Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-07-23
NEWS ITEMS

Five men were killed and hve seriously
y injured by the black damp in the coal
mines at Pottsville on the 18th inst.
Seventeen carloads Of cattle were ship
led over the G. C. & C. Railroad on Mon
lay and Tuesday last. This road is doing a
heavy business in shipping cattle to New
York.
The expenses of franklin county for the
nonth of June, was $4,743, 90. The cost
prosecutions for criminal ~offenses mount
ed to 1923 20.
The fare from Dublin, Ireland, to Colum-
bus, Ohio, in the steerage of the packets of
the Old Black Star Line, is only $20,25,
provisions included.
A young German girl was drowned while
in the Mississippi near Davenport,
Iowa, On the 28lh ult., by becoming entangl-
ed in a hoped skirt.
The Atlantic Straw Works, an Nantuck-
where 10000 hats and 5000 bonnet
lions for want of business.
James G. Jameson, nephew of the ex-
President Pierce, cut his throat with a razor
and died in Boston on Thursday.
At Cincinnati they are tanning an ele-
plants hide. 1t is an mmense concern,
SO bulky and hard that il is handled with
great difficulty.
Below Point Coupee, in Louisiana, is the
largest zane field in the world, extending o.
Yer thirty thousand acres. Rows as straight
as an arrow extend for four miles.
A bill has been ordered to a third reading
in the Minnesota House to prevent usury,
but fixing the legal rate Of interest ut 10
per cent! That young State must be the
paradise of Shy!ocEs.
Three young nobiemen from Senegal of
the brightest ebony tint, have arrived in Par
is from that French colony, and have enter
ed the military academy OF 81. Cyr.
John Underwood, a magistrate in Prince
William county, Virginia, has been refused
on the bench by his associates, because of
his entertaining Abolition sentiments.
About &c, 1000 bushels of new wheat has
accumulated at Lexington North Carolina TO
be shipped to New York.
There are no less than eighty persons ag-
ed seventy years and upwards in the small
town ofHebron, Connecticut, a place with
some 1900 Inhabitants.
Joshua H. Arnold, OF Nicholsyille, Ky,
has 10 reason TO complain of the laws de,
lay for he was indicted, tried and sentenced
to be hung for the murder OF his wife, all in
a single daV last week. 4s
Tunica county, Mississippi, is nearly all
under water. Hardly a plantation has es-
capped the food. The river is three feet
higher than it has ever before been known.
Returns from fifteen counties in Kentucky
make the aggregate number of hogs over six
months cid, 573,364, against 62S, l24 in the
same counties last year, and 475,335 the
year before last.
Anoth er mass Of rock, earth and trees
separaled themselves from Goat Island, at
Niagara Falls, last week, aud went thunder
ing down into the chasm. Buffalo may
hope "in time'' TO have the Falls within the
city Limits.
1t the present time, there Ore III brick
or stone, and 373 frame b~uildings-in all
49o--now going up in Milwaukee, at an ag-
gregatc cost of one million one hundred
thousand dollars.
In Kansas, two weeks age. Bliss Irene
Baker, a girl of seventeen, married a man of
seventy FIVE from admiration of one of his
political speeches. Thus is a common say
ing veriied-"politics maize strange bedfel-
lvws."
Prince Damiilo, II 2ntsnegro, paid q du-
cat for each Turks nose that was brought
TO him. The number cut off is stated as
high as two thousand.
We learn from the Scioto Gazette that
the flock OF Cashmere or Angora goats sent
TO that country by Hon. John p. Brown, OF
Constantinople, have been increased by the
addition of -four kids, which were dropped
this spring. All the flock are doing well SO
fur.
The New Ofleaus Crescent estimates The
growing sugar crop of Louisiana, provided
the weather hereafter proves favorable, at
$4,000 hpgsheads.
Lord Derby, the Prime Minister of Eng
land, lost $500 900 at the Epson races
His horse, Toxophylire came in the second.
The people Of San Francisco are much
alarmed al the desertion Of California BY a
greater portion OF The iaboring class, in the
stampede 10 Frazier's River.
The New Orieans Picayune, Of the 18Th,
says that along Die 'cuast' there is as yet no
sign of the falizof 1he river. One gentle
man reports that opposite his plantation it
has been on a stand Tor i've weeks.
Samuel Morgan was convicted on Tuesday
in the Scioto County Court, of murder in the
first degree. He killed his vile in the most
brutal manner.
Less than an acre of land in ST. Paul.
that was purchased in Ia4S,at Sl25, was
sold on the I'd inst. for $4,000 cash. Be-
fore hard times the owner had refused 3d.
600 ior the same city lot.
M I5r General Lytle was fined in Cincin
natl, Tor disorderly conduct at Aloore's Gar
den on Sunday evening. He was the Dem-
%ocratic candidate for Lieut.. Governor on the
ticket with IL. B. Payne.
One Of the effects of the enormous over
flow of wsters down South is that the ALI
gators are given a much larger consenisl
territory FOR their operations. On one plan
says the N. o. Picuyune, as many
as a hundred of these amphibious monsters
have been slaughtered.
The large mill (said to be the largest -four
establishment in the world) ct Warwick.
Barksdelle g. Co, Richmond, Va, now COM
pleted. Il is 90 by l65 feet, and is IL stories
high. 1t cost $3.50, oo0! Millers don't
make money. it seems. =
James NJ. Palmer, an Englishman, 80
years of age, lille gathering wild fowls
recently on the Faralleons (rocky in