Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-01-15

not fond of reading, swallowing whole vol
umes of poems at a dose, or any extrava-
eances of that kind, but they have taste
enough just to appreciate the Atlantic, and
if it does as well ev erywhere else rs here
ii will soon make a fortune for its pub
fishers.
The ROCHESTER MURDER.-The grandju
nv have found u bill Of indictment against
Ira Stout and his sister. Mrs. Littles, for the
murder of the husband of the latter. The
Rochester Democrat gives, from what it as
serts to be reliable authority, the details ofthe
murder. 1t seems Mrs. Lttles wished to
be rid of her husband, and proposed to go
West but Stout suggested that If Littles
should some day be pnt out of the way she
would have no occasion to 60 West. Stout
was the more ready to get rid of Littles, from
the fact hat the latter knew of the previous
confinement of Stout in the penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, and feared that Litties would
diyulqe the fact in Rochester Littles who
was suspicious OF his wife's fidelity, was de-
coyed at night to the spot where the muir
der w as committed, down below the city near
the river, where he expected proof of his
wife's criminality. When Titles reached
the spot Stout struck MIN with an iron weap-
on felled him TO the earth, dragged the body
tniha-pHeoipice and in the dark went with
it down the bank thirty feet. Mrs. Lrttfes,
startled by Stout's outcry. attempted to fol-
low him and also wen: off. Stout broke his
arm by the fall and she her wrist. The tri-
al will prove the truth or falsity of this no
doubt.
Remarkably clear and tough paper has
been made from beet-root. Persons have
seen some pulp produced from beet-root. the
was very clear and white, and intended for
the manufacture OF the ineset writing papers.
1t is said that when mixed with other pulps
it saves a loss which regularly occurs. as by
its albuminous character it prevents the es-
cape of the finer parts of pulps through the
wire-cloth of the Fourdrinier Machines
The inventor Of beet-root paperis DR.. Coll
yer.
A MAMMOTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT IN
IowA.-The Iowa State Democrat says:
Hon w. H. NJ. Pussy, State Senator elect
from the COUNSEL Bluffs district, will repre-
sent % organized counties. The area OF
country composing this district is much lar
ger than either of the States of New Hamp.
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts or New Jer-
sey-three times as large as Connecticut
nearly seven times as large as the State of
Delaware--and larger than Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut put together.
ACTING GOVERNOR DENvER.-There is a
report. though on what authority it rests does
not appear, that Gen. Denver, President Bu-
chanan's special appointee to the Executive
authority in Kansas, already expresses strong
ly his opinion that Gov. Walker and Secre-
tary Stanton have pursued the proper course
in the territory, and that no other can be
wisely allowed. VIII he to be removed,
Mr.. Short says Kansas is a great country.
Rents cheap, because they have no houses.
Women not expensive, bscause they don't
have any. Society primitive and not par
ticular. The men and hogs, cattle and dogs
all lay in the same bed. Ii you want to
live like a double breasted ~fighting-eock, go
to Kansas. The boat sails frequently.
HIS V:RrUoUs HARD MosEY ADMINS :
TRArIoN DESCENDING TO RAGs!-The most
passionate aud the most elaborate point ar
gued to Congress by the President, in his
message, was the mischievousness. of paper
money-the unconstitutionality of bank
netes-andthe virtue of q currency of gold
and silver. Leaning against the Sub-Treas.
ury, the President complacently declared
that the Government would .scontinue to
discharge its liabilities to the people in coin."
AT that very moment, a scheme was matur-
ed to issue Treasury notes for at leas. TWEEN
ty millions of dollars!
he Administrator which attr ibutes all
the financial ills OF The country to sspaper is
ues,'' is to turn banker on Il system, which
if practiced in the State of New York, would
land the adventurous fnancier in the peni-
Tertiary. The notes of our banks are Sc
cured by State stocks and bonds and mort
cages. These Treasury notes are to be is
sued upon the faith of the Government
The former are redeemable and convertible.
safe and confided in. The latter, in the
~strictest sense Of the word, are shinplasters.
Albany Journal.
The fredericksburg (VaRecorder notes
a remarkable falling off in the prices of slave
hire, ranging from fifty to seventy. five per-
cent, less than those obtained last year. AT
a public hiring, it says, a few days since,
slave men brought only from three to eight
dollars a month.
The Piitsield (Mass.9 Sun has been con-
Quoted for 0ty-Seuen yeare by its present ed
itor, the Hon. Phineas Allen. The Sen
was first issued in 1900. e