Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-02
ITEMS or OHIO NEWS.

: On the 9th OF January, Martin, son O
= Mr.. u. Miller, Of Franklin township
: Wayne county, committed suicide b.
hanging himself
The Athens Messenger notices The
wandering away of two little children, five
years of age. The corpse of one, after a
general search in which the inhabitants
of the neighborhoOd participated was
found in the river.
Benjamin D. Strother, Sr., died at Van
Vert, Van Vert county, January 26,
1866, at the advanced age of SO years, 10
months and 10 days He was born in
Culpepper county, Va, ten years before
the Declaration of independence was
signed He emigrated to Newark, Ohio,
in 1905.
An old lady, named Weaver, living a
short distance from Upper Sandusky,
committed suicide, by hanging herself to
a joist Of the house in which she lived.
The Bellefountaine Republican says
that on the evening of the 18th, inst.
about o'clock, as Mr. Daniel Man was
going home, he was assaulted knocked
down and robbed of nearly $500 in money
and a note of some 5000.
The Canton Repository says that man
named HydsOn while examining a pistol.
fired it off accidentally, the contents going
through the body Of his little son, killing
him almost instantly.
The GAINESVILLE Signal says another oil
well has been struck on the land of Isaac
Piles, in Blue Rock township, Muskin
gum county. The well is only twenty
feet deep. The present owner Of the well
IS poor man who has a lease on the
property for ten years.
The Cleveland Herald reports that on
Friday night the earth in the vicinity of
East Cleveland cracked open with dull /
report, like an earthquake The fssure .
was two or three inches wide and exten- +
ded into the ground several feet 1t /
damaged several houses and alarmed the
people generally.
The population of Ohio, in the year
which has just closed, according to the
Report of the State Auditor was 2,514.-
974
The Treasurer of Mercer county. con-
tradlcts the sensation story of the Dayton
Ournal relative to the drowning of
twenty seven children at Celina
The Ironton Register says: Charles
O'Neil, a coal digger at the Belfont banks
near the Tunnel, was instantly killed, on
W Wednesday, Jan. 3lst, by the fall of
llate from the roof of the mine.
The Auditor of States Report saws
var purposes, during the rebellion, was
,lO, ,41O, ,238,71. just so much paid for
lemOcratic disUnionism.
Arrangements are nearly perfected for
he immediate erection of suitable build
ngs for a Steam Forge, for the manufac- p
ure of hammered iron and railroad car
Xles on a large scale in Akron. g
ADvERTIsING.-The is an article that &C.
as been for sale in Marietta for several u
ears, but for which there was no sale. n
{ was not advertised Recently the pro =
rietOr came to this Office and paid us to su
1vertise it six months in the Register OF
githin two months from the first inser- m,
on about 800 worth had been sold at 'h
tail. "Nuf ced. Marietta Re0isfer
Yet some people think that advertis.
ents are never read, and consequently
lvertising is no advantage to any ones
lsiness. They are fogies, as far behind
e age as the pack-horse is behind the F
ilrOad train.
The next Ohio State Fair is to be held
the 11th, 18th, 18th, and 14th of Sen
nber, next. The place has not yet been
oided upon.