Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-03
NEWS ITEMS

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family.
Mr.. Collins, of Red River county, Texas.
challenges the State to beat his Irish potato,
which measures I54 inches in circumference
one way and lS1 the other.
OF the forty-eight Senators who took their
seats in the Eighteenth Congress in 1928,
but two survive, Martin Van Buren,, of New
York, and John Branch, Of North Carolina.
At Mecklenburg C. H., Va. on the 18th
ulr., about a dozen negroes sold at very salts
factory prices. A negro man and his wife
brought 81 1000 a negro boy about II years
of age brought 1851, and the rest sold in
like RroPorrtion-
WASHINGTON, Aug. %.
james Green killed Mr.. Carver, of Mobile,
at Warenton Springs, last night with a
bowie knife. in a req ceMtre. The same par
ties we've recently arrested in this city and
pregeatea from fighting q duel. Green is
ia oatody-
Chicago is becoming rather a hard place.
There are now in the Chicago jail eight per-
sons awaiting trial for murder. On Saturday
morRing J ohan Nehaysel murdered his little
daughters only seven years of age
'F& NE&H
FRos1.--At Saratoga, on Monday. the
thermometer went as low as SO degrees aGd
there was frostin the valley of the Mohawk.
sn several places in ConBecticnt the melon
vines were nipped and killed,
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
counterfeit ge's on the State Bank of Ohio,
photographed, are circulating freely in that
city. They are well calculated TO deceive
even good judges of money. The Riguettes
is imperfect.
The st. Louis Republican, (pro slavery
of Nopday states that Frank Blair will take
the stump in Illinois against Douglas.=
sDuug.," it will be remembered, took great
satisfaction over Blair's defeat for Congress.
Blair is desirous to have a jubilee over 'Doug's
defeat for the Senate which we hope lac
may realize.
A fatal disease is prevarent among the
hogs in Granville and Warren counties, N.
c.. In the former county The Hon. a. Ven-
able lost thirty in one day, and a ~neighbor of
his six. In the latter county the cattle dis
ease has also made IT'S appearance, and a
number of COWS have been seriously affect
ed. The remedy of washing the mouth was
resorted to with success.
It appears that the majority of Mr.. Vance
for Congress, in the Mountain Congressional
District OF North Carolina is about 1000
votes over his Democratic competitor. The
election ia this district was to supply the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr..
Clingman.
It is stated that actual statistics show that
during the last fifty years, the nuHaber of
members of the evangelical charches in the
United States has increased from four h&sa-
drd Thousand to three millions AID a halt.
being an increase of eight fold. while cur
population has increus ed only four fold.
The yield in the gold fields in Australia,
during the last year, has been such, it is said,
as to intimate that there is a permanent gold
harvest to be reaped in that land, If no. as
long as the human race lasts, at least ample
for the satisfaction of a few generations. A
splendid nugget of 2,217 ounces has lately
been picked up.
DOES CHINESE SUGAR CANE Kill Car
7LE!-Coi. 4. G. Summer, in a communca-
ton to the Charleston Mercury, says decid-
eddy no. 1t is the feeding of cattle with an
undue quantity of it, when in a hungry con-
dition, which does tae damage. Corn, peas,
green corn and green wheat, will also kill
cattle under the sumo circumstances. Col.
s. has used sugar millet four seasons IN every
stage of It's growth-greenA and cured
ever yaised. -
We learn ha2 the gras s~st.spppfs are very
destructive in several coun S1es inxhis state.
Some of the moving feldsgn Yates county
look as though the grass Wasali dead
Every green spear is eaten off. La Rreesa
county they have not only destroyed grass
and other sweet vegetation in some fields,
bat in oae' case we heard of a six-acre let of
tobacco nearly ruined by these pests. The
drought appears 10 precede the grasshoppezs
in all cases.-N. Y. Tribune.
Nathaaiel L. Rogers, who recently died at
Salem, was a Iireal descendant from John
Rogers, prebend of st. Paul's and first mar
tyr of Queen Mary's reiga. It was his
daughter who danced with the Prince de
Jo;nville in Faneail Hall. Thus decead-
ant Of the Catholic King, who sanctioned
the niassaefe of The Protestants on ST. Bar
t~holomew's day, LED down the aaazy dance a
fair daughter of the line of John Rogers, the
first English martyr to Romish intolerance.
On the night ef the 18th last, the Dairy
Stables of Mr. WA. Hogan, on the State
Fair grounds, near CiGciaaati, were destroy
, ed by fire, together with seveaty- -four cows,
four valuable Horses one Mule, four or FIVE
Calves, two Goats besides all the wagons
and other fxings Of the Dairy, aud 900
dollars worth of oats, corn and hay. The
whole establishment was cleaned out by the
fire, only two horses, two cows, one maie.
!, two goats and two calves escaped.
y child was killed in Georgetown, Ken
l lucky, by q little negro girl getting hold of
' a bottle ofhartshorn and holding it to the
t noses of the children. On holding it to the
t nose of the youngest while It was lying on
t and nose, producing death in a few hours.
The last half of August has been sim
gularly unreasonable in weather. On the
night of the 23d slight frosts We're expert
enced all over New England, ia portions of
New York, and in Northern and Central
! Ohio, Michigan, Northern Indiana, Wiscon4
: sin, Iowa, and Minnesota, in some sections
sharp enough to leave its blight on tender
a vegetation. The crops have not suffered SO
: Tar as we have seen the cold snap noted.
n GREAT INUNDArIoN AND DEsrRucxtoN OF
II CROPS On THE MINNEsoTA.-We learn from
passengers who came down from Mankota
yesterday, that the whole Minnesota Valley
is inundated, owing to the heavy rains of the
last few days. Corn, Hay, gain of various