western r1Ver1 is caused-hrst, by steam
boats being overloaded with freight;
second, by eadeavoring to transport pas
sengers without the appurtenaucss pre-
scribed by law; thirdly. for the want of
sufficient government officials, to see that
the laws are enforced, and that steam
boats are provided with All the necessary
life saving apparatus. It viii be also as
certained by examining the reports Of the
Inspectors Of the Board Of Underwriters,
that many steamboats, are now running
as passenger packets under a license from
the Governmsnt which havs been in
spected and condemned by said Board
thereby refusing to take risks of insur-
ance upon said steamboats,. A close
and minute inspection Of the life
boats and yawls carried by the msj1r-
ity OF our steamboats, viii show
that they are entirely useless
in case of accident, for the reason that
they are carried upon the roof Of said
steam boats without the necessary tackle
to lower them into the water, and that in
many cases they have been in disuse 50
long that they are eaten up by rust and
would not float. It will suggest itself to
you by referring to the statistics, that
the majority OF the people lost BY aCci-
dents 70 steam boats are deek-passsngers.
Increase your force in the West in proper
ton 20 our tonnage as compared with the
force employed on the coast, and, sir,
can assure you that there viii hereafter
be a great decrease Of appalling calami-
ties"