Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-26

chapels ia New York; and now, in 1888 there
are upwards of three hundred.
We learn from the Catholic Standard. pub
lished in New Orleans, that six Catholic priests
have fallen in that city since the co nIncnce-
ment ofthe epidemic.
PEARs sc PER DozEx.--AngouIem c pears have
sold in tho Boston market at this rate this
year This magnificent pear is very scarce this
year, many growers, who usually have a large
quantity, not having u single fruit.
Tie Cincinnati brokers, within the past few
weeks. have carried off from the Athens Bank,
1872 900 in <pccie. W~hereupGn. brother Van
Worries demo inmates them 6 pestiferous in
scots"
Miss Mary Fichme nd, daughter of a clergy
man in the ncighborhood of Clifton, England,
lately fell Oft of a precipice called the Lion
head Cliff" 300 feet, into a road below, and was
dashed to pieces.
Willis, the keeper of a notorious gambling
hell in Broadway, New York, who was arrested
on the charge of murder. after a long eXamiua-
ti"n has been committed to the Toombs for
trial.
Not long ago an album leaf, on which Byron
had written a few lines of poetry, was sod at
Venice, and "a Russian gave 5 $500 for it
There was but four lines-four hundred dollars
u line.
Mr.. McDernot, of Mifiin Township. Rich
land county, o., has very good claims to be
considered the Oldest man in the State. lie
was born in Pennsylvania in l749, and is now
at the age OF loo, in the enjoyment of fair
| health.
Hon. J. Clancy Jones has resigned his seat
Packer is dated the first instant. An election
for a successor is ordered to be held early in
December.
The Washington States Of Wednesday even
ing, announces that it has united with the
Richmond South, and that the new conso ida t.
ed raperis to be under the editorial control OF
Roger A. Pryor,
The Richmond South of the 18th inst, Gays it
has sthe satisfaction to announce that Mr..
Clemens condition has exhibited such an i'm
provement within the last week that his friends
are now confident of his recovery, and hope
tul even of the repair Of his injured limb
A Democratic politician, writing from
Western New York, communicates the follow
ing:
lit is said there has been an election, but on
account of the terrible condition of the roads,
we haint hcarn about it,"
During one week, recently, there were shipp-
cd from st. Adams, VT, 202 900 pounds of
cheese. worth $l5,150, ard l75,l9T pounds of
butter worth $29,T7I, bringing in to the farmers
OF that locality the pleasant sum of $i4 ,s2l-
Not poor farming this.
There viii be three exciting contests for
! seats in the next IIouse OF representatives.
The seats are hose of Barrct, OF St. Louis;
Florence, of Philadelphia, and Sicklos, of New
York
Edward Robbins. OF Marion county, has been
sentenced to the Pcnitontiary for life. lie 81 ~
convicted Of murder in the second degree IN pro
duting the death o "A woman named Nancy
Holly, by giving her some remedy to remove
the guilt OF their criminaItty.
The Columbus Ind. Democrat learns that
tho widow of Mewherter is now 4 mauiae.-
Now hert.r sLo: himself i'll the Court House,
in rreoen.c of the Court, II few days ago, at
Columbus.
NJ. r Ls--.- N -
and Western points. n. liked by the ticket
'Ee--' convention, lately held, are AS follows
From New York to Cleveland, $l4; to
Cincinnati, 82l; TO Chicago, 81; TO st. Louis,
I'tt dollars.
TIE Wc~,acld Mass. News Letter SAYS that
tLs wife Of J. +. Strong, ofSonth Windsor, bore
two daughters and a son. on the ed of October,
1851: and two sons, on the 18th of October,
1855 three sous and two daughters, all within
II months and % days.
Ex Governor Bcbb. formerly of this State.
but more recently of Winnebago county, Illinois
h4 : become possesser Of large landed estates in
Tennessee, and will, in the course of this month
leave for Knoxville, whore he designs practicing
lay in company with his son.
The most valuable span of horses in the
United States are said to he owned by Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, of New York. They are
matched horses. They cost him siX thousand
dollars, and he has been offered nine thousand
dollars for them.
A Robbers Cave has been discovered in Clar-
ion county Pennsylvania, on Sandy creek, and
i'll it was found It buffalo robe, and Il lot flew
clry, and u large variety OF mems wearing ap
Parel.
-IowA.-For the first time in its history, every
department of the State Of Iowa is Republican
with Il clean representation in both Houses of
Congress-G Grimes already elected, taking the
plave OF Jones in tho Us. Senate after the Ith
OF March.
w. NJ - Corn - l,ar1os N,tor uhn far
years past has been an exceedingly dissoiutc
character in this city, was sold on Saturday, in
front OF the Court House. under the vagrant
act. One dollar was all that was paid for the
unfortunate specimen of the Caucasian race
Louisville Courier.
The Frceman's journal, the ablcst of the New
Yerk Catholic Journals, and the newspaporial
representative of the largest and most intelligent
Of the Catholic Democracy of New York attacks
Mr.. buchanan most bitterly. 1t says thatit has
ceased to regard Buchanan Us II Democrat-that
he is a Federalist to his heart core.'
The Washington Union, in Il late elaborate
article, denounces Squatter Sovereignty in all
its forms, and accepts the Republican doctrine,
that, Congress has iuii, exclusive jurisdiction
over the ] erritories; that, the supreme ultimate
authority III respect to the Territories, reside
outside OF them, not with.
Mr.. o. r. Espich, of Dayton, was robbed of
$40 on Saturday evening last, by three high
waymen. He was returning from Germantown
/ III II bhxEN anu MICH lluSNluR khlOhSh tHS
arch under the Cincinnati, Hamilton u Dayton
lailroAd Bridge, IA man appeared from the
west side OF the arch and took hold OF the
horses head, whcreupon two more grabbed
him by the throat aud robbed him.
The last Writings" of Ira Stout, says the
Rochester Union, has made it advisable for his
sister. Sarah K. Littles, now in Sing Sing State
prison, to give a statement Of her knowledge of
The murder of husband, G, W. Littles. On the
goth she made and signed at Sing Sing, in pres
ence OF the prison officers, Il full statement of
the murder for publication. Her account of the
hurrid affair shows up Ira Stout in all his defor-
nifty, and fully fixes upon him all tho guilt
laid at his door by the public. 1t is even init
mated that money was one of the motives lea
ding to the murder.
A William C. Ely, of Clyde, Wayne county,
New York, was dangerously stabbed a few
nights since, by a burglar, who first robbed his
house OF u quantity of silver plate. After car
rying of the plate, the thief returned and Ven
tured into Mir. Ely's room after money, but MIR.
E. happening to wake, grappled with him, and
in the struggle received eleven wounds from Il
knife. The Thief escaped,
The Tifin Tribune says, O young man recent
~ married, named Martin Corbett, residing
some two miles south of that city, WIS aoo4dont-
ally shot on Tuesday the I'd inst, while on y.
hunting excursion IN Henry couGty, by another
/ hunter, who mistook him Tor a deer. The ball
pcnotrated the body in the regi1n OF the lett
kidney, causing a dangerous il not a mortal
wound.
A LARGE DExn.--The Terre Haute Union
says:
A buck was killed in Crawford county, w.,
q few days ago weighing two hu nored and fif-
teen pounds after the entrails were taken out.
This is the largest deer we ever saw. II was as
| fat AS butter, and according TO he Indian mode
of telling the ageof aueh animals, it vas but
fur years cid.