The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-12-31
SUFFIELD.
Correspondence,


EDITOR DEMoCRATIc PRESS:
Asst has been some time since we
saw anything in print from, Sufield, I
will endeavor to give few items.
The items which j propose to write
are about a ghost, new kind of owls,
an mean dog. The ghost however
was not in Sufield but just across the
line,
Several nights since a. farmer went
to his barn late in the evening, and
then and there saw something like a
ghost, going away from his. barn, with
bag on its shoulder. The farmer
called to the ghost to stop, but it
would NOT, so the. farmer seized his
shot gun, which he kept in the barn,
and sent charge of shot after the
spook,a StiIl it would not stop,
but the bag fell from his shoulder, and
Ethe 9ghost took to its heels and made q
mile III 7abeuti2 40. making. good his
escape. Tie bag which had been
dropped, was found to be filed with
oats. Somebodyr is troubled very
badly with rhe1mafism ever since the
ghost dropped that bag of cats
One Sunday evening, not long since,
an, old farmer of this township thought
he heard q a2inoiseS about his turkey
ropst. tSupposing there was an owl
at1his roost, he repaired to the spot,
but the owl did not fy away as owls
generally do but took to its heels and
rah.si The old farmer, not wishing to
Pbe outdons in this way, gave chase,
and inall y captured the bird and took
it to neighbor's house. Being brought
t67the light and examined, it proved
to be a new kind OF owl, having no
featherssa So, the old farmer thinking
it was probably the only one of the
kind ever captured at turkey-roost,
in SufieId, rsets it at liberty. But our
old farmer friend eautiens everybody
to be on the lookout for these owls,
drinks they have a craving appe-
tite for turkey. a-l
The next thing after the owl scrape
q .HNFtE fist tts slsAa
was the following: Late one evening
d farmer took his rife and went out
to see a dog that had been molesting
his smoke-house for several nights
previous. Not finding the dog at the
smoke house, and hearing a noise at
the corn-erib, he started in that direc-
lion, when he saw something run from
the crib 10 a board fence, and squat
down by the side of the fence, and
lie still. The farmer thought, 81 have
loaded my rifle TO shoot a dog, and
now an opportunity offers to shoot
ione of the meanest kind of dogs" So
he. raised his rifle, took good aim,
pulled the trigger, but it missed fire.
He tried second, aud q third time,
with no better success. He ran into
the house to get fresh cap, but when
he came back the dog had left aud ran
across the lot at locomotive speed.
Our farmer friend says it was new
species of dog, for he run on two legs,
and says he made good time. s
], Now the man who saw the ghost
says, keep your shot guns loaned and
handy. It may occasionally save
bag of oats. The man who captured
the owl says, keep your turkeys in the
back kitchen, for these owls are very
bold. The man who saw the dog says
always examine the caps on your rife
before you go out to shoot dog, for
it may save corn in the future.
The above is given as caution to
everybody, for we think the country
is full of the animals above mentioned,
OCCASIONALLY.