Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-09
News Items.

TO assassinate Bonis Napoleon in the Rue
Lepelletier, was MIR. Haas, an American
Merchant. He died from a wound in the
head, on the 25th ST January.
Died in Jaffery, N. H., March 18th, Rev.
Laban Ainsworlh, aged 100 years, 7 months,
and % days.
The Mt. Vernon Banner says that four
stores were entered BY burglars in one night
last week, and attempts made on five more.
But little plumber was secured, as money
seemed to be the main object of the robbers.
The Washington letter writers say that
the President is worn down with anxiety
and looks very much jailed, and one of them
avs that he has recently said that he felt rs
though he could not live six months.
BAHGoR, Me, March 27.-T'he floor of an
a uction room ID this city broke through this
afternoon during a sale, and two hundred
persons, men, woman and children, were
precipitated into the cellar.
Fortunately no person was killed, alt5o'
many received severe injuries.
Tho Pennsylvania announces that Sen
ator Douglas can never more belong TO the
Democratic purity. Grace and pardon viii
be extended to the rank and 6le which have
been sedneed. They may return, bur s'lha
head conspirator'' never.
The Sandusky Register says that Mr.. w.
l.. Battmann. abe telegraph operator at Ere
mont, was severely injured by 4 fash Of light
ping which e Inferred the Office by the wires
and damaued the machinery.
The aoti.LecomPton party Of New Jersey
4; c So cJtfLebt Of carrying the next election
that William L. DlyLan is alre sdy proposed
as the proper person to BE returned TO his old
seat in the y. S. Senate as the successor OIL
the present douehlace Senator Wright.
y proposition is on foot for daily concert
prayer meetings in behalf Of President Bu-
chanan, the members of Congress, and the
heads Of .Departments.--N N. Y, Post.
Gen. Walker, tire defunct fIlibuster, is at
present in Mobile, where his presence seems
to excite no curiosity whatever.
Hon J. r. Giddings has a book in press
called The Exiles oil Florida which IS said
to be attractiveIy got up.
A man near Boston came very near losing
bis life a few days since by swallowing baIi
4 dozen false teeth whilst asleep.
Green Martin, a farmer in Georgia, has
been convicted of y hipping one of his slaves
10 death, and sentenced to be hung on the
7Ih of May.
VIM. B. Pike a man worth $4,000, has
been arrested in Worcester, Mass, for steal
ing fifty cents worth of books.
Nineteen union prayer meetings are row
held in New York, daily, and six Ia Brook
lin. The average attendance is estimated
at thirty thousand.
Edward Robbins was convicted of murder
in the first degree, at Marion, o., last week
for poisoning a woman named Nancy Hol-
ly.
A man over eighty-years oc age, now a
resident of the Brooklin Aims House, has
growing an entire new set of teeth, being
the third. They are about one-third grown.
John a. Gannet was arrested in Boston
last week, on the charge of bigamy, having
as it is alleged, three wives living, two of
whom he married within the last month";
He was formerly q merchant in good stand
ing in Boston.
The young German who shot his intended
wife, in Dodge county, Wisconsin, a few
days since, by agreement with her, and then
tried to kill himself, has beer sentenced to
States Prison for life.
The heirs of a man named McSloy, one
of the victims of the Des Jardines Canal dis
aster, have recovered a verdict of $I2, 900
damages against the Great Western Rail-
way.
The Legislature of Louisiana has passed
a law aholishiRg capital punishment and the
S substitution of hand labor for life in the place
thereof.
The floor of the Catholic church, at Wal
.lingford, CT, fell on Sunday morning during
the services, fatally iniuring two and severe
ly wounding thirteen persons.
Nine prisoners escaped from the Indiana
polls Jail a few days since, They were muir
derers, counterfeiters and buglars.
The Canadian Parliament adjourned from
the 22d of March to the 9TH Of April to
give the Ministry time to prepare some
thiag to do.
FRANK'--The Egyptian Torch Light a
Democratic paper published at Mt. Vernon,
in illinois, has for its motto; 'Egyption
and Jackson Democracy--One and
inseparable."
Two shocks of an earthquake were
fel. in Portland Me-, on Wednesday
last.