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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Buried by a Bear.

A GENTLEMAN who arrived few days
ago, from the lower country, where griz-
Ely bears help the herders to take care of
the sheep, relatesa curious bear adven-
ture which occurred to an Indian herd
man In his employ. He sent the man to
distant portion of a large rancho, to
look after a herd of sheep. The Indian,
at nightfall, got under a shed with roof
OF branches, but open on all sides, and
hours sleep, he was awakened by feeling
the hot breath of some animal on his face
He moved his arms, and at once under
stood the situation-a huge bear was
snuff1ng him. The man, with great pres
ence of mind, determined to keep perfect
ly still, for he knew if he moved or cried
out, one blow of those huge paws would
break his skull like a walnut Bruin
scratched off the blankets and seized the
Indian by the leg. Though suffering ter
ribly, the brave fellow did not allow a
groan or cry to escape him. The bear
dragged him from the hut for some dis
tance, and then commenced to dig hole
to lay the Indian in and cover him up
from the coyotes. After the grave had
been dug deep enough, the bear Content
ing himself with about pound of flesh
from the victims thigh) moved the body
to the hole and covered it up. The In.
dian managed to keep the earth over his
face loose enough to allow him to breathe,
and when the bear retired, he crawled
| out toward the mustang, which was pick
| eted some yards outside of the hut With
great difficulty he mounted, and then
rode toward the rancho house. A doctor
was sent for, who pronounced the wounds
though severe and painful, not likely tc
prove fatal. The next day hunt wa:
organized, and the grizzly was killed il
the neighborhood of the spot where he
had slowed away his intended meal
San francisco Bulletin.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Tn the House. on the 18th, Mr.. Kelley,

In the House, on the 18th, Mr.. Kelley,
81 Pennsylvania, asked TO he, and was, excused
sfon further sereice as Chairinin df the Commit
tees on Civil Set5iee Reirrm ard or Coinage
Weights Gnd measures -. The Speaker afnottnted
The following appointments to ill the vacancies on
committees: "Joninlittse on Flechonss. Foster
of Ohio; Claims, Hawley, OF CONNECTICUT; Judi
Reform, Crooker, OF Massachusetts, and Dodds.
Coinage, WEIGHTS and Measures, connor, Oi
s,eI, H3ndSn I'M %n q efas al conrS
erabls len, 5tE.. .Thh tndiah Appropriation bill
was further considered in Conimittee Of. the
Whole, reported to the House, and passed-11l to
43 The Senate amendment to the House bill for
was concurred in, and Committee OF Conference
was ordered. diourned.
II the Senate; ON the 18th. 1.-The bill for
the reduction of officers and expenses o; this In
ternal Revenue, by abolishing the Internal Rev.
enue Assessors was called up, and, after consid-
cradle debate, was passed. with amendments pro-
posed by the Finance Committee. =. The bill for
the relief ofthe sufferers by the Boston fire was
called up and debated. .ExecutiEe session and
adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
passed-Senate bill authorizing the National Bank
OF Lyons, Mich, to change its location and name
authorizing tie Secretary of the Treasury to issue
coupon bonds for exchange fof registered bonds,
the expense of the change to be paid by the owner
substitute for the Soldiers Bounty Land bill
lie to 55--providing that every soldier or sailor
who served for ninety days in the army of the
United States during the late war and was honor
ably discharged, to the widow of such soldier or
sailor; snail bs entitled, the minor children, if
the widow be dead, to enter one quarter section Of
the public lands either in person or by agent PEN
sion Appropriation bill, appropriating $50 4SO OOO
Adjourned.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
OYER The WAY.

By MRS, MARGARET E. sANGsTER.
You weuid never have known it was winter,
= The house was so cosy and warm,
So sheltered from wind and from weather,
So safe from the beat of the stornsS
And the rosy-faced children within it,
All flushed with their frolic and play
Were as different as children could be
From the little ones over the way.
Their checks were as white as the snow-drifts
That sifted meath window and door,
AS they shivering huddied together
In q heap on the bare, broken floor
On. weary and harsh is December,
When the loaf in the closet is gone,
When acSers the last dying ember
ADdsf the stove is as cold as a stone.
n the mansion, the group at the window
Looked out on the darkening street,
And their eyes fell at last ON the shanty
Where the children had nothing to eat;
And softly the sweet elder sister
Said. "Darlings, I've wondered all day
What christmas can mean to our ncighbors,
The poor people over the wayl
We all will be glad on Chrfst's birthday,
And joyous our carols will be,
But long.fo share of His blessing,
Inasmuch as ye did it to Me =
And while ever his brother and sisters
So near as are hungry and cold,
Whatright shall we have to be merry.
Enough our gifts may be silver and gold ~
No candle was bright on the shelf,
When the children, who followed His teaching,
The Loving, who pleased not Himself,
Came laden with basket and bundle,
And bountiful gifts from their store,
And, walking, in pleasant procession,
Knocked soft at the rickety door.
And "Christmas," /" the word of their greeting,
Fell sweet in its accents of love,
As the chorus of old, that the angels
Brought thrilling from heaven above.
AN children whose hearts, leaping forward,
Are eager to hail the sweet day,
Are you sure that His poor are not near you |?
1t mayb Just over the way.
You scarcely would know it was winter,
Your house is SO cosy and warm:
But they may have hardly shelter
From the pitiless beat of the storm.
And merry your Christmas will find you,
If true to the Christ-child you be;
What ye do to His brothers and sisters
He counts 1t as ''done INTO Me -
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
President Grant and the Late Mr..
Greeley.
from the New York Evening PostD

