Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-23
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

ANo1 skA4a v aSA3N 10NS ~ R4ASA<ASO0 III (
Tnscarawas. at an average of about 800 each,
making 10000 put in the pockets of the far
mers for horses alone. Over 600 horses are
annually purchased in the county, substantial,
serviceable animals, yielded a return to the far
mers of at least 100000 per annum.
NEw EPISCOPAL PAPER--A religious week
~ paper, as a successor to. and under the name
of the late Western Episeopalian, is to be
started at Gambler as soon as sufficient sub
scriptions shall have been received to warrant
it. r. 81. Edwards is to be the publisher
The enterprise has the warm appreciation If
Bishops McIlvaine and Bedell. 1t Is estimat-
ed that one thousand subscriptions ofS2 paid in
advance will secure the issue of the paper, and
Rev. NJ. T. C.. Wing, ID. D., has undertaken to
receive them.
AErKsrAN W1L.-The Genaral Appropria-
ton Bill, passed by the Senate, contains an
appropriation of SO, 900 for the further boring
of the Artesian Well.
Christian Werm, of Venice township, Erie
county, committed snicide by shooting, last
week.
Mrs. Wade, wife of the Hon. E.. Wade, of
this state, is seriously i'll at the residence of her
sister in New Haven. Conn. Mr. Wade has
been suddenly called from his Congressional
duties to see her.
One hundred and ninety-four Coroner's in
quest were held in Cincinnati for the year en-
ding 3Ist of December, 1859. OF these, one
hundred and ffty-nine were males and thirty
seven females.
The Baptists of Hamilton, O. have recently
erected a neat and beautiful church edifec, at a
cost of some sI2 600, which is all paid except
ing about 81 900. The dedication exercises
took place March 1st.
An old negro, supposed to be dead. having
been thrown out of the hearse in which he was
going to the grave. near Cleveland, game to
life again, greatly to the terror of the mourn
! ers."
UNPARALLELED MEAsSEss.-A man in
Cleveland, applied to a Justice recently for an
execution to levy upon the wooden leg of a
man who owed him four dollars! No consta-
BILE could be found to serve the execution.
One hundred and eighty-four acres of shoal
land in Harrison Township. Montgomery Co.
within four miles of Dayton, was sold on Sat
urday for Sl7,l13 or S92 25 per acre.
Samuel Wells, a colored man, died recently
in Wyandot county, at the advanced age of
lO4 years. He was taken by the Wyandots
and Delawares when about five years of age,
and sold to Simon Girty, who owned him at
the time of Crawfords battle and defeat in
that county.
We learn from the Sandusky Register that
Hiram Ray, a grocery keeper, shot himself
through the head, last week. killing himself in
stantly. He left a paper, stating that he died
by his own hand, and exhorting his son, Her.
bert, to care for and assist his mother. No
other reason is given, saive that he had been
drinking for a few months, a thing he was never
known to do before.
OBERIIN CoLLEGE.-The number of students
in attendance at this Institution this Spring is
unusually large. We learn from the Treasurer
that about $50 have already joined, besides a
large number Of the members of regular classes,
| who have not yet returned. These will swell
the aggregate to at least SOFA larger number
than can be found 10 any other school in Amer
ica.-Lorain Netrs.
Rev. E. w. Roote, late pastor of the New
School Presbyterian Church, Oxford, was i'll
stalled pastor of the Congregational Church.
Springfield, o., February 22nd. The Presby-
terrain Church of Springfield is still without u
pastor. 1t numbers six hundred members, and
is one of the wealthiest in the state.
The Cleveland Pdindedler says that among
the cases to come before the q. S. Court in
that city next month, are 10 or 20 brought by
foreign stockholders of banks in this State, in
which injunctions have been granted against
the State officers to restrain the collection of
taxes under the Democratic law O fApril, 1859.
The Dayton Journal says: ave are glad
to learn from Mr.. Daniel Garst Of this vicinity,
that the finest buds on a large number of his
peach trees, say 10000, have not been injured
by the frost. He brought us a number of cut
tings yesterday, in which the blossom buds
were plump. fresh and green. The buds on
say 5000 of his trees, have been frozen-but
twice that number of young trees still give
promise of a good crop of fruit.
SHOCKING CRUELTY.-An awful instance of
ingratitude and cruelty has come. to light in
Cleveland, according to the Leader. A man
named Willis Graves has made a deliberate at
tempt to starve his mother, aged IS, and in
this inhuman businesss was aided by his wife.
The neigbors. alarmed by the mysterious dis
appearance of the old lady, Mrs. Graves, insti-
tuted an investigation, and found her, q mere
skeleton. stretched upon o miserable bed of
straw, in a squalid chamber, nearly starved to
death. She had lived on one meal per day,
consisting of a crust of bread. for two weeks.
The Lebanon Star speaks of the fact, as one
not generally known, that WASHINGTON owned
some three thousand acres of land on the Little
Miami river, and asks now he obtained these
lands, and what was their precise locality ?
They are spoken of in W~ashington's will, and
said to be in the vicinity of Cincinnati, the one
farthest from that place being ten miles up the
Little Miami river.