Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-09
1rEars or OHIO NEWS.

A large eagle was shotin Munlenburgh
! township, PickaWay county, a few days
since. It measured eight feet from tip
/ to tip.
/ The time for holding the Democratic
4 State Convention has been fixed for May
/ 24th, at Columbus.
A gentleman from Xenia, Ohio, dad
/ his pocket picket at Cincinnati, on the I'd
of S13, 600, in 80 bonds.
Kinsman, Trumbull county, IS erecting
i a monument to cost s., 600. That town
/ ship raised 81, 600 for war purposes du-
I ring the rebellion.
The Wool Growers of Cuyahoga county
/ held a consultation at Cleveland on the
/ 1st inst, and issued a call for a general
! convention of the wool growers Of the
/ county, to be held Feb. 10.
/ An Oberlin paper announces that that
/ place has ceased to be a station on the u.
/ g. r.. r. since Grant and Sherman became
+ conductors on that route.
The Cadiz Republican says there were
one hundred and sixty-tWO marriage IL
/ oeuses issued in Harrison county in the
year 1865.
/ The Plymouth AdUerfiser says: On
Monday little daughter of Mr.. A. Gle
land. Of Bloomington Grove township
F
clothes ignited from some hot ashes be-
ing removed from the stove.
The Portage County Democrat tells the
story Of another mice robbery. Mr.. j.
W CLARK, of StreetsborO placed for safe
! keeping $3.50 in legal tenders in a cTevice
in his cellar wall. The mice made raid
on it and mutllated the bills so that they
are worthless.
The Akron Journal says: Four men
were recently fined upwards of $40 for
disturbing a spelling school in Coventry
township and three more of the same
Sort paid over SIT each for similar piece
of enjoyment in Springfield township.
The Cleveland Herald says the ice on
the Lake extends as far as the vision of
the eye can reach. Along the beach IN
front of the peirs it is piled up In many
places, to the height of ten or fifteen feet.
It is seldom that such huge piles of ice
are seen in front of the city.
The Cheese Makers Convention met
in Cleveland, on the oath. Over two
hundred dairymen were present, and an
interesting address was made by x. A.
Willard, Esq.
The Gallipolis Journal says that their
member, Col. Montgomery, failed to make
connections. otherwise John Sherman
would have been re-nominat3d for Sena-
tor on the first ballot.
Datus Kelley, at the age of seventy
seven years nine months, died at the res
idence of his son on kelleys Island, on
the 9th ult. The deceased had been
connected with the history Of Kelley's
Island for nearly forty years.
The GAINESVILLE Courier says the Put
nam Post Office was entered by some
thieves on Thursday night by. first
getting into the garret, and thence
through the ceiling to the room below.
Letters were rifed, papers tumbled
about. and things generally disturbed.
The thieves got but little, if anything, for
their trouble.
droves of horses and mules are weekly
being shipped from that market to the
South, where it is understood they COM
mand exorbitant prices.
The GAINESVILLE Courier is informed
that on Friday oil was struck at Fergu-
sons Salt Works, three miles north of
Cambridge.
DR.. Ackley, of Racine, Meigs county
was garroted and robbed of $125, while
crossing Horizons bridge, near Pomeroy,
few nights ago.
The Urbana Onion says Joseph Long
fellow, of ConcCrd township, Champaign
county, died on the 11th ult., at the
advanced age of Ill years.
Medina County has subscribed six
thousand dollars, and has commenced the
erection Of a splendid marble monument
to the memory Of its fallen braves.
Stark County is rapidly. preparing for
the erection of a suitable monument to
the memory of its gallant dead soldiers.
Scarcely a county in Ohio will be with
ont such a memorial to their fallen
braves,
The Sandusky Register chronicles the
playing, by telegraph, of a game of check
West Of Sandusky. Northup won by a
single man. Time, two hours. The first
telegraphic game we believe on, record.
Speaking of Gen. Hooker, the Dayton
Empire says that paralysis has made sad
work with his fine physical frame and +
handsome face. One whole side of his
body has lost its vitality, and hangs fab I
bid and loose, like a Wilted weed. Palsy
has made good claim to one half Of his
person.
The people of GAINESVILLE are discussing +
the propriety of abandoning the market /
house system in thier city, and selling
their elegant new market house, and allow Z
ing produce houses In the city to compete +
for the trade of buyers.
Tuesday last as Miss Wibble, of Mas
silion, was trying to kindle a fire, she
poured some carbon oil on the fire, when
the fluid ignited, and she was so terribly
burned that she died in few days after,
much aufering. Some parts Of
her body were burned to crisp.
Perhaps the largest pair Of oxen in
Northern Ohio are owned bv Alvin Clara,
Esq, of Milton township, Wood county.
He has fitted them for slaughter and the
two viii weigh about 5000 pounds.
A man claiming to be descended from a
white father and a mother of mixed blood
offered his vote in Green township, Ma
honing county, at the October and NoYem-
Der elections Of 1864, and it was refused.
IheTeupon he brought a suit against the
-he Trustees, and jury recently returned /
1 verdict for the plaintiff, assessing his
damages at one hundred dollars
On Friday night last, while A. Robert
son, Esq, Treasurer of Middleton town
5hip, Wood county, was absent from his
nome attending donation party, a bur- 4
ylar entered his residence, broke open the ]
ownship safe, and stole therefrom be-
ween S400 and $500, mostly township
money. There was in the safe. in envel- :
,pes, about $500 belonging to Mr.. r. and {
ONE of his neighbors that was not dis
covered by the the thief.
The Statesman says that the venerable O