Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-30
NEWS ITEMS

Fernando Wood and his clique were de-
fe ated on Monday in the election of Sach-
eais in the Tamnany Hall cleo ton in New
York.
WIN. Burnett, a drunken man, killed his
own sister, Sarah Burnett, last week in
Rutherford county. Tehh., by striking her
with a club.
AwFUE CALAMI-Y.--The cabin Of Mr.:
Shafer, near Manhattan, Kansas, was de-
stroyed by fire about two weeks ago, and
four small children were burnt to death.
Mrs. Shewell fell dead of disease of the
heart. while darcing the dancers Quad
%rille,'' at a ball in Philadelphia, at one
O'Clock on Thursday morning.
Returns from 4l9 towns of Michigan
elect 2Ts Republican Supervisors. 1873 Dem
ocrats, and 4 U~nionists. This shows a large
Republican gain on last years elections.
The Troy Times describes ''blasted hopes''
to be "marryfng a woman with the e4pecta-
ton of getting her with $4,000, and when
the union is contaminated to be presented
with a bill for last years board"
The N. r. Posts Washington CORES
pondent says of the fight in the House be-
tween Craig, of N. c., and Helper, that
Craige though the largest man got decided-
ly the worst of it.
A Westphalian Prussian Court of Justice
has decided that a husband has no right to
open his wife's l~ettersi and sentenced one
70 a fine of ten thalers fur doing so. OF
course the rule works the other way also,
and must tend to promote family peace.
Elihu Burritt, the we'll known lecturer, Is
TO publish a paper in New BritiEn, CT. 1t is
1 to be called the North and South, and will
BE devoted mainly to the advocacy of Mr..
BIS plab of effecting the gradual abolition Of
slavery BY compensation to the owners:
About a week since, a woman was burned
to death in Lockport, Licking county, by her
clothes taking fire. The Newark North
American says that she and her husband
were both in a state of bedstly intoxicatioE
at the time.
END OF THE SPRINGFIELD TRAGEDY.-W.
Mack Booker, who killed Ben Hardin Pal
mer, in Springfield, n.y., on April Sd, died of
his wounds on Saturday last. Thus ends
one of the most fearful Iragidies that evef
occurred in Kentucky.
The St. Louis Republcaa (pro-Siavery)
says that the question of the next Falls
| election in Missouri is clearly and distinctly
emancipation, and that the abolition Of Sla-
very in the State is only TO be prevented by
the success of the Democratic party.
Oliver G. Howard, a cattle-drover, from
some part OF Ohio, was garroted IN Phila-
delphia, on "Wednesday evening last, by two
or three desperate negroes. He was rob-
bed of but forty-odd dollars, having luckily
before going out, deposited some $1,000
with his landlord.
1t has been popularity presumed that as
Col. Benton had been so long a conspicuous
man, he was therefore rich Upon his death
it has been discovered that he Was Foof.-
There is a mortgage of $4,000 on the
hoate in Which he lived. kll honor to him
for the fact that he was incorfuptible:
A SAD bNB-The Nebraska correspond
ent Of the St. louis Democrat writes THAT
Governor Cummings Illness was Protfacted
| several months, and that no disease is as
stoned as the cause of his death, s'but it is an
~undeniab1e fact that lie died of 'srot-gut"
whisky and RIGHTEOUSNESS"
The United States steam-frigate Susque-
hanna, Capt. Joshua R. Sands, arrived at
New York on Thursday evening from MIC
aragaa, via PORT Royal, (Jamaica) where six.
officers AID ffty-seven men were landed
sick with yellow fever. She has bad one
hundred and f~fty-f3e cases in all, and sew
enteen deaths are fnown. She is now de-
tanned ut quarantine below New YORK.
Colonel Thomas Hart, BeIton'sf dHicfe.
and from whom he was named, lived in lex
ibgton, Kentucky, of which city he was one
of the founders, and was celebrated for his
benevolence and hospitality. 1t was through
a marriage with his daughter that Henry
Clay became related to Col. Benton.
COOP SiGF.-The Custom Ho6se rettrThs
are a fine commentary on the power of the
American people to retrerch and recuper-
ate. The reduction of importations at New
York for the months Of January, February
and March, mounts to the enormous sum
Of thirty SIX millions, compared with the
previous year.