Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-03-25
NEWS ITEMS


Thomas Ross, an imbecile and deformed youth
who was very fond of liqnor, died . few days
since in Athens, Limestone county, Alabama,
from drinking a 7int of % per cent. alcohol,
administered to him by q man named Charlton,
who was committed to Jail in default Of $4,000
bail. -
On Thursday. at Oberlin. s. B. Kirk, a atu-
dent Of tie Oberlin College. was arrested under
a warrant from U. S. Marshal Johnson, charg-
ed with being connected with a band Of conn
terfeiters, several of whom were recently arrest
ed in Portage county. Kirk was taken to
Cleveland for examination.
On Sunday morning the no use of Mr.. Robert
Galbreth, in Muhlenberg township, PIckaway
county was burned to the ground, with most
of its contents. The next day the sneighbors
got together, and by Tuesday evening had,a
nice hewed log house built, and by the this
time Mr.. Galbreth has once more roof over his
head.
Antioch College, in Greene county, is az YER
tiscd to he sold on a mortgage OF S27, O00i held
by the Connecticut Life Insurance Company. IA
decree foreclosing the mortgage was rendered
on Thursday in the United States Circuit Court
in Cincinnati.
In Sweden, a man who is seen four times
drunk is deprived of a vote at elections. a
good law f r any country. a
The Vincennes (Ind.) Gazette says the wheat
crop in that vicinity is looking remarkably
well, and the prospect is good for u heavy crop
this year. .rUanT
Mary Callan, a little Irish girl, nine years OF
age, died in Bangor. Me-, on Monday. from
the effects of drinking rum, given Eer by the
neighbors on the occasion ola birth rejoicing.
The last speech of the Hon. Daniel E, SiokIes A.,
of New York, was in defense of the Management
! on tho Brooklyn Navy Yard. -.ar aI
On the LIST of May next two of the Oldest
theatres of New York city-Niblos and the
Broadway-nrc to be pulled down, and give
room to stores or other edifces.
The Board of Excise Commissioner of New
York have given instructions to vigorously
prosecute 1000 complaints for violation of the
liquor law. ran H sf
Seventy fugitive slaves from Missouri passed
through GFinnel, Iowa, on the 2lst ult. en- route
for Canada. They were armed to the. teeth with
means of self defence. -
ST. LoUrs, March l0.--It is estimated that ten
Thousand persons afflicted with gold fever have
arrived here in the last three days, en- route to
the Pixies Peak mines.
Tho Governor of Missouri is said to have
wound up u grand spree the other day by riding
his aors" into his own parlor, and tying his foro
feet onFthe keys of the piano. -Szn1T sa
B. S. Herring, an ingenious Citizen Of Ports
mouth, Va, has invented o machine called o
Pedoncter, the object Of which is TO indicate
the distance a man walks. IL il attached to
the heel of the boot like aApur.
A letter from washin .ton represents Mr..
Buchanan as denouncing the Democrats party
in Rnmeasured terms. lie accuses them Of hav-
ing deserted him and left him uttssly without
the means of carrying on the government
The Washington Star estimates that at least
200 sojourners-members of the first. second or
third House, their families, birds OF fashion DC,
left the Federal Metropolis between 3 D. m. of
Friday and 5 a. m. Of saturday. - aam
The New Orleans Picayune states that Mr..
Laurent Milandon has sold his sugar plantation
on the right of the river, a little aboveJetfarson
Clty. for one million dollars II C0ntainA
several thousand acres of land, and is worked
by 44S hands. 3tef sa Ee
A loan, amounting TO 1000. 900, from the
British Government, for the purpose of rcnewing
the Atlantic Cable enterprise, is announced as
decided upon Further experiments will, aoeA-
sequently, be made the present season. ~
The Marion county, (ohiosl Agricultural
Society aw arded their first premium for oats
grown in 1881, to Jacob Lee, of Marion town
ship, his crop being one hundred and thirteen
and u half bushels of well cleaned oats, on one
measured acre"
A destructive land slide occurred at Troy, N.
Y, on Thursday evening last. A large mass of
earth erumbled from the side of Mount Ida, aud
buried mp n large portion ofSt Peter's College,
a Roman Catholic institution in course Of cree
ton. The damage will reach from $4,000 to
$4,000.
AUGUSTA, GA, March as.-It is rumored that
the bark Rawlins has landed six hundred Afri-
cans on the coast of Florida. The story, how
The Rawlins cleared ut Savannah for Havana
on the 18th of December last, and has scarcely
had time to make u voyaget to the coast of Africa
and back.
AT an election In Auburn, N. H.. last week,
John Clark and his son George, both reading
under the one roof and both excellent men, we're
candidates for Represen iative. The father Is .
RepUbfica n and the son a Democrat, on the frat
ballot it was a tie, the second resulted in one
majority for the sire, who was declared duly
elected.
A Marriage recently took place at Cincinnati,
in which the bride was sixteen and the groom
was sixty.
Polly Ticker of Newcastle, Botetourt county,
Va, on the l4th killed q drunken man by the
name of Sparks with an axe.
DkAKi-Portraits of President Buchanan ware
being hawkod about the streets fos 10
cents each, or thre Q for q quarter! The price ia
exho rbitant. Gazette. ae ~
As early as the asth Of Februnrv. s.ytar
and grasshoppers he'd made their nppsax-
is something unusual,
A pill passed by the Missouri House Of Rap
resentativ es, to expel free nogroes or sell them
INTO slavery, has been postponed 10 November.
is san that public sentiment will not let IL
become q law.
At the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mra. John
3. Mango at WiacRsses last weak, tho lady was
presented with a bridal cake, tho top Of which
vas ernamented with thirty one@dolfar aud one
I've dollar gold pieces, arrnngsd I'm tho afurmef
star. ErA-
DETRorT, March 19.-The express train eoinV
on thu Great Western Railroad, ran on
he track near Hamilton last night, killing four
T hve persons, including the engineer, andf IA
nr1nR several others. But I eE payticnearmoh-