Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-18
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AOC1CJs tLlS must pTOu11UClt . ObcPHCA -. OOAS-
las, a black man, who for many years has con-
Quoted an Abolition emancipation paper with
signal success.
A Miss Thompson, in Tennessee, has recently
recovered SIS, 0O0 in a suit for breach of prom
Use against a man named Patterson. The case
excited great interest, as the most eminent
counsel in the State were engaged upon it
The verdict is the heaviest ever rendered in q
case of the kind in Tennessee.
1t is said that the health of Hon. John Letch
er, Governor elect of Virginia, is still precarious.
His disease is erysipelas in a violent form.
There is in Bourbon county, Ky, a family
consisting of a man his wife. and eight children,
whose average heigth is 6 feet A inches, and
average weight PA pounds-one of the sons is
the tailest in the family and measures 6 feet II
inches-he also weighs the most-296 pounds.
A daughter, who died, was s feet three inches
in height and weiged 100 pounds.
Negroes appear to be good property just now
On Monday of last week, court day at Warren
ton, Virginia, a negro girl, about sixteen wears
of age, was offered for sale to the highest bid
der, and brought 81, LBS another, about IL
brough 81 200. A woman was afterwards sold
for Sl,35O; also a man, privately for Sl,5Oo.
The Troy, n. Y, Wing says In the east
ern part of the town of Grafton, in this county,
near the Petersburgh line, resides a man named
James Weiden, who is one hundred and fifteen
years of age. He is in full possession of all his
AdCullACc, OOOlly dilu ulCbGdA1y3 dLA0 O6A "SA0
ten miles a day with the greatest ease"
loves great balloon in New York, while in
the process of imitation, on the 18th, was drawn
by the wine against the ridge pole of a tent,
which tore a hole in it, letting the gas escape,
and damaging it to the extent of So, 200. 1t is
to be mended and filled again, for a fool trip
across the Atlantic, or to Greenland.
A man named Startling was executed at Kins-
ton, N. c., last Friday, to witness which some
four or five thousand people were present. 1t
is stated that Startling had a supsrstitious belief
in witchcraft, believing that the old lady he
killed had the power to conjure his wife and
child to death, and while in a state OF intoxica-
ton committed the deed.
The great oyster bed off Norwalk is nearly
played out already. The receipts are be-
ginning to fall off very sensibly. Some two
hundred vessels only are now engaged in TAX
ing the bivalves from the new places.
Since the Spanish war of succession in 1871,
Austria has lost and regained Lombarby twelve
times. She lost it for the thirteenth time July
18th, 1850.
John c. Terrell has been convicsed in Mari
borough Parish, South Carolina, of numbering
hiss great grandfather, and sentenced to be
hanged. He poisoned the old man.
Col. John c. Fremont subscribed $500 toward
the erection of a monument in San Francisco,
to Senator Broderick.
CAPT. BRowN's WIfE.-When Mrs. Brown
arrived at Baltimore on her way to Charlestowu
she received a dispatch from the North, request
ing her to return Immediately to Philadelphia,
and she left for home again the same evening.
Capt. Brewn did not desire her presence in
Charlestown.
TIE APPLE TRADE.-In~o swego~ county, N.
Y, the farmers have sold this fall at least fifty
thousand barrels of apples, at prices varying
from 81, IS to 81 per barrel. The Rochester
Democrat says . @
A single buyer. in the west district of this
county, Mr.. James Upton, has nearly doubled
that, buying about 100, 900 barrels, and other
buyers have kept pretty closely to Mr.. Upton's
transactions in this line.
Two laborGrs were suffocated by being drawn
into a bin of corn in the warehouse of Sturgis
& Co., on Central Railroad Wharf, Chicago, on
the I'd. They were engaged in loading the
propeller Free State, and the spouts being clog
ged the men went down iuto the bin to clear
them. 1t was nearly an hour before the bodies
were recovered from the grain under which they
were Unexpectedly buried.
Some idea of the extent of gambling opera
tons in Memphis, at the present time. may he
based upon the knowledge that a gentleman
from Arkansas lost the SUN of $50, 500 one day
last week at cards. The game upon which the
money was adventured and lost, is known TO
modern card-piayers us 'seven-up, and will
be remembered among the arcients as 'old
slcdgc."
Mr.. John n, Hull, formerly of Raycnna, now
of johnson, Trumbull county, writes There
is a ledge of rocks here, from which snakes crawl
out and sun themselves. Over a hundred have
been captured and killed this fall. One was
killed that was eight feet long-and several
Others measured five feet six inches.
A Mrs. Kindred who, some years since, was
ii large Shareholder in North Carolina, and who
in 1850 brought her last slave to Hillshorough,
and freed him, thus expanding her fortune, is
now an inmate of the Warren county, O., Poor
House. She is So years old, and begs to be
taken from that place.
There is il the family of Mr.. John II. NolIe.
B~randyWine street. Spring Garden ID tom cat Of
enormous size. He weighs thirty-One pounds.
and measures thirty-seyen inches from the tip
of his nose to the end Of his tail, and twenty
eight inches round the gifth.
Francis Jackson Merriam, of Boston, who was
reported to have been with Brown in the Har-
per's Ferry instruction, and subsequently to
have died OF his wounds in Philadelphia, is
alive ard at present in Canada.
FROZEN TO DEATu.-A young man named But
Ter, residing in St. Louis, broke through the ice
while hunting about Bluff Lake, d few days
since, and having no clothes to substitute for
his wet ones, was frozen to death.
at Philadelphia, lately, a member of Or.
Roardman's church, paid off a debt hanging
on the Westminster Presbyterian Ghulch, Dr.,
West pastor, amounting TO 5000.
STILL THEY Go.-The slaves continue to leave
Missouri at a rate which must seem truly fear
full to the National Democracy. On Saturday
the Memphis packet John II. Dickey left our
port with sevcnty-tive negroes from the interior,
in charge of two traders from Tennessee. We
notice, likewise, a great competition among the
slave buyers, who orerbid each other in "A spirit
of emulation, The exodus is irrepressihle. At
this rate the census Of slaves in this State in a
years. will be an easy task [St. Louis
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ton, has been sold to Mr.. William Muller, of
England. for $40, coo. The estate comprises
about 500 AGREE, is handsomely improved and
conveniently located to town and she universe
ty.
VIM. B radshaw. a respectable farmer living
in the vicinity of London, c. w, died last week
Of h~ydrophobia. He was bitten in August last
and the wound was cauterized the following
day.
The property, capital and stock of the Meth
odist Book Concern in New York is estimated
1T $5lS, 6Sl over all liabilities and that of
Cincinnati at SOS, 500.
Judge Roosevelt, of the Superior Court of
New York, has decided that where a wife con-
tracts debts, even with the knowledge of her
husband, provided that the wife contracted the
icbts for trading in her owl name, the husband
S not liable thcrefor.
The MississiTpian SAYS that cut Of all the
recently elected to the Legislature Of
that State, there are not half a dozen that would
Douglas for the Presidency, even if
nominated by a thousand Charleston Conven-
Accounts from Havana state that on the 9th
nst., 81 Coolies ran away from a plantation near
datanzas. They were ~apprehended and taken
back the same day, and on the succeeding Que
hey murdered the owner of the estate, Don
Valera. with their spades and other
agricultural implements.
a gentlemen of Bennington, Vt, has discov-
red a process of epameling common brick.
making them impervious to dampness, proof
gainst frost or heat, and rendering them beau
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