Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-05
NEWS ITEMS

Jonathan Robbins died In Middlesex
county, Mass, last week. He weighed 465
pounds.
The Germantown Independent, records
two deaths from h~ydrophobia in that town
in the past week.
A dangerous counterfeit ~purporting TO be
a s., so gold coin has just been put in circu-
ton. Look cut for it.
The Emperor Napoleon has just given
his wife's mother, a mansion in Paris valu-
ed at nearly a million of dollars.
The New York Police arrested eleven
fort une t~ellers on Friday; a part of whom
were held to bail and the remainder discharg-
ed.
The costume of the Spanish ladies has
not changed for two hundred years. They
actually wear the same style Of dress that
their great grand mothers did.
John G.. Duden, of Wooster, Ohio, COM
mitted suicide a few days since, by shooting
himself through the head. He was % years
of age, and a young man ofrespectable stsnd-
ing. s.
be There was q decrease in the taxable prop
erty of San Francisco for the present fiscal
year, as compared with the past, of consid-
cradle more than four millions and a half of
dollars.
The Ravenna Democrat says that Will
lam Haskins of Garrettsyille, was accid emit
ally shot on Tuesday Of last week, by a boy
named Lane Rice. No hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
A little girl, weighing GAO pounds, was
one of the attractions at the Connecticut
State Fair. She amused herself by hand
ling a South American boa constructor,
seventeen feet in length.
A young girl named Achiah Slade, con-
mitted suicide in Detroit on Monday by cut
appointed IN love, and obliged TO make vests
al twenty cents each for her support.
EXACTLY .So.-The Cincinnati CONNER
siaI says: "The financial policy of the
Democratic party is easily defJned-Borrow
money, augment the national debt at the
rate of fifty millions per year-to pay cur
rent expenses"
George Shaw, charged with the attempt
to kidnap George w. Ferris, a mulatto, by
e%nticiug him from his home in Pittsburgh.
South with the view of selling him as a slave.
has been convicted at Phsbwg.
The marriage between Jonathan and Miss
Great Britain, which was SO brilliantly cele-
brated a few weeks ago, is evidently a very
unhappy one. At all events, no lSords hGue
passed betweea them since the bridal day.
The Hon. Sherrafd Clemens, who wal
wounded in the duel with Gov. Wise's son.
has boen given over by his physician. His
death is expected every hour. AmPutatioI
is the only possible remedy, and his system
is too much wasted to beur that.
BosroN, Oct. 29.--Mrs. Gardner, convic
ted of murder In the second degree, for pois
oning her husband, late Post Master a
+ bingham, has been sentenced to the Heusl
of Correction for life.
COLUMBUS, Ia, Oct. 81. In a suit to da,
Shrewsbury and Price against Newherter,
verdict was rendered for the former for $40,
900, when the latter drew a pistol and sho
himself through the heart, killing him instant
ly.
Eighty per cent of the women of Mort
Carolina are said to be sssnuff dippers."-
The process of snuff dipping consists ofrub
bing the teeth and gums with snuff, thereby
causing a sensation like iRtoxicntion. Th
nerves are excited and the bead becomes
little giddy.
John w. Forney, a few days since, in
speech at Yonkers, N. ", came out in IA
Yor of q Protective Tariff, and denied tina
he ever was a Free Trade man. He see.
very clearly which way tho wind blows i
Pennsylvania. What is this but old VIII
thupderg
The Paraguay Expedition will consist o
twenty vessels, carrying one hundred an
ninety guns, three hundred and twenty -tw,
officers, and two thousand seven hunudre
and ninety men,.
A FIRE occurred on Sixth street, New
York, Thursday night, by which two per
sons and twelve horses were destroyed
The persons burned to death were Mitchne
Hertel, aged SO years, and Caroline Herte
his daughter, aged 20 years. =
The election of John Hickman, Of Penn
sylvania, and OF John G. Davis, of indiana
to the next Congress, were sore blows to til
Administration. They are bitterly anti-Le
/, compton and anti-English Bill.
|, The President of the United States hu
stopped The Press, that is, Forney's pa
per, and requested F. to send in his bill
The account was $3.50. The news of the
payment of the cash has not been received
A quarrel occurred in a saloon at Albany
N. X: CT the night eli ri1s 22d, betweeI
partlzans of Merrissey and Heenan, grey
ing out of the recent fight. Owen Curra
was stabbed hu a man named Turner. Hi
wounds e--e mortal. Turner was arrested
ss Augustus Wagdi killed 9vssn I. MORT
mer, in Cincinnati, by stahbing hin 10. TIL
back, on the 24st. Ward was committel
for trial for murder in the first degree. Tn!
deed was pnproyoked AND was committel
upon arrespeclabie person.
The President is reported to be sicl
since he received the news oethe election il
Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. The Uuior
whimpers forth excuses, and draws parallel:
between this Democratic disaster and the
elections of '54.
PRICE OF LIVING IN KANsAs.-Corn in
Lawaence sells for twenty cents per bushel
sweet potatoes fer one dollar, common po.
tatoes fifteen to eighteen cents, wheat one
dollar, apples one dollar and twenty-i five
cents pc: bushel, -four 1915 per 100 TBS.
From Galveston, Texas, late private ad.
vices state that there have been 500 cases
in all, and 900 deaths. About one-third oil
the residents have run away. About one
in six of those left are down with the fever;
one in four of the sick are dying.