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Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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im abig reception here. He was sadly disap-pointed, for, owing to the low stage of water,Lafayette could get no farther than Wheel-ing, twenty-two miles below, and so went bystage to Pittsburg, where father went to seehim. On meeting Lafayette he conversed with himupon the subject of raising wool in Jeffersoncounty, and the trouble they had of raisingsheep owing to the depredations of dogs.Lafayette told him that in France they had abreed of shepherd-dogs, very large, of greatsagacity, which were used in driving and pro-tecting their flocks. Old a country asFrance is, and strange as you may think it,said Lafayette, our mountains are infestedwith wolves which commit depredations uponour sheep. I will send you a pair for breed-ing. In due time they came, and werequite prolific. They were a noble species,white with generally goklen-hued spots ; re-sembled the English mastiff, and were foundextremely useful, but in time run out bymongrel associates. One of them one day followed my brother
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JEFFERSON COUNTY. 265 Alexander to market when a large, ferocious the bones were heard to crack. The master bull-dog, encouraged by his master, attacked of the bull then interfered. 4i No, said the him. The butchers formed a ring around others, we formed a ring to see fair play ; them expecting the bull-dog to conquer. He you set him on and now we will see it out. had seized the shepherd-dog by the throat. And they .did. The shepherd-dog had got his The skin there was tough, and so loose that spunk up, and they heard the crunching of the other was enabled to twist his head the bones, and quickly the bull-dog yielded around and grasp the bulls head, and soon up the ghost. I conclude these notes with some more reminiscences of the early clays ofEdwin Stanton, from Mr. John McCracken. Nothing is too small to narratethat illustrates the characteristics of that great man. I was a schoolmate with the Stanton boys, wherein the firm of G-ano, Thomas & Talbot, Edwin and his younger brother

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