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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
The Census-Religion and Occupation

Il has already been mentioned in COM
menting on the census that the six New
England States, with white population
of 3, AS, ,043, have but 5,421 churches,
while the six Southern States upon the
Atlantic, with white population of g.
450, ,903, or virtually the same, have II, :
567 churches. But apart from this amaz-
ing revelation there are other items of in
teresting ecclesiastical information to be
gathered from the report. The pop
ulation of the thirty-sevsn States is
SO, lis, ,641, and the total number of
churches for this multitude is 62, ,522,
with 81 ,395, 542 sittings, leaving 49,
720, 900 OF our people apparently un-
provided for. The truth is, how
ever, that the population of ten years
of age and over amounts to q, ,S99, ,535,
which leaves but 6,503, ,993 persons of
church age, so to speak, who could find
no accommodation, should every man,
woman and ten-year-old child in the
Union be simultaneously moved on q
bright Sunday morning to attend relig-
ious worship. Still that as many as
Q, sos, ,993 persons, or about one sixth of our
entire population, have no church accom-
mediation is a pregnant reflection for
divines. The aggregate value of the
church property is s349, ,61s, $50. In the
Territories and the District of Columbia
there are $50 churches, with 269, $40 sit
tings, and church property worth $4,-
S63, sol.
Coming to particular denominations,
the disciples of Wesley and Whiteield
tower, in point of numbers, above all;
the Baptists come next, the Presbyterians
next, then the Catholics, the Christians
(Campbellites), the Lutherans, the Con-
gregationalists, the Episcopalians and
the German Reformed, in the order
named. THE number of churches of these
and some other less prominent denomina.
tions in 1870, 1850 and 1850 is as follows
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
The Patent Office Reports.

WE owe our thanks to Judge Kelley for
the latest Patent Office report. We
already have sixteen hundred of these
interesting volumes in our little library,
but they have been read and and reread so
many times that we know every page of
them by heart. This new volume came
opportunely and gratefully on Christmas
morning, and that night we gathered our
little family around the fire, and read 1t
through to them. The affecting tale en-
titled Improvement in Monkey
wrenches seemed to touch every heart,
and when we came to the climax of the
little story about Reversible Pie boards" {"
there was not dry eye between the front
door and the stable. During the reading
of the piteous narrative entitled Gum
washers for Carriage-axles," the whole
family gave expression to boisterous emo
tion, and the hired girl was so much ex-
cited that she lost her presence of mind,
and went round to her mothers inadver-
dantly with six pounds of sugar and a
butter-kettle full of flour, but came home
at midnight intoxicated. We can never
sufficiently thank Judge Kelley for the
innocent enjoyment thus furnished u.s.
The memory of that happy evening will
linger in our minds very much longer
than that hired girl ever fingers when she
lights on lot of substance which she
thinks will suit the constitution of her
aged parent.-Phi2adslphi Sunday Dis
patch. .teu IT
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
Two Days Lost Within Twenty Rods
of House.

IT was the misfortune of our fellow
citizen, Mr.. E. E. Payne. to be on the
prairie about five miles south of Kasson,
in Dodge County, last Tuesday afternoon,
when the storm came on. He was within
half mile of house, with the wind on
his back, and losing sight of the dwelling
he was governed by the wind, which,
without his knowledge or consent, turned
from southwest TO northwest, throwing
him entirely out of the way he desired to
go. He was soon lost in the binding
storm, and after wandering about for an
hour, he put up for the night by blanket
ing and turning loose his ponies, wrap
ping himself in buffalo robe, and sitting
down beside his open sleigh, which was
turned on its side. BY continually slap
ping his hands and kicking his feet he
managed to keep them from freezing.
He prayed, and sung and kept up his
courage, hoping to find a house in the
morning, as he was near pair OF bars.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
Across the Atlantic in a Balloon.

