Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-15
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

ACC1DEET.-WelR lRarl tnat man py Ine
name Of Mc3Iillen, was instantly killed last
week at Cars steam mill, a few miles beyond
South Charleston. He was caught in the ma
| cbinery, and literally cut to piecea-SPrfRg-
! field Republic
| 4 man bv the name Of w iiliasn Freeman,
vas instantly killed at the Dayton and Michi-
gan depot, in Sidney, on "Wednesday last,
while attempting 10 couple some freight cars
/ He was caught between the bumpers, crushing
his breast in a most shocking manner.
Coop CLIP-The Springfield Republic says:
! Our friend Perry Stewart, OF Green township,
brought in his clip of wool Cor this year, last
Friday, aud sold it to Foos & Shepherd In
| the lot were 28 Reeees of Spanish Merino.
which weighed I84 lbs.,-eF an average of
| triae over six and half pounds each. The
fleece of one buck weighed II los several ewes
I and s lbs.
The Postmaster at Rock Greek has been re-
moved for holding to the sqnatter doctrine.
and III. Ell. Moses, Esq, Buchanan democrat,
appointed in his stead.-ConnsamRsp
| A GoSsCIEsTIoUs SLAVE OgSEE.-On Tues
day last. a gentleman from North Carolina.
named Jenkins, passed through this city with
AMI settle in Clinton county, in this State
Mr. jenkins stated that he hsd frequently been
offered $4,000 for the FIVE negroes, but had al
ways refused to sell them. feeling that slavery
was great moral and political wrong. and he
could not sacrifice justice and principle for dol
/ lars and cents--Dagtoa Gazette.
The Weor. CRop.--Farmers are beginning to
bring IN the clip Of wool for this season. Pri-
ces are ranging from two to four cents lower
| this year than last,-the coarsest article not
bringing over thirty cents. and the finer grades
propor;ionately more. Little will be bought
| for over 40 cents,
The wool crop has been gradually falling off
| for the last five year,, aud the indications are
that this years clip win show some decrease
from last years. Farmers say that sheep hus-
| bandry is just as profitable any branch of
| their business but the ravages Of dogs are 50
great that they caunot afford to run the risk of
keeping sheep. OF course there can be no rem
edy for this till the Legislature gives us an ef-
ficient dog law.-1enid Neus.
A quarrel between two Germans at Monroe
vile on the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad on
Saturday, resulted in the death of one of the
parties, from stab of the other.
a man named Richard Mackey was struck
by lightning in Gurnscy county last week, fell
inghiun en- aless to the ground. The rain falling
on his face soon restored him to consciousness
and although he suffered severely for a cousd
cradle time. he is now in a very fair way of re-
| coyery. s- - "A
l. A coIeredz boy named Alexander Smith,
| aged 5 years, WAS drowned at Urbana on the
I'd instant while bathing.
In the May term of the Belmont County
Common Pleas Court, Mary Dorsey obtained a
| verdict for 81 200 against Thomas Feely, for
breach of promise of marriage.
Two young fellows of the names of Sloan
and Pctts or Petty had prize fight near Gam
bier on Saturday night last. They pounded
each other for the space of twenty minutes, at
the end of which time Sloan was entirely blind;
| and his face most terribly bruised and disigur
ed The amount of stakes reached ten dol
lars-whether the match has been satisfactori-
" concluded or not, we are uninformed. MI
Vernon Republican.
Prof Henry T. CrawIey, a teacher in the
Mount Auburn Female Seminary, Cincinnati,
while escorting two ladies home from the Opera
house, Wednesday night, was attacked by row.
dies at the corner of Main and Hunt Streets
and stabbed in the breast causing instant death.
The murdercrs have not yet been arrested.
Hon. A. w. Loomis, of Pitteburg, Pa, will
deliver address before the Nj Pi Kappa So
ciety of Kenyon College on Wednesday even
ing, June 81.
The Ohio Conference of Congregational
Churches will be held at Oberlin instead of
Al I A !. oF
On Friday last man named McMillen was
instantly killed at the -four and saw-mill Of
VIM. Carr. in the northern part of Fayette
county. He was in the act of shifting band
on some of the works, when he was caught and
drawn into the machinery.
The telegraph office at the Ohio White Sui
phur Springs, has been opened for business
during the season.
Four hundred horses were sold in Cincin-
natl market during the week ending June 5th.
A school house in Amboy, Ashtahula coun-
ty, was set on fire on Tuesday night and de-
stroyed. Loss $500.
The damage in Monroe county. O., occa-
stoned by a recent tornado, is estimated at
fifty thousand dollars.
uG -l6tS AuEFiCdfl6 utu uGiHSSE Ut
Athens among other dep orabiities nearly des-
troying the beautiful grove ON the lawn of the
Ohio University.
w. D. Pierce, of South Charleston, adver-
tises for sale his entire Short Horn herd, en-
bracing some of the finest thorough breds ever
brought to the West. The sale is to be on the
goth and 21st inst.
The family of Jacob Huffman residing near
Mansfield, were poisoned last week by the use
of apple butter which had been kept in cheap
earthen ware jars. The acid had dissolved the
lead from the glazing in sufficient quantity to
cause very serious illness, but the family is
now slowly recovering.
Cheesedom counts up the profits largely
The Dairy statistics of Ashtabula county, re-
turned by the Assessor for 1859, shows a to-
tai of 2 906 POI pounds of Cheese, valued at
s203, ,464 and 705,799 pounds of Butter, val
ued at $69, $40. Total value of Butter and
Cheese $302, 2,275.
An old fashioned highway robbery is re-
corded in Holmes county, Ohio. Last Monday
evening Henry Gambler, collector, was riding
along lonely road, when a large man, in
black, with heavy whiskers, rode up and salut
ed Gambler, conversed moment and then po-
politely knocked him off his horse aud robbed
him of about $l0O Since then the gentleman
in black has not been heard from.
HEsITATING CoSsERvATIvEs-The Buffalo |
Commercial Advertiser of the 5th inst thus
speaks of the probable accessions to the Re
dubcan party
The great body of the conservatives of West |
ern New York are already arraycd in support
of Lincoln and Hamlin Lingering in the |