From the New York Evening Post.)
THE following "open letter." addressed
to President Grant by one who was
among his most determined antagonists
during the late canvass, confirms what
the EUenang Post has already said about
the kindly feelings which have succeeded
the mournful occasion to which it re-
lates:
''To the President of the United States:
'S1R: trust that shall not be charged
with presumption in addressing you on the
subject of this letter. I want to thank you,
not for any favor bestowed on my friends, or
shown to me. Thanks for such things are as
common as the benefits they confer. 1 de-
sire to thank you for something greater and
better than these; for something much be-
yond the ordinary practice of high official
life. desire to thank you for the respect
shown by you to Mr. Greeley on his death
bed, and for the great respect you paid his
character and memory by your attendance
on his funeral. 1t was great compliment
for the head of a great nation to decline at
tendance on an official festivity, while pri-
vate citizen was dying, citizen who had no
claims on the sympathy of the official, either
greater compliment when that Executive
laid aside the pressing duties of his great
office, and, making a night journey of hun
dreds of miles, at an inclement season, took
the place OF private person, among Lne
thousands gathered together to pay the last
tribute of respect that the living can pay to
the dead. For your remembrance of Mr.. Gree
ley, dying; for your attendance at his funeral,
for the fearful attention YOU paid to the sad
ceremonies of that occasion, Mr.s President,
l thank you with all earnestness. / am
very sure that in doing so but echo the
sentiments of hundreds of thousands of your
fellow-citlzens, whose views of public affairs
led them and myself to support, in the late
canvass, the man to whom you have shown
such high respect. By these acts you have
removed prejudices, changed opponents into
friends, and shown the world that great
official life need not deaden the better in
stincts of our common humanity. By these
acts you have taughtsthe nations that Ameri
cans never forget what is due to the char
acter of their great citizens, and that the
passions of an exciting political contest
never destroy the respect that American
partisan opponents have for the good lives
of good men.
81 thank you, Mr.. President, and pray
that a long and happy life may await you.
And when it shall please the Great Ruler to
send the Angel of Death to call you hence,
| may your passage to the tomb be made
| smooth by the affection of kind friends, and
the grave close over you with the heartfelt
prayers of your countrymen for your eternal
rest.
every respectfully your friend,
SINCLAIR TOUsEY.
NEW YORK. Dec. 6, 1872"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Magnifying Eyes.

A BOY with microscopic eyes is the
latest scientific wonder in England. He
possesses the faculty of seeing minute
objects magnifed to marvellous degree.
His eyes were diseased when he was
young, and he came near losing his
sight, which, however, he gradually re-
covered. 1t was found, however, that
the internal structure of the eye had been
changed, the cornea being greatly en-
larged, the crystalline lens being divided
into three different parts, each part being
surrounded with light blue circle; and
in the center of each appears the iris, di-
minished to the size of pins head.
The patient cannot distinguish objects at
q distance, they appearing blurred and
misshapen. The magnifying power of
vision is stated at 500 diameters. A curl
GUS fact is that he will never examine
water, having once discovered the vast
number of infusoria contained in some
which he was drinking, and the sight of
which thoroughly frightened him. The
lad, it should be mentioned, has Won
derful talent for drawing and coloring
with great accuracy the objects which
come beneath his inspection. The ease
is under the particular attention of Sir
Charles Madden, F. r. s., and of DR..
Crowder, the eminent oculist.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Selected Miscellany.
CHRISTMAS CAROL.

