Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-13
NEWS ITEMS


It is estimated that SI5 900 worth of whor-
tie berries have been brought into market
at LondonViIle Ashland county.
The yellow fever is raging fearfully in vari-
mortality is fearful.
By the upsetting of a sail boat at McCau-
ly's Point, California, on the 2lst ult., four
teen out of the thirty-two passengers were
drowned.
DIR. Springs congregation, in New York,
are building a church on Murray Hill, which
is estimated 10 cost $500 zee.
The Chinese of California do not Join the
throngs VINO leave tor Frazer River, but take
up the claims left by the deserving miners.
Wesley Fisher. an aged citizen o! Ottawa,
Illinois, murdered his wife, who was many
yedfs his junior, on the 18th inst. Jeal-
ousy was the moving cause.
The only living heir of the late President
Munroe, is Samuel L. Gouvernur, u clerk
in the Treasury Department. His mother
was the Presidents youngest daughter.
A foolish girl OF 20 married one of the
Sioux Chiefs. recently, at w a~sliagton@
When she reached his ~princeiy wigwam sshe
lound it a mud novel occupied by two other
wlyest 5
n man has been arrested in New York
city Tor eating dog meat. He had a steak
trying at the time, and was complained of
for making u nuisance.
At a foot race in Bangor, Me-, Jas. Small.
OF Albany, ran around the mile track tour
times, drawing a light sulky. in 81 minutes
ANA 81 seconds, aud then an Indian ran five
miles in 30 minutes and II seconds.
A dispatch from Detroit says thai Senator
Chandler was seriously, though ii is believed
not fatally, injured by an explosion of gas
at his residence in tf1at city on Mo day
evening.
The sahdusky Register states that there
is u prospect OF the Berlin Heights Free Low
ers being scattered, certain respectable per-
sons proposing, with probable u recess, 10 buy
theH out of house and h5me.
The litsle daughter of Mr.. Kirk, on Mon
day last, up at Port Clinton, 01towa County,
tumbied into Lake Erie and was made tlr.
sport of the waves for an hour, of course
causing her death.
Bradford Allen, the eminent manufacture
ing leweller, in Providence, K. L., who died
on Sunday week, fell a victim to malignant
erysipelas and pneumonia, Induced by taking
ing a cold bath while his blood was very
much heated.
The quarrel Of twenty years standing be-
tween Sir Edward Buiwer Lytton and his
wife, has at last been settled by the inierren-
ton OF their son, RobertB. Lytton, a younng
man Of remarkably brilliant qualities.
A girl was arrested on Greenwhich street
N. Y, one evening last week Tor promenad.
ing with, rather unusual for The street, a very
scanty covering CONSISTING of a pair of high
heeled boots, leghorn bat and feathers, and a
Saelefon skirt.
PEACHES AT CINcINNAqI.-Tle CONNER
cial says ripe, plump and luscious peaches
are arriving daily in large quantities. The
choicest varieties are selling ut tromlWo TO
three dollars per bushei.
A letter from Lucknow, India, dated April
17lh, says, that on he previous day, a dirty
box was found, after Two hours digging,
which, when opened, was found to contain a
collection Of rubies, diamonds, pearls, &c,
of the value Of 100000 rupees.
Mrs. Cunningham denies the rumor tina.
she is married to Dir. Eckel, and says that
be has NO: visited her house since the triul.
Or. Catlin. @ho figured IN the baby case, has
been released from The ToLnbs. The cuse is
still on the docket, but will probably never
be tried.
The Woo3man cuse, which has excited
considerable interest throughout The country
in consequence OF the notoriety acquired by
Mrs. Woodman in Boston, New YORK anc
other cities, was decided in New Orleans la st
week, by d decree granting Dir. Woodmaa a
divorce from his wife.
A physician practieiug in Woodaa. near
Newhurg, N. Y, has lately been oueked in
a pond by a mob, then enYeloped in a coat
Of tar aud feathers, hoisted on a rail, and es-
corted oat OF town, for paying too mach at
tentlon 10 a far widow, 10 the great neglect
OF his family
n company of about twenty-five persons
Will leave Milwaukee this week for Frazier
river, via. III. Paul. A company is about to
feave Pawtucket, 4. L., and Ia New York
city, ut "a meeting Of Germans on WedRes-
day night, hiy Germans signed a pledge 10
go. Snali parties are forming in other sec
lions OF the country for the same desrina-
ti0a.
The Gallatjn CTenn.l Examiner says
that a child of Mr.. Read, in that place, died
in a very lew hours the past week FROM the
effects OF eating a small quantity of wild
cherries. This should be a warming to every
one. il is not generally known that prussic
acid, one of the most deudiy p~oisops, IS found
III the wild cherry.
The licenses which the British authorities
sell 10 the miners on the Fazer river cost
twenty-one slIitlings, and must be renewed
every three months, which is eqaiva lent 10 n
tax oil $2I per year. For this they are al
lowed to mine a claim Of only twelve feet
squar e, or LA square feet. The Californians
think the limits uneomlortably small, and the
terms hard.
Samuel Morgan, the drunken. brutal
wretch, who %inhumanly murdered his wife
near Portsmouth, Ohio, and was sentenced
10 be hung on the Gath of September, has
cheated the ~hangman by hanging himself in
Jail, with astrip torn from a sheet in HE
bunk.
The venerable Josiah Quincy, the Hon.
Albert Fearing, jonathan Phelps, Esq, Of
Boston, and the Hon. Thomas Mendhali, OF
New Bedford, have already subscribed each
$1,000 toward a fund Of $40 900 to be rails
ed in New England for Antioch College, o.,
President Mann. Various others have con-
iributed to the amount of $4,000.