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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
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, relates curious bear adven-
ture which occurred to an Indian herd
man in his employ. He sent the man to
a distant portion of a large rancho, to
look after herd of sheep. The Indian,
at nightfall, got under a shed with roof
OF bran ches, but open on all sides, and
lay down in his blankets After few
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
snulting 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 a 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 1t 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
ont 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 ia
prove fatal. The next day hunt was
organized, and the grizzly was killed in
the neighborhood Of the spot where he
had slowed away his intended meal
San Francisco B,sHetin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
neutrality-suspicious. 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 majorities, and, as a nat
ural sequence, peace and prosperity reign
triumphant. o...
The official vote of the State will, it is
thought, show Republican gain of fully
10000 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 will
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 Greeleyites in
the late election in all the States north of
Mason and Dixon's line.
All hail Missouri l--Grant City Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
President Grant and the Late Mr..
Greeley. -.
From the New York Evening Post3

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 Erening Post has already said about
the kindly feelings which have succeeded
the mournful occasion to which it re-
lates:
40 the President of the United States:
"SIR: l trust that shall not be charged
with presumption in addressing you on the
subject of this letter. l 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. 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 a 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 night journey of hun
dreds of miles, at an inclement season, took
the place of private person, among the
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.I President,
l thank you with all earnestness. | am
very sure that in doing so / but echo the
sentiments of hundreds of thousands of your
ellowcitiZens, 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 taught the 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.
90 thank you, Mr.. President, and pray
that long and happy life may await you
And when it shall please the Great Ruler tC
send the Angel of Death to call you hence
may your passage to the tomb be made
smooth by the affection of kind friends, anG
the grave close over you with the heartfelt
prayers of your countrymen for your eterna
rest.
every respectfully your friend,
SINCLAIR ToUsEY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 1872"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

alarm, and that the lives Of the unfortunate
girls might have been saved had proper ef-
forts been made In time. fr, I.a
Major Powell the explorer, recently ar
rived at Salt Lake City, from Arizona. He
reports theiexpedition of great interest and
scientific value. --------------.--- .
s The National Commercial Convention In
session at st. Louis effected a permanent
organization on the 18TH. Delegates we're
present mofftaeS States.
A Washington telegra,at the 18th says
the Attorney General, with the approval OF
the President, had proposed plan for tho
settlement Of the Legislative difficulties in
Alabama, which provides that the officers Of
each organization claiming to be the General
Assembly of the State should tender their
designations, to take effect on the permanent
organization OF the Assembly, and that
new canvass should be had of the votes in
Marengo County. d.ul. Itt
Acting. Governor Plnchbeck issued a pro.
clamation at New Orleans on the 18th, con-
tanning dispatch from Attorney General
Williams to the effect that he (Pinchbeck)
was recognized by the President as the law
full executive Of Louisiana. The decision of
the Eighth District Court Is to the effect that
Warmoth's impeachment is null and void,
the Kellogg Legislature having no legal
standing. The Court also sentenced Pinch
beck to ten days imprisonment for con-
tempt,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

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
ters, 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 on all matter
sent or received, and no accounts are
kept between the two. ..u.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

U"Why, what's the matter, chi.dY
with curious look at the scarlet, quiv.
ering face. "Come into the sitting
room, an be Introduced to my nephew"
Then the young Girl hesitated: "Lor'
child, you needn't care for what you've
got on. You look enuff- sight prettier
than when you're fnified up but as she
still held aloof, the old lady bit on anoth-
er tack. /" Hugh Hughip she called
"come out here" And Hugh came. III
want to make you acquainted 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
heref" ..
Cooking" was the quiet reply, for
the young lady's composure had some.
what returned
should think sol" with q very COM
ical look at the burnt pies Aunt Nancy,
with many groan, was removing from
the oven. But what in the world
brought you down hereY"
He was still holding her hands, while
the old pair looked on delighted. She
pulled them away, and said in considera-
BILE confusion
u 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 cooking done,
and 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, felt terribly at having to de.
cline your mothers invitation; but |
should have felt worse if had accepted,
and you been absent But how came
Mrs. Avery to consent to your absence at
such timer"
This was delicate subject for poor
Maud, and she stammered very confused
ly, as she replied:
"Well-you know-well, l didn't want
to see the tiresome pokes, and told
mamma I'd snub them all if she made me
stay"
pheasant prospect for me if I'd gone.
Very complimentary, as it is" said he,
gravely, althoughif she had looked up,
she would have seen light in his eyes
which contradicted the soberness of his
speech. -'T' .-...T
"Ohl 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 regret--is that itf"
Maud felt herself entrapped, and the
rosebud mouth quivered suspiciously, as,
drawing her close to his heart, he whis-
pered: -. .-.e
"Little girl, you are caught; that was
what l've been trying all day to discover"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
OYER The WAY.

