Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Justice.
Morissey, the prize fighter, has accepted the
challenge of Heenan to fight for $1,000 a side
within four or eight months after the battle of
the latter with Sayers the Champion of Eng
land, and has deposited $500 to " bind the
/, match with the editor of Wilkes Spirit of the
Times.
The Norfolk (va.) Argus notices a horse race
of a distance of A miles, which was run Oct.
20, by two fast t~rotters owned by D.. NJ. G. Lind
sey, of North Carolina, and William Collins,
of Norfolk. The route was run from Deep
Creek to South Mills. Lindsey's horse ran the
A miles in 8 hours and 2 minutes, beating Col
Inns by % minutes. ~ -<
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.-J. Marshall Hanna, a
reporter of the Baltimore Sun, whilst in the
fire alarm telegraph. office tonight, got into a
difficulty with parties present and drew a pistol
and shot VIM. L. McPhail. President of the
second branch of the City Councils. and at pres
ent acting Mayor of the city during the sickness
of Mayor Swami. The ball took effect in Mr..
McPhail's thigh, producing a serious wound
which may prove fatal.
The New York Day Book, a Democratic Jour-
nal, courageously asserts its belief that there
are " hundreds of honest people at the North
: who believe negro slavery no crime, no evil,
no wrong" There may be hundreds who think
so. honestly or otherwise, but how is it with the
millions ? How is it even with the masses of
the Democratic party!
The Republicans of Washington CITY. held a
meeting on the 27thinst. and passed resolutions
repelling and denying the assertion of The
States. "A Douglas paper, charging them with
completely in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection.
They adhere to the principles of the Philadel-
phia Platform.
FREDERICK DoUGLAs.-The whereabouts of
this individual has been a matter of talk since
the Harper's Ferry insurrection. The Roches-
ter Union is assured that he was in Canada, near
ST1cpaapeinn Rri1na n lorr Or %urD e,-a, ~
there intimated to a Rochester gentleman that
he theught..it was best for him to remain where
he was for the present.
ARREST FOR SEDITIoN.-T. H. Stillwell has
been arrested at Alexandria, Va, upon a charge
of uttering "seditious language" while CON
versing upon the Harper's Ferry affair. He is
said to be a recent emigrant from the North
1t is not stated i'll what the sedstion uttered by
him consisted.
BosroN, Oct. 30.-The extensive sugar house
on Goech street, six stories high. occupied by
Seth Adams, was burned this evening. The
loss on the stock is $50, 600, and on the build
ing and machinery $50, COO. There was nearly
$50, 900 insurance on the stock, and on the
building So, 600. Very little of the stock was
saved, not over 200 barrels of sugar being taken
out. arz -r.= z1sEa Il .tFr -.
The piles under London bridge have been
driven 800 years, and on examining them in
lS43, they were found to be a little decayed.-
i Iicy are principally elm Fl Oiu SAVOY Place IN
Westminster, was built $50 years ago, and the
wooden piles, consisting of oak, elm, beech and
chestnut, were found upon recent examination
to be perfectly sound.
A fire occurred in L~eavenworth, Kansas. on
the morning Of the Goth ult., which destroyed
property to the amount of Sl25, 0G0. The
heaviest sufferers were Dir. Renick, Majors, Rus.
sell & Co, Hemingway 6 Co, Hensley, Russell
& Co.
HEAVY DAMAGEs-At the late term of the st.
Joseph county lind Circuit Court, Miss Soph-
ronia Phelps. Of Rolling Prairie, EIkhart county,
obtaiHed a Judgment of So, 500 against one Dir.
Willis i. Wilson, for SANDER. The case origi-
mated in EIkhart county, but was taken to
South Bend on a change of venue before Jddge
Osborne.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has refused
application for a new taial, OF Joseph w. Thorn
ton. the condemned murderer of Mr.. Cllarless
OF st, Louis. 1t is not probable that any fur
ther effort can be intcrpesed to prevent tie ex-
ccution of his sentence at the time appointed.
