Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-07-30
NEWS ITEMS

house, recently received intelligence that an
uncle who had lately died had left him 1907
600 dollars.
A lad named Jewe,t I'll New York, who
with his two brothers was rambling along
the rocks at Trenton Fails, near Utica, N.
Y, fell into the stream and was drowned
The lad was IA years of age, and very
promising.
MIR. William H. Rarey, brother of the
famous horse tanner, who is now in England,
is teaching the art in Champaign county, o.
At Urbana he has a class of some twenty
five or thirty pupils at ten dollars each.
A gentleman recently purchased some
New England rum at q Liquor Agency in
Concord, N. H., to battle an iHfiamed eye
with, which was so poisonous that he came
near losing his eye from using it.
The stomach o. a COW recently killed In
Kentucky ~contEin a brass ring, a lot of hair
pins, hooks and eyes, pieces of steel hoops,
and a high heeIed shoe. "Old Brindle'' had
probably swallowed the milkmaid.
Some idea can be formed of the amount
of material which it takes TO make up the
force o: General Johnson, now in Salt Lake
City, when we read from a letter in the
Times, that but one Division of the three
which moved in separate days from Camp
Scott towards Salt Lake stretched seven
miles in length.
The capital OF the Atlantic Telegraph
Company is about 500 600 dollars. 1t was
formed about two years ago by Dir. Cyrus
w. Field, of New York, who is the soul of
enterprise, and has had the talent to seducc
American and English financiers into one
OF the gEandest aud widest schemes ever
man attempted TO realize.
T. Lean, formerly Deputy Postmaster at
Worth, Tuscola county Michigan. has been
convicted in the United States District Court
Of robbing the Post Once and sentenced to
fifteen years in the State Prison. Lean was
proachable character previous to this trans
action.
The following statistics Of London are q
sad commentary upon the boosted philanthropy
Of Christian England:
In London, there are above 100000 drunk
ards, 100 900 persons living in open profit
gancy, 10000 protested beggars, 10000
gamblers, and 500 receivers OF stolen goods,
besides 10000 children who are living in
open restitution and sin.
The Southern papers notice the fact that
the Cholera prevails in many parts Of Ar
kansas, and is making ravages over South
western states.
EH+s 5Ea E N
In Jefferson county, Va, last week, a YER
dict was given Tor 45 900 damages against
Mr.. Hite, Tor the seduction of Miss RAN
dali
The hog cholera is rigging violently as
ever in Gibson county, Indiana, aud is
spreading in u suatil-easterly direction. Ii is
also very destructive in Spencer and Perry
counties.
A lawyer in Sweden has been condemned
to one months imprisonment for having un-
the defence of an unjust cause. Fl
that law was i'll force in this country, we
should want very large jaiIs.
STRAWBERRIES IN New YoRK.-The
Express says the strawberry season opened
about 18th of June and closed the 3rd oil
July. II is estimated thai S1oe 600 wertIl
were sold.
The Spiritual Register says there are L.
OBJ 500 Spiritualists in America. Wiscon-
sin, ii says, has GO, 900, New York 800 900,
Ohio and Indiana 1870. 900 each. Massachu.
sets 10000, Pennsylvania 10000, Illinois
80 900, and 80 on.
The falling of in arrivals at New York
as compared with former years is most mark
ed. The whole number OF emigrants this
year to July l4th was 40,56l. For the
same period in 1857, the number was lOI,-
900.
Hon. Il. r. Weetbrook, one of the mem
bers of Congress from New York who voted
to sustain the policy of President Pierce
has signed a call for a C0ngen-
ton in Ulster county to oppose the present
policy of the Administration, AMI to
demonstrate against the extravagant rxpend-
lures of the Government.
a leading medical practitioner at Brigh-
in England, has given a list of sixteen
cases OF paralysis, produced by smoking,
his own knowledge, in the past six
To get rid Of the smell Of oily paint, put
handful os hay in a pail of water, and let
l stand in a room newly painted.
AT the recent annual session Of the the
Ontario Association of Universalists, Mrs.
Lydia A. Jenkins received a license or let
er as a preacher OF the gospel. Her nus
also is a minister.
In Clark Coun,y(O.) Court of Common
Pleas, Mr.. Alvin E. Patton, has brought a
against Mrs. Jane E. Rainhard, CORNER
y Miss Baldwin, and her husband, for damag-
IS resulting from a breach of promise on the
part. Mr.. Patton claims $25 ,O00.-
Mrs. Rainhard is said to be worth $20o, 900
n her own right.
A man named John Jones was drowned
t Piqua on Tuesday last, in an attempt TO
ave Two boys who We're bathing.
Before the 9Th of November next, the
free States will elect l27 of the 2s6 men,
of the next u niled States House of
representatives, leaving nine to be elected
n March and April next--three in New
four in Connecticut and two in
Rhode Island.
Parson Brownlow, Of the Knoxville Wing,
.otifes the public tha, his great discussion
n the subject of Slavery will come off in
philadelphia, on the 9Th of September next.
lis opponent will be Rev. Abram Pryne of
Granville. CORTLAND county, New York.
Hon. A. Fl. Reeder, Ex-Governor of Kan
as, will probably be an anti-Lecompton can
idate in the thirteenth Congressional Dis
-ict. Pa. This is called the "tenth legion
( Democracy" in tina. State, and is the
ardest district in the State. 1t gave Bu-
hanan $500 over both Fremont and Fill
lore. ss I