ACCORDING to the New York Sun, an
aeronaut by the name of Donaldson is
now constructing series of balloons with
which he purposes to cross the Atlantic
next summer, starting from Union Square
in this city. He claims that flying ma
chine is within the range of possibility,
and is not discouraged by the many fail
ures in this field. His theory is plausible
He remarks that when Fulton built the
steamboat to run in water he did not imi-
tate the action of the fish, and then he
expresses the opinion that to navigate the
air it is not necessary to comply too close
ly with the movements of birds. The fly
ing bird represents aerial locomotion in
its primitive state. The idea is to i'm
prove upon this, Just as the steam engine
Is an Improvement upon the power and
speed of the horse Having had large
experience in ballooning, Mr.. Donaldson
is earnest in the belief that he can travel
from the setting sun at all times, ''for at
certain height, say two and half miles,
there is constant current of air blowing
toward the East" By ascending to the
required altitude, he is confident that this
strong current will safely bear his ship
from New York to the shores of England.
He is also Of the opinion that, when on
the other side, he will find another cur
rent which will watt him home again.
We may pronounce the attempt to cross
the ocean in balloon foolhardy, but let
us not forget that such ''foolhardy''
efforts heretofore have led to the most
important discoveries. Science requires
her sacrifices. If we never ventured out
of the old grooves we would make nc
progress. If we ever succeed in con
structing machines which will navigate
the air, it will be through that spirit Of
daring which animates the bosom of Mr.
Donaldson. If he attempts the proposed
feat and perishes in the undertaking, we
hope that his failure will not deter. Others
from making dangerous experiments in
the same direction.-Tnrf Field ans
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
THE OLD WORLD.

News from Livingstone, dated November
80, state that the last train of supplies
sent out had reached him, and that he had
begun another march into the interior of
Africa.
Decissey, French Minister of War, has
written letter to Marshal Mcmahon, pro-
hibiting the circulation of Bonaparte ad-
dresses in the barracks of the French troops,
and urging the severe punishment of persons
found distributing such papers.
The number of emigrants who left the port
of Bremen for the United States, last year,
was 1000. Emigration from Hamburg, dur
ing the same time, $4,000.
A grand reception was given on the 10th,
at Chiselhurst, by the Empress Eugenie and
Napoleon ", to 1000 soldiers, Statesmen
and other distinguished Frenchmen. The
Empress and her son passed through rooms
filled with people, all in the deepest mourn
ing, and gave their hands to be kissed. 1t is
said the Imperialists expect a speedy res
| toration of the Empire, with the Empress al
Regent.
The Right Hon. Edward Bulwer Lyttor
| Baron Lytton) the well-known English au
thor, died in London on the 18th, aged 81.
The London Daily Nescs of the 2oth say,
of the lease of Samana Bay to an American
Company, that it is not likely to give rise
to any diplomatic complication, but the
wholesomeness of this tendency to acquire
territory beyond continental limits is doubt
| full. .s@ ~ 4-2-a= ~
The Turkish Government has sued the
London Times for libel in publishing com
munieation, alleged to have been signed by
! the Turkish Ministerin London, containins
untrue statements with reference to ths
| finances of the Government of Turkey.
sAnother of England's distinguished publi'
men is dead-the Right Honorable Stepher
4 Lushington, the venerable statesman and jur
ist, aged Oh years. s.lJ
The Worlds Exhibition at Vienna will
open in May. The American Commission i
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
Miscellaneous Reading.
TIE MEASURE 0FaL0W.

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And Iistfna ~, hS, .0S 49, y head
n, ,,,arS *. ~ X. - e s..A.y -. Z - La,rt
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ss1,i,e s,,,.,,s..s vy.0i ~, Ie =, the mn
qives III the .wsats r.s - s she he's tc Jsve.
Eor hir, si-s,,s ~ ccytert -, Tna " eA'e'
aha ce-,..t Li,<.. sh.r seis ~ n.S,
So wonld nonr nv ofyer;So = free.
- --s-' "o.AA VIZ ''1' 90 snenuJ. ~
"And vrn IS ma d.,y .va. rro,,5,v hrioht.
Han r. thar der,the ! cSysn Ia. gpefns y S1htl
AZ with q sudden fndraWn braath.
80. could oive In life or death
A-iose too nessionatss to spesk. e
The Etronpeat words are stranqely weak.
Rnt conld hrave 4 1nnoeon,s Gloom.
n meet 1,nmcvea = r.sstvr,s doom
For iovsss desr .ssRs n yonld INT he
At,iny,nh snd a ia, 70 ne 'AN-r' =. : ses -
Rnt II the love si:,ned ne sho1,a y.,,,
The crimson on her cheek prev male
And kindlino in her sndden ire
.sThe measure Of nv love wouid mate
The euual measure Of INV hate:
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

