Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-06
xrxaEs OF ouo Mxws.

urday last at a saw mill, near Oeeola, recently
bought by Mr.. Holler. A son of Mr.. Hoiiers,
a young man about 20 years was attending the
mill. He had a log on the carriage. propped
! by a block, while he was arranging something
aboat It, he being inside of the carriage, the
prop of the log fell out, and the log rolled over
/ catching his legs and rolled up to his waist,
crushing him in a fearful manner and causing
| almost instant death-B~eyrus Forum.
On Friday last, near Polktown, a man was
I run over by the Express train on the Little
Mama Railroad, and instantly killed. De
ceased was walking up the right hand track,
| and stepped to the left hand in order to avoid
a construction train coming up behind him.
At that instant the express train, driving down
at the rate of thirty miles per hour, dashed
down upon him and knocked out his brains
The Dayton Gasate speaking Of the Scarlet
Fever, says "the following deaths occurred ia
the family of John b Gebhart, 3 miles east of
Miamisburg. and shows how fatal this disease
sometimes proves in families: On February
IL, 1859, VIM. NJ. Gebhart, Z years old. On
the I4th, Mary L. Gebbart, 2 years old. On
the 18th, Nathan J. Cebhart, 5 years old. On
the 18th, George A. Gebhart, IL years old"
The Coshocton Age, of the 27th inst, states
that Mr.. John Miller, residing about four miles
from the county seat, was killed On Tuesday
afternoon, while driving some cattle from the
railroad track. He had succeeded in getting
the cattle from the track, but the train causing
a stampede among them, they forced hiza upon
the track and the train ran over him, cutting
of both legs and killing him instantly.
Our old Eiead, q. H. b. Baird, writing from
Rockville, Adams county, Ohio, says that
Wheat looks well, fruit safe yet, peaches in
Mr.. J: Loughrey's orchard are all right"
The orchard of Mr.. Loughrey. in Adams
county, is one of the largest in the West, and
during the past ten years has failed but twice
in giving a large yield. The profits on the
orchard for 1858 were S10,000.-Sate Jour
nal.
HAY.-Hay is nov selling in this market at
eighteen dollars = tea and poor at that A
scientific gentleman Of much experience in
feeding, states that there is very little substance
in il, and believes that it was injured previous
to cutting, by the rust. Stock which have
been fed literally on hay during the winter are
now looking poor with hide-bound coats.-Co-
lunabus Fact. -r m
We learn from the Eaton Register that on
Wednesday morning Of last week, Mrs. Eliza
beth Grouse a highly respectable widow lady
of that place, committed suicide by hanging
herself. Her mind is thought to have been af-
| fected, as no other reason can be assigned for
her act.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN CosHocToN COUNTY
tn Progressive Age says that Mr.. John Mil
Ter was killed by the lightning train on Tuesday,
NJ az that place. He was driving some cattle
from the track, to keep them from being injured,
but they in their fright, faced him back upon
che track, when the train passed over him, cut
ting off both his legs and killing him instantly.
He was an old and respected citizen, with a
large famiis.
The Supreme Court has granted writs of
error in the cases of james Burns, sentenced
to be hung May 9th for the murder of Mich
ael Burke in Cincinnati, and Charles Cook
and Joseph Setter now in the penitentiary for
the murder of Kate Bureau.
| The late grand jury of Colnmbiana county,
o., found an Indictment against the Rev.
Charles G. A. Brondt, for forging the name of
Philip Elsass on a note for twenty-five dollars,
and for passing the same to John Raber, of
Canton.
The Ashtabula SeRtinel says the wheat crop
in that vicinity never looked more promising
at this season than now. Very few fields have
suffered injury from the winter kill. The
growth is luxuriant and a large breadth of
land is sown.
Three ofShe Wellington rescuers have given
bail for each other in the sum of $500 each at
the United States Court and thus let them
selves out of Jail. They are Lorain Wadsworth
Daniel Williams and Eli Boice.
SINGULAR MovEMENT.-The Directors of
the Ironton Railroad Company have advertised
that they will not receive as freight upon the
Iron railroad, any kinds of spirituous liquors
ever ale or beer.-Portsmoeah Trib.
The proprietors of the Gibson House, Gin
~cinnati, have imported two hundred tons of
Lake Superior ice for the use of that hotel du-
ring the hot season. The Jumps are twenty
two inches thick and clear as crystals.
A child of Thomas Dailay's at Portsmouth
aged four years, on Monday, fell from a wood
pile on which it was playing. A large stick
rolling upoa its neck broke it, killing in III
stantly.
J.B. Marshall, of the Columbus Fact, pro-
poses to publish a new weekly paper in Colum-
bus to be called the Peoples Press. 1t is to be
devoted to @Stephen A. Douglas as its first
choice for President"
EVANSVILLE, May 2-Hon. Thos- IL. Drake
was drowned yesterday noon. It is supposed
he committed suicide, as he has been deranged
for several weeks.
Wallace, the Chillicothe murderer, has not
been arrested. His father is a man of great
wealth, and it is supposed the jailor was bribed
to permit his escape.
The Eaton Democrat has gone dead
Gould, the editor, ave the Democracy of Pre-
bic a parting fire as he went under, which was
not very fattering to them in any sense
Two bullocks were recently sold in Fayette
county, Ohio, which weighed 4,530fbs. They
brought the owner 1920 so, at So perhundred.
Raising such stock must be profitable,
SHEEP KnLED-Mr. Hunt, of Clark coun-
ty, had one hundred sheep killed, by worthless
dogs, on the night of the 23d inst. The sheep
were valued at five hundred dollars.
Ore resembling silver has recently been dis
covered by a returned Californian in a hill on
the bank of the Tuscarawas, opposite West
Lafayette, Coshocton county.
At Urbana a man calling himself Charles
Converse, was arrested on Monday by Mar
shall Jones, on a charge of passing counterfeit
coin
Mr. Jones, the Ohio sculptor, is in Sandusky
on the subject of preparing a plan of the Perry
Monument to be erected at Put-in-Bay.
The receipts of the city of Columbus during
the past year from all sources were $79,132 SO;
and the expenditures, $64,713 %.
Flowing is said to be out of the question in
Fayette county, on account of the wet condi-
ton of the ground.