The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-08-14
sEIGHBORHOoD NEWS.
HENRY COUNTY.


has sent to this Office stalk Of COM
mon field corn which measures fifteen
feet two inches in length. Who can
beat it ?.........On Thursday last, boy
ten years old, son of c. Vanness, was
kicked by horse and had his arm
broken. It is feared that he will have
stiff arm, the bones about the elbow
having been badly shattered.-..---.At
meeting OF the Commissioners on
Monday, a full Board declared the
River Bridge at Napoleon unsafe, and
condemned it. Advertisements for
the construction of 3 new bridge will
be issued at once. The bridge will
probably be "-Howe" or a "Smith"
truss, built Of wood. Phe abutm ents
and piers are good, and it is thought
that the new bridge will not cost to
exceed from Sl3, 900 to s15, 900. .........A
pretty good story is told upon one of
the candidates for Prosecuting Attor-
ney before the Democratic primary
election. In making the rounds Of the
townships, he stopped at farm house,
and introduced himself to the propri-
etor. The farmer eyed him closely
for few moments, not knowing at
first where to place him, and then ex-
claimed: "Oh, yes; recognize you
now. You're that d-n fruittree man,
who sold me them dead Trees" .........
The lightning Express stops at bat
three towns in this State going east,
Defiance for wood, Antwerp for wa
ter and Napoleon for its passengers.
.....-..It is deeply mortifying to Ma
poleonites to hear strangers complain
about our poor hotel Accommodations.
Have not we a sufficient number of
public spirited men ia our midst to Or
ganize joint stock company to build
hotel and furnish it in first-elass
style?. party of men, mostly
threshers, were trying their strength
at lifting on Saturday last at Matt
Reiser's. Mr.. Abraham Hoover, of
Liberty township. came out ahead, he
lifting very near eight hundred
pounds. Mr.. Hoover was the lightest
one in the crowd, weighing but one
hundred and sixty,
= sANDUsKY COUNTY. T.
On Friday morning last, while
coupling cars at the depot, Frank
Remsburgh accidentally got caught
between the cars and one of his fingers
of his left hand was pinehed Off,.
DR.. Shaw laid on our table, Monday, a
head of cabbage measuring 80 inches
in circumference. II any one can
beat it at the season, we should like to
hear from them. The Doctor raised
it on his farm by his newly patented
process ss.........At a meeting of the Fort
Stephenson Light Guards, on Monday
night, the following officers were
elected: Captain, Chas. Norton; 1st
Lieutenant, A. F. Price; ID Lieuten-
ant, Bart Winters; Recording Secre-
tary, Jas. NJ. Osborn; Financial Secre-
tary, Horace BnckIand; Treasurer,
Henry Grund. ......The United Breth-
rem of Clyde are going to have an ex-
cursion the 18th Of this month. We
hope they will be well patronized....
There was rousing road meeting at
Clyde last Wednesday evening, and
there is a determination to put the
road through, as a necessity is seen
and felt for it.......After having
awarded the contract for buildibg q
Town Hall, the Council Of Clyde, in
accordance with petition of num-
Der of citizens have decided not to
build. A chance to recover damages
it thus gives the contractor.
I1- HANCOCK COUNTY.
Henry ]. Gartee, the man who MUIR
.dered Nicholas Bensing, near Findlay,
last February, was found guilty on
Wednesday of last week, OF murder in
the second degree, and was accordingly
sentenced by Judge Pillars to be "eon-
fined IN the Penitentiary and kept al
hard labor for the term OF his natural
I-life," and the prisoner is now at Co
lumbus earning an honest living -.-.
Herbert Hiner, the wife carver, re-
pines solitary and alone in the county
Jail, as no one has sympathy enough
for him to go on his bsil bond, and
Treece and Gartee having left Tor 9TH
er fields OF labor.........The contract
for building the bridge across the
Blanchard river at this point, has
been awarded to the Canton Wrought
Iron Bridge Company. 1t is to be 8
truss bridge, 1874 feet span, and viii
cost between SIC, 900 81, 200. We fee
certain that the substitution of first.
class iron bridge for the dilapidated
wooden structure, which has so long
been an eyesOre to the town, will be
the cause of general rejoicIng.......:
The Reporter has new power press.
.Messrs. VIM. Anderson and ].
II. Adams have purchased the OLD
Henderson corner, and will re-model
the entire building, giving it modern
appearance and facilities. TX party
of young blOods from Fostoria were
over here on drunk Sunday. One
I - -
little fellow had the largest feet We
ever saw on a human being.........Mrs
Mary E. Parker, wife of Alfred Park
er, died Of consumption on the Slst
ultimo.
HARDIN COUNTY.
On Friday last two loads of wheat