Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-06-11
NEWS ITEMS

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% ,ooo, 900 serfs, exclusive of those belong
ing to the crown, in the $4,000 900 inhabi-
tants in Russia.
New ORLEANS June 3.--The jury having
been unable to agree in the case of General
Walker, were this morning discharged, when
the government entered a nolle prosequi, and
he was forthwith discharged.
CALIFORNIA GoLD.--It appears that from
the lst of January to the 3Oth of April the
amount of specie shipped from San Francis
co was $15,17l ,423, which is $691 1863
more than for the corresponding period last
year.
Jucob Hoover, an old settler of Perry co..,
committed suicide by hanging himself. He
was some seventy years of age, and was in
good circumstances, but it is thought that i'll
health occasioned temporary insanity.
The Napolean, Ark, Planter presents a
~lamentable picture of affairs in that section,
the result of the overflow of the rivers, and
and says that its last issue was "worked off,
by the printer while standing in two feet OF
water,
An attempt is to be made to recover the
million and a half that went down in the
Central America, although she is sunk in
water over fiye-eight of a milo deep, and in
a spot that is ninety miles from land.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald says
that in the last year that city has suffered a
serious decrease in population, owing to the
decline in business. How great the decrease
has been is not exactly known, but the CEN
sus of school children indicates that the loss
is uiore than one thousand.
According to the Unions statement,
which is presumed TO be official, the United
States fleet in the Gulf of Mexico numbers
eight vessels with one hundred and thirty
nine guns, while the British feet in the Gull
numbers seventeen vessels with three hun
dred and ffty-seven guns.
President Buchanan, it is stated is uure-
served in the opinion that England will dis
avow The recent outrages fully and promptly,
and asserts that the relations between the
two countries was never established on a
more friendly footing, and cannot be dis
turbed.
New YoRK, June 4.-The steamer Black
Warrior arrived this morning from Havana
with dates of the 30ih ult. Sugars were
active. The English officer who acted 50
conspicuously and Extensively III the search
of American vessels at Sagua, has been ar
rested, by order of his commander, and sent
to Jamaica fer trial.
Mrs. e. R. Moore, has recovered IS ,0GO.
damages from the corporation of Petersburg.
Virginia. for bodily injuries sustained by step
ping into a hole which had been left around
one of the city lamp posts.
Mrs. Twiggs was tried at Danville Pa, last
week for the murder of Catherine Ann Clark
and was convicted. Tue Court sentenced
her to be Executed within the walls of the
Jail OF Montcur coent
The tnan whose better half told him be-
fore their marriage that she was worth S9U,-
00o, when she was worth 5000 900, as he
found after marriage, has forgiven her for
the fhlsebood she TIL him.
A Mr. Warning. OF Newport, KY, died sHd-
denly in his chair, on M1nday morning. The
day previous he attended u funeral Of a neigh
bur, and remarked to "a i~riend--'I wonder
who'll be the next"
In the late Court of Common Pleas for
Craw ford county Ohio. the case of Sanford
vs.. Henry D.. E.. Johnson, for seduction of
plaintiffs daughter, resulted in a verdict Of
$500 for plaintiff.
The Baptist Examiner says that 60 per
cent of the money raised for charitable
and religious purposes, is used in "ofice ex-
penses,''in paying the salaries of those who
-~eaI!ect the money
The dead body Of q man was found in the
river at Cleveland N Sunday morning. Ii
had a huge wound on the head over the lett
eye, and the skull was badly broken.
William Francis, aged %, was drowned
at Columbus on Sunday while bathing with
some friends in the Scioto. Il is supposed
he was seized with cramp.
A recapi;ulation of the damage done By
the recent hail storm in The vicinity of Fred
ricfsburg, Va, estimates the loss 10 be about
$4,000. Over $4,000 bushels of wheat
were destroyed, within u length of ten and Il
breadth of three miles.
On Saturday last-siys the Saudusky
Register terrific hail storm visited the
of friedrich, Knox county, breaking
two thousand panes of glass.
A terrible storm visited South Eastern
New York last week. In Port Jervis alone
the damage in broken glass and crops de-
stroyed will reach $4,000.
Lewis county, Va, on the 24lh ult, was
visited by a destructive freshet, sweeping
everything beforei it. The damage sustained
by the food is estimated at least 1875 900.
Rev. W. H. Lord of Montpelier, Vi, is
now receiving a salary of $1,000, has de-
clined a call of $4,000 10 Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Scioto River was higher at Ports
mouth u few days ago than before in 20
years. The bottoms from bank to bank
were flooded, and so deep that a steamer with
three loaded barges in tow rode over corn
fields, fences, &c, without snagglng.
fellow near Rochester in!iced a little child
of four years to put its fingers in the door,
shutting the door, he crushedthe child's
betwecn the dour and casing, and
boiling the door ran to a window and looked
out, exulting at the misery of the Child.
New YORK, June T..
The brig Abram, arrived yesterday from
Savanillo, reports having been boarded by "a
boat from the Styx and papers overloaded,
but treated politely.
The bark Tonaro, from Havana was board.
ed from off that harbor by a boat from a
war steamer, but was treated civilly.
Thu St. Louis Democrat mentions that an
unusual number of dead bodies have lately
hoated down the river, and accounts for the
fact from the late disasters and freshets. -