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Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
The RObbing OF County Treasurer
Myers.

A special from Wapakoneta, o., Sept.
6, to the Cincinnati Enquirer, is as fol-
lows:
Last night daring robbery, unpre-
cedented in the history OF Auglaize
County for boldness, was committed in
this place. Lewis Myers, the County
Treasurer, was going homeward at
about 10 o'clock, and just as he got op-
posite the first alley east of his residence
three men threw a heavy blanket over
his head and pressed him to the ground.
Mr.. Myers guessed their object instan-
taneously, and attempted to throw away
his office keys; but his quick-eyed cap
tors detected the attempt and prevented
it. They carried him back into the al
ley, and guarded him until about II
o'clock. Then they carried him bodily
to the Courthouse, unceremonlously
throwing him over the fence in the alley
east of r. D. Marshall's.
The back door was then broken open,
and the Treasurer was carried into the
hall and requested to open the office
door, but he refused, even under the
threat of tortu1s by burning. To show
they were in earnest, fire was started
in the narrow passageway between the
vaults, and Mr.. Myers was held over it
until the heat burned the legs of his pan
falcons and scorched his feet. After be-
ING nearly suffocated with the smoke, he
unlocked the door and admitted them.
He still refused, however, to open the
safe, protesting that the combination to
unlock the inner doors was unknown to
him, being known only to his son. They
would not accept this, and presenting a
cooked revolver to each temple COM
PEELED him to open the safe.
While two of the robbers were ritiing
the safe, third stood guard at the back
hall door, and from certain sounds Mr..
Myers inferred that one was at the front
door. At little after midnight the rob-
bers departed with their booty, except
one who stood over the County Treasur-
er, revolver in hand, until the 3 O'Clock
train came in. Then he vanished.
At O'Clock this morning Mr.. Myers
was discovered by the Janitor, gagged
and tightly bound to the chair, where
he had suffered during the long hours OF
the night. ,oa
The loss is between S91, 900 and S32,-
900, wholly in greenbacks and bank
notes. The robbers overlooked in thei1
haste package of $4,000 in Govern
ment bonds belonging to Samuel Bitter
of the Farmers Bank. 1t was in an en-
velope, and wrapped in an old piece OF
newspaper.
Mr.. Myers's hat was found this morn
inc where it had been dropped in the
street. His watch was found where ii
was thrown over the fence. The thieves
took it from him, but had the discretion
not to keep it.
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26

Just after the strike, when Solomon
closed the discussion by telling the slug
gard to 90 to the ant, the sluggard re-
piled, with knowing wink, that he had
a much softer thing than that. " AS
how?" inquired the proverbial monarch;
~ will start savings bank" replied
the man of inertia. The monarch nod
ded slowly, twice or thrice, and went
away to get shaved. The next time he
met the sluggard, that deliberate indl,
vidual was riding in a gold mounted
carriage, with coachman and footman
in livery, and in reply to the monarch's
nod, he just pulled up to say that he was
going over to Europe for little whlle'
till the furry blew over. And Solomon
went back into his sanctum and wrote,
"Better is an handful with quietnes;s
than bank book as big as bible with
travail and vexation of spirit. ."-HaDS-
eye.
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
Science and Industry.

st. Louis claims to be the largest
flour center in the United States.
The fbrous roots of asparagus are
coming into use for fine paper-making.
-Friar's Point, Miss, is to have a
$40, 900 oil mill, with ex-Gov. Alcorn as
President.
The wheat crop in Texas this year
will amount in value to at least S12,-
100000.
An exhibition of hops, and of tools
and implements used in the cultivation
of hops, to which all nations are invited
to contribute, will be held in Nurem-
burg, Bavaria, from the 7th to the 18th
of October.
Among recent methods employed
to prevent the incrustation of boilers,
the process of De Haen is now occupy
ing attention, which consists in the use
of barium chloride in proportions vary
ing with the chemical composition of the
boiler-water.
Experiments with electric lights
lately took place at Cronstadt. The
apparatus was fixed on board the Peter
the Great, and was of such intensity
that small print could be read on YES
sci moored four cables off. 1t is con-
templated to furnish all the forts at
Cronstadt with this light.
"A very careful examination of West
phalia coal has proved to the German
Government that there are several kinds
of it, which are in all essential points at
least equal in quality to the best kinds
of British coal. The German squadron,
which lately visited Besika Bay, was,
consequently, furnished exclusively with
German coal.
In Butte County, Cal, are fumes
aggregating 100 miles in length, and
costing S640,000, for the carrying of
lumber down from the mountains. The
water in them runs with great velocity
and force. Two foolhardy adventures
the superintendent and a newspaper
correspondent-lately rode 20 miles in
one of them, in boat made to fit.
The French steamer Frigorifique
lately landed cargo OF freshly pre-
served meat at Brest, brought from
South America Chemical tests were
applied to the meat, and it was found
to be in perfect state of preservation,
although much OF it tconsisted of inferior
pieces of the slaughtered animals. Here
after only the first and best pieces are to
be shipped, and the speculation is now
assured of success.
"A California paper describes "the
latest thing out'' as new horseshoe
made out of three thicknesses of raw
hide, compressed together by heavy
pressure. 1t is said to last longer,
weighs only one-fourth as much as the
common shoes, never splits the hoot,
and has no bad influence on the foot.
1t is so elastic that the horses step is
never uncertain.
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
Foreign Notes.

