Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-06
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wA4 Somerset. Pa. on Saturday week, snow
| fell from early in the morning until late at
| night Fhe depth where not drifted was about
fifteen inches, while in many places banks were
piled up as high as five feet. 1t remained,
however but a short time. H7aN
The Newark Mercury states that the Miilefz
| ties in New Jersey expected the world would
( come to an end on Easter Sunday, but have
now concluded to postpone 1t for forty days
longer .,rus - as4f ver7 a~ raf 10
Three fisherman named Duell, Reed and
| Warner, residents of Bay City, were wned Dn
Port Austin, last Saturday, by the capsizing of
| their boat. A fisherman named ErVein was
drowned at Chicagoacn Thursday, by q similar
casualty. gg0E 9m
The Erie Canal contains more water and
| floats more vessels than amy Canal in Europe,
and has 6, 500 vessels on register, ofwhich LAG
are larger than the one in which, Columbus dis
covered America. q a " g%HE J
A train of cars On the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad has been making a trial of speed,
which resulted in an average, after deductinB
stopping time, of 523 miles per hour. 57g VET
At Cincinnati, an official record communicates
the fact that a CERTAIN individual was arrested
for 'carcn coaseld aceping, which, when interpret
ed, is supposed to mean that he was carrying
concealed weapons p et Al-F 35nld
A brute, named Martin Fleming, was arres.
ted on Wednesday afternoon at Cincinnatis for
| shooting at his wife, with intent to kill, at his
| residence on Lock street, and locked up for ex
animation. DHH
Pater's Spirit of this week gives a runior OF
the death Of Tom Sayefs, the British Champion
The report comes through o passenger by the
Washington, from Liverpool on the 18th April
who states that the statement was current IN
| liverpool Just before the sailing Of the steam4
err It lacks confirmation. o65 lJ9 10 sen
The income for pew rents in DIR. Chapin's
Church, Broadway, N. Y, Is seventeen thousy
and. A salary of six thousand q year has been
voted him..
The Indiana newspapers speak In very en-
couraging terms of the wheat crop. Il has not
had any serious set back, and never looked
better. 21i1d taA viH4T Il noiia38L0 10 Ssou
BnASrronD, O.. W., April 3D.-The TIVE mes
groes Moore and Over who have been on trial
for the robbing of the mail and numbering the
carrier near this city about ten days ago, werB
found guilty to-day and sentenced TO be hung
on the 7th OF %Junesdo lk194gs g aE& ,b9fl1lGo9
After sentence was passed upon them, they
made a full confession Of their guilt.
Right Rev. G. W. DoANE, Bishop Of New
jersey, died at his residence, In Burlington,
Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.
aged so. He was elected in 1882 nj odi lo'se .
A number of Gypsies are now encamped
about three miles from this city. They are the
same band that lowered about Eorwalk and
Milan during the winter. 1t is their custom
to move once a onth.LfSsndusky Register.
A native American COW. belonging to MraC.l
H. Star, of Cuyahoga, had q masculine calf ON
Saturday, whichsweighs one hundred and for
ty-eight pounds. The Cleaveland Herald chronT
icles this fact.
Troy. N. T., May 2.-Yesterday, at sand
Lake, an old man named Bedding, beat out
his daughters brains with a hammer, while he
was laboring under a fit of insanity, baA sui5d
The murdered girl was nineteen years of age.
Bedding is now in Jail in this city.
An aged and respectable German named Budd
living afew miles from Pittsburg, rendered dies.
perate by the unfeeling conduct of his wife and
daughter, who turned him out of doors, hung
himself on Sunday night last n a-7Es s--
LEGAL ADvERTIsING.-The New York Legisla-
ture has passed an act fixing the compensation
for all advertising required by legal forms at 70
cts for every 100 words, for the first insertion
and 80 cts for every subsequent insertion. This
is fully one half more than is paid IN this State
and is an increase of -one-balf above the former
rates of that State as fixed by law.
