Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-12-03

l,5OO inhabitants.
This road winds through narrow. but
very rich valley, which is more given to
the growing of wheat than corn. As
you had good description of Mansfield
the past summer over the signature Of
as. D. P" ," l will pass by. After hur-
ried visit to Ashland, left Mansfield via,
the A. s. G. W. R. R. for Gallon, a town
of 5000, at the crossing of the c., E. &
Q R. R Few town have made more rap.
id progress than this.
My next point was Marion, county.
seat of Marion Co., at the junction Of the
c., c., G. & L with the A. s. G. W., q
rather pretty town of $500. It is The
centre of oneof the vast farming sec
tons Of the State. The country from
Gallon to Marion 90 miles-fs a level
prairie of rich black earth, for the most
part, and given mp mostly to the cultiva-
ton of corn-which seemed to be a splen-
did crop. Very little of it is cut no, a.
with US, but the ears are gathered anil
then the stock turned in. These vast
corn fields stretch away on either hand
and seem. almost boundless-just as in
the Sciota and Miami valleys-whereYer
one looks it is corn ! corn I cornl Though
an immense crop, many say Il is not as
good in quality as other years, the cob
being very shaky and spongy. The
price now is 35c per bushel.
Though Marion is rich county yet
would prefer Champaign Co. This is
mostly rolling prairie. with the finest
of o ak openings and forests, and the best
ofwh at land Tie farms, are under bet
ter cultivation, and the farm houses and
surroundings give ample evidence of an
abundance of the ''ready" and "needful"
to meet all demands.
Passing by Urbana and Piqua, of which
have made previous mention, will
take you down The Miami Valley, forty
miles from 'Pipus, TO Troy-not much
like that old world-renowned, walled
city over which old Priam swayed bis
sceptre; where Achilles and Agamemnon
the Greeks and Trojans fought and
bled and died-whosa exploits and bril-
liant achievements Homer has immortal.
lied in verse-as he sung of"Aehilles'
fierce wrath, which brought countless
woes upon the Greek" etc. Well, have
not time to quote the balance of it just
now-will leave it fol a more convenient
season. Troy contains nearly 1000 in
habitants, is the county seat of Miami
Co., situated on the south bank Of the Big
Miami river, which here takes bend
westward. 1t is regularly laid out around
great square, the streets being very
broad and lined with fine shade trees
the business blocks are good and substan-
tia'. of brick and stone; the churches and
school buildings large and credit to the
citizens. They are now building a $780,
600 town hall.
To,the norihward 20 miles is Sidney
county seat ofSAelby Co., on the Big Mi
ami & Miami 6 Erie canal, and at the
junction of the c., c., C. & 1. & D. &
NJ. R. R. Population $500. 1t stands
in the valley, almost surrounded by high
hills, on which are the finest residences.
The court house. like that at UFbana, is
one OF the most dilapIdated, antiquated
looking buildings one will find in many
q DAYS travel. The opera house and Ne
mortal blOck.now bailding. are the best
the latter built instead of a soldiers mon
ument
Twenty-three miles east Of Sidney and
sixteen north of UFbans, is Bellefoutaine,
county seat of Logan Co. Population
nearly 1000. The Methodist and Pres
byterian societies have the finest church
edifces, the latter being most ta.efully
upholstered and frescoed. In-the centre
of the Town is the square. At the N. w.
corner stands the court house, a new and
elegant structure of Amherst sand stone.
with fine click tower I2O feet high-an
costing s1O5,OOO, At.the S. E corner is
the new Jail, in which Schell was con-
fined, and from which the mob took and
hung him to a silver maple at the 5. w.
corner of the squsre-whieh tree some
person sawed down the same night
being unwilling to allow it to stand as
monument to tell of the deed. Walking
by the Jail with citizen, we saw at
cell window the wife of Schell, with her
two little children; more malicious,
revengeiul looking Visage have not
seen siuce saw Arrison, in the Ohio
peniteutiary, the murderer of Allison at
Cineinnaii-of Internal machine notors-
ETY.. Many people here think her an &C.
eessory 10 or an aceOmplioe in the muF-
der of Miss Laughlin. She has acknowl-
edged that she and her husband took the
mother Of the gIrl out once On a similar
errand, and that 1t was his intention to
murder her, but some hunters and wood
choppers frustrated his designs And on
the very day he daughter was murdered,
they intended To take the mother s-aiu,
aud when she could n0tleave home, Mrs.
Schell urged the mother to allow the
daughter TO 90 with them. when she
knew her husbands intentions toward
her. And all was inciied by a revenge,
ful spirit, the cause being shis-he owed
the man on whose farm he lived. and he,
had taken steps to get 1t, and had told
him he-Schell-must leave the place,
Mrs. Sehelrs trial begins next week.
In the lynehing of schell none Of the
citizens of BelletOniaine Joined. IIwaa
done by about one hundrs men
from the lownship-twelve miles north
of this place-where the murder was
committed. They came In hundreds 10
Bellefonisine in the afternoon. bat at
nishtlall most Of them len. apparently
tor home, but really only for reude4.
vous mile north Of this town, where
they organized thoroughly for iAeiF
work, being divided up into squads, and
each numbered aud having its special
work to do, at the command Of the lead,
er. No. bore so n. 7 rail with which
10 batter down ne door of the sherif's
residence, said door still bearing the lm-
print of the rail. This once down, Al the
end OF the 20 n hall was the iron door