1t is comforting deduction from the
census that, while we may not build as
many churches in proportion as we once
did, they are every way more costly and
respectable looking edifces. The plain
brick Ebenezer seems giving way to a
more ornate structure. The number of
churches in 1870 is not yet double the
number in 1859, but the value of church
property now is four times greater than
it was twenty years ago.
Coming to the subject of avocations,
the census treats us to some rare imagin-
ings. Its dry figures body forth before
US IL, 335, ,172 men and women, boys and
girls, working away for dear life at every
Imaginable occupation the country
through. Two thirds of the population
of the United States are drones, accord
ing to the census, for whom the other
third tolls. How it tolls can only be
seen in its bewildering completeness in
the serried columns of the census report;
but here and there fact-sometimes pa
thetic, sometimes enormous, but always
uggestive-appears even to the hasty
glance. One half of the entire working
population is engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, and of the 2, ,SS5. .996 agricultural Ia
borers, 373, ,332 are women, the brawny
helpmates of the Scandinavian settlers Of
TIC NOItuWcct, VI luC DOutuCAA hcSiS
who has not yet laid down the shovel and
the hoe Among other curious avoca-
tions we find forty five female stock. herd
ers chow savage q calling none know
but those who have seen the Texas "cow-
boy" dash like lightning here and there
through droves of half wild cattle, like q
dragoon in q charge), 8 female appren-
tices to BARRIERS, "a women dentists, fe-
male hostlers, 2female professional hunt
ers and trappers, 8 female lawyers, 525
female physicians and surgeons, 81 fe-
male clergymen, women scavengers, 2
female sections, 10 female "cartmen," 1856
women draymen, female pilot, female
guano laborers, 4 female gas-stokers, 80
women gunsmiths, z female gunpowder
makers, and 16 female ship-riggers.
Among the men appear 2. .512, ,664 agricul-
tursl 1aborers, 1895, ,030 farmers and
planters, 1,O46 florists, 22,756 bar
bers, 43, S07 clergymen, 40,731 lawyers
ian ecclesiastical preponderance suffic-
lent to keep the legal mind DOWN, 81, ,S5S
physicians, 1876 undertakers, liza sex
tons, 141, TIA blacksmiths, 161 ass shoe
makers, 152, 2,O61 miners, and so on by the
army corps ad infnttum.-NeU York World.
TOLD Talk-Talk,' is what Mark Twain
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
The several rates of increase or de-
crease for the two decades are as follows:

1t will be seen that none of these de-
nominations, except the Mormon and
Unitarian, maintain in the last census de-
cade the rate of increase shown in the
one prior. The falling off in the case of
the Methodists, the leading denomination
in point of numbers in the country, is
particularly great, as notable, in fact, as
the portentious growth of Mormonism.
The wealth of the leading denominations
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

General Carrington's Polytechnic in
stitute, attached to the Female College
at Wabash, Ind, has received donation
of complete set of all the mechanical,
scientific and mining works published by
the British Government; also complete
set of Patent-Office Reports of the same
Government, the whole valued at $50, 900,
making it the finest collection of that
class of works in the country.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

Americans read more newspapers
than any other people, but do not read
more books. Probably because the aver
age newspaper is better than the average
book.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

The nuptials of Ezra Comfort, eighty,
and Eliza Carr, nineteen, were celebrated
at Chester, Pa. the other day.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

Stokes witnesses were confined in
the House of Detention exactly year,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30

-"Old Talk Talk" is what Mark Twain
calls George Francis Train.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
HOTEI. ARRIVALS.
MAXWELL MoUsE.

