Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-03
STATE NEWS.

THE Oxford Citizen announces the death
of DR.. Burtis, Professor of Greek in the
Miami University. He died in that village
on Friday morning last.
ONE day last week, says the Ripley Bee,
while MIR. M. Mahan was riding along the
road leading from Russellville to George
town, his horse stepped into one of the nu-
merous mud holes, fell forward and broke
his back, To, end his suffering Mr.. Mahan
shot him. -, s..Fe-.sn a..
tMRs. CYNTHIA QUINN, relict of Rev. Isaac
Quinn, one of the pioneer Methodist
preachers of the West, says the Highland
News, died in this place on Sunday, 18th
nit, at the advanced age Off years. She
was the mother Of our townsman, DIR.
Quinn. and was a most estimable lady.
QUITE a crowd was attracted to the
neighboFhood of the railroad bridge on
Thursday last, by the discovery of child
in the river, some forty or fifty feet below
the bridge. No clue as to how it came there
hasbeen discovered. It was buried in the
graveyard. So says the AuglaiSe Democrat.
WE are pleased, says the Hamilton True
Telegraph, to announce that the wheat crop
in this county has so far escaped uninjured,
xcept in localities where the overf1owing
of water courses inflicted damage, and it
now gives promise of abundant yield. We
earnestly hope that such will be the case.
THE mill belonging to William Skeeles,
situated at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson coun-
ty, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the night of the 10th ult. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but is supposed to be
the work of an incendiary. We are not in
formed as to the amount of loss or insur-
ance.
LAST week three million one hundred and
eight thousand pounds of iron and iron
ware arrived in Cleveland, and one million
four hundred and seventy thousand pounds
were shipped. This does not include nails
and spikes, of which one hundred and forty
seven thousand pounds were shipped du-
ring the same time.
A YOUNG lady by the name of Miss En-
ma Neff, from Hamilton, Ohio, says the
Peoples Defender, who has been for some
time employed in the Woolen Factory in
this place, while engaged in sheariDg a
piece of cloth, was so unlucky as to loose
two of her fingers on last Tuesday.
LIZ our issue of the 18th inst, says the
Seneca Advertiser, we published a short item
giving an account of Mr.. j. w. Suger-
man being robbed near Carey. We have
since learned that the whole thing was a
humbug. The peddler at first said he was
robbed, but upon being closely questioned,
acknowledged that it was all sensation
conceived in his own mind.
The Sprinqfeld Advertiser says moulder
by the name of George Curtiss died very
suddenly Monday night, at the Western
Hotel, apparently from the effects of intem-
perance. He had been on a spree for sew
eral days preceding his death, and had some
forewarnings of approaching dissolution,
as he told friend that he thought he should
not live till morning, and desired him to
sit up with him through the night. He
was rising thirty years old, and man of
rather fine appearance.
Our town was startled on Sunday morn
ing, says the So. CEdirsUiEte Chronicle, by the
information that Mr.. William Lash a
farmer living about two and halt miles
south of town, on the Warnock's road-had
cut his throat and died few moments
afterwards. 1t appears that he ate hearty
breakfast, sharpened his penknife, and
going out into his yard cut his throat from
ear to ear, seve ring the jugular vein, and
the windpipe. No one saw him perpetrate
the horrible deed, and when found he was
lying on his face and about breathing his
last. His throat and neck were terribly
hacked, as though the awful act was ac-
complished with great difficulty.