BY MRS MARGARET E. sANGsTER.
- foy would'nev have known it was winter,
The house was so cosy and wa,ni,
z So sheltered from wind and from weather.
so safe from the beat of the storm;
And the rosy-faced children within It,
we're az wh a. shsfT bdren TeG e6ad S1d play
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 huddled together
In heap on the bare, broken floor.
Ohl weary and harsh is December,
When the loaf In the closet is gone,
When fickers the last dying Cmber,
And the stove is as cold as stone.
n the mansion, the group Mt the window
ee Lpeked out on the darkening street,
And their eyes fell at last on the shanty
kA, 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 neghbors,
The poor people over the way
We all will be glad on Christ's birthday
70 Ambiguous our carols will be,
But long for a share Of His blessing,
'Inasmuch rs ye did it to Me y
And while ever His bro others and sisters
So near are hungry and cold,
What right shall we have to be merry
Though our gifts may be silver and gold ~
No smoke wreath curled from the chimney,
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 borntiful gifts from their store,
And, walking, in pleasant procession
Knocked soft at the Iickety 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.
All children whose hearts, leaping forward
Are eager to hail the sweet day,
Are you sure that His poor are not near you ?
1t may be 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,
II true to the Christ-child you be;
What we do to His brothers and sisters
He counts 1t as 'done unto Me ~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
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 9Th, 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-
pointment Of Gaudard as Minister of the In
terror; Leon Say, Minister of Finance;
Fourth, 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 Can Francisco, with n 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
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
/. Selected Miscellany.
~ w \ 6R8tsHMAs oARo1.


BY MILLrE W. CARPENTER. z
Out In the midnight's white aud starry splendor
once more the glad bells ring. - .saao. OIL
s.rhe songs o. Chffstmas sing
yH Cnfistinath comei
The whole clear night seems bending low to listen,
The church lifts up Its crOssi .
And solitary snow-capped mountains gDsten,
And ,blue eeas dash and toss ~ rye gHFrH
Y Chrissmae Y come e
From sea 70 sea mighty voice is pealing,
on moorand bleak and wide, --- 81
Through frozen fields and dead rose-gardens steal
By wood and water-side
I'D, Christmas Is comet ...,f ~ t'f .-..
To lighted heArths whose fires make silver Innings
Behind the days dark cloud,
To halls where Beauty's summer light Is shining,
Where dancers laugh and crowd =
Christmas Is come
o, world o, lifei o, hearts in sorrow siphingl
Remember that to-day
Across the waste Of time about you lying
The Savior dnds His way..- =. -. "a d. -
u Christmas Is comei r....i.
oh, low and sweet the Christmas carols falter,
Then rise with rich increase,
And Tor an hour about one shrine and altar
All nations stand at peace
Christmas Is come
Long love, long peace and reconciliation"
- we sing aloud, and dthen,- --.. So - E. .. .
Inelr tones grown strong with Joy and exultation,
-- Inc great bells chime, Amenl
Christmas is comet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

THE bill before the Vermont Legisla-
ture, making the membership of secret
societies challengeable disqualification
for sitting ON iuries, was defeated in the
House by vote of 159 to 80.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

KEoKUK claims to have a COW that can
climb into wagon, unite a sack of oats
or corn with her teeth, and unlock a cell
lar door, and go down cellar and eat up
the winters stock of cabbage, or climb a
ladder into the hay NOW,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

The number of American students
at the Berlin University has perceptibly
fallen off of late.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

-Londoners are agitating the question
of better and more general supply of
water.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
TIE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed In New York on the 12th at
l122S@11219.
a report of the death of Horace Greeley
having reached President Grant on the even
ing of the Goth ult., the President and his
family, as a 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,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20

There are said to be two hundred
railway Directors in Parliament,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20


