Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-07
NEWS ITEMS

shot from his son, while turkey hunting.
The New Orleans correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican says that General
Walker is preparing for another expedition
against Nicaragua.
The Marshall Illinois announces the death
of Jonathan Hicklin, of Clarke county, at
the advanced age of LOG years.
A recent article in the London Time re-
veals the important fact that the Go vern-
ment of England has it in contemplate on to
seek for military recruits for India u mong
the fugitlves slaves now in Canada.
Ohio built, in 1857 2 churches, W orth
$500 1000; eight hundred school-h ouses,
worth $4oo,ooo; and twenty county build
ings worth $500, 900.
Massachu sets has 1903 miles of rail-
roads, which cost S53 $780, oI. They
would pro baby now sell for about thirty
millions. a
The new Azof green of the Paris spr ing
fashions is dyed with such poisonous mate
rails that seamstresses who prick their fin
gers while sewing it lose the use of their
hands and ladies have been taken violently
ill from wearing shawls of this color. The
tint is very brilliant.
The National IntelIigencer states that
the Executive has determined to ask Con-
gress to authorize a new loan to the amount
of $50, 900 900 and to fund the $780, 900 900
of Treasury notes recently aut horized to be
issued.
Mr.. Urey, OF Caldw ell county, Ky, has
msnumitted twenty-five slaves, fourteen Of
which will sail from Baltimore on the LIST of
May, for Liberia.
REJoIcING.-The satraps of the Admins
tration at Washington could scarcely CON
tain their Joy at the triumphs of the Presi-
dent over the peoples Representatives in
Congress. The announcement was prompt
ly made to the Cabinet, who were in session
awaiting the result, and g~unpowder was ex-
ploded sin the vicinity of the Presidents
House, ;" indicative of their triumph. The
people will have their time by and by
Wait a little longer"
2 Henry Ward Beecher received one hun
dred and Lightweight new converts into his
Church, IN Sunday last. The pulpit was
decorated with flowers, and the venerable
Lyman Beecher, D. D., father of Henry
Ward, sat in it.
We notice that a joint stock company is
being formed in New York to promote the
assassination of Louis Napoleon. New
York is an enterprising little town.
Two CHILDREN FRozEN.--A brother
and sister named Keely, aged respectively,
10 and ID years, were frozen to death at
Oshkosh, Wis, on the 23I ul:., while sail-
ing on the lake.
EGGs.-The Erie Railroad has brought to
New York, during the week, 1924 barrels
of eggs. They are packed in oats or cut
straw, and sell by the barrel at 9 to 10 !
per dozen actual count.
ToHonTo, April 26.---TewE send, alias &c
He nry, was discharged to-day for the muir.
der of Nellis, and was immediately arrest
ed for robbery.
DEAzH FROM ClReUNc1s1ow.--A child, 81
years old, died in New York last week from
herN'rrnge occasioned bv circumcisionon the
day previous. The evidence sho wed That
operation was performed in the usual I
m tanner. bat that semorrege ensued several
Tours afterwards. when the efforts of The
physicians TO say it were Intellectual. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict of death
from COMMISSIONS, super-induced by loss of
following cfrcuncision.--Post.
By the fall of a wall Of burning seven
story granite building, in Boston, on the End
four persons, named Francis Cutting,
Frank Yuttle, Patrick Reardon and Mrs Nor
AN, were killed. The wall fell o n a house
adjoining, causing the causality. Fhe
burned was occupied by the
Axe Company, and by Sanborn,
Brazil and Ellsworth, printers and binders.
Value of property destroyed, 5000 900.
DEAD LETTERs.-In the examination Of
he dead letters at the General Pc st Office
or the last quarter of the year, the re were
ohnd 2,472, which contained money amonnt-
ng to $l3.457. The three previous quar-
ers have 1850 letters, enclosing sSl3.-
.6I; 2,245 coverings " ,655; and 2 300 let.
eFs $Il,5I2. Thus inaone year S.27I let
ers were discovered, GOV ertng 4$5I 1856;
ine-ienths Of which have been, through (,
he prompt and judicious notion of the finance I
nreau, restored to their original owners. |
MODERN DEMocRAcY.-The Washington '
orrespondent of the Richmond Enquirer ,
that "the Kansas bill, as it passed the !
e pate. was Objectionable to some gentle
'ens because of Green's amendment, ac- b
nowle5gfng the right of the people to alter t
Re Constitute ion at their pleasure" He k
lys also that Epglish's proposition ''does t
Ut in any shape submit the Lecompton c
to the people" \
~ aEEH LEf -
At Mount Sterling Illinois, Thomas Dow S,
a Scotchman, was recently ares ted for Il
iFglary, committed under the influence of d
luer. After he had been committed to Jail 8,
cut himself in various places with a razor n
lth the ayowed intention of bleeding him =,
1t to death slowly. Having armed himself ,
III the leg of a stove, he prevented the ~
1eefs on duty from entering his cell, until ~
e of them threw a handful of Cayenne y
per into his eyes, causing him to drop the
we leg, and pay attention to the pains
C sioned by the fiery powder. He was :!
IN easily secured, and became quite peni- ~
1t and unsuicidal. Oh
10
Charleston Mercury, the organ OF re
Dg Cotton, DEGREES as follows: "The NOM Ia
of Pierce and Buchanan from the TO
nth must be followed by a nomination cI;
this section, where The strength o the ID,
ty lies" 1t adds: s'We think the pros. ~
i. it not desperate, yet certainly not ra- his
mt with the hope of success for the South. At
-. ton
etter from on board the u. S. frigate st.
"rence, off Montevido, February 18th CIV
$: - a pre-
"A short distance from the city you can DO.