Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-10-15
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under his head in a stable.
It is stated that the indemnity to be paid
by China for the war is So 900 900 to Eng
and So, ZOO, 900 to France.
The drought is SO great in the province of
Arragon, Spain, that the fields have to be
watered, and the peasantry fight with each
other to obtain water from the Ebro.
A gentleman recently renewed his sub
scription to the Worcester Spy, who has
taken the paper for sixty-seven years suc-
cessiyelY.
A reverend preacher in Florida having re-
Gently preached a sermon to prove that "Af-
ricans have no soulj" Prentice pertinently
comments: fbV e
"He had better be careful. How can he
expect his disciples to consent TO 60 to hea-
ven if they can hope to have no niggers
therel"
The mayor of Waterbury, CT, has resign
ed. His salary was $50 a year; he asked
to have it raised to 300, which the common
council refused, and therefore his honor in
dignantly stepped out.
d 10 a IaCL Nu1b " IiS nilH-SCfEH
children on board the Austria not one was
saved.
Morphy is expected TO return to America
after finishing his visit to Germany and
beating Stanton, the chess champion OF
England.
The wound of Mr.. Clemens, of Va, late
ly shot in u duel, has, it is said, taken a
favorable turn, and his recovery considered
certain.
The New York Times says that the ex-
animation into the origin of The fire at the
Crystal Palace shows conclusively that the
fire was The work Of an i~ncendiary.
The Boston correspondent of the New
York Times says he is authorized to say
that Mr.. Sumner will retain his senator
ship, so long as he lives and has a legal
right to it.
In the year 1856 the Paris tribunal pro-
nounced I242 sentences of matrimonial
separation; and there were 1920 cases de-
cided where neither party should interfere
with the others property.
Col. Forney has published a defence Of his
Tarrytown speech which we laid before our
readers some time ago. He completely
su5stantiates all the startling charges Of du-
plicity he had made against the President.
By the death of Mr.. Hobson, of Calcu, ia,
a youth now in the employ of a printer at the
West end, London, Eng. is suddenly put in
possession Of more than 81, 800, 900. II is
said that the young man had no previous
knowledge of his relation, except having
once heard his mo Their say she had a brother
in India.
Hon. Arthur p. Dagbey, formerly COVER
nor of Alabama, and u. 8. Senator from
that state, died at Mobile on the 2lst ult., OF
yellow fever.
James Buchanan's administration, for the
present fiscal year, will cost One Hundred
Million Dollars. The money and credit of
the people must make it up. NextJuRe will
find our National debt increased to all Of
Eighty Million Dollars. ~
On Thursday Of last week the first over.
land mail started for California from ST.
Louis. 1t is to go all the way by coaches
and spring wagons.
The educational statistics of the country
show that there are four millions of young
men and boys connected with The variou.
literary institutions within our limits.
His holiness the Pope orders that hereaf
ter no parents among the faithful shall give
to their children the name of Mary. That
his ~hulitfefs thinka belongs only to the Yfr.
gin of the Immaculate conception.
The notes of the Bank of England are
now printed on yellow paper with blue ink
which prevents coun;erfeiting by photograph.
ing
a wealthy female pickpocket has beer
arrested in Philadelphia. The North Ameri.
can says this woman is a we'll known char
acter, and is believed to have accumulated
about 1926, 900 solely by flching from the
! pockets of people who boy dusty provisions
in the novels in Market street.
A MIsER's DEATH WfLI.-M. Gre.
pin, at Lyons, France, who was furnished
with two meals a cay, by an old widow, for
twenty-five centimes, has left his fortune,
three millions ot francs, 10 this guardian an
gel over his misery.
Official report shows that The General
Government is quite . property holder in
Washington City-QWping FIVE hundred and
St Yeniy>eight agrees within the city limits al
free of t~axalion. The Government has paid
enough for Improvements in and around
Washington TO own the whole District OF
C9lqmbia.
Miss Mary Wingate, aged twenty, while
lying in bed at her fathers residence, neal
Cambridge, Md, during a violent THUNDER
storm, on Saturday, 4sh inst, was struck and
instantly killed by lightning.
New HAVEN, Sept. 24.-George Mercer
an Englishpan, was killed in an amature
fight with William Hopstgp, also an Eng
lishman, They fought only Ave rounds. A
single witness was present. Houston has
been arrested.
A Democratic convention in Crawford
county, Iadiana, passed the following:
Resolved, That the Democratic party is
now alike in favor and opposed to al The
doctrines and issues Of the political parties
of 1866.
That is so, says the louisville Journal
and is the ssnlost distinct declaration Of Dem.
ocratic principles that We have seen else
where,
At LysaAder, Qnopdqga county, N. Y.
on Sunday, John 6. Forbes lied a jug o.
whisky about his neck. and attempted &c
swim The Flyer. The jug proved toe heavy
for him, and he was found at the bottom
next morping-ha having nike too much wateI
with his liquor. i
Another batch of Douglas apti-Lecomp.
ton Postmasters have been beheaded in hi,