Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-20
ITEMS OF OHIO NEWS.


GUS" which died in Wisconsin nearly three
years ago. was recently tanned in this CITY Il
was purchased by Sheriff Kessler two years
and half ago. when it was deposited in tan
vat, where il remained until last week. II
viii average about three quarters Of an inch
thick and would make everlasting soles for
seven-lcague boots. Mr.. kessler intends to
use Il for Ornamental purposes, such as s:gns
outside and inside of his leather depository
Gin. Commercial.
Hon. C. B. Miller. member If the Legisla-
tura. has as we learn from the Hillsborough
News. resigned his seat in consequence of i'll
health.
The real and personal property of Nicholas
11ongwarth, of Cincinnati, as aseertalned re-
Gently, IS s3,5oo,00o.
Two sons and a son-in-law Of Mr., Winchel
! formerly of Portage county, hHt latterly of
jackson county. have been found guilty of
murder in the second degree for numbering old
Winchell, and sentenced to the Pelitentiary
| for Iife
Franklin Stout. aged %, committed suicide
at orrrilIe, Wayne county. on Tuesday even
| ing. He cut cash in each arm. and two in
his throat. He expressed the wish to die when
| his ghastiy wounds were dressed and his wish
was gratified next day.
William the only son of DR. Brugh, of Steu-
| benvie, a sprightly lad of eleven yeara of age,
/ was accideatly drowned ON Thursday in the
| Ohio river. at that place. The lad had gone
| in 10 bathe and it is supposed struek his head
l against rock with such a force as render him
helpless.
| The @. s. Presbyterian University so much
/ talked of, is finally to be established in Celunl
bus. SO says the Journal
The census taser found III Monroe town
ship Piekaway county, an old lady. Mrs.
Southar,i, aged LOG years! She is sprightly
old lady. enjoys good health, and reads with
/ facility without spectacles Her youngest son
of nine children, living in the same neighbor-
hood, is about 20 years old
At Canton, Stark county, on the 4th ins:.,
as Mrs. Eliza Earnshaw, wife Of Mr. George
| Earnshaw, was sitting in the chair, engaged in
:; conversation on the subject Of the recent death
of brother who died of appoplexy, and just
! as she closed the detail Ct that event, she ex-
claimed. Il am growing i'll. and in few mo
ments she breathcd her last. The deceased
was 81 years of age.
BOYS DRovsEp.-On "Wednesday, two boys.
brothers, were drowned in Euclid, named Will
liam and Parker Lowe. They had gone to
Doanes brook, where one of them slipped up
on quicksa nd and began 10 sink. His broth
er went TO his assistance, but sank himself and
both were drowned. They were about Is
years of age. Their father keeps a stand upon
| the market in the management of which the
boys had rendered him great assistance
| fGIev. Leader.
The Ripley Bee records the suicide. on
"Wednesday forenoon, of Theodore Schubert, a
German, who lived about a mile from that
place He took his gun and went to the
woods on one Of the hills near his residence
| When found, he was dead. He had delber-
ately taken off his hat and neck handkerchief
ANA laid them with his pipe and tobacco aside,
spread coffee sack on the ground, and sitting
down on it, had placed the breech of his gun
against a stump and the muzze against his
| breast over the heart Beside the gun
| lay a splinter from d rail, two or three
feet long, which he had used to touch the trig-
ger.
SrppES DEArH-On the 5th inst, Mr.. job
! Sharp (hrother of tie Rev. David Sharp iiv-
| ing near North Iewisburg, in this county, fell
j dead while ut work in the harvest field Ur-
bana Citizen.
A train of passenger cars on the Lake Shore
road, had a remai kable escape from destruc-
| ton, Friday morning. After crossing Walnut
Greek, near Swanville, when running at Is
miles an hour, the locomotive left the track,
followed by the baggage and two enlgrant
cars which turned over several times before
reaching level ground The baggage car WAS
full of freight, and in it were also several pas
sengers: the emigrant cars were also full of
| passengers, and yet, singular to relate, not a
person was injured in the least. The embank-
ment at Walnut Greek is one of the steepest
ron the road.
A little son of James Burclay, of Poland,
Mahoning county, was drowned on the 29th
ult, while bathing.
! The WooI TRADE OF CLEvELANp.-The
wool trade continues to be very active in this
city. and high prices are still current. Large
amounts of wool are received daily, the receipts
being much greater than last year. Up to
| the present time ten of the principal wool
houses have purchased and received in Cleve-
| land about one million FIVE hundred thousand
| pounds of wool, for which at least S675000
| have been paid. As far can learn not
more than half the wool purchased has yet ar
| rived, and we shall be much mistaken if the
quantity of wool purchased and received here
| does not exceed three million pounds, for
which nearly ST 100000 will have been paid
| in cash Besides the amounts included in the
above statement there are considerable guam
titles purchased by Cleveland houses, but ship
ped East from other points, and large qlanti-
ties pass through the city, which, not being
purchased by Cleveland houses are not inelud-
ed in our fglres.-l Herald.
The Artesian we'll at Columbus, is 2.497
! feet deep. The auger is now passing through
white sandstone rock, and hopes are en-
tertaned that water will soon be reached
The good people of Cleveland are making
extensive preparations for the inauguration of
the Perry statue at that place, next 10th Of
September. The Herald says the event will
be the occasion of one of the grandest Mason
ic displays ever seen in the country. Hon.
Geo. Bancroft will deliver the Grafton.
The census just completed of the city of To
ledo shows population of 3,7S4. The num-
Der of deaths during the year ending June l.,
iooo' was ohy @ot-o!ie III 'o' VI "oou' ~
per cent.
The down train on the c. & T. R. R.. last
Friday night when at Monroevlle. at about
o'clock ran over a team Of horses, killing both.
There were six men in the wagon to which the
horses were attached, and but one of them was
seriously injured.
| ARTEsIAN WELL.-Ths monster hole had
reached the deptb of 25l7 feet at noon yester-
day. The men engaged in boring work day
and night, twenty-four hours constituting their
working hours in each day. On last Saturday