Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19
NEWS ITEMS

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A Miss Mary Edsen. at GAINESVILLE, o., was
last week killed by a lightning bolt, while Il
child in her arms was uninjured.
FRAUD.-The New ngIaud Bank of Fair
mount, Maine, which is "a sham, has succeeded
in circulating notes to the amount of over S10,-{l
900.
Father Sawyer, of Bangor, Maine, the Oldest
minister in the United States. died on the l4th
ult., at the age of one hundred years.
Dermont Dempsey. the wealthiest man in
Macon, Georgia, died last week. In his will
he gives his two children each s., 800, nd the
Catholic Church Of that city $495 900.
Southern papers announce that Col. S. A.
Lockridge, OF nibusteT notoriety, intends 60
ing to Mexico, with arms and munitions, toad
the liberal party in that country.
The Trust Co., case is still dragging ftssEow
length along" ia the Cincinnati courts. The
lawyers ara having fine pickings and are likely
to fare better than the Creditors. I
A few words were recently transmitted by
the Atlantic Telegraph h, but It has again be-
come silens. There is very little probability
that she present cable can be made of any
avail. "a -relE 20"
"A gang of counterfeiters has been broken up
near ~lronton, in this State. The whole section
OF the country around Irenton is said to be
Hooded with spurious coin. ~
Mr.. Sumner's health is said to be improving.
1t 10 the opinion Of his physicians, however,
that be viii never wholly recover, either from
eAS BhH HlC1k o = mental l0fnrleS winch he has
received.
: We never knew o more striking exemplifoa-
tioR ofthe old maxim that some extreme bcgets
another than in the case of Henry Clay and his
son Jim.-LoIisyille journal. .avI
The President is said to be much annoyed
and fexasperated at the articles sympathizing
With Douglas, which he finds in the regular
Dem oer attic papers. He calls it heresya ID 4J
The Washington Union is still pouring ont
It's Walls OF wr ath upon Douglas. 1t argues that
he is no d. moerat and that he and his followers
should be excluded from tho Charleston Con-
vention. There is fun ahead. ,r-..- ~. -uf
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: president
Buchanan is to-day stronger IN the affections of
the people than he was on the day of his elec-
ton" That's ian, opinion as>fs an opinion"
between you and us and the postoflee.-Louis
Vile Journal
The Washington Union a short time since
closed athree column article on Senator Dong
las with this re mark; .His hearth as tEeacher-
oHs as his prineiples are rotten." Does the
President organ still entertain tAis opinion Of
Douglas? s-Huff so 5aa .-sf ESQ
The court heGse at GaEipolfs was entirely
destroyed by fire on Monday night, but tho pa
pers ANA docarnents in it were all saved. The
ire is supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiaIy. The building cost $4,000 and Was
Insured for $4,000.
The gainesville Telegraph states. that Mr.
Gsahars of Perry, lake county, has produced
493 gallons Of excellent syrup frern something
less than a quarter of an acre of Chinese Sugar
Cane.
Mayor Stith, of Now Orleans. states that since
the coaLn eACement of the yellow fever in that
city, not less than $50 900. have been. expended
fer the burial of the dead, and the conveyance
of the poor to the hospitals.
A Young man in Cincinnati, named Pike
having grown rich in the whisky trade, has Just
erecte3 q magnificent opera house the finest in.
All the west, and a wag wants him t. call Il
Pixies Aleo-Hall." wv
A farmer ON the Wabash has made 400 GAL
lens OF molasses from. the sugar grown en- Is
single acre. of ground. The mo4asses sells res-
d1ly for nifty cents a gallon, giving 5000 as
ths retaTna of his crop ca q single acre
GrceAcastle 3 nliner. .nH ,Uar y#1eE s. Re-
A young Eowdy named Dillon, in attempting
to get do wn a chimney in Philadelphia last
week stuck fast, and was so sutioeated that,
though dug sut alive. he soen died A girl at
taehed to him doubled the dolefuL tragedy by
dr. owning herself-
a fight took place, last MONDAY night be-.
tween Patrick and James Gillen, brothers, in
Greenwich street, New York, when Patrick
stabbed Ja:Hss, in several parts of the body,
with an ice pick. The wounded man was Ia
ken, to the Hospital, and Is aot eXpectaLto live.
