Notes on certain parts of the State of Ohio. 235 
ly stopped with the extinction of life. The rubbing seemed 
to increase their distress, and make them bellow as if dis- 
tracted with agony. The side of the head and neck was 
considerably swelled, but no other mark of disease could be 
discovered in the omits of several which I examined. The 
blood drawn was very dark, and the skin, in the course of the 
ae colder than in health. 'Trepaning, bleeding, cathar- 
and various other remedies were pty but all failed. 
calam 
Crimes of a very heinous nature are not common amongst 
us; they mostly belong to the classes of petty larceny, as- 
sault and_batte c. &c. Suicide is a very rare occur- 
rence; I do not recollect more usb one or two instances of 
the kind, in the last twelve year 
state of the learned oetheisistia of morals, of reli-- 
; the number of academies, 
schools and colleges, how supported, and the mode of in- 
struction £ 
Considerable attention is paid to learning in this town and 
county. Some of the towns support schools nearly or quite 
all the year; and all of them have schools through the win-- 
ter months. There are few children of a proper rm 
who cannot both read and write. In the township of 
rietta, for several years past, we have had two schools th 
the year, and as many as six or eight in the winter. One of 
the annual schools has been a regular academy, im which 
were taught the dead languages, geography and the use of 
the globes, rhetoric, oratory, Nc. &c. In the other were 
taught geography, English grammar, arithmetic, &c. : 
schools are generally supported by subscription ; the ei 
scribers paying from two to five dollars per quarter for each 
scholar, in proportion to the branches taught. 
sections, No. 16, afford some assistance. 
section in Marietta, at its present valuation, affords about 
600 per year. It has heretofore’ been from two to three 
hundred a year. 