SEPT. 15.-tJ. r. Fletcher, Athens, Ala; Jack
Spragins, +. j. TrOtman. NJ adisOn, Ala; NJ. L.
Polk, j. Il. Polk, Bolivar; ". P. ilsOn, Browns
vile; j. G. Timer, Memphis; JAS. II. Fleming,
W. n. Cory, NJ Leopold, New York; y. @. Ann
berg, Kentucky; VIM. A. Marburg, Jr., Baiti-
W. Alexander, Mckenzie; H. NJ. McAdOO,
Waverly; w. W. Gates, Jackson; w. Maxwell,
Dyer county; G. Lambard, YiCksbUTg, Miss; II.
Carlisle, Alabama; w. A. Oaruthers, 1rOusdale
county; w. A. Clark, Cincinnati; Henry Cooper,
country; }. Harris, Louisville, KY; j. NJ. Gra-
ham, PineWood; NJ. W. Embry, Columbia; R.A.
Mann, Carthage; W. j. MCGOWAN, South Union,
KY; u. P. Barnes, NJ. Burns, city; w. b. Bay
less, Reynolds Station; X. Knight0n and fami-
ly, Springfield; w. I. Cooper, Davidson county;
X. q. Brinkley, Memphis; James French, Louis
vile, KY; w. 5. White, MOOresVille, Ala; Mrs.
Z. NJ. Dawson, n. G. Perkins, wife and child,
Memphis; II. A. Ultey, Knoxville; ". l.. Wilson,
Pulaski; j. L. Kennsy, B0denham; K. A. Camp
bell, Giles county; VIM. Willis, Memphis; John
L. Dismukes, Nashville; W. H. Dustin, Law
renceburg; A. Z. Porter and wife, Mississippi;
G. X. Smith, st. Louis, Mo-; w. II. 5. Hill,
Franklin; Tom Crutchfeld, Miss MOllie King,
John Eing, Jr., 7. C. Lumpkin, Chattanooga;
Asa Faulkner and wife, Miss Lou Black, Nc
MinnvIlle; A. (. May, Pulaski; L. j. Wilson,
G.. Buchanan, John L. Whitaker, Jones Styles,
j. G. Russell, Lincoln county; Theo. Belts and
wife, st. Louis, Mo-; H. X. Moore, Fl anklin
county; S. j. Mallon, NJ. L. Sheldon, Memphis;
j. NJ. Boren, Boonville, Miss; n. N. Cox Frank
lin; j. A. Graf, st. Louis; r. r. Reed, Cincin-
natl; Lewis Packham, Louisville; +. L. Moore,
Denver, Col ID. Hickman, New York; j. HOl-
brook, Washington, d. g.; Milton Dearrnin; A .
b. Howard, Louisville; j. B. Carpenter, city; w.
Bonner, Jr., Fayetteville; W. d. Fulton, county;
Ringgold, Ga,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
YeSterdaY.
THE KENTUCKY KU-KLUX.
Graduates Of the Federal Army!
Testimony of Prominent Cincin.
NATHAN.

Testimony Of Prominent CincIn.
NATHAN.
CINCINNATI, Sept. ia prominent
citizen of Cincinnati, who has been spend
ing sveral days in the Ku.KIux region, re-
turned last night, and reports the country
quiet and the people ready to talk freely
about their troubles. They claim that the
account of affairs recentlv given In letters in
the Louisville Courier. J0uT7la! are much
exaggerated, and that the troubles will be
stodped by the due course of law. One
prominent lawyer stated that he had no
doubt that there was large organization of
Ku-Klux, but that many of them were re-
spectacle citizens, who had no sympathy
with marauders, and that within ten days
full disclosures would be made of the Sc
crets of the order, and those who have re-
pented of their connection with it would as
sist in suppressing it. The idea Of martial
law is not relished by any one. Another
prominent lawyer of Owen county asserted
that there was no established order, and the
offenders were merely common thieves and
murderers. The Owen county authorities
say the murder of the negro Whitestone is
the only one which has taken place in their
county. Two of those charged with this
murder were acquitted at preliminary ex-
animation, aud three others escaped from
Jail week ago, though they afterWard gave
themselves up to the authorities, declaring
they would prove an alibi. Their examina-
ton is set for tomorrow, and it is thought
they will be bound over. The Owon county
people assert that all concerned in this out
rage are graduates IF the Federal amy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
|. 0. o. +.
II. w. G. l.. u. 8.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 15-The forty-Dinth
communication of the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge United States of 1. o.
o. F. commenced at Odd Fellows Hall, in
this city, this morning, at nine. The va
rious Encsmpmen's of the Order accompa-
MED by Bunker Hill EncampmeDt No. 5,
of Charlestown, Mass, escorted the
Grand Lodge from their headquarters at
Barnum's Hotel, on Gay street, where the
Grand Lodgelimmediately organized, Right
Worthy Deputy Grand Sire, w. j. Dur.
ham, of Kentucky, occupying the chair in
the absence the Most Worthy Grand Sire,
Q. A. Logan, who is at present abroad ss
United States Minister to the Republic of
Chill.
After prayer by Right Worthy GranF
Chaplain Rev. J. W. Venable, of Ken
tucky, Deputy Grand Sire addressed the
body, stating be had been called most un-
expectedly to preside and explained the sb.
sence of the report of the Grand Sire.
Forty-oue Grand Encampments are r4pre.
seuted in the Convention. The number
of Looges of the Order a. the close of the
year 1872 was 5,045 and 385,307 members.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
McCOOK.
Remains Of the Murdered General on
Their Way to the Tomb.

