Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-27
NEWS ITEMS

settled in Florida, on the ground deserted
by Billy Bowlegs.
The Mobile journals contain a call for a
meeting to form a "Wine Growers Associ-
ation," with a capital of from $4,000 to
IO0, 900.
1t is a great peach year down in South
Carolina and Georgia, and the finest speci-
mems of hat fruit are vended in Augusta at
SO cents to a dollar a bushel.
In the vicinity of Fort ColviIIe, on the
Frazer river, where the first discoveries of
gold were made in 1856, the sayages are
making hostile demonstrations and have
driven in the settlers just as they were en-
gagged in han vesting their crops.
On the day Of the recent election in
Crockett, Texas, IT. w. Donohue and w.
Dickerson got into quarrel, being heated
with liquor, in the course of which knives
and pistols were freely used. Donohue was
killed on the spot, and Dickerson was though,
to be fatally woqpded.
The Daily Ledger, Of Laavenworth city
has beer informed that immediate applica-
ton will be made to Gov. Denver to call
an extra session of the Legislature Of Kanc
sas, in order that steps may be taken fos the
formation. of another constitution for the
Territory. a
A little son of Judge Donaldson, in Mon.
tezuma, Indiana, was bitten on the arm by q
spider, while sleeping in a cradle. The arm
swelled rapidly, Inflammation spread to 9th.
er parts of the body, and the second day af-
ter the injury, the child died,
The sheriG Of Ieavenwortl (Kansas) I'D.
v~ertises Cor sale q yoke of oxen, and a Negro
boy, Is years Of age! Although nineteen-
twcntietls of the people of Kansas are ep.
posed to slavery, the institutions is forced
upon them! Here is a practical illustration
of popular Sovereignty"
OVERLAND FOR FRAZER RTvER.-The ST.
Anthony Express learns by a gentlcmaz
from the Red River of the North, that he
Eaet seven parties of emigrants bound fol
Frazer River, ON his way down lately
This books as if the overland Eoate is abou,
being tried in earnest.
The Hatsess' Bank, of Bethel, Conn, was
sobhed sD Sunday night last of about 1885,.
900, chiefly in bills of said bank. No clue
has been obtained to the robbers The
bank cautions persons against recefxa nag the
hills of the bank until further advised.
oh Sunday last, a slave woma aeout As
years Of age, owed by Mr.. Cleveland, oil
Florence, Ky, gave birth 10. Il Child, aud
soon after she took he infant by the feet
and beat its hzaias out When accused OF
tho crina cha to1no 1or 1r,;lt anJ
gave as a reason that she would not raise up
children to be slaves all their liyesI Such Is
the peculiar iustitWtion.H
On Sunday week a German Shoemaker
named Beatty. whilst hunting game i'll the
vicinity of Milan, fred at what he supposed
was a wood chuck. 1t proved to be a boy
about seventeen years of age, named Wild
den, who was picking berries behind a tree.
About twenty shots logged in his shoulder
The boy is recovering.
At Paris, lately, a woman was bitten in
the back of the neck by one Of those large
flies which feed on decayed meat, and died
in a few days afterwards, suffering severely,
af.d in spite of the best medical attendance.
1t is supposed that the fly must have been
eating carrion Immediately before wounding
the woman, and that the virus which it in
troduced igtH the wound qufckfSr sPreda
through the system
OLD WHEAT SPoILIHG.-We hear of sew
eral farmers who have found their old wheat
spoiliEg in the grancry from heating
Those who have any old wheat on hand
should xanin its condition at once
Fresh air and frequent stirring are effectual
preventives if oppIied in timr.-IHi lstor-
ongh News,
Fhe- Elktont Md Democrat says:
I'VE understand that Mr.. Nathaniel Wolfe,
OF Kent county, las sold the fruit Of one OF
his orchards ~ sassafras gi7er ,for s 3,oGQ,
to be delivered upon the shore. We also IN
derstand that Mr.. ReYbcId, proprietor of
the Cassidy peach farm, !n Sassafras Neck,
in this county, expects to realize over $780,
600 from his orchards this season."
FEMALE EQUEsrR1AHIsn.-phis is to be
of the features of the Stale Fair. The
Register states that the ring has been ten
dered for the purpose Of a trial of skill in
female equestrianism, and the first prize
will be an elegant sad die, costing $50!
At- a..a.H.-.
We learn that the number of cases of
fever at the Ohio Penitentiary has
increased, there being now some
6fty or sixty sick. The hospital room is
not large enough to accommodate all the
sick, and the officers have been compelled to
use the chapel as u hospital. There are
Two or three who are not expected to recover.
Journal, 10Th.
A shocking murder took place at Cairo,
H.. on wednesday. William Schaff ana his
.tathef owned a mill jointly. Some weeks
it was bufasd down. The son wished
Q repair it ard the 1a.her objected. Young
Schaf commenced the work, when his faith
r toQk q gsn and shot him dead. The faith
II is in Jail to answer for the murder.
The Philadelphia North American says
he fall! style of ladies' bonnets will be grac-
ID with clusters Of artificial currants, fox
grapes, cherries and other fruits done in
glass of the lsdst possible thickness. The
lew bonnet Is a unique affair, resembling a
leaf trimmed vita tomatoes.
The celebrated racing stalling .Ambas-
'adoF' was killed by lightning on Thursday
asst, on the plantation OF his owner, Mr..
Charles n. M~erriwether, about ten miles |
rom GAINESVILLE, Tenn. "Ambassador'' was
he winner of the great Alabama stake of
BIS. 900, in le apd his tipe is best on
A SINGULAR CASE OF FANATIcIsM.-Alrs.
Chadwick, wife of Mr.. George Chadwick of
oeckskill Hollow, Putnam county N. Y, re-
CIT d. her hand, be!ween the wrist
elbow, whist 'laEoring under religious
excitement. She had recently been ire
heard TO say: I'll thine hand offend
hee, cut it off." The woind IS . terrible
me, and her recoyerJ is SqabtfpL
CFNsuS oE IHySs -TPhp Rpssi,n p,;sein,