Cincinnati Enquirer, July 1858
The Brookville American says that a Mr. Frazee Tucker of Springfield Township in that county, was killed on Sunday last by being thrown from his wagon, which he had driven upon a bank and overturned, falling under it, while in a state of intoxication. He was about 70 years old, and wealthy.
Fell off the wagon, huh?
The most disastrous flood ever known here visited Brookville Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Both forks of the Whitewater River are out of their banks. The Whitewater Railroad and Big Four are washed away for miles. Telegraph lines and telephone wires are down through Harrison and Brookville, and houses, bridges, fences and stables are drawn toward the Ohio. Two fatalities are reported. Philip Schuh and Bert Osgood of Brookville are lost and supposed to be drowned.
There were worse floods.
Brookville American, December 1834
Hogs!! -- For the last three weeks, our eyes have been greeted with scarce anything but vast droves of the swinish multitude. Win that time, "from our own idea of things," and from the calculations of others there must have passed through this place upwards of THIRTY THOUSAND hogs, all wending their way to Cincinnati, the greatest hog market, we would venture to say, in the known world.
All these hogs are from a small section of this state. We are told by the oldest settlers, there never were as many hogs drove through this place in one year, before, as been within the last three weeks. Some days it seemed as if the vast arena of nature's store house was filled with hogs.
Porkopolis, Ohio.
Cincinnati Gazette, May 1858
The Post office and the jewelry store, attached, in Brookville were entered by burglars on Saturday,, and $2,000 worth of watched and jewelry, all the letters in the office carried off. Some $300 worth of stamps were also taken.
Before robbing the office, the burglars entered a hardware store and procured the necessary tools with which to effect an entrance to the former. It is suspected that some of our city thieves were engaged in the operation.
Out-of-town crooks ... can't trust 'em.
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