Petroleum V. Nasby

Toledo O., Feb. lü.-D. It. Locke, edtor of tbe Wade, of this city, and widelyknown as " Petroleum V. Nasby," died at Q:óö ocloeK yeswjiday morning. The immediate cause of his death was consumption of tlie lungs. [David Ross Locke was bom at Vestal. N. Y., September 20, 1833 In 1844 he began to learn the printers' traüe at the office of the CourUand(N. Y.) Courier. He worUed there seven years, and thca wandered arouna the country, sotnetimes workingatthe "case as a printer and times üoing a roorter's woA He Jftrald and F.ndlay Jeffereoiuun. tu flrst "Nasby" letter appeared m ene laritv They were copied lnto niwspapers Ler Prorn!nent men -J He lectured in all the prmcipal cit.es o : the North and was everywhere greeted with great Snees. He was olfered official posons President Lincoln, and also by P esle"1 Grant" Dut steadíly declined, as bis only amtationwasinthejournalistic teld. n,n,.ñn ín 1863 he assumed charge of the Toledo Blafc.flrst on asalary, aítenvard purchasing an interest, and finally the entire control. _It Ld always been his flream to loupd a great „ational weeUly, which_ he .oow cerned, nU were but part of the powcrlul work he did ta the political field. He was a poet of no mean order, and several of lus devotional Sems can be found in church hymnals. He wesevenüplaysanddid a vast wnountof other literary wort. His literary labOM and ntwspaper were very proütable, and m his Syears be was largely intcrested m ing and manufacturing in Toledo. His fortuno s estimated at a milüon, exclusive oí the Made He was marnecl while at Piymouth to Miss Martba Bodine who, with fheirthree sons-all grown to hod-surTivehim. Hisdeath was caubed by consumptïon, whic was hereditary on bis motter s de His father, N. R. Locke, a vcteran , of the war of 1812, is still living in Toledo at tneadvancedage of W. The fatherwas oneofthe original anti-slavery men of tbe country.l TOLEDO, O., Feb. 18. -The body oí D. R. I.ockewasplacedinavault at Woodlawn Cemetery yesterday. a larffe crowd. m=ltiding many distinguislicd people, „ttendms the servicea