Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-02
1rB1rs OF ONO NEWS.

The Belmont Chronicle says that the
Presbyterian congregation of st. Clairs-
vile, has raised the salary of its pastor,
Rev. d. r. Campell, to 81, 600 per year,
by an unanimous vote.
The Portsmouth Tribune publishes the
amount of revenue received in that dis
trict for several months, and shows that
where a single distillery was in operation
the revenue increased from $50, 900 to
100000 per month.
Ohio is the only State that came out of
the war with a less debt than it went In
with.
During the war Ohio sent forth 317, ,133
volunteers, a force nearly as large as the
total of the three grand armies which were
in Flanders at the middle Of June, 1915,
under Nepoleon, Wellington and Blucher.
The Batavia Sun of last week tells the
following big corn story: Mr.. John
Conn of this township raised the past year
upon one acre of ground, one hundred
and thirteen bushels and one peck of corn.
Who can beat this yield 2"
VIM. Henry Smith, Secretary of State
of Ohio, Is writing the biography Of the
late Governor Brough.
Henry Cook of Richland Co, made 400
gallons of syrup from IA acres of cane,
last year. 258 gallons of molagses to the
acre is not bad.
The Great Western Oil Company of
Ohio have made fine strike of lubrioa-
ting oil, at a depth Of ninety-six feet, up
on their lands on Buck Run, four miles
from McCOnnellsville, Morgan County,
Ohio. The oil is said to be of superior
quality.
The Piqua National Bank was entered
by burglars, sometime during Wednesday
night, and an unsuccessful attempt made
to force open the vault
Sabin Webb, of Champaign Co. was
thrown from his horse last Thursday, and
so severely injured that he died in about
two hours.
The Sandusky Register says that two
lots of smuggled Whiskey sold by the col
lector on the 18th, brought g. 40 and$3 70
per GALLON.
The Portage County Democratsays that
during eight months of the year 1865,
467, ,739 pounds Of butter and cheese were
forwarded from the RaVenna Station,
The Scioto Gazette says that on Satur-
day evening last little girl about ten
years of age, daughter of John Merkle,
who resides on the Richmondale road, at
the lower end Of the city, was bitten on
the foot by a rabid dog.
L mere are ADOub lU5UUU u d DEuSl0u-
ers in Ohio, and it is estimated that the
number will reach 14,000 when all the
applications shall have been considered
at Washington.
The people of GAINESVILLE remaking an
effort to organize a building company,
with a capital of $5O,000 The object is
to build houses to rent.
Hon. E. E. White, the State Commiss-
ioner of Common Schools In Ohio, whose
term expires in February next, has been
elected Superintendent Of the schools in
Portsmouth, Ohio, at a salary oftWo
thousand five hunderd dollars a year.
The New Philadelphia Chronicle says
that last week Mr.. Samuel Suits was sud
denly killed while in the act of loading
large saW-lOg on to a four-Wheeled wagon.
The log rolled back upon him, crushing
his body in a horrible manner.
The Lebanon, o., Star says that young
widow, the daughter ofa former well
known citizen of Warren County, whose
husband died last Summer, and who now
resides in Lee County Iowa, gave birth
to three children--two girls and boy-on
Tuesday, Dec. 26th, 1865. At last ac-
counts the mother and the trio we're doing
as well as could be expected"