Baron Rothschild, of Paris, has
purchased the celebrated picture gallery
of Van Loon of Amsterdam for $500, 600.
Mr.. Thomas Hedley, barrister-at-
law, of Newton, England, has bequeath-
ed upward of 100000 for the endow-
ment of bishopric for the County OF
Northumberland.
The estimated cost Of rebuilding the
Hotel de Vile, destroyed by the Paris
Commune in 1871, was 16, 100000 francs.
1t now appears that an additional sum
of 100000 francs will be needed.
The restoration of Strasburg Cathe-
dral will soon be completed. Fourteen
statues of emperors and kings who have
ruled that part of Germany from King
Pepin down to Henry ~. have been
added to the sculptural embellishments.
A tailors' congress in Berlin has
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
Hans and MiShaDS.

"A girl named Stack, aged II, fell
into a well near Pittsburg and broke her
neck.
Five horses ran away during circus
procession at Cleveland, and one man,
named Coelin, was killed.
Mrs. McDermott, of Cunning COun-
tv, Neb., died from the effects of bite
of rattlesnake received the week pre-
vious.
F. Jaeger, an engineer at wood
yard in Milwaukee, fell on saw and
was cut in the abdomen so that death
resulted in a short time.
Mrs. Stark, of Royalton, Wis, was
struck by lightning, in her house, while
passing from one room to another, and
died instantly.
Newton TruaX, of Watertown,
Mich, was milking a COW near straw
stack, when the stack fell down upon
him, killing him and also killing several
COWS.
Miss Hogeboom, an aged lady liv-
ing at La Platte, Neb., fell asleep while
reading, and the lamp fell over and set
fire to her clothes, burning her fatally.
Two boys, aged and years, sons
of Daniel Boyd, near Windsor, VT,
were in the barn playing with some
matches, when the hay was ignited and
the younger boy, failing to get out, was
burned to death.
Miss Mary Bright, of Fort Wayne,
found railroad torpedo, and proceeded
to investigate it with an ak. A thumb
lacerated, an arm mutilated, and the
most of wardrobe missing or unfit for
use, was the result.
Two lads named Abraham Ringer
and Mede Williams, at West Franklin,
Ind, were playfully throwing clods Of
earth at each other, when Ringer was
struck by a clod on the left side of the
neck, rupturing the pulmonary artery
and causing almost instant death.
Recent suicides: Col. VIM. Shaffer,
prominent citizen of Muncie, Ind,
and extensively engaged in the grain
business, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. He was about 60
years of age and believed to be in pros
perous circumstances. Cause of suicide
anknown.-Miss Gransenger, who resid-
ed with her parents four miles from Lo-
gansport, Ind, hung herself. She had
been suffering from hard fever and her
mind was somewhat unsettled.-Robert
Howell, of well known Philadelphia
grain house, committed suicide by jump
ing into the Schuylkill River. He was
just recovering from typhoid fever, and
was probably out of his head Brooks
Hughes, a well-to-do farmer of Hyde
Park, Duchess County, N. Y, commit
ted suicide by hanging.
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
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Sharp County record., 1877-10-26

William Austin, of Independence,
Mich, was digging hole in which to
bury bowlder, when the stone fell in
upon him, killing him instantly.
Sharp County record., 1877-10-26
School and Church.

The Jubilee Fund of 100000 for
the endowment of Shurtleff College, IL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-23
CONET ISLAND.
The Five Mites Of Beach Crowded with Sun
dry Nisitors-The Hotel Business.

