Cheer up; it could be worse

Palladium Item, 1884

Tough day all around

A fire at Pomeroy, O., destroyed 42 buildings, covering an area of 2 acres; loss $60,000.

Charles Wegman of Cincinnati, while drunk, shot and killed himself because his girl would not marry him.

The dead body of an unknown man with a hole in his skull was found hanging in the woods near Newark, O.

James Thomas of Laurel, Ind., was arrested and is held to answer the charge of having sent obscene letters to ladies.

Tramps set fire to and burned the barn of Dr. Alford at Walton, Ind., together with horses, wagons, hay and grain. Loss $2,000.

Accident

As Mrs. Mary E. Melle, who resides on South Fifth Street, was driving to the funeral of Henry Bowing yesterday, accompanied by several of her children, the tire came off the carriage in which she was driving and the wheel broke down. The jolt caused by the let-down of the bed in consequence threw her out of the vehicle backward, and broke her left forearm near the wrist. She was taken to a surgeon, but being aged, it is probable that it will be several months before she fully recovers. 

Dead

Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at No. 200, North Sixteenth Street of congestion of the bowels, Ella M., wife of Charles A. Clark, aged 35 years. Funeral will leave the house at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for Centerville where religious services and interment will take place at 9:30.

1836 -- some flooding, not much

Brookville American, April 1836

HIGH WATER

Within the last week, this section of the state has been visited by copious rains. On Saturday we had a very heavy shower of rain, which swelled the rivers and streams so much that considerable injury has been sustained by the mills along Whitewater, and farmers have suffered much in the loss of fencing and the wash of their lands. 

We understand that the Sylvan Factory, Halstead Mills, and the Paper and Flour mills in this place were among the sufferers. The waters were higher than they have been before for several years.

POSTMASTERS AND OFFICES

The postmaster at Springfield, in this county, sent on to the Department some months since his resignation, and also recommended the appointment of Wm. McCaw in his place.

A  recommendation by the citizens was also sent on in favor of Mr. McCaw, but nothing has been heard from the Department, although it has been two or three months.

Consequently,  the postmaster has removed out of the county, and they have no Post Office there.

The Post Office at Scipio is in about the same situation. it seems that the Department attends in no business at all.

It is a matter of regret to many of the citizens of this county, that two of our valuable citizens (W.D. Jones and Jonah  Raridan) both postmasters, and gentlemen of long residence, and respectable standing, are going with the tide of emigration, and seeking the promised land.

NOTICE

We received an advertisement by last Sunday's mail from the neighborhood of Fairfield, with a request at the bottom to publish it in our next paper. The postage not having been paid on the letter, the advertisement cannot be inserted.

Letters to the editor much be post paid, or the business will not be attended to. 

THE COUNTY SEAT

The Dearborn Circuit Court convened at Lawrenceburgh on Monday morning. A motion to adjourn the Court to Wilmington was immediately made. The motion was argued at length, until Wednesday, when Judge Eggleston decided that Wilmington was the County Seat. The Lawrenceburghers immediately appealed to the Supreme Court of the state. The court meets at Indianapolis in May and will, no doubt decide the question. -- Rising Sun Times

Note: Rising Sun was in Dearborn County until 1844 when Ohio County was created, making Lawrenceburg the county seat of Dearborn County.