The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-23
HERE AND ELSEWHERE-wI AND
OTHERWISE,

his duIcineas window in the soft light
the moon he wakes to ecstasy the livin
Tyre" and nothing makes him 50 mad
to have the buIlfrogs insist on joining
| the chorus.
The Wyandot Republican has at til
head Of It's local column Local, CliI
pings, Shorts, Original, Stolen, and othe
matter. There's cheek enough there I
make the Chronicle man howl with env,
The iron and wood bridge across tn
Huron river near Shaw's mills brok
down on Monday morning last Nj
Jacob Kasalus was passing at the tim
with team Of horses and wagon loade
with corn for Norwalk He was injure
somewhat internally, but no bones brC
ken, and singularly enough the horse
escaped unhurt. The bridge was abOu
one hundred feet long and fifteen t
twenty feet high.
The papers are telling a story about
young lady who passed herself off for
man for three years. in Pittsburg, gradu
ating at commercial college, and room
ing with a young man all the time, whC
never suspected that his companion was;
woman. We are asked to believe grea
many stories which test ones credulity
but the above is simply absurd, or thai
Young man should he trained to become
a pastor in Plymouth Church:
Near Okolona, Henry county, on the
Goth, hog attacked little child belong
ing 10 Thos. Carver. The mother of the
child had difficult job to rescue it from
the angry brute.
Mr. M'Dowell, who was so seyerely v in
jured at Carey last week, by his horses
running away, we learn is since dead.
Our list is steadily increasing. In one
day last week we registered six new
names and almost every day We are max
ing additions to our list. 1t looks now
as if that five hundred additional sub
scribers we were calling for would be a
reality ere long. Lend us IA hand friends,
to help the cause along. Send in the
names Of new readers, and by united
effort we will carry old Hancock for
Hayes and Wheeler,
Near Port Clinton, last week, Martin
Martin, was kicked ON the head bv a
horse and killed.
A two year old child of \. Burgeson
near Oak Harbor was out upon the track
of the /, S Road, one day last week,when
the express train went by killingit in
stantly.
Miller, Prayer & Sheets, of Mansfield
have secured the contract to build the
new court house, at Newark, Licking
county. Contract price S140,OOO.
1t cost a Sandusky lawyer thirty dol
lars. last week TO throw the water remaim-
ing in Il glass out of n window. He
threw it so hard that the glass went with
il and shattered a pane of plate glass;
1t was painful to him TO contemplate the
result
Sometime since a fellow who gave his
name as A. W. Schwartz, and represent
ed himself to he a travelling agent for a
notion house in Philadelphia, did the
firm Of Kugel Bros, OF Sandusky City,
out of 800, on fraudulent draft. He
was arrested at Toledo. but before the
firm could get hands ON him
he was demanded at other points. After
wards, Il man calling himself G. c. Rey-
nolds, and who professed to be travelling
for Valentine & Co, of New York, var
nish manufacturers, swindled Mathews
& Co, out of SO. He also managed to
swindle firms at Erie, Pa, and at Cincin-
natl out of similar sums He is still at
large, is about % years old, bOyish in
appearance, light Completed, hair and
mustachcs nearly white. Look out for
him.
a gang of rascals, intent upon robbing
the Express, placed a rail upon the track
of l. S Il NJ S Rotd, between Norwalk
and Monroeville on the night of the 10Th
The locomotive struck it in such way
as TO throw it from the track before the
wheels hit it, and the design of the gang
was frustrated.
On Wednesday night of last week,two
in Norwalk were burglarized,
and silverware te the amount of $40 and
50 in money were taken. The thieves
were followed to Fremont, where they
were captured and now lie in the Nor
walk Jail awaiting trial. They are sup
posed to be part of the gang who at
tempted to throw the express train off
the track on the night of the 10Th.
a gang of thieves was broken up at
Urbana, last week by the arrest of one of
the thieves. Their operation had con-
sisted mainly in stealing hams and other
smoked meats.
Brother Cuneo, of the Wyandot Re
publican, rakes the telegraph operator at
Crestline for falling to deliver dispatch.
Those Cresthne operators are bad set.
We once paid for telegraphing for car
riage; (train did not stop at the station
we were going TO, waited two hours, then
walked four miles, and found the carriage
Just on the point Of starting. Message
had only been received a few minutes
before we reached there. Those fellows
at Crestline are hard nation. Go for
them Cuneo.
In Paulding county, indictments were
found by The grand jury against every
saloon keeper in that county, forty-seven
cases on the docket,
Rev Graham and wife and Mrs. Spring
er. of Van Vert, were thrown from a
carriage, last week, and Mrs. Springer
was badly injured.
The road crossings in this county are
generally destitute of finger boards
They should be supplied. They cost but
little and are very generally appreciated
by travellers.
4 Mr. Johnson was robbed on the
highway, about duar ter of a mile rom
ST Mary's, on the 10Th inst The robber
presented Il revolver and obtained three
dollars, all that Mr. Johnson had at the
time
Frank w Escott, a son of Robt Escott
of Perrysburg was drowned in the Maui
NEE, on the 11th inst. The boys with
him at the time were afraid totell Of the
matter, and his fate was not discovered
till evening.