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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 463
floating on azure clouds. The orchestra throbbed out its most entrancing
Strauss. Mr. Carrington Avaltzed divinely. Who would have thought
that that silent forbidding looking man could waltz. Daisy AVIIS SO
exquisitely fair, so every Avay beautiful that the city stranger ladies
envied her. They looked mockingly sideAvays at her.
" ' "That is the little country girl we have heard about," ' they said
to one another scornfully. And several youths who had glared savagely
at each other in a vain jealousy all Winter, began to shake their head
and to murmur that she AVIIS too pretty to be good. Of all these evil
omens about her Daisy was for the moment blissfully unconscious. She
had her Avaltz with Mr. Carrington. After that it seemed right that she
should walk with him into the conservatory. They rested for a moment
beneath the boughs of an enormous tropical tree. They Avere alone.
All Hie rest of the company Avere dancing or at supper.
" 'A pale Avhite lantern sAvung from a bough over their heads.
" 'Daisy looked very lovely by the light of that calm moonlight blaze.
Then Mr. Carrington AVIIS standing so near her. Then; AVIIS a IICAV
strange magnetism to the air. It glided hetAveen the tAvo Avith an irresistible
attraction. Daisy sAvayed. She AVIIS dizzy. Mr. Carrington s
arm passed around her, and there without one thought of the proprieties
of the occasion the IAVO melted into one kiss.'"
August Mueller settled here in 1835. His name Arould long have
faded from memory had not a rather peculiar incident occurred which
kept it alive. Sandusky fifty years ago afforded an excellent pasture
ground, not only for old Foreman's sheep, but for a number of cows.
that in a go-as-you-please Avay, found food and Avater, shelter and shade
among the hazel bushes of the village. Mueller Avas the proud possessor
of a COAV, but it AVIIS a great chagrin to him that his COAV returned dry
repeatedly, in the evening. A kind-hearted neighbor enlightened him
that in all probability some one procured the precious lacteal fluid
Avithout consent. Whether our friend August in his younger days had
read Cooper's " Lederstriimpf"' and the "Last of the Mohicans" or not.
Ave leave this an open question. He started on his warpath, the scalping
knife in bis pocket, anfl Avended his AVIIV through the bushes on
hands and feet, and there sat the perpetrator of all his misery, leisurely
abstracting the precious fluid. One Avanvhoop. one jump and he had him
by the car. one cut and he had the trophy in his hands. His friends
persuaded him. as he apparently AVIIS not conscious of the enormity of
the crime, to take.passage on a boat that AVIIS ready to leave for Buffalo
on the next morning. Between the IAVO ports he Avorked on shipboard
for nearly tAvo years, but never allowed his feet to touch the soil of
this city, except under cover of night. He subsequently moved to
St. Louis. His victim. Lemon, minus one ear, died years ago in
Sandusky.
The effect of this transaction AVIIS to ear-lt'iiioniitc the thief.
On the 1st of February. 1914, the Register contained a biographical
sketch of George R. Peck, the fourth vice president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Compiirry-^who AVIIS born July 10, 1858, at Sandusky.