In New York, on Thursday last, a young lady
named Matilda Sawyer was burned to death by
the explosion of a carnphene lamp, while she
was sewing on the clothes in which she was to
be married in a few days. r..
The Legislative Council of Canada have Ia
ken q firm stand against death-bed requests,
enacting that no bequest viii be valid if made
within SIX months of the the testator's death.
The steamship Vanderbilt, which left New
York on Saturday, took out three horses for
the Emperor Napoleon, from Jerome Napoleon
Bonaprte, of Baltimore.
Boston. April pa full bench of the So
preme Court this morning delivered an opiniou
nullifying-the opinion Of Judge Shaw, hereto
fore rendered, that the selling of liquor was a
/ common nuisance, and that any one had d
right to destroy il. The decision delivered
this morning acknowledges property in liquor,
which can only be taken and destroyed by vir-
tue of a full process of the law. s4el
Polly Boston, a colored woman, known to be
100 years of age, died in Baltimore last week
Bayard Taylor, the t~rayler, is about to erect
an elegant residence on B~randywine, in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, near the scenes of his
boyhood, and where his parents still reside.
A little colored boy, abot 4 years old, belong.
ing to Mr.. Jonathan Pitts, of Scottsville, Albe-
marie county, Va, died on Thursday night
14th) from the effects of eating the poisonous
substance which compose the friction matches.
The New York Herald states that a few days
since a Western man was heeced by gambler of
81, 900, on a North river steamboat. The pass
engers, however, organized a vigilance comitee,
and forced the return of the victims money.
DEATH FRoM GREEN TEA.-A daughter of Ma
thias Richie, of the town Of Greenwood, Steu@
ben Co, aged about twelve years, died from
the effects of drinking common green tea, q few
days since. She drank it very strong, and ate
the leaves afterward-causing violent spasms
for twenty-four hours, when she expired.-tBuf-
falo Republic.
The Detroit Advertiser avows its conviction,
that the Presidential nomination for 1860, on
the part of the Republicans, will be given either
to SEWARD or CHASE, and declares its readiness
to support either.
John B. Gilmer, editor of the Charlottesville
(Va.) Exponent, and a son of Hon. Thomas W
Gilmer, once Governor of Virginia. and Secreta-
nv of the Navy tn President Tyler's Cabinet,
oo,,ro;tHaI v,ini1a n fnv Io We cinna AT tha IarNk
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad In Washington
City, by throwing himself before n locomotive.
No cause assigned. -t'-~11
A comet-the first which has made it's apeaf-
anee since the famous one of Donati, IN October
ast-wa discovered at the Observatory at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, by Mr.. Watson, on the 2sd.
Arson G.. Chester, the editor of the Syracuse
N.Y.) Journal. has been lecturing lately on
Educated Fools" 1da
James buchanan celebrated his birthday on
the 23d ult. He confesses to 6s, but is rumor-
ed to be eight years more patriarchal.
Three black men were ordained by the Pres
bytery of New Castle, at Wilmington, Del, on
the 18th inst, as missionaries to Africa.
Michael Herman, a carpenter, whose wife is
undar arrest for firing the shop Of q Mr.. Lamb,
was fodnd dead in bed, on Saturday nothing,
at Rome, New York, with his two little chill
dren on either side trying to arouse him.
The number of acres of land devoted to the
culuVaion OF Sorgum III OuScaune county,
Iowa, last season, was 129. The number Of
gallons of molasses produced was 9,S67.
Large discoveries of gold have recently been
made in Yakima county, Oregon, about eight
miles north of the Dalles.
TREES DYING,-out of 1905 elms, which
three years ago adorned the Champs Eysees, in
Paris, $500 are dead, and 2 900 in a dying state.
Upward of 500 are stated to have persisted by
gas exhalations. a
The lawyers of Keokuk, in Iowa, publish q
statement that the collection of debts in that
section has been practically suspended since