Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-16
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS
Spurious SIS on the Mahoning County bank,
Youngstown, are in circulation. They are
thus described " Vignette, five gold dollars,
three cupids, Indian princess on the left and
hunter on right of vignette, female portrait on
right end"
The Ohio Senate has unanimously passed
a bill prescribing the rates of taxation for
State purposes. The bill provides for
Increase of levy for General Revenue lilo
mill for one year only.
Increase of levy for Sinking Fund $40
mills for two years. and then 40 mills.
Reduction of School levy since last year
one-tenth of a mill, leaving the levy for the
next two years, one and four tenths of a mill.
1t is thought to be now certain that the
next National and Mechanical Fair will be
held at Cincinnati.
A young man of Dayton, Ohio, was married
one day last week in the morning, and in less
than ten hours thereafter was a corpse.
On the 25th ult., Mr.. jesse Tainter, aged
90 years, an old resident of Hartland, Huron
county, complained of feeling sick in his
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chair when he fell dead. .
SuIcIDE.-George Failor, a quiet, well off
farmer in Ravena township, Portage CO., hung
himself in his barn on Friday. No cause can
be assigned.
A poor, wretched woman, named Cathe-
cine Magrath, the mother of four children, and
whose husband has been absent from her
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Vernon, on q charge of killing her newly born
infant.
The Methodist Protestant Book Concern.
established at Springfield, is soon to be put in
active operation. Over $4,000. as we learn
from the Springfield News, have already been
subscribed, and is is proposed to continue
soliciting subscriptions, until the sum of at
least $4,000 is secured.
St. Joseph's church, of Cincinnati, has con-
tributed $Is5, and St. Augustines 1901 to
the Pope of Rome.
At Cincinnati, on Saturday, Abraham SIM
mons was fined $50 and costs, and sentenced
to 20 days Imprisonment, for carrying conceal
ed weapons.
William Kelly and wife have been senten-
ecu dL StcNcidllu ~ imprisonment III Lue L eu-
i~tentiary for life, for killing Rose OMAHA.
An effort is being made, with some prospect
of success, to have a fair at Evansville for Eas-
tern Ohio, as a rival Of the State Fair at Day
ton.-Monros County Democrat.
The Akron (Ohio) Beacon says that on the
2lst ult., Mrs. Ann Dumford, an Irish woman,
residing in Tallmadge, committed suicide by
drowning under vary singular circumstances.
She had recently given birth to an infant that
did not survive its birth, and the anguish that
she experienced as to the destiny of this I'M
baptized offspring drove her to insanity. She
left her bed at an early hour in the morning
and walked moro than a mile, bare-footed. over
the snow, frozen ground and ice, to the P. and
o. Canal, got a rail from a fence, broke q hole
the ice and plunged i'll. She was
tracked from the dwelling to the spot, and the
shawl floating in the hole indicated where the
body was to be found.
The farmers generally report the growing
crop as looking remarkably well. The
crop became well rooted in the Fall, and a
few days of warm Spring weather, will start it
to growing rapidly.-MarysuiNe Tribune.
PIGEoNs AT CoLUMBUs.-The Statesman of
Friday says the number of wild pigeon caught
in the county within the past few days is al
most incredible. One company of trappers
brought in three wagon loads at a time. The
Columbus market is flooded with them, and
thousands are shipped east.
An ANCIENT NEwsPAPER-The Scioto Ga
zette, published at Chilicothe, O., has entered
upon its sixty-first volume, having been es-
in 1900. From a little dingv, brown,
coarse, parchment-like sheet, it has grown in
size, become pure i'll color, until now it ranks
the frst-class newspapers of the day.
MARR1ED.-In Cleveland, on Wednesday,
March 7th, by Rev. j. B. Bittinger, Thomas
Brown, Esq, Editor of the Ohio Farmer, and
Miss Sarah Beardslee, daughter of David Ii.
Beardslee, Esq, of Cleveland.
Al Cleveland last week, a young woman
taken sick, and apparently died. The
body began to grow cold, and the pulse ceased
to beat, while upon the application of a look
ing-glass to the lips, no breath was pereepti-
The proper persons were sent for to lay
out the body, and on entering the chamber,
he dead ,roman 1cas discovered sitting up in
bed. At the first glance the whole party fled
>CtCdktSIilS lIOui Ii tOOlA, hiiu OLC SOuiiS ildti
away, Rcstoritives were applied and
The d" defunct +" is now in a fair way of return
ing to healthy existence.
A SAD ACCIDENTS WHILE SHOOTING PIGEONS.
BY a special dispatch from Monroeville we
learn the particulars of a distressing accident
occurred on the 18th inst, about three
miles from Plymouth. Two sons of Judge
Stewart, of New Haven, Huron county, named
Charles and Edward, one aged twenty-five
years and the other twenty years, were shoot
ing pigeons at a Ioost there, when a gun in
the hands of the elder was accidentally dis
charged within about six feet of Edward, the
younger, and the contents Of the gun passed
the back of his neck, mangling him
in a shocking manner. At last accounts he
alive, but his recovery is hopeless. The
elder brother is nearly frantic, and their pa
rents are heart-stricken with grief. The acct
dent cast a gloom over the entire community,
as the young men were highly regarded |
Sandusky Register.
A proposition was presented to the Legis-
lature. on Saturday; from R. II. Nugent, Hen
ry Miller and L. N. Robinson, to leases the en-
public works of the State for ten years,
assume all the repairs and supervision, subject
to the direction of the Board of Public Works,
and pay the State twenty thousand dollars a
year rent for the revenue which the lessee can
derive from the works the rate of toll not
to exceed the toll-sheet of 1858. and the
privilege of navigating the canals to be open
all.
An Artists Club has been formed in Cleve-
land of which VIM. Walcut is President. The
object of the Association is to cultivate a taste
for art, and a meeting will be held once a week
at the residence of members. At these meet
ings each member produces a sketch ~iIIustra-