MIAMI COUNTY OHIO - NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: Piqua Democrat (1866) *************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gary Barton gbarton@pacbell.net September 24, 1998 *************************************************************************** The Piqua Democrat, Piqua, Ohio, Wednesday, August 1, 1866, Volume 3, Number 1 Hydraulic Meeting ----- There will be another Hydraulic meeting, at City hall, on to-morrow Thursday Evening. Books will be open to receive subscriptions, and all interested in the construction of the work, are earnestly invited to attend. Come forward, gentlemen, and put down your stock at once, and you will soon have the Hydraulic. ----- Mr. H.T. DELOW will please accept our thanks for garden vegetables. ----- The cholera is prevailing in alarming extent in New York ----- See notice of "Miami National Turnpike Company." ----- THe cholera has broken out in CIncinnati, and several deaths have occurred from it within the last few days. ----- Luther HILL, Esq., offers an excellent Mill property for sale, See advertisement. ----- Thanks to Hon. Wm. LAWRENCE for a copy of the report of the Reconstruction Committee. ----- Ration money Payable.---Congress has just passed a joint resolution authorizing the payment of commutation of rations to prisoners of war. ----- An Epidemic.---A disease called by physicians Typhoid Flux, is quite generally prevailing in this city. In no case has it proven fatal. ----- The Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1764 passed the following: Resolved, That no member of the Legislature will be allowed to come into the House barefooted. ----- The weather, for the last week or more, has been so wet and stormy as to damage the wheat and oats in shock, and to blow down large quantities of corn in this latitude.---Sidney Democrat. ----- -- =================================== gbarton@pacbell.net Gary Barton "Its never too late to have a happy childhood." Tom Robbins