Patrick Was arrested.
A correspondent of Harper's~ Weekly speaks
OF two little chess phenomena, residing in-Ray
| cite county Ky They are a boy and girl, aged
II and Is years respectively, aud, blindfolded,
can beat any of tina most experienced play ers
ia that section
WAsHiNGToN. Nov. To-
Notwithstanding the great augmentation OF
the Douglas iaction in the Capitol since the
election the Presidents asinplacaoIe as ever.
The Administration threatens war To th1 kn4fe
against Douglas.-N. Y. Erih4
LKAvKNwoRTn K T., Nov. ..
Favorable accounts continue to arrive FROM
the gold REGION. Seven men Ola Georgia GO ~
pany took out $500 IN live days. Upwards Of
six hundred wagons bound to the mines were
met last week between Fort Kcarney and the
crossing OF the Platte
MASSACHUSETTS, is the most den sely pop ulated
State in The Union. 1t has over 1000, 900 in
habitants on $500 square miles of territory, or
about l56 persons TO each SOUS re mile. We're
Ohio as densely populated it would contain over
6,ooo,oe0 OF peoplo-
MI. e. J. Dickinson, of Richmond. Ohio,
while telling g pleasant anecdote at his supper
table on Saturday, tho 23a, fall from his chair
and ~instantly expired. 1t is not certein whether
he died from strangulatioh in sw alloHing food,
or from apoplexJ.
Tho doctors foe in Now Orleans for a yellow
fe aver case is one hundred dollars, more or less,
kill or cure. If taken in season the DOCTORS
attention is not required after the fourth day.
One two and three thousand dollars a week ia
no uncommon amount of fees for q good yellow
fever physician.
The testimony taken in the contested Con-
gressional election case in St. Louis, Blair VS..
Earret, is developing an immense amount of
HOetAAA Il ~ (lCdfll GlGcL n
Blair to his scat, which, as the next uouse will
be opposition, hs will probably got. ~
Amongst other disgracefGl revelations in the
contested case between Blair and Rarrt1, the
fact was brought to light that some thirty par
dons were issued to c~ouVicts, under sentence of
the Criminal Court, on condition that they
should vote for Barret. 81 .-r5l.
In Madison, Ind, on Sunday last, q littls
boy named Charles Peters gained a prize for re-
citing 2.233 verses from The Bible. which L.
| had committee tn pleTuarV d1pip.r tho mani.
of the SIX. preceding days. lie IS said to &c
capable of committing two hundred verses an
hour, but such experiments are dangerous.
The Hendricks county Ind. } Legcr, says that
three eh11+san were poisoned in DanviIIe on
Wednesday,, by eating the seeds OF ths James
town, or '.jimpson" weed, as it is mmo
called. One Of them, q child of Mr.. Morris
Roaeh, died during the night. The othsr two,
Irish children, ra1nes not stated, it was thought
could MOREOVER.
On Tuesday a shocking murder was commit
ted in the TO wn of Maple Grove. Barry county,
Michigan, by a luan by the name of Cotton
who, eeoming angry alta step-son, about Il
wears of ago, struck him to the ground with u
billet Of wood, then took him up and threw him
on a small stump in such u mnnner as to Cause
his death in q few minutes.
FL Eleven years ago not one acre of land had
been sold in the Territory of Minnesota. What
vas then a wild Territory is now one of the
States of the American Union, dotted over with
fourishing cities and villages, and supporting
an active and increasing population. This is
the way our country grows.
Fine hunting opportunities are within the
reach ofthe Pixies Peak miners. Some of the
d~iggings arc only ten miles from the base OF
the Rocky Mountains, and game is plenty in the
vicinity-such as antelope, black tailed deer d.
Virginia deer, brown bears, Jack rabbits
Grizzly bears are also found, they sometimes
vary the recreation by hunting the miners. "
Col. Suffer, the man who fast discovered
gold in CALIFORNIA;. is poor. lie owned 10000
acres of the richest land in the State, wh:-le
Sacramento and Marysville, now. stands, bat is
reduced to Il small farm with a shaky title
Severtheless, he makes the most OF his farm,
mud Las NOW in his rnrlnn l. i--n:l - NM