Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-08
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS

Active preparations have commenced for
the next State Fair at Dayton. The business
men of the place join heartily in aid Of the
Committee.
From the 18th to the Iath of May, no less
than I066 Immigrants passed Coumhua on
the railroads, tie State Journal says mostly
for Missouri.
The Democracy of Ross Co, at their re-
cent County Convention declared themselves
in favor of Hon. lillian Allen for the Presi-
dency.
A dispatch to the Sandusky Register from
Mansfield says that a serious fire occurred there
on Friday afternoon. Five stables, the prop
erty of L. c. Northrop, NJ. L. Miller, j. P.
Rowley, L. B. Matson, Esq, and Mr.. Ilelde
man, were burned. Loss considerable, cause
unknown. A man named Baer was severely
injured by being accidentally struck in the face
with the pole of a fire hook.
On Saturday boy of seven years of age,
Oscar Chambers, died at Mt. Vernon, Of lock-
jaw, induced by an injury received on the Sat
urday previous in playing in company with
other boys, with the horse power of a threshng
machine.
A little daughter of Mr. D. w. Hazcetine
of Conneaut. aged two years, fell into pail of
boiling water few days ago, and survived but
day.
On Friday afternoon, the steamer Jacob
Strader, when near Oldhams landing, ran over
a skiff containing a young man by the name of
Gltner, his sister, Mrs. Jacob Grim, and her
daughter, about twelve years old, and all three
were drowned. 1t is almost impossible to ac-
count for this accident in any other way than
that the occupants of the skiff got frightened
and ceased rowing, otherwise they would have
passed clear Of the boat.-Cincinnatl CONNER
cial.
PUrRID SORE THEoAT.-This disease is be-
coming quite a serious thing in our town. 1t
rages most fearfully among children, for the
reason that the proper remedies cannot be so
easily applied to them.-Mtc-a-cteek Press.
A boy about ten years Of age named James
Alang, in Cincinnati, was so badly torn by
vicious hog recently, that his recovery is con-
sidered extremely doubtful.
The wife of the Rev. Mr.. Root, of Spring
field, Ohio, who recently eloped with Mr..
Brokaw, of that place, left a note (so says
the Republic) stating thar her husband had al
and that her reason for leaving him was, that
she did not consider herself fit to be minis
ters wife. This was candid, certainly. When
last seen she was at Montreal, in company
with her affinity
A MIsER COMMITS SrIeInE.-Geo w. Scott,
man worth 100000, committed suicide by
drowning in Toledo, last week.
1t appers that he had for some days been in
Il state of mind that caused uneasiness among
his friends, so that perpetual watch night and
day had been kept upon his outgoing and in
coming at the time, his second daue hter was
with him and caught him by the coat as he
was about TO make the fatal plunge but he
broke away from her and effected his object
He thought that he should be brought to want
and tue idea eliminated in his effecting self
destruction
The mania for elopement which seems to be
prevailing so extensively among wives as well
as spinsters, appears to be on the increase
The latest case is that of a fine looking woman
i'll Lorain Co, leaving her husband to follow
the fortunes of an OtheIo, with a very dark
skin, who had captivated her fancy. The
woman left her husband at night, while he !
was quietly sleeping, to accompany her sable
lover.
Miss Emeline Delligcr, an interesting and
handsome young lady, daughter of Mr.. Joseph |
DelInger, a respectable farmer of Lykina town
ship, Crawford Co., committed suicide on last |
Thursday evening, by taking strychnine. The
report is that she was engaged to be married
10 young man residing near Mansfield and
hat, being disappointed. she determined upon
;elf destruction