From end to end Concy Island was crowded
yesterday with visitors. The clans gave ont at
three o'clock and an extra boat load Of chickens
kept TIE people from going hungry. At noon.
not far from the Gospel Tent. u foolish fellow
walked into the water with NIL his clothes on.
The people looked ut him. Then he walked in
further. until the waves reached his neck.
Somebody said. Come bnck." but he failed to-
respond. and finally n big breaker broke him
down. swept him under and WINS about 10 carry
him out. when he WAS rescued. They rpllri
him rubbed him md walked him on tho snni
Tor mon. than an hpur. thcn lie smiled udn@
yp." and walked away.
No'wthstan Ting thr exertions Of tho hotel
men to korp the cent rnl beach clear Of swnllrrs
the thrrr-0ard monte dealers were HEain at
work They were five in number. They had
soap box "a thrcc-lcggcd table. "a board. and the
Nineteen members M the Iofos Club took
dinner in ono Of the hotels. This. 10y the way.
IL bec, ming "a feature of SUNDAY ON the Island.
country. and others whonre chilled in III" inter
est uf business or pleasure. combine and make
= ninh"L, parry m s"m' ohc ol M l"Mprlle
hotels. Tn" Island is no longer myth There
are four regular lines of strgm rond commune
cntion, two Of steamboat and one by hurs" cars.
The consequence IS that in hoatr and elastic NJ
things are there. the multtudrs 70 in thousands.
and the host hotels are making money fiiAt.
The Island is about Ave miles long. Yrster-
day. Sun reporter went from end t. end to
nnr tnr hotels rropcr rom M" GN'rGmm rasi !"
lows. n large number Of minor clam rOasts and
harrOoms being lett out.
l.. nd MANS Oshorns Drlano Manhattan Reach Hotel.
M'Mahon's Atlantic Then comes sheep-hcai BAY
Lnsien,an'' lloi.l, Aquarium: NandeNscrs Thompson.
Clarendon. Buckingham Hotel Cables Hotel aud bod
worths stand Sei.htsr's. Oceanic. Atlantic Garden.
Manhattan Hotel. The Mafriouctt. Hal Washington
ilou. Fctnm. rilv0u's Ryan sons Pavilion West
End House. knckcrhuckcr Cottage. Reach uu-e Excel
sur Pavilion. Ahhutfs 40 Name Pavilion. Van sly
dunck- clears Halfway House, MclhcrsOns Point
Comfort House. Norton Murrays Pavilion.
1t may bn Inferred from this list. which in
cludes simply such houses - are worthy the
name 81 hotel. that the bench ~ we'll supplied
with places where the creature comforts can be
had
Manhattan Beach Is at the extreme cnst enl
Of the island, and company after two years
have succeeded in getting deeds OF It from
about 100 old Long Islanders. over million
dollars has been expended ON ground. Il hotel.
and appurtenunces.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-23
The Spectacle ut the Hanging Of Geo. Stevens
and David Pierce.

Coorga Stev.us and povid pioroo ,ho
wv" ~ '',N'"9 an" b"N'u i"l''' ''''
murirrcrs OF Mr. Filings. were hanged ycstcr
day Al tynutv.thran m nutas INST IN n nroueh-
,,,,, n,.,,,. M a.. ,,t.t,, - a. e,,. -.
lux "S" mum" H. VIM '''.'' s.,'' "'''ss
the yard in its stocking feet, assisted hy sheriff
Bo,yen onI concenlad its.lf in tho shnft nj the
.tn. -, a., .., a. - ~ -,
rlEAt OF 'he ehll'"s' Az tW'hV-SlA Winu''s
after 10 the sheriff and his ass istants cam"
down the gallery Ia tho room wher, Stevens
..I n M -. h,,, 49,,
anu Iierce were. Inc prisoners hHd Just
arisen from their last pray r. ana sat on tho
hennh to-.tb.r lookfn., ALTERNATELY nj thn
ShnrfN th,. nriast AMI HE faces aroinj ihnin
~. Shnr, N 'shn,t hnnis win Enthnr 4 .,,,r.,
IN, 1nI s,le ,ciih lin ~ MINT. II, ',r,.,
ti"iionnd T. IA, n"nl"mnSi men ,yh" orn.,
und r,,,,.l ,,v,rJ nm a. ,,tL,r an1 ~ foi. th,
urn,,,..ion IN the i,all,ws moved dnvn th. .al
inrv thrnush ia, .atns mi nfisn d''yn sialrs
ari tIr,r-h ~, 49, N'.,,h',r So, ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-23
II VIII Cnnc.

