The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-23
THE WHISKY BUSINESS.
OHIO NEWS.

incorporated under the laws OF Ohio
to mine for gold in the recently dis
covered gold regions in Clermon'
County, In the vicinity of Batavia
and on the waters of the East Forl
of the Miami. Some of the stock
jholders, who have been miners in Cal
ifornia, say that the prospect of a ricf
yield from these fields is highly en-
~ceuraging. f;i ise'
"A few days ago a little daughter
Of John Miller, of Walnnt-creek town
ship Holmes County, Ohio, crawlet
to a barrel, which he had placed in {
lspring-run near the house for the pur
.lpose of procuring water, and fell ii
land was drowned. The child wa:
i about eighteen months old.
w. I. Fearce, clerk in the Gin
cinnati lpostrofiee, has been. held tc
answer for ~abstracting money from
letters ~ ,gE.} u.
"A few days ago, a daughter Of
Mrs. Fletcher, living not far from
Xenia, Ohio, vas dangerously bitten
by a r~attlesnake. The Gazette advises
the boys thereabouts to engage In
snake-hunting, and assures them the
game is abundant in the tall grass,
rushes and weeds around there.
Emmett Bros. and others from
C~hillicothe, charged with conspiracy
to defraud the Government in remov-
ing whisky without paying tax, have
been discharged by the Commissioner
at Cincinnati. The material witness
was impeached.
AN old man, seventy=seven years
of age, hung himself, last week, near
Jefferson, Ashtabula county, to limb
of an apple tree in the front yard Of
his son-in-faw. Cause4family quar-
|! rels over the division of a t~wenty-acre
farm. ,
AS Nj. David Shelton, says the
Bueksye Shste, who lives a few miles
northwest of New Lisbon, was re-
turning home a lew evenings since,
his horse be me frightened and ran
away, sadly damaging the buggy and
burying!the occupant beneath the ru,
ms. Fortunately no bones broken
and but slight injuries sustained.
"A man named Brown, shot his
wife at Berea, Ohio, last week. They
became acquainted with each other
through a matrimonial advertisement.
"A Young man named Eli Weld
man, was sitting on the doorstep of
his fathers house, at Canton. Ohio,
on Tuesday evening, June 1st, listen
ing to music on the. opposite side of
the street, when he suddenly fell back
and was dead. '.t
On Monday last, two negroes who
has been at work on Mr.. McMaster's
farm, up the Muskingum, came too
near the falls at DevoPs dam, with
their boat. One jumped out and was
drowned; the other stuck to the boat
and went safely over. The name of
the drowned man is Henry Draper
leaves a wife and one child.
The Marion Democrat says: A
man by the name of Byres. in TT homp-I
son Townlp, Delaware. County, o.,
abused andhad illicit intercourse with
little girl some nine years old, five
or .orfsixi times, last week, and on
Monday was, upon her affidavit ar
rested, but managed to get away, from
the officers and efEectedhis escape, and
has not been re~7captured. i5j -.H y1
;u-1A young NAH rby the name of
Wynn who resides in Pr spect'T p.,
Marion County, was one day last
week oyerpowered by four big black
niggers and castrated. No arrests
have yet been made. The negroes of
that same township also assaulted our
young friend VIM. H. Hopkins with
intent to murder him, but he succeed
ed in effecting his escape, and had enc
of the black scoundrels arrested and
fined. The people should suppress
such violence and outrages as o as
possible. -Marion Democrat.
A bright faced little boy in West
Liberty, Ohio, was asked at Sunday
School, the other day who wrote the
New Testament2 He promptly re-
sponded in a voice, as one who knew
whereof he affirmed-"Donn Piatt.'
"A man named Farrell was shot
in Hendrysburg, Belmont county, o.,
Monday night. 1t appears that Far
rell, while intoxicated, came into Yaus'
saloon and demanded a drink. His
order was refused, an alteration en-
sued which terminated in Yaus's shoot
/ ~ his customer.
in Upper Sandusky. o., on Mon
day, Dexter Gray, a sewing machine
agent. awaking in the night, found
the contents of a eoal-lamp, which was
sstIuned down. bad taken fire. He
attempted to remove the lamp from
the room, when it exploded, burning
him so badly that he died the next
night Il ego rrH
The town of Fremont is infested
with burglars and horse-thieves. The
residence of of H.R. Shones was bur-
glaried on the 9th inst, and robbed of
about seventy dollars, and the same
night a horse and buggy stolen of D.
J.. June. In the latter case the prop
erty was recovered and the thief ar
rested.
The Springfield, Republic, relates
that about a week ago a middle-aged
widow lady of that place, went to
DAYTON and was married to a bachelor
of that city to whom she had been on
gagged two years or more. In an hour
the wedding ceremony the bride
groom was taken suddenly i'll, and in
a few minutes the s'bride of IN hour"
was a widow again. Heart disease
was the husbands malady.
The big snake which was dlscov-
cred on Hurricane, last fall, and about
which SO much excitement was created,
go 10 work, they change fneyerthefe.