Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-03-06

A MASSACHUSETTS Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has mulct-
ed penurious farmer $40 for keeping his
COW in an open pasture all winter, with
no shelter except few rails laid across a
corner where two stone walls met.
THE Marshall Qowa) Republican reports
a case for the scientific medical fraternity.
David Hurst, citizen of LeGrand, that
county, is totally blind, except when he
has the ague, and singular to say,
during the time he is chilling or shaking
his eyesight is partially restored.
A VERMONT man thinks bears are
about the best stock man can raise. The
meat of one he sold in New York for $50.
For the hide he was offered $50, and he
received bounty of $15 each for those
he raised, which, with the bears grease,
will amount to the sum of 800.
THE widow of the late General William
Harrow received So, 500 damages from the
New Albany & Chicago Railroad, her
husband (then a candidate for Greeley
Elector in Indiana) having been killed
last autumn, while travelling by that road
to meet a political appointment
THE Binghamton (N.Y.) Republican of a
late date, says that number of cattle in
that vicinity had been attacked with dis
ease supposed to be cerebro spinal menin-
| gifts, or Inflammation of the membranes
enveloping the brain and spinal cord. 1t
| is said to be similar to the disease that at
tackled horses and proved so fatal, short
time ago, after the epizootic was prevalent,
and was by some called a relapse of that
disease.
AT Newark, N. J., recently, crowd OF
some six hundred credu1ous people as.
sembled at midnight at point on the
line of the Morris & Essex Railroad where
frightful accident had occurred five
years ago, for the purpose of witnessing
the passage OF spectral locomotive,
driven by the ghost of the engineer who
lost his life at the aforesaid accident
For some reason the phantom engineer
failed to keep his appointment.
A BOY 10 years old, known as Peanut ;
on the Indianapolis & Vincennes Rail
road, robbed the Adams Express Com
pany at GRANVILLE, Ill, on the Cairo &
Vincennes Railroad, of the contents of the
safe, amounting to 1886, while the agent
was out of the train. He was traced tC
Vincennes, Ind, where the officers cap
tured him. The money was found in &
tin can in an open field near the Unior
Depot. All but s was recovered.
The Chicago Times is authority for the
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stock of S10,0OO,0O0, and an additional
$4,000, 900 in bonds, is already construct
ing new line of railway from Chicago
to Duluth, where it will connect with the
Northern Pacific Railway. The new roai
is to be as nearly as practicable an air
line, and it is claimed will not exceed 4Ot
miles in length. The design of the pro
moters of the enterprise is to make Chi
cago the eastern terminus of the Northern
Pacific.
THE fashionable Washington party thi
season, known as ''kettle- drum" is O
English importation, and signifies re
ception given by some social or politica
nabob, at which the guests get little O
nothing in the way of refreshments saw
the light of his magnificent coun
tenance. In other words, it is wha
would be called, in Western parlance,
"dry-bob." 1t Is unnecessary to stat
that they are not very popular amonl
party-goers generally, who are mostl,
blessed with good appetites, and do no
fancy visit to a fashionable restauran
after ''kettle-drum, and dining at thei
own expense.