BY MILLIE W. CARPENTER.
Out in the midnight's white and starry spiendor
Once more the glad bells ring,
While softer human voices, sweet and tenoer'
The songs of Christmas sing.
Christmas is come!
The whole clear night seems bending low to listen,
The church lifts up its cross; ,;.
And solitsry, snow-capped mountaihs shs'en'
And blue seas ffash and TOSS.
Christmas is GOMEZ
From sea to sea mighty voice is pealing,
On moorland bleak and wide,
Through frozenfields and dead rose gardens steal
BY wood and water-side.
Christmas Is comet
To lighted hearths whose fires make silver lfntnss
Behind the days dark cloud,
To halls where Beauty's summer light is shining,
Where dancers laugh and crowd,
Christmas Is comel
o, world &C, lifel o, hearts in sorrow signing!
Remember that to-day
Across the waste of time about you lying,
The Savior finds His way.
Christmas is comel
Oh, low and sweet the Christmas carols falter,
Then rise with rich increase,
And for an hour about one shrine and altar
All nations stand at peace.
Christmas is conel
Long love, long peace and reconciliation
We sing aloud, and then,
Their tones grown strong With oy and eXultation,
The great bells chime, Amen
Christmas Is come!
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Observation-Disclosures Spreading

By the official report of the vote of
Missouri, we find nearly all the border
counties of the State on the north and
west giving large Republican majorities
Northwest Missouri is largely Repub-
lican, for nearly every candidate. from
President down to Constable, is elected
by handsome msjorities, and, as a nat
ural sequence, peace and prosperity reign
triumphant.
The official vote of the State will, it is
thought, show Republican gain OF fully
20, 600 in the last two years. Being the
fifth State in the Union in population and
wealth, it must and will take equal rank
with the great Republican States of the
nation and it is believed that, by the
next Presidential election, the State VIII
roll up Republican majority equal to
Illinois, Wisconsin or Iowa, as nine
tenths of the new settlers belong to that
party that cleaned out the Greeleyltes In
the late election in all the States north OF
Mason and Dixon's line.
AL hail Missouri Grant City Star.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

"Why, what's, the matter, chi:df'
with curious look at the scarlet, oniv
ering faet. aUoMe Into the sitting
room, an be Introduced to my nephew"
Then the young Girl hesitated: "Eor'
child, yoti eeedn't Care fof what you've
got on. You look enuff sight prettier
than when you're finified up;" but as she
still held aloof, the old lady hit on anoth-
er tack. "Hugh! Hughl" she called /;
"come out here" And Hugh came. 81
want to make yoh etnuaihte6 with -"
and here she stopped in amazement; for,
without waiting further words, Hugh
had approached her visitor, and taken
both hands with
"Maud Avery, what are you doing
heres"
Cooking was the quiet reply, for
the young lady's composure had some
what returned.
81 should think sol" with a very COM
ical look at the burnt pies Amt Nancy,
with many g"oaf, was removing from
the oven. "But what in the world
brought you down here?"
He was still holding her hands, while
the old pair looked on delighted. She
pulled them away snd said in considera-
ble confusion:
81 didn't know you were-the nephew"
He gave her one bright, flashing look,
and then turned away; but in that glance
both felt themselves understood. Later
in the afternoon. with the ccoking done,
ahd everything in readiness for the NOR
row, as Maud stood by the window,
thinking ON the strange fate which should
have brought them together down there,
he approached.
''Maud, 1 felt terribly at having to de-
cline your mothers invitation; but l
should have felt worse if had accepted,
and you been absent. But how came
Mrs. Avery to consent to your absence at
such a timer"
This was delicate subject for poor
Maud, and she stammered very confused
ly, as she replied!
"W eli-you know-weil, didn't want
to see the tiresome pokes, and l told
mamma I'd snub them all if she made me
stay" g., -, ens .
Very complimentary, as it IS" said he,
gravely, although if she had looked up,
She would have seen a light in his eyes
which contradicted the soberness of his
speech.
"Oh! but" she began, anxious to ex-
onerate herself, 'you know you were not
to be there"
'Ah!" with perfect seriousness. $50
you didn't decide on this visit until the
reception of my regrets that it9"
Maud felt herself entrapped, and the
rosebud mouth quivered suspiciously, as,
drawing her close TO his heart, he whis-
pered:
"Little girl, you are caught; that was
what I've been trying all day to discover" I"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