The Chicago Board of Trade have, by an
almost unanimous vote, expelled from their
membership Ira Y. Mum 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 were sustained.
Mr.. Ward Hunt, who has been appointed
to the Supreme Bench of the United States to
ill the place resigned by Justice Nelson, is
prominent lawyer of Utica, N. Y, where
he was born in 1910, and where his whole
life has been spent. He is a graduate of
Union College, and of the law school at
Litchheld, Conn.
A terrible accident occurred on the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad near Mifiin, 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 policy of life insurance
on Mr.. Greeley's life to the amount of $l0,,
900 to $50, 900; also, It is stated, some Tribune
shares and various other stocks, besides the
real estate
The Missouri Electoral College voted at
follows; For President-B. Gratz Brown, 8
Thomas A. Hendricks, 6; David Davis,
For ice-President-B. Gratz Brown, 8; Geo
w. Julian, B.; John NJ. Palmer, 3; VIM. g.
| Groesbeck, 1.
On the morning of the 5th, Governor War
moth, Of Louisiana, issued proclamation
enforcing the report of the returning ofliceri
appointed by him to canvass the votes cas-
at the recent election. By their returns tht
vote stood-Republican CO. 233; Democratic
6S,1G9. In the Eighth District Court, in tn,
case of the Custom House Returning BoarC
u.s. the Governors Returning Board" it wa
decided by Judge Durell that large numbe
of voters had been illegally deprived of th
franchise, and that ten thousand vote
which would have been cast for tn
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-20

THE LoSasnoREMEN's SrRIkE-In accord
ance with previous notice published in the
daily papers, the members of the Longshore-
mems Protective Union struck for higher
wages and regular hours for work on the 18th.
They demand 81 o day aud that regular work
ing hours DO from A. NJ. to Pm. Last
Thursday morning the members of the asso-
citation did not 60 to work but assembled at
different places ON the levee and proceeding mp
and down from the Sixth District to the Bar
racks compelled all men working for less than
a to knock off work. At the foot Of jackson
street, they murdered An old man sixty years
Of ago, Capt. ]. w. Barnes, who attempted to
prevent their boarding one Of tho barges Of
the Mississippi Valley Transports tion Com
pany, to mako The men stop work. The police
seem to have been inactive spectators since
tho strike commenced, but are now reported to
be in full force on tho levee armed with riAes
and ready to give assistance wherever needed.
The captains Of steamers and Others direstly
! interested seem determined to hold ont against
the strikers, though several Captains have
been obliged to accede to their dcmands tn
order to fulfill immediate engagements.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-20

"SoMErIME."-The following is one OF
Mr.. Prentice's little waits, so many OF
which appeared in the Louisville Joarna!
in is palmiest days.
"Sometime-1t lie the sweet, sweet song
warbled to and fro among the topmost
boughs of the heart, and filing the whole
air with such joy and gladness as the songs
of birds do when the summer morning
comes out of darkness, and the day is born
on the mountains. We have all our pos
sessions in the future which We call "some-
time" Beautiful flowers and singing birds
are there, only our hands seldom grasp the
one, or oar ears hear the other. But oh, read
er, be of good cheer-for all the good there 10
a golden "sometime" when the bills and
valleys of time are all passed; when the
wear and fever, the disappointments and the
sorrows of life are over, then there 10
place and the rest appointed OF God. Or
homestead, over whose roof fall no shad-
ows or even clouds and over whose thresh-
bold the voice Of sorrow is never heard
build upon the eternal hills, and standing
with thy spires and pinnacles Of celestial
beauty among the plain trees OF the city on
high, those who love God shall rest under
thy shadows, where there is no more sorroW
| nor pain nor the sound of weeping-"Some'
! time.n
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-20
Mort the Japanese ambassador at Washing

Nor. the Japanese ambassador at Washing
.o,, to,S Grant few dsys ago that he was sstisaed
that the party in his country would mian
tain its supremacy the oounssl' Of the ration ana
that conseq uently, there would be no inteuption
the ADOPTION Of ali the improvements now In uoo IN
civilized countries We not told upon what speo
fact facts Mort bases his opinions nut
.naed to learn that they based upon his faith In
tbo practical common Of his eountEywonen VINO
having eeen tho facility and rapidly with when the
oolebrated Singer sewing machine dispatches large
ousnttses Of work. resolved not to allow lew el
So,s to prevent tho general Introduction Oh snst en-
rino Of so many blessings ordora TOT efees
.oh,nes must now be the way to the SINGER
S.ct.r,e, which will thus be exclusively engaged IN
spe them but should any Of our people desire 70
purchase one Of these treasures. we are
cav that Messrs Cooper Co.. 80 Canal street. sns
aesnts in this city have good number on hand WHICH
tbsv will sell at very reasonable prices.