Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-28
NEWS ITEMS


Arson G.. Phelps, the distinguished mer-
and philanthropist, partner in the house
Of Phelps. Dodge s. Co., died suddenly in
New York on Wednesday.
Jas. +. Faran, ESD, editor of the Enduir-
er, has been appointed Postmaster at Gin
His support of Lecompton has not
gone unrewarded.
Cora Estella, a little daughter of DR.. J. NJ.
Stewart, of Giles, Trumbull county in this
State, fell into a swill barrel a few days since
was drowned.
The Lorain county Court last week grant
ed five divor ces, dismissed five cases .'with-
prejudice continued one and passed
three others to the heel of the docket.
The Southern Commercial Convention
adjourned on Friday last to meets at Vicksburg
on the second Monday of May next year.
The Convention was a very ridiculous affair.
The Ohio State Medical Society will meet
in MassllIon on Tuesday, the LIST of June
They are calculating on a.pleasant aud prof
liable session. r iii
The Ashtabula Sentinel announces the
arrival at home of Joshua R. Giddings. He
will not return to Washington this session.
By the advice of his physician he seeks rest
from the excitement of the Capital.
A MAN SELLING HIS W1FE.--Nathaniel
Dyes, of the western branch, sold his wife
to George Crandy for FIVE hundred and fifty
dollars. All parties were we'll satisfied
This is a practical illustration of "free trade
and sooman's rights '-[Norfolk Herald.
A book has just been published in New
Orleans, wbssh contains a list of the names
of all the rich manageable ladies and gem
tlemen in louisiana and the adjoining States,
with the amount of the solid rhine possessed
by each.
The Cleveland Herald of the 9Th inst,
states that the barques D. C. Pierce and
Henry D. Howe, and the schooner R. Fl.
Harmon, are chartered at that port for the
Liverpool trade.
New York, May 12.-The Methodist E.
piscopal Conference, in session in this city,
to-day passed resolutions setting forth that
Saoery IS a sin, for the ertirpdtion of phicA
all t0iSe measures should be taken.
A Canary bird, which recently died in
Brooklyn, n. Y, was twenty-six years old.
FsDick p for that was his name, had been blind
for a year, was bald headed, and his featbers
were oleached almost white. 1t was time
for him to go. M g
John w. Farmer, Al Ludlow street, New
York, gave 1905 meals to the poor at his
free eating saloon during the winter and
SnFinr Nam 0Toro3 . - Sbara IN tho ~.
pense, but he refused. Each meal he esti-
mates to have cost &c.
The Conneaut Reporter says that Hon.
]. R. Giddings arrived at his home en Friday
evening last, in feeble health. He left his
post of duty only at the urgent solicitation
of personal friends and the request of his
physician. r9i HIs55
Sir Colin Campbell has declined the offer
of a peerage, bu: would like to be field mar
shall, and is TO have that honor. That office
in India will be worth to him $3.50, 900 per
year--altogether better than the poor honor
of a peerage. ~
a man was deliberately murdered, on
Thursday last, by a mob at Iowa City, by
being forcibly drowned in the river. From
thirty to forty Of the mob were, arrested and
lod ged in the city prison. The man was
understoodto be charged with horse stealing
and other depredations of a similar, nature.
The Illinoise papers give terrible accounts
Of the tornado, some particadars Of which
1--WE give in our last paper. The damage to
property was enormous, amounting in the
aggregate to several hundred thousand dol
lars. Twelve persons were killed.
Adlah Bustwick, of Waterloo, Pickaway
County, Ohio, was killed, on Saturday, in
Circleville. He was engaged in building
and went to Circleville to get lumber, and
blew the kill over on him.
JAMES B.. CLAY.-The Kichrond WHY rs
hard upon this degenerate soa of "a noble
sire. 1t says if he had any sensibility left
he would exhibit himself in public as seldom
as possible, and always with a veil over his
face and silence on his lips.
General William Blackburn, of Allen
county, died on the 18th inst. at his residence
eyed II years. He was a member of the
Ohio Legislature from 1917 to 1885, and al
so in 185l-making altogether &c years of
his life as a Legislator. He was in this city
last winter, and it was then said that he want
ed TO be Marshal for the Northern District Of
Ohio.-[O. S. Journal.
4. child Of Thomas Lawson, aged about
two years, fell into a tub of water at Ports
mouth on Monday evening and was drowned
before it was discovered. The Tribune SAYS
the tub only contained three inches of wa
ter, but the child fell on its face, and could
not consequently make any noise to attract
attention to it.
Evansville, in this State, as we learn from
the Intelligencer, has one hundred marriage
able young ladies', and only sixteen marriage
able young men to take charge OF them
This is at the rate of six and a half young
ladies to each beau--not an equal division by
any means.
WHAT MAKES IT TO DIFF ER!--In case
Kansas spurns the bribe, and d~esPises the
menance embodied in Mr.. Englisa's bill, and
rejects The Lecompton Constitution in sny
shape, that bill denies her admission into the
Urlon till she has $4,000 inhabitants. Three
States, according to the census of 1850,
have not this population-Califoruia, Della
ware and Florida. What makes them to
differ I'm. Y. Evening Post.
ST. LOUIS, May 90.
ABDIcATIoN OF BRIGHAM YogNG4The
steamer John HI. Diekey, from Leavenworth
the 18th inst, brings the intelligence Of the
arrival of Col. Kane and Abel Gilbert at
that place on Sunday last. Gilbert states
that Brigham Young had abdicated, and Gov.
/ Gum N n m tua 9 az last da4aS khs-fp Hn;4as-f-0.o
Salt Lake City. ac~companiedby adeputation