Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-28
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

TIN ire al WcllsvilIc, on Friday night last.
dsireyci ten dwellings, and three or four sta
hcS, and Fosrteen thousand dollars ef property
The lnss Of property. on account Of us central
location and business character, is a severe
blow to the town. This As the third TIRE IN
Welisrille within three months The citizens,
INCLUDING the ladies, worked very hard TO pre-
vent the spread of the condagration, and this,
in all probability. prevented Il much greater
loss.
ACctpExTAL DEATHs.-We learn from the
Mt Vernon Banner that Mrs. Mary Miller,
mother of a prominent citizen of the place was
burned to death, d few days since. The flames
communicated frcm an open stove TO her dress,
and being alone, and very old and infirm could
not help herself A domestic arrived too
late to save her from being fatally burned
She was in her 98th year at the time of her
death.
The same paper states that DIR. Henry Ly-
barger, of Howard township, was found dead
in an orchard, under circumstances which indl-
Gated accidental shooting.
Deputy United States Marshal Geo. ST.
Baker has been bound over at Chillicothe in
the sum IF 81, 900 for kidnapping anderson.
His accomp'ice, Harter, has been arrested, and
be plead guilty. and was bound over in the
same amount.
Kansas seems destined to have a very deter
mined population. A family started from
1AshtabuIa, Ohio, last week, on a little stern
wheel boat, propelled by hand, for Kansas
by way Of the lake, the Erie Extension Canal
the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
ARTEsIAx WEIL--11e work upon the well
has been suspended because the appropriation
has been expended. 1t is 2,340 feet deep, near
" half a milc.-CR. Gas.
The Cincinnati Price Current publishes the
Assessors returns of Hogs six months old on
the LIST of April. 1859. in fifty-six counties
They show a marked falling eff as compared
with last year. The total in f~fty-six %counties
in 1858 was, ,G5l $50. In 1859, 1852, 652
Decrease this var, IsS.s1s-
The pubIicatio on of the Dayton Daily Gazette
has been discontinued. Cause want of sup
port.
DISTRESSING AccIDExT.-An interesting
little girl, aged about two years, daughter 81
John SlIaek. died on Monday last. from the
effect 6fswsl Iowing a portion of SUI phuric acid
which it found on a table in a neighhor's
house. All efforts to save the child were futile
1t fingered for a few hours in agony, and Their
died.AMdn$fed Herald.
Thomas Melvin, an Irishnlan, aged abont &c
years, of a notorious, vicious disposition, killed
his wife yesterday, at Chillicothe. BY 'stabbinQ
her in the side with a sharp poker The poker
entered just under the shoulder blade, piercing
her heart ; she ran into the street, about thirty
| feet, and fell dead. Melvin was arrested i'm
mediate!y aud lodged in jail.
A riot occurred near Barncsyillr, o. few
DAYS ago, in which about one hundred mer
were engaged. ono man was. shot and another
badly hurt. A descent was made on a place.
of resort for bad women, and the disgracefu
and fatal scenes usual on such occasions wer'
| enacted. &
MoxEY FOR UNKNOWN HEIRs.-A portion 0
the estate of Zachariah O.. Austin, who recent
ly died in Ohio county, KY, has been place.
in the hands of H.. d. Taylor, of Hartford, KY,
fer the unknown heirs of Hezekiah Austin ant
Elizabeth, his wife, Charles Thrift and Kesiah
his wife, Archibald 0rfutt and Jane, his wife
which will be distributed to said heirs OF
such of them as shall make satisfactory proof O
heirship and identity to Mr. Taylor. d
The FIGURING Mill of Abram Plank, east o.
Wooster, was burned by an incendiary on tho
night of the 18th. Loss Sc, 1000, and no insur-
ance.
Two horses were killed in this city on Sat
| urdav, by over c~xertion. One was the proper
tv of a drayman, whose name we did not learn
and the other was a fine black mare valncd nj
$40. and owned by Messrs. Barber s. Merton
Columbus Fat.
A son of Rudolph 'Sussiger, living three
miles from Clarington, Monroe county, killed
himself on Saturday week. He was blowing
in the muzzle of a gun and it fred off, discharg-
ing the contents in his mouth.
An 0LD FREHCHMAN kILED.-John Roup
an intoxicated wood-chopper, was killed Oh
the Cleveland road, a short distance northeast
of the city, Saturday evening. He was walk
ing on the track in company with his som
Tn latter being some distance in advance OF
his father, heard the train coming round the
curve and left the track. Looking behind him
as the train passed he was just in time to see
the old man dashed to pieces by the train
Columbus Fact.
There are ffty-fve divorce eases pending on
the Common Pleas Court Docket of Cuyahoga
Co. for November term, 1859.
The BURNING WEIL.-In accordance with
our suggestion, rs we learn from the Plvmoth
Advertiser, Mr.. Peter White, on whose farm
is the burning well, mentioned in Tn Herald
of a few weeks since, has had a pipe adjusted
in the well, and the gas conveyed into the
house. 1t burns brilliantly, and We under
stand that it is his intention, if the supply con-
.tinues, to have the different rooms of his house
lighted Observation-Disclosures Herald.