Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-22
OHIO ITEMS.

The Bellefountaine Republican says a
woman who sued for and obtained a di-
Yorce at the present term of the Common
! Pleas Court, in Logan County, obtained
"a license to marry, from Judge Taylor, on
the same day she was released from her
former bonds.
David jenkins, d. D. G. NJ, of Colum-
/ bus, states that since September, last, he
has organized IN this State FIVE Masonic
/ lodges, composed Of negroes, one at each
/ of the following places Hamilton and
Oxford, Butler county, Urbans, Delaware
and CircleVille. @
The CiroleviIle Union says that on
Saturday evening last, Willie infant son
of Palmer Lowe, of Deercreek Township,
was accidentally drowned in a well on
the premises his father. There was no
witness to the melancholy event, and the
exact manner in which it occurred is
unknown.
The GAINESVILLE Courier records match
at rat killing, at Frazeysburg, MuskingUm
county; one company produced 1,478
tails, and the other ], 200, and won fine
supper at the hotel Of that place. Most
of the rats we're killed the last two
days of the hunt.
A mud cat-f fish weighing eighteen 18E
pounds was caught in the Muskingum
river, near McCOnnellsYille, last week,
A son Of Matthew Bell, of Marietta,
aged about seven years, was drowned in
the Ohio river a week or two ago.
"a fTst-elass wooden factory is in sue
cessful and paying operation at Mechan-
icsbuTg, Ohio. These factories are spring.
ing up all over the west.
The members of the Knox County Sol
diers and Sailors League have resolved to
celebrate the coming 4th of July, and ap-
pointed a committee to procure an orator
and make proper arrangements,
The rate of taxation adopted on native
wine In the new Tax Bill is five cents per
bottle, A mistake in the telegraphic ac-
count of the proceedings of the Commit
tee few days since made it read fifty
cents per bottle.
MISS RACHEL SIMMONS, daughter of
Abraham Simmons, of Caldwell, Noble
county, was thrown from horse on the
10th qlt., in the bridge near that place.
and SO badly injured that she died the
next day.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette has several no
tices of wells IN which oil has been reach
ed within a few days In that county.
The Cleveland Herald asserts that the
lake steamboats, now use fish for fuel.
-AuS0 64ALg pO4AO SbNIE6uuB are AuuR
head foremost into the furnace The oil
assists the combustion of the wood, twenty
surgeons being equal to one cord Of
wood, in the production of heat
The Union State Sunday School Con !
vention met in annual session, in the |
first Presbyterian Church at Sandusky, on |
Tuesday Charles H. Wolff, of Cincin- |
natl, was elected President for the en- 1
suing year B. Frankland, of Cincinnati, !
Treasurer and Daniel Peel, Of Cleve-
land, Recording Secretary. The session /
Wednesday and Thursday, |
and concluded with an excursion to the /
Lake Erie Islands.
St. Mary's Academy and Convent, at
Somerset, Ohio, an institution under the
control of the Dominican Sisters, was
burned on the 9TH inst The fire cauqht
N the laundry The building was a i0ur
story brick structure, 100 by $50 feet. It
vas occupied by 125 pupils and 30 sisters
The total amount of insurance is only s.,
100, several policies having recently ez-
bred The loss is about 100000.