Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

Ep1ToRGAL CoxvENTIoN.-Thc Editorial Cou-
vention at Dayton, last year. Il adjourned to meet
at Tiilin on the 18th of J~Anutry, l560.
Tiiiip, if we remember rightly. is located in
Seneca county, somewhere near the head waters
of the raging Scioto; has a court house. post
Office, jail, blacksmith shop, some churches, a
c. supple Of live editors, and lots of pretty wo-
men. We hope every good looking edItns in
TtiIc StutC VIII be on hand, Ter peradvcntuTe
there will be a big time i'll Iifhn.-CU luaJu,
Gazette.
Durwin z. Elmer. in a fit # dependency
hung himself in Cleveland, on Tuesday last, al
his place of business, On Bank street. The de-
ceased was a silk merchant and came from Yer
mont. In his store room were goods valued nj
about 81 coo and OH his person was found
S245 and 81 cents in money. and notes on vari-
Gus persons to the amount Of some 5000. 1t ap-
! pears that he was a believer in the doctrine oil
the Latter Day Saints, or Mormons.
On the 4th inst, a COW belonging to Christian
Forney, of Warwick township, gave birth to
five calves, all Of ordinary size. Two of them
are vet living. When any of the ~neighboring
counties beat this, We should like to hear from
them.-Tuscarawas Advocate.
/ We learn by n private letter. that the Wash
.. 'gton Union Insurance Co, of Cleveland. has
fil,1 and made an assignment. The Cleveland
Mu.,i. Insurance Co. is also reported failed.
The Ia. ter has not done an insurance business
u IL 1 1 " NAi-1- ~ Ai7NAA ttAN IN NY AAGh1
long been re- rarisd as q rotten concern.
Mr.. Simon Ri. of Homer. Media county,
| was accidentally knl'ed a few days ago. He
was chopping down Il Il 20 in company with his
brother, which in falling lodged upon another.
bending it very much. On betnS struck with
an axe the bent tree Immediately ut up. and
striking Mr.. Rice on the side of the iIe"+. kill
ed him Instantly.
H beautiful and very promising hoy, Q years
old. son of Mr.. w. w. Clark, of the exchange
| bank. Toledo, fell on Friday morning from the
balustrade of the stair-ca in the Oliver House,
a distance of about 25 feet crushing his head so
badly that he soon expired. The little fellow
was sliding on the rail, and fell over.
PROBABLE SALE OF WITTENBERG CoLLEGE.-Thc
/ Springfield Republic says:
BY agreement between the Directors of Wit
tenberg College and the G. mInittee of the Pres
byt rian Synuds. the following named gentle
men met in this city on Wednesday of this week
to. fix IL valuation upon the Wittenberg Colleyse
property +: Judge Mitchell OF Fiqua O. T.
Cunditf, of Urbana Major r. Cowling, of Lon
don Rev ]. White, OF Cleveland; and Robert
at $40 900. 1t is proper to add, as stated by
| DR.. Sprecher at the City Hall, that neither par
/ ty is bound to anything by the arrangement.
A little daughter of James Connolly, of Gin
cinnati. was lurt to death ca Tuesday last dur
ing the temporary absence of its mother from
the house, by its clothes taking fire.
A FLouRlsHINa WESTERN RAILRoAD.-The
Cleveland. gainesville and Ashtahula Railroad
has made a half-yearly cash dividend Of 5 per
cent, and the managers also divide an extra
dividend of 5 per cent. in the bonds of the
company purchased with the surplus earnings
of the year lS59.-Boston Traveller.
The Fund Commissioner started for New
York with S225, 900 to pay the January inter
est on the debt of Ohio, last Wednesday. One
of the Commissioners, f. NJ. Wright, the State
Auditor. did not go. pressing business and the
approaching session of a new Legislature pre-
venting.
TREMENDOUS Havoc by EoGs. We learn that
on Tuesday night of last week Y. o. Humphrey,
ESQ, of Braceville, had 30 valuable sheep, out
of a 1ock of 10. destroyed by dogs, (his own
amongst the number, )-Warren Chronicle.
Big CArr1E.-Thrce oxen. weighing 5000
pounds each, were shipped at London, Madison
county, on the C. G.. & G. Railroad, for New
York. They were raised on the farm of Mr..
John bryant, of Fayette county, and are prob
ably the largest specimens of Ohio cattle ever
shipped from the State .--Columbus Statesman.
JAMES TURNER, Probate Judge of Union
county, died at his residence in Marysville on
the Goth inst. of typhoid fever.
ZANEsv1ELE, Dec. pa young man named
Thomas Conner, was killed Mt a drinking house
near Blandy's machine works. last night, by
being stabbed. He died instantly. Several
! arrests have been made.
MISUNDERSTANDING, mcmhcrs of both
branches of the Legislature have arrived in the
city, and selected quarters for the winter. We
noticed that staunch friend and eloquent advo-
cate of freedom, Senator Monroe, of Lorain,
yesterday also Senator Jones, of Delaware.
Col. Parsons, of Cuyhoga, il at the Mel House,
and many other distinguished lawmakers are
observable about the city.
A few hundred candidates are looming up,
with signs of more in the horizon. There are
twenty offices to fill in the two houses, ard each
county furnishes at least four candidates.
State journal, 29th.