The bolt will fall. There will be n terrible
crash. Fraud forgery. and perjury will not
always triumph. Before the autumn fros Is
We look for now revelations Of the way the
work was done in Louisiana.
Wcar' Informed that both Mr. HAYES and
the most Intelligent members Of hia Cabinet
are living in constant apprehension Of dis
closures in the light of which it would be-
morally impossible for thcm to continue to
hold Office.
Their fears are wcll-foundcd The con-
spiracy was too comprehensive to be perma-
ncntly successful. The secrets were in the
possession of too many to Ice securely kept.
Mr.. HAYES is in very weak position, and
Is likely to be in II worse one. With the
fraudulent character Of hi- election judi
cally estahl shot, and at the same time
threc-fourths Of the Republican party bit
teIly dissatisfied with him. how Is he going
e. get along? The Suuthcrncrs will junlset
him, and then vote against him toa man.
What Is he going to do when the crisis
comes as come il willy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-23
The Lamcntablc News.

To-day again THE SUN Is filled with as
toni-hing and melancholy news from Pitts
hurgh and other places IN which the rail-
road war is raging. The scenes at ptts-
burgh-scenes Of strife, bloodshed, inccn-
dlarism. popular fury, and official imlccility
arc such rs have never before been wit
no,scd in the Ulitod Statos-nut even dur
Ing the draft riots in this city fourteen
years ago.
The militia have been wrot,hcdly handled
AMI directed by the authorities Of at least
three ofthc disturbed States Pennsylvania.
Ohio. and Maryland. To send small body
OF Inexperienced militiamen to Pittsburgh
under the circumstances that then existed
thereto put them under an utterly incap-
able communicable set them firing in wild
and random way among the crowds that
filled the strcets-to leave them unsupported,
without re,nfurcemcnts, and under siege in
the railroad round house from Saturday TIL
they forced their way out and dccampcd
yesterday with heavy losses, suffered and
inilictcd-what could have been wOrse9 In
Baltimore, also, the management Of the
militia WAS dcplorahle; and at Newark and
other places in Ohio it was SO absurd that
there can be no wonder that many of them
refused to act against the strikers. The
Governors Of these States, as well as the
militia generals, coloncls and captains who
were sent TO the field. seem to
have all lost their heads and their senses.
As for the Governor Of West Virginia, he
found at the first that the four or five COM
panies of militia in his State were unserVlce-
able, and called on HAYES for Federal
troops.
The present troubles began with the rail-
road strike in West Virginia; but the
bloody fights in Baltimore and Pittsburgh
We're not with the railroad strikers. Both
Of them would have been avoided very
easily, had things been managed with skill
and good judgment Thus lar the strikers
themselves have had mo- direct conflict IN
any place, either with the regular troops or
the militia. We must also notice that the
strikers have done but little damage to the
property OF the railroads with which they
are at loggolheads. The tremendous de.
struc'ion 81 railroad property IN Pittsburgh
was the work Of the mob OF that city, filled
vi IA madness after the firing Of the militia
We are sorry 20 SEQ that some railroad
magnatcs take this moment to fulminat,
/ threats against tho strikers. This Is uC
/ time for such language as that in which
Receiver JEwErT Of the Erie Railway ha,
/ been indulging. Sensible means Of settling
tnr troubles that are paralyzing the great
railroad lines of the country, and producing
/ hloodshed and destruction, should now 10,
/ taken.
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figures show that II all the Democrats in
the Senate had voted against tho bill, 1t
would have failed in that branch Of the Leg
islaturc
The Democrats I'm tho Senate showed rare
magnanimity in saving this bill, 50 rs to
give 1t chance in the Assembly. Barely
tolcrablc i'm its apportiunmcnt for the SEN
ate II was glaringly unjust TO New York
aud Kings in the new allotment of Assem-
blymcn. 1t gave t'irm only eight more than
they already had, when they were certainly
entitled to twelve, and in a liberal bill might
have got thirteen or fourteen. However,
believing IL was the best they could get from
the Republicans half the Democrats in the
Senate voted for it, and advised thtirpolti-
cal friends In the Assembly to accept It for
the same reasons that had influenced them !;
and it subsequently turned out that good
many Democrats In the Assembly had deter
mined to pursue that codrsc.
Now, Republicans charge that Democrats
