The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-06-25
STATE NEWS.

Commencement at Marietta College
will be held June 30th.
In Adams county one man returned
81 dogs for taxation, another 10, an
other I2, and another IL.
The Champaign County Agricultu-
raj Fair will be held September 2sth,
Goth, and 3Oth, and October lst.
The pulpit of the Universalist
Church, ut Pleasant Valley, Madison
county, is filled by a lady-Miss Lap
ham.
The Knox County Agricultural
Fair will be held on Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday. September eth,
sth and 9Th, 1869.
Recently, in Medina. little girl OF
a saloon keeper, named Orsinger. got
hold of bottle of whisky, and drank
enough to kill her.
Mr.. George H. Woodruff, of Peru,
Huron county, Ohio, died few days
ago, in the seventy-fourth year of his
age. the Norwalk Reflector says
the deceased came to that county in
1917.
Christian Palmer died June Sd, in
Canton, aged eighty years. He was
born in Orange county, Virginia, and
moved to Stark county in 1906. In
1918 he married Christina Schoen.
berger.
A few days ago, at Glandorf, Put
nam county, two sons of Mr.. Kemp
er quarreled about the way in which
their father disposed of his property,
and one of them stabbed the other,
killing him almost Immediately.
William Daniels, of Springfield
township, Richland county, wanted
to scratch his ear, and use loaded
revolver for that purpose. Acciden-
tally pressing the trigger he scratched
himself very effectually. Though
severely wounded he will recover.
John Horton died at his residence
IN Jefferson township, Jackson county,
June 6, 1869, aged 81 years. He
was native of Virginia, and emigrat-
ed to Ohio in 1912. He first settled
near Centerville, Ohio, but soon re-
moved to Jefferson township, where
he lived until his death.
A man named Gillespie, living near
Germantown, Ohio, not long ago re-
ceived compound fracture of his leg
bone, by his horse falling on him.
The bone was set, and he was rapidly
recovering when he fell frem the
lounge, asleep, and fractured it anew.
Again it was doing well, and he was
doing well, and he was in hopes of
soon being about, when one day while
lying on pallet, his nephew, catching
his toe in a rent in the carpet, fell
upon his leg, breaking it as badly as
at first. Little hope is entertained Of
his recovery.
Nancy A. Clark writes to us from
Gallia county, where she is living, and
says her husband. Robert A. Clark,
left lis home in Wood county, West
Virginia, May 10th, 1868. He is five
feet ten inches in height, has light
hair, blue eyes and dark skin. He
has a scar OH his left wrist, one on his
upper lip, and a red mark on the side
of his nose. He is twenty five years
old, and served three years in the
army. Information will be thankfully
received.
The Dayton Journal says: "When
the lower bridge across the Miami, at
Miamisburg, went down before the
fury of the storm, on the evening of
the 9th inst, Mr.. Urchell and son
were driving a cow through the
structure. They escaped with their
lives, though considerably injured !;
but the cow disappeared, and was
believed to have been crushed to
death or drowned. On the morning
of the lIth, when the Urchell family
arose, they found Sukey at her accus-
toned place by the stable door, await
ing recognition and food A few
scratches were the only observable
indications of the fearful ordeal the
animal had passed through.