Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
GENERAL NEWS Z

very handsome income.
Boys should look before they leap, when div
ing. A boy in Brooklyn, N. Y, named Brown,
made a dive on Friday last and buried his head
SO deep in the mud that he was unable to ex-
tricate- himself and consequently died from
suffocation.
w N. B. Goodwin killed a snake on his farm
near Fredericksburg, last week, know as the
Garter Snake. 1t was a female, and though
only 35 inches in length, contained 81 Young
ones, each measuring 81 inches,
II. Clay, a brother of the late Congressman,
James B.. Clay, and son of Henry Clay, is elect
ed to the State Senate from Fayette county Ky.
on the Opposition ticket.
The Philadelphia Ledger, a paper well inform
ed, and certainly not given TO exaggerated forms
Of speech, d~esignates the wheat harvest this
year, as 60 the largest wheat harvest, probably,
that has ever been produced on this earth.
A man aged so years, and living in the Par
ish of Killigan, Ireland, was married on the
18th ult., to a young lady only 25 years old,
who has been blind for the last ten years. The
bridegroom is lame and cannot go without the
aid OF a crutch.
There are ffty-nine churches in the city Of
New O~rleans-forty Protestant and nineteen
Roman Catholic. Of the Protestant churches,
fourteen are Methodist, nine Presbyterian, eight
Episcopal, and two Baptist. DR.. Palmer's
church (Presbyterian) cost Sl02, 900.
The State of South Carolina is now taking a
CENSUS; anu IN seventeen parishes there Is Il ue-
crease of over five thousand whites since 1855,
while the blacks have largely increased. At
this rate the Palmetto State will soon be Afri-
canized.
A first class locomotive costs about $40, 600
a passenger car 81, 600; ii baggage car 81, 500 ;
a freight Car $3.50; a gravel Car $3.50. The
iron of a railroad costs from So. 600 to IS, 600
per mile.
After a sharp struggle between the New York
police and the Irish population for some time,
the piggeries of the suburbs have been demol-
ished. The ruins present a novel scene, though
a hopeful one for suburban visitors. No less
than 316 pig-pens have been overturned, and
1852 pigs put out of the way.
The impurity of the Croton water. New York,
has given rise to strong complaints through
the newspapers. An examination is to be in
stituted.
Eight cows were killed by lightning in Will
ton and Temple, n. H., Wednesday last. In
Boylston, Mass, Wednesday the lightning
struck the house of Eli Hastings, in which were
five or six persons, shattering the chimney and
killing the house dog. 4 little boy, with his
hand upon the dog the moment he was killed
did not feel the shock.
The Editor of the Warrcnton WIig, writing
from the Red Sweet (Vl,,) Springs, says
"A few days ago, L couple of Southern gen
tlenen here, rich planters from Red River, play
ed seven games of Old sled2e, for So, 600 a game
and the winner took every game. $50, 0C0
were lost, aid the money paid, l hear, in a check
on the Bank of Louisiana. 1 could give the
names, but forbear."
At the Queens ball, i'll London, recently, the
Duchess of Richmond carried 5l50, 900 on her
head i'll the shape Of a diamond tiara.
Within FIVE years in Indiana there have been
erected twenty-scYen hundred school houses.
at an expense of eleven hundred thousand dbl
lars.
y lad, named Dunn, was bit by a rattiesnake
whilst notwithstanding on Canaan Mountain,
Conn, last We ~lnesiay. He vomited ~prCfusely
AMI though Dr. Nelch applied all the remedies
IN his power, the lad wis net expected to live.
Adams Empress Company employs 3,783
men A; it has 49, agencies ; its messengers trav-
ell daily 40, I52 miles on the railroads and in
the steamers-a distance equal to once around
the globe, and two thirds around it a second
time.
On Thursday, August 4tl, a terrible explosion
of a locomotive occurred on the South Carroll
IA railroad, which was attached at the time to
a tender only. The engine was blown almost
to atoms, and all on it, five in number, instant
ly killed, their bodies having been horribly
mutilated.
