Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-27

/ on Wednesday by the Express train the
/ Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railroad, about four
| mi.ts below Lagrange. He was noticed walk
/ ing leisurely dow n the track, and all the usual
| signals of danger were given to alarm him, but
| from drowsincss or stupidity he merely looked
/ back moment and continued his course
| The train could not be checked up in time and
the cow-catcher struck him on the head, kill
! ing him instantly.
The Ohio Penitentiary is now crowded with
963 conyicts, and no less than 79 are life pris-
oners. Pity we have no Van Dieman's land
| TO transport prisoners TO- transportation,
/ English fashion. would be infinitely better
for convicts and the country. than cooping
/ them up in stone walls for years or for life.
! WooI. IN HARRISON CoUNTY-After our
last weakly review, new buyers entered the
market and prices were well sustained. The
amount of sales the past week would sum up
/ 900 ths at prices ranging from 48 to 55
cts. per pound. The total clip of this county,
amounting to 100000 lbs, is nearly all sold,
averaging about 80 cts. per pound. Throwing
into circulation in our county the handsome
sum of S250,000.- Cadiz Sentinel
| CONFERENCE TINE CHANGED.-The Cincn-
natl Conference will meet September 5th in
stead of September 18th; the Ohio, September
! 9th instead of September 26th.-f Methodist
! Christian Advocate.
| NorEs.-At the Cincinnati Preachers
! Meeting. July 10th, President Allyn presented
the following
/ Resolved, That the use of notes by preach
er is injurious TO himself, and uninteresting
and Improbable to his congregation.
! The question lies over for discussion The
| feeling among the Cincinnati preachers is we
! should judge, general thing, opposed to
| the use of notes of any kind long or short, in
the pulpit Methodist Christian Advocate.
/ The population of Mt. Vernon, as ascertain
| by the Assistant Marshal for taking the CEN
sus is 4,283. an increase of about 500 since
! 1850.
4 man named Shurts, aged 90 years, was
drowned while bathing in the Muskingum riv-
er, near GAINESVILLE, on Saturday evening.
In taking the census in Knox county, Mr..
Harper, the Assistant Marshal found many
very old people Among the rest the follow
! ing: Mrs. Hannah Coleman, born in Virgin
| 10, q resident of Mt. Vernon for 80 years, age
| 50; Mrs. Phoebe Mitchell, now hale and
! hearty, aged 81 years; Mrs. Abigail Stockwell,
also in the enjoyment of good health aged 95
years. The two latter were born in New Jer-
ey.
VIM. H. Stafford, of Chillcothe, the Demo
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor last
fall, has pronounced for Breekinridge.
Mr.. Geo. Stewart, accidently shot on Son
day, while hunting at Rockport, Cuyahoga
county, died of his wounds on Monday. He
leaves wife and three children.
\ gentleman name unknown, had his pock-
ct picked at the Depot of Cincinnati Hamil-
ton & Dayton Railroad, Cincinnati, last week,
of $4,000 i'll cash
PERsoSAI.-Hon. Thomas Ford of Ohio,
Congressional printer, is said to be in bad
state of health. Mr.. Ford has gone to Boston
for medical advice.
Knox County PRoDrcrs FOR l859.-1he
following shows the number Of acres Of the diff
ferent kinds of grain sown or planted in K nox
county in 1859 and the product: Wheat 2l,-
672 acres, produce 81 ,586 bushels; corn 38,-
3S3 acres, produce 803,0l7 bushesls; rye 3,053
acres pr&duce 1884 bushels; barley 500
acres produce 1864 bushels: buckwheat 1859
acres produce So, COS bushels: oats 9,727
acres produce 22s-5I7 bushels Number of
acres in meadow s. .435 product in hay T.
1872 tons.
Mrs. Brown. wife Of Mr.. Nelson Brown re-
siding between Norwak and Miian and Il SON.
a lad, were thrown from a buggy, on Friday
last, and so badly Injured that the latter died
in about half an hour after the accident, ard
Mrs. B. the Reflector learns, was not expect
ed TO survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Fuller celebrated their Gold
en- Wedding on the / 9th inst, in Strongville
Cuyah0ga county, in this State
On Friday night last during thunder
Storm two men were killed by lightning near
Loudonville Ashland comfy, Ohio.
/ A woman residing at salesviIle on the Cen
tral Ohio Railroad, administered strychnine to
her own son, in a cup of coffee, last week.
The young man applying at once to n physi-
clan relieved Of the poison without serious
consequences. The womau's husband died
very suddenly few weeks since, of apoplcxy
as it was thought at the time. but the death,
it is now suspected, from poison. An in
vestigation will be had.
A German named Miller had both his legs
cut off by rcapng machiHe in Crawford
county last week.
A mute, while walking on the track of the
G. C. & G. Railroad, near Shelby, on Monday,
was run down and seriously injured by the
Express train going North in the morning
It is estimated that the State of Ohio will
have thirty millions Of bushels of whcat-five
millions moae than it has ever produced before
and that of the best quality,
The G.. G. & G. Railroad Company have
constructed new and substantial r. r.
bridge across the MILESTONE in the north
part Of town. This speaks well for the com
pany-thcy did not wait for the old bridge
to become unsafe before constructing a new
one Cardington Herald.
Braceville, a station on the Cleveland and
Mahonng railroad, 46 miles east of Cleveland
was visited by a fearful tornado on Saturday
last. which blew down houses and barns, un-
rooted others, and tore up and twisted eff
large trees. Among The buildings thus de
molishod WAS the dcpot at Braceville. Two
persons were Killed, and Others seriously iniur-
I ed. The tornado took course from North
west to Southeast. its path being a quarter of
a mile in width, aud the space travelled over
about tive miles.