Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-17
NEWS ITEMS


Thursday last, from the effects OF eating the
ends of three dozen friction matches.
The shipments OF wheat from Greenyille,
Tennessee, East, last month exceeded 40,
900 bushels, and there are now sc, 900 BUSH
els Their, awaiting removal, with wagon loads
still crowding in.
Mrs. Elisabeth T. Boyd, OF Boston, killed
herself on Sunday, by consent of her hus-
band,by swallowing oil of tansy, for the
purpose of procuring an abortion.
We learn that the potato rot has made its
appearance IN Needham, Dover, Natick, and
o,her n~eighboring towns in Massachusetts.
We hear similar accounts, also, from other
parts of the State. 10
Somebody threw a can of camphene into
a bonfire at New Haven a day or two since
when it exploded, and the flames injured a
young man named friedrich Hopper 50 that
he has died since.
Champ Furgison, Of Clinton douety, Cy,,
stautly killed james Reed while they were
endeaVoring to serve a warrent upon him in
Fentress county, Tenn. a few days since.
A washington letter writer says;
1t is estimated that the laying Of the At
ante Gable has chst the Government 1915,
600. The exact figure cannot be told until
the Niagara is restored to her former condi-
ton. ~
The steam frigate Niagara has been de-
tailed to perform the service of removing the
rescued slaves, OF the brig Echo, from
Charleston to the coast of Liberia.
Lieut.. John Y. Mafit,tccmmanded the U.
IS. brig Dolphin which took the SLAYER Echo,
and he is the son of the well known Metho-
dist Clergyman of that pame.
Governor Richardson of Ncbraska, has
called a special session of the Legislators
to convene on the 2Ist of September fur
the purpose of remodeling the laws Of the
Territory. many of which he alleges conflict
with each other, and do not offer ample Sc
curity to life and property.
On the 3lst ult., a Mr.. H N. Boyer
walked in to the Farmers Bank, at Fincast-
lie, Va, and deliberately shot its President,
M-. Jas. Nc Doweil. ST., who hsd ceduced
the daughter of Boyer. n
The Hopkinsville, KY, Press says more
than a dozen negroes have RIM away from
that cuunly within two weeks past.
CHAUFAUQUA. N. Y. s. pit. Gin raising
the frame of the Baptist church today the
timbers give way. seriously injuring ten per
sons-one mortaiy. &
Hon. John Hickman, in a recent speech
in chester county, Pa, styled the cringing
slaves of the Buchanan Administrators "the
chain gang Democracy. He thinks the
Northern Democracy, so long as they draw
like donkeys in The chain gangs OF Southern
politicians justly deserve the title.
At Cleveland, a lawyer noted forhis de-
tending burglars and counter:eiters had his
h 0 rse stolen from a stable a few nights since.
On learning by advertisement who owned
the horse the thief Immediately returned it.
without claiming the reward.
A few days ago a negro in Cincinnati for
the sun of $3.50. betrayed two other negroes
who were fugitives, into the hands of their
masters in Kentucky, On Saturday even
ing q white man and two darkies decoyed
she. traitor into a by pIace.where they knoeed
hhnldown and robbed hHm of the $3.50. His
blood money did him but little good.
TIE AeTrse PEEsrDEsT.--The acting
President OF the United States at this time is
a young man named James BucbaFah Hen
ry. Each morning he records the reports Of
the Departments notes their contents, and
Sc nds such of them as he thinks requires the
attention of his uncle, the President, to Bed
ford.
A VALUABLE Dog.--A sagaclous dog is
Tasso," Cheslea, Mass, Of whom the Mont
pelier Watchrnan says that lie was dispatc1e
at ten o clock at night with q note to hi
master informing him of the illness Of his
child. About eleven o. clock"Tasso reach
ed hls master in Washington, having trav-
elled q distance of ten miles, and safely de-
liveFod The note at the room where his mus
ter slept.
A runaway slave was discovered in the
attic of a melhdist church at Washington, ID.
c., on a recent Sunday morning. He had
lived there four or FIVE months, unsuspectdd;
had used up the communion wine, and pick
ed up his food by nightly sorties into the
neighhoring pantries.
Tn Governor General of India reigns !
over $780, 900 900 souls, more than one-sixth
of the whole human race.
A grand military encampment will be held
in the ~vecinity of Springfield on the gath
and 3oth of this month and Its of next.-
A large number of companies will be in at
tendeRce. and a general good Eime is aptici.
pstcd,
The New York Times is in favor OF
new American cable, with an American
Field to drop it, to be paid out by an Ameri-
can engineer and to be worked by an a.
Werican Hughes.
Mp. Banks was nominated for reelection
as Governor of Mass, by reclamation.
1t is reported that Vallandigham has pro-
p%ounced in favor of Douglas. He should be.
ware! The ADMINISTRATION tolerates no trail
tors. Val. has been shrewd in holding back
this announcement until after the 'tpowers
that bcn bad come down with the money for
a corruption fund. 1t ia said at Dayton that
Val. and his friends were never before so
rich and liberal as row..
The Democracy is a unit, so we ate ted.
They had n County Convention at George
town the other day, in which the Buchanan
men carried everything; whereupon their
organ, the Brown County Democrat, set m
u lament over tlhe beautiful packet Lecomp-
ton Convention.
The Yazoo(Miss Banner contains an ad-
vcrtisement stating that two of Senator
Douglas negroes were confined in the Yazoo
county jail. They had run away from the
pIaRtation of Mr.. Douglas. in Washington
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