Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-02
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

Adyices from Columbus state that there Is
no probability that any steps will be taken to-
wards Building the proposed new Penitentiary
ut this session. The old one viii be enlarged.
nothing more.
There will be n convention of bee-keepers at
Cleveland, on the 18th day of March next, for
the purpose of forming a bee-keepers associa-
ton.
a young man named Jackson, about 10
years of age, employed in one Of the paper
mills at Cleveland, Ohio, met a horrible death
on Tuesday morning last, in consequence of
drinking a cup of vitrol, which he m;stook for
water. He fingered after tie unfortunate at
fair for a couple of hours, suffering the most
intense pain.
The Hamilton Telegraph states that Isaac
Paxton, one of the oldest citizen of that place,
celebrated his ninetieth birthday on th4 18th
ult.. by giving a dinner to about twenty of
his pioneer friends. The ages of the guests
ranged from 81 to 81 years.
The Dayton Journal says that on Wedncs-
day morning Peter Shade and wife, Mrs. j ohm
Shade and Mrs. Troxel, an old lady of 90 years,
attempted to cross Bear Creek in 4 one horse
wagon. The wagon was upset and those in
the wagon were thrown into the stream they
got out safely. Mrs. Truxel afterwards walk
ed several hundred yards, when she suddenly
fell and expired.
On the 10Th inst, u. S. Marshal Dayton
was driven out Of Obcrlin by five negroes.-
They surrounded him, after a hard race. and
compelled him to agree that he would resign
his post and never visit Oberiin again. This
$780,, .-1,, ..ooaol.. I& .4& L. 11s.,.
than the scenes daily enacted at the South.
A German in Cincinnati, while attcpting to
drive some cats out of his premises, got one
into a corner and the cat flying into the Ger
mans face inflicted a number of severe wounds,
of which the man died in u few hours.
Thu Cleveland Herald says that a firm of
shiphui!ders at that place have received an
order from some Boston ship-owners to build
two fore-and-aft schooners of 200 tons for the
Atlantic coasting trade, and that, if those, or
dered, answer the expectation, more orders will
follow.
Gov. Chase is now on a visit to Albany, for
the purpose of keeping an engagement to lee
ture in that city. The subject he has chosen
The Mississippi Valley, and its future relation
to the Uhion-is one of great magnitude as
well as interest. \ discourse worth of the
theme may be anticipated.
4 young man, nam,d Henry Kunkle, a Tel
cg raplI operator at Monroeville, Huron Co.
O., has been arrested and committed for rob-
bling mails left at his office for the trains. He
is an orphan boy, and thus breaks the heart of
a widowed mother.
The Roman Catholic Bishop OF Cincinnati
in his instructions for Lent, classes oysters as
fish, and therefore appropriate diet for fasting
and selfdenial. If any were in doubt before,
this will settle the question.
The profits arising from the binding contract
recently awarded to 4 firm of which Mr.. II.
D. Cooke, of the Ohio State Journal is one oil
the partners, it is said will amount to over
$4,000.
The receipts of tolls on the Canals of Ohio
for the quarter Feb. Is, 1850, show a total of
S3l 1878, a decrease of $Il ,273 as compared
with the same period last year. The falling off
in a great measure is attributed to the differ
ence in the season. The severe weather caus,
ed the canals to be closed early and almost
continually during the quarter.
FATAL CAsuAIIrY Mr.. John Lore, OF
huUA Guilty uCSCcIlucu ilIO u Will IL lew udNh
ago to recover a lost hat, and fell lifeless at the
bottom from foul air. A ncighbor who went
to his. aid was also overcome, but was drawn
out alive. Strange, people will continue 10
enter wells without first applying the test of Il
lighted candle.
HEAVY VERDIcT.-In the Champaign Coun-
ty Common Pleas Court, last week, in the
case of Jane Brush Us Peter Lawson, a verdict
of 81, 1000 was found for Plaintiff. The Press
of Wednesday, calls this a righteous verdict,
and says:
This was an action brought under the 18th
section of the act passed May 1st, 1854, to pre-
vent the sale of intoxicating liquors. On the
29th of April last, Lawson sold TO Reed Brush.
the husband of the plaintiff, a pint of whisky,
by means of which he was made drunk and
commenced quarreling with his family. Dur
ing the quarrel he seized an axe and threw it
at his wife, striking her on the heel and pro-
ducing a very severe wound. Modification
taking place. it became necessary to alnputate
the foot. She brought suit to recover DANA
ges for the loss of the foot.
Circulars have been issued by the Depart
ment of the Interior to the United States Mar
shals relative to the taking of the CENSUS
Marshal Johnson has received one of the cir
culars, which instructs him to proceed immedi-
atetly in the preliminaries The State is to be
divided into districts SO that six weeks labor
in each can accomplish the enumeration. The
census takers are to commence on the LIST OF
June ; thus they will finish the enumeration
by the middle of July-C2eueland Herald.
MORE DEMOCRATIC LITERATURE.-The Com
mercial says a Company has been organized in
Cincinnati for the purpose of establishing a
new Democratic paper, of the national stripe.
to be called the Courier. The corporators,
whose names are on the file in the office of the
Secretary of State, arc DIR. Geo. Fries, DIR.
John L. Waiter, Thos. j. Sherlock, ALI. Bu-
chanan, G. w. West, VIM. Ferguson, MIR.
Wrightson, Henry Hanna. David Quinn
The Company is styled the Courier Print
ing Company, and the capital stock is $l00,
600.
THE New PESIrExrIARY QUEsrIoN.-Cin-
Gil n iii has b. e making strong efforts of late
to secure the location of the proposed Lew
Penitentiary in the county of Hamilton, but
the Columbus correspondent of the CONNER
cial throws a cold dash on the hopes of all as
piring towns and cities Tor prison honors. He
writes
Cincinnati being interested in the new pcni-
Tertiary, l will remark that there is no proba-
bility whatever that Il new one will be ordered
by this Legislature. 1t is proposed now to Ell
large the old one. A new one would involve
an expenditure of a million of dollars, and a
new batch of officers, and the Republicans will
not be guilty Of such folly.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 29.-On Saturday night
the engine of the express train on the Marict-
ia & Cincinnati Rrilroad was thrown from the
trestle work near Vincent's by the displacc-