The Chicago Board of Trade have, by an
almost unanimous vote, expelled from their
membership Ira Y. Num- and G. L. Scott,
elevator men. They were charged with hav-
ing issued warehouse receipts largely in ex-
cess of the amount of grain in store in their
elevator. An investigation was had and the
charges we're sustained.
Mr.. Ward Hunt, who has been appointed
to the Supreme Bench of the United States to
fill the place resigned by Justice Nelson, is
a prominent lawyer of Utica, n. Y, where
lie was horn in 1870 apd whore his whole
life has been spent. He is a graduate of
Union College, and of the law school at
Litchfield, Conn.
A terrible accident occurred on the Penn
syivania Central Railroad, near Mifflin, Pa. on
the evening of the 5th. The second section
of the Cincinnati express, bound east, ran
into a car of the first section, and telescoped
the Pullman cars. The names Of the killed
are Matthew Knowles and j. W. Bacon, of
Chicago, and w. W. Dantz, wife and child,
of Green Bay, Wis. Five other persons were
injured, but none seriously. Every person
Mrs. Greeley bequeathed to her husband
all her pictures and statuary, rare and val
liable collection, and instructed Ida Greeley
to appropriate 500 for the purchase of some
additional memento of her affection for her
husband. 1t was also provided that in case
of Mr.. Greeley's dying, or marrying again,
Mrs. Greeley's real estate is not to be sold,
nor the principal of the property used by
either of the children, without the joint
consent of Ida Greeley and Judge Hart.
Mrs. Greeley had a policy of life insurance
on Mr.. Greeley's life to the amount of S10,-
0O0 to $50, 900; also, it is stated, some Tribune
shares and various other stocks, besides the
real estate.
The Missouri Electoral College voted as
follows: For rPresident-B. Gratz Brown, S;
Thomas a. Hendricks, 6; David Davis, l.
For Vice-President-B. Gratz Brown, 6; Geo.
w. Julian, 5; John NJ. Palmer, 3; VIM. s.
Groesbeck, 1.
On the morning of the 5th, Governor War
moth, of Louisiana, issued a proclamation
enforcing the report of the returning officers
appointed by him to canvass the votes cast
at the recent election. By their returns the
vote stood-Republican, GO, 2S3; Democratic,
S,169. In the Eighth District Court, in the
case of the "Custom-House Returning Board
as. the Governors Returning Board," it was
decided by Judge Durell that large number
of voters had been Illegally deprived of the
franchise, and that ten thousand votes
| which would have been cast for the
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

A POSTAL convention went into effect
the 1st of December, between the United
States and Newfoundland. The rate of
letter postage is reduced to six cents per
half ounce and under. Two cents on
each two ounces must be prepaid on
pamphlets, periodicals, and other printed
matter, as well as on patterns and sam
Piles, and two cents each for newspapers
The same rates as above. except on let
tiers, are collected on all matter from
Newfoundland when delivered in the
United States, without regard to what
may have been prepaid there. Each coun-
try collects its own postage or all matter
sent or received, and no accounts are
kept between the two.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

THE bill before the Vermont Legisla-
ture, making the membership of secret
societies challengeable disqualification
for sitting on juries, was defeSted in the
House by a vote of 159 to 30.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
THE OLD WORLD,

The Vice-President of the Committee of
Thirty; On the night of the 9th, had long
and friendly conversation with President
Theirs. The Government situation was be-
lieved to be improving.
A terrific gale occurred throughout En-
gland on the Sth, prostrating the telegraph
wires and demolishing many buildings. In
London @ large number of pedestrians were
dashed violently to the ground. Street
lamps and signs were blown down, injuring
many persons. Numerous marine disasters
are reported. The gale was as severe in
Wales and Ireland, and was accompanied
by lightning and rain. Many towns were
flooded, and much property destroyed.
A Paris dispatch of the 9th says the ap-
terror; Leon Say, Minister of Finance;
Fourtin, Minister of Public Works; Colmont,
Prefect of the Department of the Seine, had
been officially published. Though the Min
istry was regarded as transitional, the above
appointments indicated termination of the
crisis, and would secure to the Government
the support of the Right Centre and the
Left Centre.
Several of the striking gas stokers in Lon
don who were summoned, under the Masters
and Servants act, to appear and answer a
charge of conspiracy, have been found guilty
and sentenced to six weeks imprisonment.
Following the disastrous failure of Bowles
Brothers comes the suspension of Jacobs
Freres, bankers, of Brussels, who had wide
American connections. 1t is said the en-
barrassments may be transient and involve
no losses in the end.
Intelligence has reached London that the
ship Franklin, which sailed from Hamburg
for San Francisco, with a large number of
emigrants on board, stranded off the coast
of Iceland, on an island of the Netherlands,
in the North Sea, and went to pieces. Eighty
persons are known to have perished.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

KEoKUK claims to have COW that can
climb into wagon, unite a sack of oats
or corn with her teeth, and unlock eel
lar door, and go down cellar and eat up
the winters stock of cabbage, or climb a
ladder into the hay NOW.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

The number of American students
at the Berlin University has perceptibly
fallen off of late.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

-Londoners are agitating the question
of a better and more general supply of
water.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19

There are said to be two hundred
railway Directors in Parliament,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
112S@11215.
Il report of the death of Horace Greeley
having reached President Grant on the even
ing of the 29th ult., the President and his
family, as token of respect, did not attend
the reception of the Diplomatic Corps, given
by the Secretary of State, and to which he
was invited, but sent note explaining the
cause of their absence.
The National debt statement, December l,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-19
Senate Committees.

The following are the United States Sc Aate
Committees, as chosen on the 9th: