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 SHEBOYGAN 604,531 bushels of wheat, 93,165 of rye, 75,198 of Indian corn, 418,083 of oats, 56,767 of bar- ley, 21,810 of buckwheat, 138,786 of potatoes, 96,984 of peas and beans, 39,351 tons of hay, 127,241 Ibs. of wool, 710,010 of butter, 120,005 of cheese, 31,954 of hops, and 25,522 of maple sugar. There were 6,403 horses, 10,487 milch cows, 11,322 other cattle, 31,734 sheep, and 8,977 swine; 7 manufactories of agricultural implements, 9 of carriages and wagons, 8 of cheese, 41 of cooperage, 9 of furniture, 4 of iron castings, 1 of railroad cars, 3 of wood work, 2 of woollen goods, 10 breweries, 7 brick yards, 5 tanneries, 12 flour mills, and 12 saw mills. Capital, Sheboygan. SHEBOYGAN, a city and the capital of She- boygan co., Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Sheboygan river, 52 m. N. of Milwaukee; pop. in 1870, 5,310; in 1875, 6,828. It has a good harbor, and ships annual- ly to Buffalo about 500,000 bushels of wheat. It is on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and West- ern railroad, and is the E. terminus of the She- boygan and Fond du Lac railroad. It contains two extensive chair factories, besides 52 other manufacturing establishments of various kinds. It has one national and one private bank, a high school and other public schools, three weekly newspapers (one German), and ten churches. It was first settled in 1836. SHECHEM, a city of ancient Palestine, called also Sichem, Sychem, and Sychar, 30 m. N. of Jerusalem, on or near the site of the mod- ern Nablus. The allusions to it in the Old Testament are numerous. Abraham wor- shipped under an oak near Shechem on his first visit to the land of promise ; Jacob encamped near it, and the defilement of his daughter Dinah by the son of the local chieftain led to the capture of the place and slaughter of all the male inhabitants by his sons Simeon and Levi. After the conquest of Palestine She- chem was assigned to the Levites and became a city of refuge; the bones of Joseph were buried here in the field purchased by his fa- ther from Hamor ; hither Joshua assembled the tribes to hear his last counsels. After the death of Gideon, his illegitimate son Abime- lech induced the Shechemites to revolt and make him their king. Three years later they expelled him, and he destroyed the city ; but it was soon rebuilt, and the reign of Reho- boam was here inaugurated. Here the ten tribes renounced their allegiance to the house of David, and chose for their king Jeroboam, who made the city his capital. After the cap- tivity Shechem became the chief seat of Sa- maritan worship, and remained such until its destruction by Vespasian, after which it was rebuilt and called Neapolis. (See NABLUS.) SHEDD, William Greenongh Thtyer, an Ameri- can clergyman, born in Acton, Mass., June 21, 1820. He graduated at the university of Ver- mont in 1839, and at Andover theological seminary in 1843, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Brandon, Vt., in SHEEP 880 1844. In 1845 he became professor of English literature in the university of Vermont, in 1852 of homiletics in Auburn theological seminary, and in 1854 of church history in the Andover theological seminary. In 1862 he was installed as associate pastor of the Brick church (Pres- byterian) in New York, resigned in 1863, and became professor of Biblical literature in the Union theological seminary, and in 1874 of doctrinal theology. He has published " Out- lines of a System of Rhetoric," from the Ger- man of F. Theremin (12mo, New York, 1850); " Lectures upon the Philosophy of History " (Andover, 1856); "Discourses and Essays" (Andover, 1856); "A Manual of Church His- tory," from the German of II. E. F. Guericke (8vo, Andover and Edinburgh, 1857); "A History of the Christian Doctrine " (2 vols., New York, 1863) ; " Homiletics and Pastoral Theology " (1867) ; and " Sermons to the Nat- ural Man " (1871). Prof. Shedd has also ed- ited the works of Coleridge (7 vols. 12mo, New York, 1853), " The Confessions of Augustine," with an introductory essay (Andover, 1860), and the Gospel of Mark in vol. ii. of the trans- lation of Lange's commentary; and has con- tributed an introduction to Asbury's transla- tion of Ackermann's work on the Christian element in Plato, and to the American edition of McCosh's " Intuitions of the Mind." SHEE, Sir Martin Archer, an English painter, born in Dublin, Dec. 23, 1770, died in Brighton, Aug. 19, 1850. He studied painting in Dublin under F. R. West, and at the age of 16 was a successful portrait painter. In 1788 he went to London, and became a pupil in the royal academy, to the exhibition of which he con- tributed his first pictures in 1789. In 1798 he was chosen an associate, and in 1800 a member of the royal academy, and in 1830 he became president and was knighted. Shortly before his death he was granted a pension of 200, with succession to his daughters. He published two parts of a poem entitled " Rhymes on Art " (1805, 1809) ; " The Commemoration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems " (1814) ; "Alasco," a tragedy (1824); " Oldcourt," a novel (1829) ; and " Outline of a Plan for the National Encouragement of Historical Paint- ing " (1837). His life has been written by his son (2 vols., London, 1860). SHEEAHS. See SHIAHS. SHEEP, a hollow-horned, wool-bearing, ru- minating animal, of the genus ovis (Linn.). The genus is characterized by horns common to both sexes in the wild state (though some- times wanting in the females), large, angular, transversely wrinkled, yellowish brown, curved backward, laterally, and spirally, the tip coming forward, and with a porous bony axis ; arched forehead, distinct lachrymal sinus, and hairy muzzle ; absence of inguinal pores and of beard under the chin ; two mammae, small ears, slen- der legs, and short tail ; and hair of two kinds, one woolly, the other exterior, closer, and harsher. In a domesticated state the wool