Dr. Williams has the preserved body of a
rattiesnake, killed near Alton, Illinois, "a few
days ago, which measures five feet two inches
IN length, four and a half INCHES around his
body, and has twenty-tour ~rattles, and weighs
six and thrce-tourth pounds.
The New York and Erie Railroad has com
mcnced a system OF retrenchment wisely by
cutting down the enormous salary of its Presi-
dent, Ar. Moran, from $25, 900 to S. 900.
4 6y-trap, invented by B. Atwater, of Berlin
Gem, which costs only one dollar, caught, in
a ~diling-room in a hotel in Manchester, n. H,
seventeen hundred flies in one minute.
Sizty-four railroad trains arrive or depart
trom indianapolis daily Each road runs
one freight train every day, except the Lafay-
cite, which runs but three per week.
The owner of a peach orchard near Jones'
boro', Illinois. Col. Rainbridge, is now sending
peaches to Chicago at the rate of fifty baskets j,
q day, getting 81 a basket for them.
Mons Antoine Octave, a well known tight
rope performer, proposes to cross the falls Of
Niagara on a wire.
Rev John B, Spencer, a Methodist clergyman
IN Morehousc, La, died in the pulpit, on Sun
day night week, while preaching.
Jefferson County, Texas, has no Jail, in lieu
OF which, persons sentenced to confinement are
fastened, night and day, to a rock in the public
by a chain attached to the ankle. If
the prisoners offense is light, or he has hither-
10 borne a good character, be is allowed an UNI
brelIa to protect him from the sun and rain.
A letter from Pixies Peak says that gambling
and whIsky-drlnking flourish there extensively.
Tanglef0ot whisky sells for twenty-five cents
a drink, and it will almost make a man shed
his toe nails"
Nearly $50, 900 has been collected for the
construction of the crowned Surgeons new
church i'll London. about $50, 600 of which has
been expended in the purchase of the ground.
But IT Is stated that before the edifce can be
completed, about $50, 600 more will be required.
GOO for the erection of an editice in which
to worship God!
The Hudson River Railroad Company has
added six more coal burning locomotives to the
road during the last four months. The whole
number now i'll use on this road is thirty-one.
The burning of cool reduces the current expen-
ses OF a locomotive forty five per ccnt.-an item
that adds largely to the profits,
A HEAVY REcoRD.-The record of the case
OF Mrs Myra Clark Gains, about to be carried
to the United States Supreme Court at Wash
lngton, has been made up at New Orleans, and
covers Iii pages Of manuscript.
IHREE YOUNG Girls DRowNEp-Stockbridg
August Ii Two nieces of DR. Train. of !
Mass, aged seven and nine years, and
daughter of James Bradford Esq, aged twelve
years. were drowned while bathing, yesterday,
m Il little cove, at Sheffield.
a william named Henry Chapman set on fire
md destroyed no less than 8 barns and one
store, on Monday night, on The road from Pres
ON City to North Stonington. Connecticut. and
attempted TO shoot a young man nnmed Charles s
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The Fefesbla. a German paper published in ;
Aeokuk. and heretofore Democratic. hoists the
hepupilCan nag Inc Germans ct Iowa are =
to cast their votes this fall for Kirk
wood and Rusch, the champions of freedom. {
The Receiver of the New York and Erie Rail- |
Dad has appointed Chas. Minot to the General S
Superintendency of the road place which he
in 1854. Mr.. S25.0 600 Moran is PLAYED
nut. He was the ~costliest humbug for the Presi-
of u railroad that ever afflicted an Amer S
can road. Minot bore a high reputation for \
fficiendy and integrity when he had charge of u
he Erie road. a
James O'Brian, ex-Mayor of Lafayette, Ind, :
nd for two years past a resident of Knox. in =
tark county, in that State, was accidentally t
hot on Thursday afternoon, while out cunning P