Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-19
GENERAL NEWS TTEM2.

day afternoon. -Four OF the inmates RgHEo
drowned and the Others were severely injured.
LARGE LIBEL SUIT.-We understand that the
former directors of the Northern Railroad in
tend to sue the New York Times for libel The
aggregate damages foot up $500, 900. Quite an
item.
The new wire bridge over the Ohio, at Wheel
ing, is composed of four cables each 1880 feet
long. Each cable is composed of ! $50 strands
OF wire, making a single strand 9,273,6 600
feet, or within a fraction of l,757 miles in
length. i
A W~INDFALL.-The Chicago papers record the
fact that Mike Joy, the hackman, now residing
at the State prison, for his connection with the
Ghrlstllna Davis conspiracy, has fallen heir to
$50, UOO, left him by a deceased brotherin Cali
fornia. yes
The Detroit AdrgrtiHer says This Pixies
Peak humbug has been one of the most DELHI
erately wicked and ruinous frauds ever perpe-
trated upon the American people,
1t is stated that the wife of the Hon. Daniel
E. Sickles, with the other members Of the Bag
ioli family, are about to take up their residence
in Italy, and in the event of MIR. s. loosing his
seat in Congress, he will immediately Join
them.
u G.. r. R.-Three negro boys, brothers,
belonging to the estate of George Kinchslor:
deceased, ran away from their owner, living at
Parkersburg, on Saturday night last. A re4
ward of 81 900 will be paid to the cabt6r
Wheeling Times, August g..
The Louisville Courier threatens Mr.. Douglas
with the opposition of the South, in case he is
nominated for President by the Democratic Con.
vention at Charleston. ~sf
Col. James Glover, of the California Over.
land Mail Company, informs the Gallatin, E1-
dDl"ier; OF the existence of a remarkable spring
ZoO miles east Of the Ell Paso, on the road lead
ing to San Antonio. 1t is fully 100 feet in IL
ametcr, and has been sounded to the depth of
5000 feet without finding bottom.
Mrs.. Knowles, one of the attendants at the
Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Va. was killed
on Friday last by one of the patients, who
struck her with a heavy brush on the head.
causing her death shortly after.
The dying request of Virginia Stewart, recent
ly shot by Mcdonald in New York, was that
her mother would do all in her power to shield
her murderer IRON punishment. -gi11 rieI
Stephen darris, Of Iroy,N@Hsr has Mnblues
berry Id:ture containing about twenty acres;
troEI wiaich he gathers on an average, three
nunGfcd bushels a year OF these berries, and has
dcnc so for twenty years. 1t yields an annual
income OF about five hundr dollars.
Mr.. Bigelow writes from Paris to the Eeeasaad
IoSt, that 1t Is now quite probable that u day will
soon be fixed for Louis Napoleon's coronation,
the Pope coming to Paris to C~fliciate.
W.B. Lawton, Esq residing near Savannah
Ga, recently sent to the editor Of the Savan2
nah Repubiican "a watermelon weighing 60
pounds. Three such would about make I'M
1eight a barrel Of fotr.
Last week a little girl aged ten. was placed
in the New York State Lunatic ASYLUM. The
child was a very intelligent one, and its close
application to study threw it into fits. and res.
ulted in destroying its mind.
a desperate fight came off some weeks sjr,es
IN Oregon, between a noted trapper named.
Arocau and an Indian brave They fought
with knives, and were terribly cut up. Tho
trapper at last grappled with and threw his an
lpg.IIC and fl.a aA L.
ear.
a WARY DoG.-The Aurora Qndianal Conn
na@rciai says that "a Mr.. Green, living in that
vicinity, has a dog that has been poisoned by
some scoundrel three times, and he has learned
enough to refuse food from anybody but his
master. No matter whether offered hIm or
thrown into the yard and left, or whether il be
good Or bad, he won't touch anything that his
master don't give him with his own hand.
1t Is a significant fact, that of the thirteen Sena.4
TORS from the Northern States who voted for
the repeal of the Missouri Cumpromise, in 1864
only one yet remains in the Senate. Mr.. Doug
las is left standing alone, like a tombstone To
mark the political grave of his confederates in
that conspiracy against freedom.
The Republicans Of Kansas have nominated
Hon. Marcus J. Parrott, for delegate to Com
gress. Of course he will be elected.
The Detroit Free Press says, every one agrees
upon two facts relative to the wool crop of.
HiAClllSdll lLlS year, bilttL 1t Is Larger an1. better
than 1t has ever been before. .
John Forsyth, late Z. S. Minister to Mexico.
is among the members elected to the lower
house OF the Alabama Legislature also Hon,
Percy Walker, ex-member Of Congress.
A young nsaIr named William Grow was kill.
ed by his own mother, at Hamden. n. Y. a few
days since She assaulted him with a slung
shot while he was asleep. There is little doubt
of her insanity.
The Memphis Avalanche says that a gentle
man nom Louisville, recently lost in that city,
81 600 playing high, low, Jack and the game
and won it gain by virtue OF a revolver.
a private dispatch from Memphis announces
the election OF Emerson Etheridge, Opposition,
making seven Opposition members chosen.
1t is said that Horace Manu's dying request
was that DR.. Bellows should take his place as
President of Antioch College. Z
Col. VIM. V. Hickey, of Mississippi, who SER
we'd IN the Mexican war with Gen. Qlitman, and
distinguished himsclfat the battle of Monterey.
recently fell iuto the Mississippi River from the
deck OF Il steamer, and was ..fowned.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided
that the published terms of advertising in a
constitutes a contract, and in the alb
sense of any special contract, the publisher :
may sue and collect according to such rates.
The Providence Journal says that that for
which Aaron Burr was condemned most would
to-day make him the Democratic candidate for
NH~A AS NAAih h1o nIAl " tNrO
then now it is only filibustering
Deputy Marshal Hackett, Of Ravcnna, arres-
ted two men on Friday in Steubenvilie for ma
king bogus coin. Over half a peck of bogus
half dollars were found in their possession, as B
well ASA quantity of counterfeiting indictments
Ihc coin is described as being very nearly per-
in appearance and weight.-CIere. Herald.
~ physician in Louisville has discovered that
by a living principally on buttermilk, ii human
beng may Prolong existence to the period of
hundred years.
The State of South Carolina is taking n CEN
and in seventeen parishes there is a de-
crease of 5000 whites since 1856. while the
blacks have largely increased.
The New York papers say that John Mitchell,
before leaving that city for Europe, made merry
over his past interference in our politics, he not
being, and not intending to be, an American cit
zen. But John bias precious little reason to
chuckic- by ali his Interference in our politics
he neither made money. gained reputation, nor
eXcrtcd the slightest influence. His quill was az
IN his hands as if it had never been
plucked from the goose or gauder that bore Il.
Advices from Havana to the End state that
the landing of African and coolie slaves contin-
ned there, and that a cargo of the first named
lntortunates were openly carried into the IN
terror in railway carriages after they had been
Inshippcd.
The Louisville Journal has returns from the
Fourth Congressional District which elect An
ierson, Opposition, by two majority. 1t had
y been reported a tie.
Hon: VIM. Denison, of La Crosse, Wis, aud
ormerly ~ Portage county, Ohio. was beaten
% death on the 9th, by persons on whose
grounds he was %trouting. They had a disput..
'bout the matter, and coming to blows, Deni-
ION was killed,
There is now living uear Ripley, Va, in per-
Get health, "A good looking and Intelligent
'oung lady. n yea rs of age. who weighs but q
Wounds. She is 3 feet 10 inches high and we'll
'roportioned. w
The Post mlster at New BRIGHTON, Penn has