Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
xrEms OF oaIo NEWS.


week from the sale Of eeuetry lots in Hills
borough, Ohio
Two Common School houses erected last
| year in Xenia, with lots and improvements, cost
slO.976 as. A tax of $4,000 was assessed
last year.
The Ohio Journal Of Edacation says "a
| Board of Directors in Franklin county was re-
| Gently fined Sl00 for refusing to admit to the
school under its charge, a boy who had come
| from another county to reside with his uncle.
! Their plea was that he had not been enunera-
ted. 1t was proven that the officer who took
| the census had refused to include him"
We learn from the Mt. Gilead Sentinel that
a nam named Peter Finefrock, living IN Coz
gres Township, Morrow county, committed su-
! icide on the 18th inst, by shooting himself ID
the breast With : gun He left a letter direct
| ed to his wife and friends, in which he stated
| that he had nothing against anybody. but ga~e
as a reason for the rash act, that he was tired
of living. He leaves q wife and one daughter.
The GAINESVILLE Aurora says that George
Sewers, a farmer who resided about enc mile
from the village at Rcseville, hung himself in
his own corn-crib on Sunday morning, 18th
inst. His body was found a few minutes after
death, hanging, with the toes about two inches
from the floor
The ina mediate cause Of this act is supposed
to have grown out of a lawsuit about a o (;
although he is reported as having made at
tempts upon his life SOM years aga.
LADY GRABcarEs.-At the late
ment of Oberiin College, twenty-five ladies
graduated, forming the largest feminine gradu-
ating class that has ever gone out from the H.
| stitution.
We learn tsat a man named Cyreneus Good
wick, from PainesTiIIe, in this State. was kill
ed on the Sanlusky, Mansfield and Newark
Railroad GA Wednesday. Mr.. GoOdwich was
standsHg on the platform of one of the cars
FROM which he fell while the train was in mo-
ton, the wheels assiag over his legs, killing
him almost instantly.
Preparations are n1W being made for on ex-
cursion trip to Put-in-3ay Island, on the 10th
of September, at which time the cornerstone
of Commodore perrys Monument will be laid
at Gibraltar Island on the opposite side. We
| learn that as a prelude to this celebration. the
citizens Of Sanduzky are arranging the prelim-
inaries of q contemplated regeta, to come of
Iii tLtc Day vi Vac Jill. L fGEE VIII NC q S4diIN
time during these two days.
The StGte Journa' Of Monday says a cana
boat lying at Columbus has ON board twenty
one slaves, manamitted by the will of then
late owner, Pleasant Burnett, Of Meckienburgf
county, Virginia. They are under the charge
of two gentlemen, who have selected lands in
Hardin county, near Kenton, for their loca,
ton.
Julius Freeman, a lad about 10 years old
fell in the Scioto, at the foot of State street, on
Wednesday afternoon last, and was drowned
He was found by his father about six O'Clock
next morning, in a standing position, tue upper
part of his head out Of water, and his hands
reaching upwards as though endcayoring to
catch hold of the wharf. Mr.. Freeman, the
father, is the engineer at Schlapp's Planning
machine shop, and his residence is at No. lis
Mound street.-Colunbus Gd-ette.
The GsHipczis Journal-Heretofore neutral,
has placed the Republican State Ticket at the
head ot it columns.
1t is estimated that about 10000 persons
visited a camp meeting in the neighborhood OF
Winchester, Prcbie county, on Sunday last.
Henry Weaver, Esq, has been elected Pres
ilent of ne Champaign Coanty Bank, vice S.
4. Wilslow, resigned.
A young man By the name of Cooper, a car
penter, vas killed in Marion the other day, by
the giving way of a scafIold on which he was
It work.
-s!Ax WErL,-The well in Capitol
Square is two thc>sard one hundred feet in
depth today. We should call that " running
it in tie ground" with q gengeEce.-Columbus
Fat Monday.
We regret TO learn that Judge Joseph r.
Swan positively refuses to allow his name to
so before the Republican, District Convention
for the Office Of Senator, his professional engage
ments being such that he could not serve in any
legislative capacity, even if elected columbus
Gdzate.
Fifty-four car loads of fat cattle were ship
ped eastward from London, Madison county,
during the month of August.
BLUE STEM WHgAr.-Mr. Thomas Hird, of
R~ockport, Cuyahogo comfy, always raises
good crops of the best varieties of wheat. A
sample Of Blue Stem lies before us that cannot
be excei!ed. The yield this year is twenty-five
bushels to the acre. Mr.. II. has raised for
twenty-five years a kind Of wheat which he
calls Beaver Dam, 1t is a winter wheat aud
bearde1. For twelve years previous to the
depreciation 3 Of the wccvil, its average yield
vas thirty bushels per acre,-Oi;o Farmer.
An OLD SErTLEF.-Dr. L. Go0dale, of Co
larnhus, stopped at the Angler last night. Mr..
Gooda,e enjoys the n~otoFiaty Of being the first
white boy born in the State of Ohio. He Ger
tainiy has cause 10 be proud Of his native land,
and Ohio las no ca;ss2 for shame for her eldest
son.-CleU@anR Lsu{er. Aug. q.
On Wednesday morning last, at Miamis-
hurgh, in this county. a woman by the name of
Miller poisoned herself. The cause assigned
was III treatment by her husband. She said
sic caa=li n It live with him in that way any
longer, and preferred death rather than live
with such & brnte,-Dayton Journal.
4 Gesp1rIie fight came of on the Railroad
track near Caledonia last week, between two
men nanta respectively Oaenbaugh and
Young. The cause of thu quarrel was a pint
flask, and beth were sail to have been drunk
at the time. They qlarreled as to which
should get the flask filed. They were seen to
fight two Or three different times, and soon af
ter Young was found with his skull badly
shattered. his nose broke, several of his teeth
knocked ont, and bleeding profusely. He was
removed to Caledonia, and his wounds dressed.
-Harion Republican.
Mr.. Huggens. an old citizen of Marion.
Marion county, was found dead in a field near
his house on Tuesday last. to which he had
gone to feed cattle. Cause supposed to be dis
ease of the heart.
Hon. Aaron Harlan, ex-M. c., has been
nominated for Representative by the Republi-
cans Of Greene county.
Two experts in the art of counterfeiting,
named John Sutclif at d Robert Warrax, were