Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-02
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

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The proprietor set the example by making
wrecks Of their fathers, brothers, and husbands.
A letter from the scene Of action says that the
ladies, after having on the afternoon of Friday
DESTROYED all the liqRor in the rooms above, on
Saturday morning . got into the cellar ami
opened every cask and keg. They said it was
astonishing to see what quantities he had on
hand-not only beer, but also of brandy and
whisky. They then went to the furnaces and
tore them up-knocked the copper kettles all
into smasll-tore up all the tubs and troughs,
and then went at the hops and malt. and turn
ed them all out Such a scene as the premi-
ses present just now, | never saw before>-
There IS a constant stream Of persons, coming
and going to see the ruins. Most of them
have glad faces, but some Of the ouStonaeTs
look rather sad-"-Toreh Light
The Chiliccthe Advertiser. and other Demo
cratic papers of the State, favor the nomiua-
ton of Hon. William Allen, for the Presiden-
cy.
A wild cat, Of tremendous size, was killed
in Skeen's woods, a few miles North OF ut.
Vernon on Thursday last, by Mr.. Richard Ar
mold, of this place, who was out cunning
When he noticed the animal, it was only a few
yards distant, slowly approaching with any
thing but a friendly eountenance. Taking a
d" good sight " AIR. Arnold shot the animal in
the ear and brought it down nstauter.-M
Fernan Banner.
Horse-thieves seem to have selected Union,
in Montgomery county, for carrying on their
work. -Four horses were stolen in that vicinity
last week. Two of them have been subse-
quently recovered.
The Scioto Gazette SAYS that in Liberty
Township, of Ross County, the Democratic
Judges of the election received the votes of
three or four white men who have a very Is WIS.,
ible admixture of African blood, "in their
veins" Ali thcse votes were cast for the DEM
ocratic ticket, s ate and County.
A son of Mir Weatherwax, Of Portsmouth,
o., had his leg shattered on Thursday, by the
accidental discharge of a gun. The limb was
amputated, but the bleeding could not be ar
rested, and the poor boy died shortly after the
operation. He was about II years of age
The Tribune says that is the fourth accidental
death it has chronicled within a week.
Potatoes are selling in great abundance III
Newark, Ohio, at 25cts per bushel.
The rotunda of the State House at CoIum-
bus is nearly finished. and it is announced that
the whole work will be completed in a month.
1t has already been prolonged cor all uncon-
scionably long time.
The Lebanon Star gives a sad case of early
deprayity iu a couple of children in Lebanon.
1t says Two little girls, aged respectively, s
and 10 years, have been seen drunk and stag
gering about the streets almost every day for
the last week, while their mother was lying
drunk at home. This is rather a sad state Of
affairs for the moral town of Lebanon, as well
as shocking to humanity, Is it not the duty
of the moral guardians of cur town to see to
these things!'
A little son Of Mr.. Joseph Thompson, of
Morris township, Washington county, met with
a horrible death, the other day. Dir. T. had
been TO the funeral of a child in Ga een county,
which was burned 10 death, and while relating
the circumstances to bis wife Oh his return,
his little son left the house. He was sought
for Il few minutes later, and found lying in
the swiil tub with life extinct. The tub was
sunk in the ground, so that its edge was on a
level with the surface. and the child, in endei-
voring To raise some slop from it for the pigs,
lost bis balance, and fell in, with the result sta
ted.
Died, a: Findlay O., on The evening of the
Sd instant, Of lingering Illness, Mrs. IL. l..
| Spear, wife of the editor Of the Jeffarscriaa,
and daughter of Knowles Linnel, of Granville,
Ohio, aged about fcrty-one years and nine
months.
Love JE LITTLE, Low NE LosG.'-lnD Do
yer township. on Saturday, George Little was
married TO Sarah Long.-Clereland Phin-
dealer.
The Commercial says that Edmund Dexter,
Eeq.. of Cincinnati received on Thursday last,
eight of the largest mirrors ever manufactured
designed for his palat;al residence, corner Of
Fourth and Broadway, for which be paid the
snug little sun of $4,000
Mons HANDs.-The Sheriff of Cuyahoga
Go, brought seventeen convicts to the Fcni-
Tertiary yesterday, and will bring twenty more
next week. Cleveland is trying 10 equal Gin
cinnati in striped representatives Of domestic
institutions.-CoL. Jour. &c.
The scarlet fever is prevailing at Sidney and
Bellf1untaine. On Tuesday last. the Union
School, in Sidney, was closed, in consequence
Of its prevalence in town.
pIAiE VI trL"S-- bC St%le- Ot1ltOTCS erect
will take possession of their respective depart
ncnts upon the following dates VIM. Dcnni-
son, Jr., Governor; Robt. Kirk, Lieut.. Cover
nor \. z. Stone, Treasurer (re-e!ccted), and
\. P. Russell, Secretary (re-e!rcted), on the
second Monday in january, aud hold them for
two years.
Arson Smyib, School Commissioner, ire
elected. on The 9th Of February. for three
years-Sate Journal.
MANSFIELD. Nov. pa gcntlenaniy APP
pearing man, about six feet high, with black
hair and heavy whiskcrs. protesting to be a
horse buyer, succeeded in passing in this place
Oh Friday last, a number Of counterfeit fifty
and one hundred dollar bills on the Philadel-
phia Bank. OPERATOR.
Mr. Jonathan Davis has favored us with u
specimen of the Sorguin Syrup which he has
been IN mfacturing this season. 1t is n good
Enthusiastically free from the peculiar fla
yor which the Syrup has when manufactured
from juice not perfectly filtered. Mr.. Davis
reports as the product of a quarter Of an acre
eighty gallohs-a very large aud profitable
yicid-Ienia Torch Light.
The Mansfield Herald re, orls a fatal acct
dent which occurred near that place, Wednes-
day Of last week. Alexander Morchead, a
promising and intelligent lad of fourteen years
of age, met with his death in a very singular
manner. from the kick of q horse. lie had
just returned from school, and went TO the barn
where his uncle, M'Cabon Morchead was. As
the boy passed where the horses were, he strok-
ed one of them, and spoke to it, As he did so,
the horse kicked him in the abdomen. He was
so severely injured that he died on the follow