In the city of Chicago there are over 1900
Snlcens. Of which 80 are regularly licensed
Twenty-Five gambling hcuses are in one little
circuit Ct the business portion Of the city
What a held for missionary operations!
The New York correspondent of the Boston
journal says that it is 1uInored that DIR. Forbes
example i'll leaving the Church IF Rome. will
be followed by sexeIal other persons.
Col. Lewis 7. Wigfall, formerly of South
Carolina, is suggested as a States Rights can
didate for Uuited States Senator from Texas. A
number Of years ago be fought a desperate ducI
with the late Preston S. Brooks. in mich the
latter WIS badly wounded.
F.J. Merriam, of Boston, who bad some con-
nection with the affair at Harper's Ferry, but
who escaped before the taking Of the Arsenal,
has since died of his wounds. He was buried
ly buried in Pennsylvania by fugitive slaves.
The CiarEEviIIo Tam, rLr1,;Io 49,. IL.
ten negroes were sold in that place a few DAYS
since, for .S100. The low plicc is accounted for
on the ground that they are still f~ugitiycs in a
Free state.
1t was considered a great achievement to use
not air asa motive power. hut a still greater
one has inst hecn aeted. Compressed cold air
is now used in New York city to set III motion
some twenty sewing machines.
\ little daughter or MIR. Charles F. Bennett.
of Louisville. drank soInc I've from Il bottle on
Tuesday cr.9g last. and died the next morning. I
The Grand Jury of Norfolk. Va, indicted
Vim. Lamb. Esq.. Of the Argus. on Monday.
fl accepting a challenge to fight a duel. and
james Miliigun for carrying a challenge to fight.
The magazine market. and four squares adj
joining. were burned at New Qrlcnils IN the I
night Of the oath ult. lhc loss is about $780,
eco.
MrNPuIs, Oct, 29.-E Elk Governor James G.
jones died in this city to-day Of a lingering i'll
ness.
J.. H. Kaei, one Of the ccnspirators killed at
tlaIpcr's Ferry, was, at one time. the Kansas
correspondent of the Matte Era. and ass0ci-
OF the Topeka Tribune. e,-
Gerrit smith. of New York. has written a
letter TO the Tribune in which he denies that
he voted for Fremont for the Presidency.
Ex-Governor Thomas Corwin was announced
to address the people of Buffalo on Saturday
evening. He will Also speak ia New York Ciiy,l
Brooklyn and other points east, this week.
A forged check puiporting to be drawn by
Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger, for
So l26, was paid at the Nassau Bank, Of New
York City, on Thursday.
The new city directory of Philadelphia shows
a population of 6S0,000, an increase of 37l,-
23S since 1850.
Mrs. Wiuslow, of brewster, Mass, has gath
cred this fall from about three acres of land in
I~Iarwick, 2l3 barrels of cranbeIries, for which
she received 50, 1888.
Aern CuRE.-This is something of a science
as well as medicine. The supreme difficulty OF
the science is to accomplish its end without
to the health-the supreme excellence
Of the medicine is just that. Fever and Ague
las long been cured by Quinine. Arsenic, Bis
nuth, and Mercury, but the mischief was, the
icep and often painful footprints they have left
m the constitutions treated by them. Door.
AYERS new remedy cures without a particle of
'ither of these or other dcleterious substance.
And he promises not only absolute safety but
perfect certainty of cure. with which we may
another quality of excellence not to be
overlooked in these times, and that is his low
rice. which puts this ~crowning glory of his art
within the reach of all.-Heratd. Lake Co, Ind,
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HORRIBLE INDIAN MAssAcRE-St. Louis.
PA special dispatch to the Republican
~ T. q u Il n Il 80 - \ s.
Atcheson yesterday. A party of seventeen {
migrants from Buchanan county. VIVA, were I
ttacked by a party of Indians, near Kinneys c