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OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN

November 26, 1868

 

From Weyauwega

 

Correspondence of the Daily Northwestern.

                                                                                                WEYAUWEGA, Nov. 23, 1868

            MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE – R.C. Blanchard, residing at Stevens Point, an extensive dealer in furniture, left his home to spend a few weeks at the East, in the month of September last.  While there, he wrote to his family frequently, stating that he should return by the 20^th ult.  The time came, but Mr. Blanchard did not make his appearance.  After waiting many long weary days, his family wrote to his friends at the East.  The response came that he had left for his home some considerable time before.  Mrs. Blanchard now became alarmed, and began to make enquiries, and on visiting the stage office at Stevens Point found his trunk had been there for three weeks.  In following the matter up, it was found that the missing man on a certain day took passage on the steamer Tigress at Oshkosh, for Gills; that he had paid his passage through to the Point; that he was seen and spoken with at Winneconne, after which all trace of him was lost.  The inferences are that he either left the boat at the point last mentioned, or fell overboard unseen between there and Gills Landing.  He was a sober, industrious and prompt businessman.  Careful examination of the banks of the river from Gills down stream have been made without any satisfactory results.

            Peter Meiklejohn, an eccentric democrat of Weyauwega, recently made arrangements to start a paper here, to be called the Guerilla.  The defeat of Seymour and Blair was a dead shot on the enterprise.

            “The best laid schemes of mice and men,

                                Aft glang agley”

            On Sunday last, about midday, the residence of J. Fordyce, Esq. At Weyauwega caught fire from defective flues, and was only saved by the daring efforts of the crowd.

            As a precaution against fire and burglars, Weyauwega has appointed a night watch.