in the Assembly defeated the WooDIN bill.
and therefore have no right To complain that
the State vas not districtcd anew. The facts
explode this charge When the bill reached
the Assembly, it was Immediately referred
to the committee having this subject I'm
charge, of which ALvORD Of Onondaga and
lIOGEBOOM Of Columbia were the principal
members. Old Salt turned the matter over,
and finally ignored the WOODEN bill, and
then brought in one so UNANIMOUSLY I'M
fair to New York and Kings that 1t was at
first believed that not more than half the
Republicans in the Assembly could summon
cheek enough to give it their countenancc.
When 1t came up for debate, Mr.. PuRpy Of
Wcstchestcr tried to get the floor. so MS to
move to substitute WooptNs bill for Al
voRDs. But Oll Salt, 10y those pnrlia-
mentary tactics in which he IL an adept,
headed him of, declaring that 1.-THE major
ity on this floor do not believe In the WooD-
bc taken. But. said he, we intend TO pass
this bill, then have committee of confer
encr and fix upa bill that can be passed. and
which, We believe, will receive the approval
Of the Governor" OF course this declaration
was only plausible pretcnce. The ALvoRD
aud llOGEDOOM bill was swindle. For in
stance IL gave New York city only two adj
ditional members Of the Assembly, But it's
slippery authors finally carried il through
the House and then got their committee
of conference, which, after one meeting.
where they all acted as If they regarded
the whole thing as farce. final Disagree
ment was reported in the two Houses and
this was the end of that hypocritical dclu-
sion, tho WOODEN till.
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power TO make war at his own discretion, or
toprovoke u conflict which would end in war,
ma might be done any day in the week under
HAyEs's order. When newspapers like tho
World, which have heretofore profcsscd to
be shocked at Executive cxorbitancc and
could hardly find language strong enough
to dcnounce GRANT for his employment Of
the army, are found encouraging the Fraud
ulent President in II policy calculated, If not
intended, to bring on n war, suspicious are
naturally excited as to the causes Of such
n strange alliance.
Our people are too fresh from great civil
war to forget either lts cost or ts coIlsc-
qucnces. They have had enough Of thatlast
resort for at least one generation They are
now struggling through an unprecedented
financial crisis, which, in part at least, may
be- accounted IA one of the results Of that
bloody contest. Peace is the first condition
for any return to prosperity, which is only
to be achieved 10y labor, severe economy and
rctrcnchmcnt in all forms Of expenditure.
To the idle, adventurous, reckless, and
desperate war offers tho attraction Of cm-
ploymcnt and the supposed chance of bet
tcring bad condition. But the burdens
are now secretly conspirng to force a col
lisiun and leave no alternative but actual
war What compensation would the acqui-
siton Of the northern provinces of Mexico
offer for the blood and treasure that must be-
expended t. obtain thomy
Rings Of Spectators in silver mines land
grants and other Enterprises, might posi-
bly, be enriched by annexation. but the tax
payers would find themselves burdcncd with
an increased public debt, an homogeneous
population, and an expanded territory 10
govern, without the prospect Of any return
from il. This whole movement was started
with three objects: first, 10 divert attention
FROM the internal dscords Of the Repubi-
can party; see ndly. TO promote the mcr-
cenary schemes Of q combination organized
To spoliatc the territory of Mexico; and
thirdly. To promote the scheme Of subsidies
to TON SCOTT's Pacific Railroad. The times
are not prOpitious for such projects. and ali
three OF them will probably come to grief.
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Thc v ooAin Arroriionmont Elm.

To- o'' =" the charge thnt tho Republicans
In ih" H-t Legislature cou-pircd to defeat
an hon oWoriiOum.nt ~ tine state, some
Of their Journals point To- the Till that Mr.
WOODS carried through the Senate. That
bill allotted 10 Now York and Kings three
moro Senators than they nOw have. and
eight moro A--enbymen. This was a
mcagrc exhibition OF fair dealing toward
the Democrats. Nevertheless, ms the sen
ate districts in other parts Of the state were
arranged about a. literally "a could back
pected nom a Republican Legislature six
al the thirteen Democratic senators voted
ior WooDlN's bill on its final passage, and
thus saved 1t from defeat in that body. The
vote stood lcds, Republicans Il, Democrats
:, making total OF 20; nays, Republicans 8,
Democrats 7, making total Of u. These