Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-23
ITE1Es OF ONO NEWS.

The Georgetown Union says, the wife o
| Albert Brown, of Pike township, las
! Thursday presented him with three hv
ing hopefuls, two boys and a girl.
The Circleville Union says that in on,
! school district In that county at a IA
/ hunt 2,2O8 rats were killed IN ten days
every man In the district participating
The splendid wardrobe of the late Mar
tha Metealf sold in Cincinnati, on Friday
for S2,7l2, her jewelry for $2,048. The
| household furniture of her establishment
sold recently for $1,000.
The Gallip0lis JonrnaI says that on
Monday of last week a thirty barrel oil
well was struck at Champaign creek
above that place. At fifty-fve feet deep,
with a spring pole, they pumped thirty
barrels OF oil on that day.
Col. John Henry, of Batavia, Clermont
county, formerly commander of the 9Th
Ohio Cavalry, has received the appoint
ment of Consul to San Juan del Sur,
Nicaragua and left for that place on
Saturday.
The Dayton Journal says that Samuel
Taylor, lad IL years of age, was crushed
to death by the fall Of horse In that city
on Tuesday The boy was a son of Joseph
Taylor of Washington, and was on a visit
to Dayton with his mother.
A verdict was recently rendered In Gin
cinnati for 81 ,820, the value of a trunk
lost by lady traveller, containing a part
of her wardrobe. Another trunk that
was saved, contained clothing valued at
fifteen hundred dollars. A pretty good
rig"
A man, apparently about fifty years old,
fell from the platform of car on the Lit
tie Mama Railroad on Tuesday morning
train bound west-at point near Lon
don, and was Immediately killed. His
body was terribly mangled. His remains
were taken TO Cincinnati.
Mrs Margaret Goezwon, an old lady 90
years of age, was found murdered In her
house near CumminsvIlle IN Hamilton
county on Monday night Her husband
had been absent all day, returned much
intoxicated and about midnight aroused
his neighbors with the declaration that
his wife had been murdered.
The Sandusky Register reports that It
is the intention Of the owners of John
sons S Island to dispose of two thirds Of
the entire island, In lots for grape culture
and summer homes. The Notifications,
which are extensive and permanent, will
be allowed to remain intact, and, together
with the Union and Confederate aceme-
teries, will form an attractive feature for
years to come. The heavy guns are still
in the forts, and the Governments viii re-
tain possession of a small part of the is
land until it has sold the remaining bull
dings and removed the ordinance, which |
will be done as soon as the bay opens.
The Kelley's Island Wine Company
Feb. "a, with the following Off /
GERS Addison Kelley. George @. Hun /
tington, A. s. Kelley, j.. K. WoOdford, !
James Hamilton, Andrew Cameron, and |
William Becker, Directors. Addison |
Kelley, President l.. b. WoOdford, Vice |
President; George @. Huntington, Seeri-
lary and A. S. Kelley, Treasurer.
SAD OCcURRENCE.-On Monday of last |
week, Feb 18th, in Aurelius township, /
a little boy named John Hyles, in his |
fifth year, while his mother was prepar
ing some coffee, seized Two or three grains /
aud gleefully ran away with them de /
put some into his mouth, and while laugh /
ing, made a fOrcible inhalation Of his |
breath, and with it a grain or part of I
grain of the coffee. 1t logged in his wind |
pipe Cor in his lungs), so that il was not 4
He fingered about thirteen and /
q half hours. when death relieved the lite
lie sufarer. Marietta Register.
A verdict has been rendered in the Su- |
perior Court of Cincinnati IN a case where |
a woman sued street railroad company |
for compensation, her husband having /
been run over and killed by street car
on part of the driver was prov
I'd, and under the ruling of the Judge
verdict for So. 900 damages was rendered. /