Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-17
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

Joseph X Swan, late Of the Supreme Bench OF
OhiDs has in press In that city, to be issued
within thirty days, a ne~ and revised edition
of the Statutes of Ohio, with eopious notes and
references.
The Keller Mill on the Sandusky, three
miles from Tifin, was burned on Sunday morn
ing with its contents /; some 1000 bushels of
wheat, 300 barrels Of -four, and a quantity of
corn, &c. The mill was under lease to the
Messrs. Cunningham, of Fifin. Total loss
$4,000. No insurance on contents Of mill.
At gainesville, Lake county, on Thursday
evening, the wife of Edward Westrufr, aged 35
years, while drawing a bucket of water from a
well having no curb, and while in the act of
bending over to fill it, a gust of wind lifted her
Off the ground and precipitated her to the bot
tom. 1t is supposed she must have been stun
ned by striking against the sides of the well
and drowned almost Immediately. In a short
tine she was missed and search made for her.
but the darkness of the night prevented her
fate being discovered until she had been dead
some time.
The Auditor of State in his Annual Report
states that the execution of the semi-annual
tax law costs the people of Ohio annually $50
600.
The Ripley Bee announces the death on
the 23d ult., of james McCormic, aged lO3
years, 6 months and IA days. He was born
in Cumberland county. Pa, July 9th, 1856,
and served in the Revolutionary war. He
lived a temperate, industrious and Christian
life.
The Ohio Cultivator gives an account of an
apple tree on a farm near Xenia which blew
down hanging only by a thin strip about the
thickness of the hand. The tree then sprout-
ed, blossomed, and bore.
In the Ohio Legislature, a Bill has been in
PRODUCED requiring the Stat: Treasurer to give
bonds to the amount of 5000, 900 instead OF
$4,000 G.
A mar living near Canton, o., while fixing
a straw matched she.p-shed, fell a distance OF
six feet and broke his neck.
Mr. John Wilson, Of fremont, Clarke Couu-
ty, Il member of the grand jury there in session,
was robbed an the Willis Hotel, at Spring
field, on Tuesday. Of a gold watch, seventy
dollars in cash, and proniisory notes to the
amount of one thousand dollars. There was
no trace of the thief.
The Fireman's Convention at Findlay, last
week, determined to hold the next State Pa
rade at Sandusky, on Thursday, June IA, 1860,
and the next Convention at CircIeville,
Wednesday Feb, 10, 1861.
BIRD TRADE OF FINpLAY.-The Couries
~statese that the number of Quails shipped from
Findlay, Hancock county, Ohio, for eastern
markets this season is 1882, to which add the
number used in town makes a total of Is, OOO
Quails brought to the Findlay market. The
new Northwestern part of Ohio has done a
large and profitable business this season in
poultry, birds, and vennison for shipment by
rail.
the increase of Quails the past year in the
bird regions Of Ohio was wonderful. The game
law protected them in the season of raising
their young, and the great demand for skunk
fur a year ago completely thined out those ras-
cal!y little depredators on the eggs and bodies
of the innocent and delicate quail.
The Governor has appointed the following
named gentlemen, members of his staff: d. T.
Woods, Quartcr-master General g. w. Rum
yam, of Cincinnati, Commissary General John
n. Gibson, of Defiance, Paymaster General
George F. OiHarra, of Columbus, and George
5. Mygatt, of Cleveland, Aidsde- Camp.
" s"ouI (AClIutlSSS IfC
noticing a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Ohio, which will be interesting to the
farming community, to the effect that in the
case of a sale of Real Estate by a Sheriff, un-
der proceedings in partition, growing crops of
grain do not pass to the purchaser.
LOCATION OF THE NEW PENIrESTIARY.-
The Portsmouth Tribune has it from good au-
thority that the prospects for securing the
PenitentiaFy at that place are encouraging
1t SEEMS. says the Tribune, that the Commis-
sioners named Portsmouth as second on the
list of four phases they designated. The first
was GAINESVILLE, the second Portsmouth. the
third Cincinnati, and the fourth Columbus.
The valuation of property in Ohio shows an
increase over 1853 of $74,000,OOO, or about 3
per cent.
The last Fremont Messenger says "On
Wednesday of this week, our citizens were as
tonished by the entrance into our town of some
twelve sledges, in one string, loaded with EIGH-
LYNNE DRESSED Hoes, belonging to a man in
Ottawa county. The enterprising firm of D..
Belts & Co, were the purchasers of the entire
lot, for which they paid over FIFTEEN D
DOLLARS! A nice pile for our OTTAWA Gus
toner, if it was secured through hoggish in
fluencest''
The Common Schools of Ohio contain 6OO,-
034, or about thirty thousand less than Penn
sylvania.
The Cleveland Leader says that two families
of Arkansas eXiles have arrived at Oberlin.-
They number sixteen persons and are nearly
white. They bad purchased their own free
dom several years ago, in that State from
which they have now been driven, and had ac-
cumulated considerable property.
The Ohio Senate has taken the initiative
step towards an early adjournment of the Leg
i~slature. We hope the House will concur
Retrenchment in Legislative expenses can be
easily effected, and that sort of economy is al
ways Satisfactory to the people.
The Ohio Penitentiary, for the first time in
many years, has become a paying institution,
as will be seen by the following statement of
its finances for the past year:
Total cash earnings for 1859 ..... $S3,456 %
Total cash expenditures. ....... 1876 Sc
Bal. Of earnings over expcnd'rs. .$5,939 go.
The oldest member of the present General
Assembly is Gen. House of Gallia Countv.-
He is seventy-eight years of age. was a member
of the general Assembly in 1925, and has rep
resented Gallia county several sessions since
then He has seen remarkable changes since
he first entered the Legislature in 1890
From a few thensand pioneers then in habit