Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-27
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.

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Jane CLrisholm, died from the effects of seald-
ing The child was playing in a room. and
over backwards into a vessel containing
hot water.
f ia Hlnnes, a vagrant of Cincinnati, on
Saturday sald her babe-onlv three days old
for FIVE d liars.
AT Portsmouth on Wednesday the clothes
of a little girl daughter Of Mrs. Margaret r..
Camden, accid -ntaliy caught fire, and so seri-
ous,y burned her that she died on Thursday
morning.
On Friday last, one of the boys in the Gin
cinnati HouSe of Refuge, In-de u murderous at
tack upon Mr.. Jones, the Superintendent, in
flicting severe wounds upon his person with q
butchers knife. |
We learn from the Defiance Democrat that
a committee of Ladies' recently demolished a
drinking grocery in Paulding-knocking in
the heads of whisky barrels and brandy kegs.
besides smashing things generally.
LIBERrY.-Oiiver Anderson, a black fellow
who was taken from Chillicothe in October
last, back to his master in Mason County,
Virginia, and who expressed great willingness
to return to his cd home, after a short stay,
ran away again, taking with him two others
of his shaved brethren, AMI the three passed
through this city on Saturday last. Oh the U
IL. r. r. bound for Canada.-Colum6us Ga
-ette.
Our State Capitol is certainly among the
finest buildings in the country, but it is equal
Is certain thai il is a most expensive affair
BY the recent report of the Superintendent,
we are informed that its cost, up to the pres
ent time, has reached the enormous SUN of ST.
330,leO 20. For the coming year the esti-
mates run IN near $4,000. A suggestion is
! made by the architect that the boiler and
smohc-stat:.s be removed, that Corinthian
columns b. put around the cupola, and a
projecting poitico be added to the west
trout.
Coop LUck-A party of Nimrods left E
yria a few weeks ago for the Hunting grounds
in Ottawa county. A day or two age they re
turned, bringing with them twenty SIX deer,
which they had shot. So says the Democrat.
STATE PENITENTIARY-The annual report
| OF the off: ;rs Of tn, Peaiteltiary informs US
hat on the LIST of November there were $50
prisoners in it Classified rs follows White
males, TAT white f,ma'es, I2; colored males
OIL colorcd f males, 3. The revenue of the
institution exceeded its expenditures in 1859
$1,000.
A little child of Mr.. Nye. of the "Sciotc
Inn" in this county, l6 miles north of Ports
mouth, on the turnpike. WAS burned to death
by her clothes 'aking fre.-Scioto Valley Rcput
liean-Jan. 81.
D.: Manning, D-ntist well known here
killed himself by banging, ut Coshocton, o., oil
The llth JUSTIFICATION, o., Repos tory.
A schoolnnastcr in Boarlman, Washington
county, named B. +. Baldwin, has been bounl
over in $500 for trial, on a charge of assault
and battery for cruelty whipping a girl Of Il
vars. for disobedicnce Of school regulations ii
going home without leave.
Another Cincinnatian has been arrested ii
Europe, for not having performed his QUOTA
of military service. He has been a natural
Esd citizen of this country for twenty-iv,
years.
DEATH OF FATHER WARD.-The gainesville
Telegraph states that Rev, Elijah Ward dice
at WiIloughby on the 10th inst. He was nine
ty-four years Of age on the 10th of September
last, and he had been a Methodist minister
since the commencement of the present centu
rv, having joined the New York Conference
in 1901. His last moments were characterize
by a clear sense of his closing career, and hi
let 20 of earth firmly re ying upon the premis
es OF that gospel he had spent most of his lif
in e.oqucntly inculca.ing upon the minds O
his fellow men.
A man killed a catamount near Lexington
Rich!and Co, last week. 1t measured fou1
feet in length aud two in height.
A man named Barbee lost an arm last weel
at the Columbus dtpot, by being caught be
tween the cars, while engaged in coupling them
The arm was so terribly mutilated that it hat
to be amputated.
An old man was found dead near a doggery
in FIT. Ball, Seneca county. He was IA con
irmed inebriate.
RAILROADS IN OH1o.-The total length o
railroads in Ohio is four thousand and eighty
four miles, of which three Thousand and eigh
miles are completed at a cost for road AM
equipment, of one hundred and twenty-eigh
millions of dollars.
Last wack a man named Cotterell, sent t.
The renitcntiary several years ago, under
charge of burning a Bucket Factory at Mari
.tta, Ohio, was pardoncd by the Governor, OIL
satisfactory proof that the prisoner was con
victed by false swearing.
\ GRAY EAGLE CAPTURED.-On Wcdnei
day last, VIM. Baughn Esq, of Newton, whiL
on the road, in a sleigh from that town Il
MarysviIie. saw several Eagles alight on a tre'
a short distance ahead, and drawing one o
Colts r~cvoivers from his pocket, he fixed upol
one and brought it down ; being but slight.
wounded, it was, with some difficulty. captur
ed, and brought to the Press Office. 1t meas
ures Z feet from tip to tip of IFS wings. Hi
head and tail feathers are q pure white, tn
5 body a dark gray. 1t is yet living, and likel.
to recover from the effect Of the wound. Il
case of a dissolution of the Union it is nov
settled that the american Eagle shall be re
tanned North of Mason's and Dixonis line
Uhioa Press.
Hon. James A, Garfield, at present a mem
Der of the Ohio State Senate, and one of tn
ab!est men in it, was, twelve years ago, a DIR
yer on the tow-path Of the Ohio Canal. Fl
paid his tuition whilst preparing for college b.
i ringing the bell of the Academy at Hiram
Portage county, Ohio.
The iute break up OF the AuglaIze and Mat
NEE rivers damaged the Miami and Erie ca
nal to the amount of 81, 00O, and the foo
from ice gorges swept off lots Of corn, cattle
etc.
c A boy about II years old, named j. g
G Smith, absconded from Middleton. Ohio, u fc'
), days since. with about $4,000, which had bee
entrusted 10 him to convey TO Wincheste
Preb'e county. About 81 800 of the amour
d was received from the United States Expire:
J. Company in a sealed package. He dro'
AWAY a nrar mare ntfnchntl TO q snlkv an