Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-30
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

tumbus Gazette.
EVANSVILLE, Sept. 23-J. McNoble, of
Worthington, acting assistant Conductor on
the Wilmington and GAINESVILLE Road, while
collecting fares on the 9:45 train, on Thursday
evening, Of passengers on the roof of the cars,
was killed by striking against a bridge. His
body was found this morning.
AT the late National Fair In Chicago, the
first premium Of SIe0 for the best imported
Durham Bull was awarded to Clarke & Co.,
Springfield, Ohio; and the FIRST premium Of
500 for the best American Durham Bull, to
w. N. Chamberlain, Viena Roads, Ohio.
The Youngstown, Mahoning county Register
says: We notice that farmers are sowing
their wheat, and in larger quantities than usu-
al The impression prevails that dry summers
are followed by an abundant harvest the ensu-
ing season."
The Hon Joshua r. Giddings had his pock-
ct picked Of $50 at the Vermont State Fair at
Burlington last week The Burlington Free
Press says that a number of the gentlemen i'm
mediately subscribed the amount, and gave it
to him.
DHEGATEs.-The Methodist Conference last
week at Dayton, elected the following dele
gates to the General Conference
Rev. VIM. Mast, VIM. Young, j. F. Mitch
ell, N. Smith, Granville Moody, NJ. Marlay.
A VICTIM OF THE N. S. r. r. SLAUGHTER.
-Orrin Olmstead, a resident of Rootstown,
and an employee on the Inflated train that was
dashed to destruction on the Michigan South
ern Railroad, near South Bend, at midnight,
on June 9th last, returned home last week.
He has only recovered from the serious inju-
ries of that night of horror, sufficiently to be
brought home. He was one of the two worst
injured who survived.-RGuena Dem.
We learn from the Dayton Empire that Mr..
James Sisson, of Troy, Miami county, was
knocked down by two men on the track of the
Sandusky railroad, tire emileS from Dayton, on
Thursday evening, and stamped until he be-
came unconscious, and breaking two Of his ribs.
While in this condition they robbed him of
$50, and what else of value he had on his per-
son. There is no clue to the perpetrators of
this outrage.
The mothers of the Oberlin Sunday School
children have presented a sewing machine to
the wife of the Rev. J. w. Fitch, the Superin-
tendent of the School, who was imprisoned
for his participation in the Wellington Rescue
case.
FATAL REsULT.-It was reported that Mrs.
Henri, the old lady who was injured by the re-
cent accident on the G. G. & G. Railroad, is
in a much worse condition than was at first
supposed, and that her injuries are of such an
extent that but little hope is entertained for
her life.-Coiumbus Fact.
MANGLED BY A HoG.-A child of Mrs.
Henlen, about two years OLE, residing ON Fair
alley, sitting on a door step yesterday, was
seized by a large hog, dragged into the street
and severely injured before some boys, who no
ticed the act, could drive the Infatuated brute
away. One leg of the child was shoekingly
mangled, but no serious result is feared-Co-
tumbuS Statesman.
Mr.. Robert Stewart, the Treasurer of Fay
cite county, proves a defaulter to about So,
600. He is, of course, unable to account for
the deficit. The commissioners have appoint
ed Mr.. VIM. McElwain to take charge of the
empty Golfers.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says that a Ger
man named Frank Weiger, who boarded with
VIM. Benhoff of Dover, was killed by the lat
ter on Friday night last. Both men were of
bad character; and Benhoff believed Weiger
to have improper relations with his wife, who
before her marriage was the ~latter's mistress.
A Kentuckian merchant had his pocket
picked of $3.50, in Cincinnati, the other day.
He Immediately turned round and accused lac
cording to the Enquirer) one of the h~onestest
men in Cincinnati, of the theft.
A boy by the name of John Bonner, a pupil
of the Industrial School in this city, while on
his way from Brooklyn to that institution, in
company with several other boys, on yesterday
morning, stopped to get a few hickory nuts, and
while collecting them, a rotten limb upon which
he stood broke, and he fell some twenty feet to
the ground. When taken up he was so badly
bruised that he lived but a few moments. The
parents of the lad live in Brooklyn, north of
the Railroad.-Cleueland Dem
FINE ARTS AT THE STATE FAIR-There are
some tawdry and worthless articles which new
err should have had a place in this Hall, as it
is a misnomer to class them among the Fine
Arts. Not to put too fine a point upon it,
there is a pencil and ink representation of Ad-
am and Eve undergoing expulsion from Para
disc, and we can only say if they looked like
this they ought to have been expelled.-Zanes
UiUe Courier.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Al LEBANoN-A
WIFE DESTROYS HER OWN CHILD AND THEN
COMMITS SUICIDE.-We learned last night the
particulars of a terrible domestic tragedy
which occurred near Lebanon, Warren county,
on Saturday last, in which a wife deserted by
her drunken husband, poisoned her own child
and then destoyed herself. The story of our in
formant is as follows.
Richard Davis, a gardener, living near Leba-
non, having become dissipated, neglected his
family, and finally, on Friday last deserted
them, leaving them penniless to beg of a selfish
world or starve. The wife in despair sought
death rather than degradation. She admins
tered laudanum to her child, a little boy of
three years of age, and then took the remainder
herself.
On Sunday morning the neighbors found the
mother with the child in her arms, both stone
dead. They were Mortified, and as the news
spread the indignation towards the brutal hus-
band and unnatural father, grew ntense.-Cin
cinnati Gazette
13,26I pupils entered the Public Schools of
Cincinnati, the beginning of the present ses
sion. The number of teachers employed is
268.
The Treasurer of State has announced that
he is prepared to pay a dividend of eighty per
centum on the circulation of the Canal Bank
of Cleveland, and that he will issue a certificate
for the remaining twenty per cent.
On Monday, a man, named Joseph Barrioo,
brought before the Police Court at Cincin-
natl, charged with petty larceny. He was re- s
cognized as a convict, who escaped SOM time !
from the Ohio Penitentiary, and was
marched off to his old quarters. !
Miss Betsey Sanders, aged fifteen years, l
of Mr., John Sanders, of Peru, Huron c
county, was burned to death on the 18th while e
clothes. Her garments took fire from f