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OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN

May 24, 1868

 

            The Waupaca Criterion says:

 

            Fires in the woods are occurring very frequently just at this season of the year. A large one broke out on the Ogdensburg road, several miles from Waupaca, by which a vast amount of fencing and other property was destroyed, in spite of the efforts made by the farmers, who fought the fire till they were exhausted.

           

            About eight hundred Pottawattomie Indians have assembled to hold council in order to decide the fate of the Indian who murdered his companion a short time since, both being intoxicated.  It is thought that they will shoot him.  The man who sold the whiskey, no doubt thoughtlessly, will have two lives to account for, when the final reckoning comes.

 

            A queer sale took place in the town of Larrabee the other day.  A certain married man having become tired of the state of matrimony, concluded to sell his wife to a single man who wanted her more than he did.  The papers were drawn up by a justice of the peace, and the bargain concluded according to law.

            The wife was sold for the large sum of ten cents.  The question is, who was sold?  Larrabee must be a good place for bashful young men in want of a wife.