Remains Of the Murdered General on
Their Way to the Tomb.
CHICAGO, Sept. ia special train
bearing the remains of Gen. Edwin S. Nc
Cook, Secretary of Dakota Territory, who
was assassinated at Yankton on Friday last,
passed through here to day enroute to Gin
cinnati. The body was accompanied by
Gov. Burb INK and number Of the most
prominent citizens Of Dakota. The train
will arrive at Spring Grove station at s
O'Clock to morrow and the remains of Gen.
McCook will be inferred in the cemetery at
that place.
Gov. Edward A. McCook, of Colorado,
arrived in the city to-day enroute to Wash
ington where be has been summoned as
one of the commissioners to sppraise the
Fort Clark and Fort Smith,Indian lands. He
first heard of the death of his cousin a.
Omaha yesterday morning.
Gov. Burbank states that there was
most profound grief in Yankton over the
death Of Gen. McCook, and thereis strong
feeling against Wintermute, the assassin,
though fears of mob violence have abated.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 15.-The remains Of
Gen. Edwin S. McCook arrived and lay in
State in Masonic Temple to-day aud to-
night. The funeral will take place at one
O'Clock tomorrow,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
THE COMPTROLLERSHIP.


Our exchanges have been burtbened for
some weeks past with articles in regard to
the Office of Comptroller. 1t was ch'rged
by the Radical papers that Capt. Hobbs
sold the ofics to Col. Burch for the sum Of
ten thousand dollars-or that that amount
was paid Hobbs by somebody to resign.
We confess that we paid little attention
70 the matter, knowing so we'll how light a
thing will give rise to these suspicious, and
how easily partisan rancor will fan spark
of suspicion into terrible flame. Without
having read Capt. Hob s. d7nial carefully,
we are satisfied fully ofthe fact that if Hobbs
was paid to resign that neither Col. Burch
nor Gov. Brown were cognizant of the
fact.
If Capt. Hobbs was paid q SUM of mon
ey by the bond holders it was with the full
expectation that anothe', other than Col.
Burch should get the office. We have eV-
cry reason to believe that another gentle
man did expect it; we know that he was
backed up by recommendations that he
thought were irresistible-.e Recommendation
from personal and political friends Of the
Governor, of character that not one man
in ten thousand would have passed by un-
needed. We have reason too to believe
that Capt. Hobbs expected this gentleman
to receive the office, and that be and others
were disappointed.
Capt. Hobbs notified Governor Brown
that at certain time, he would resign.
From our knowledge Of the man in connec-
ton with one or two other appointments,
we are inclined to believe that he (Brown)
appointed Col. Burch from an intimate per-
sonsl acquaintance ofthe man, and without
lot h-vt na
tions of any one.
We have no. agreed with the G lvernnr
in everything hat he has done, but would
scorn to entertain the idea for a moment
that be could be irfluenced by any other
consideration than a high sense of public
duty. He is high toned Syutbern gentle
man and his faults are of the head not of
the heart. No man who knows him per-
sonally could believe that he would make
an appointment for any pecuniary consider
a'ion.
As for Col. Burch, il is well known that
in our editorial career, we have differed
with him as to matters of party discipline,
but we have never doubted for a moment
that he was incapable of becoming party
to any arrangement like that
charged by the Radical papers.
He is the last man that the bondholders' ring
wanted in the position. They wanted
Hobbs out of the way because Ho lbs COZ
fessed bis ignorance as to the legality OF
some of the bonds, and had the honesty TO
consult good lawyers rs to the proper dis
charge OF his duties. B1rch, besides being
q very fine lawyer, understands perfectly
the history of all the bonds, and is withsl
first class business man, and will be less
likely to be used by the ring than any man
in the Sta,e. We predict, from our kDowl-
edge of the man-from what we have seen
and heard of the man since he has be an in
ofice-tbaL he wild make the best Comp.
troller the State has had for twenty years,
and that in less than two years he Will be
more popular than any of his predecessors.