Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-10
ENERA NEWS ITEMS.

Minister at Bethel, Illinois, was cooking by the
stove in the kitchen, when her dress taking fire
she was burned to death.
Henery Ward Beecher says that an inpudent
clerk can be Of almost as much injury toa store
as the neglect of the proprietor to advertise
The indianapolis Journal says that Mr.. Fred
erick Rusca Of that city, q well-knomn and
prosperous produce dealer, who went to Europe
some six or eight weeks since, on a visit to his
old home and friends, Immediately on his arri-
val in Prussia was claimed as a conscript, forced
into the army, and is now held there to serve
out his three years as a Prussian soldier.
AT Bendigo, Australia, a great deal of excite
ment has been created by the discovery that ii
conglomerate mineral. very common on that
gold field, but which had hitherto been disre-
garded, would yield not less than $50 ounces of
pure gold to the ton with a very large per cent
age of zinc. At Melbourne there are thousands
of people out of employment, and able bodied
men go about the streets as beggars.
y The first wheat of the new crop, harvestedin
Mississippi, was sold in Memphis, CTenn.,0 on
the 18th ult., and Immediately shipped to st.
Louis from that point, where it was to be
ground into flour.
A little son of Mr.. Kent, of Delhi, New York,
arriving at the school house before it was open
ed attempted to get in at the window, and the
sash falling upon his neck held him where he
was found by the teacher about fifteen minutes
afterwards, dead.
The Government has been officially informed
of the neutral position of England and Prussia
IN the Italian war, and IA diplomatic circular
will be issued declaring our own position to be
the same.
shielding her three children from a mad dog
was badly bitten in her hand.
There are fifteen daily papers. eight semi
weekly. eleven semi-monthly, thirty-nine
monthly, and one hundred and eight weekly,
printed in the city of New Yrok.
DR.. ]. S. Curtis, a highly respectable allo-
pathic physician of Hartford Conn, was recent
ly expelled from the Hartford County Medical
Society for having consulted, at the request of
d patient, with two of his leading homeopathic
brethren, and the sentence has been confirmed
by the State Society. The position was also ia
ken by the Society that no regular" physician
could properly render assistance to a patient
who is at the same time also employing q hom-
Gpathic physician.
A CITY IN THE GOLD MINEs.-A Pixies Peaker
writes that Denver City is a log city, containing
about one hundred cabins. Corner lots range
in price from $50 to $500. Inhabitants are In
dams. Mexicans and white people-about
equally divided-all hard cases drinking and
fighting all the while some one killed nearly
every week-now and then one hung.
The cities of Dubuque, Davenport, and Keo-
kuk, in Iowa, have dispensed with the Use of
gas for lighting the streets. Keokuk has also
abolished its police force, and Dubuque has re-
duced the number of policemen to half a doz-
en-. The object is to economist, in order to pay
their debts.
The family of Robert Stuart, of Newberry
Court House. s c., consisting of four white and
SIX c9l2rc,l persons, were poisoned on the 26th
ult, by the cook, a mulatto woman, who put a
large quantity of arsenic in their food. None
of the sufferers had died at last accounts.
though several we're dangerously i'll.
GAI1Ia MINHEsoTA.-The Winona Republican
has several accounts of terrible gales in that
State, within a few days, attended with intense
cold. A large amount Of property in RATS on
Lake Pepin was destroyed, and some lives have
been lost.
A MORMON BrsnaY-In searching the house
Of Bishop johnson, charged with murder at
Salt Lake, Utah, the United States officials were
not able to discover the bishop, but found there
in his ten wives. -Four of these wives arg sis
tiers, and the bishops own nieces, and he has,
besides these, two sisters out of one family, and
also a mother and her daughter.
How TO KNOW A REPUDLGcAN.-The editor of
an illinois paper, writing a private letter to a
friend, says " We are Republicans of course.
Everybody who fears the Lord and can write a
legible hand, teatoaa running out his tongue, is a
Republican. ~ t-
The number of postage stalsfps, at different
prices. sold atsthe Post-0fIce in New York city,
from January | TO April l, 1859, was $500, 600;
from April L to NJ W 8, the number sold was 3.
800 900 -m1kin2 a total 9.0l0,0 900 stamps sole
III about four months. This does not include
the sale Of stamped e~nvelops.
We learn from Capt, Duncan that a convict
was brought up on the Scioto for the Jefferson
vile Pcnitentiary who has six sons already in
that institution. They were all convicted of
horse stealing. They have been engaged in
this business for thirty years.-CLouisville
Jour-, Goth.
SLAVERs BOUND FOR THE .. S.-A special dis
patch to the New York Tribune, from Washing
ton, says
Dispatches to the Secretary of the Navy rem
der it certain that slavers bound to several
southern States are now on the coast of Africa.
Their cargoes are expected to arrive this fall in
Mississippi and Texas.
Thomas W. Lilly, Of OIney, ILL.,, who kept
ST, 600 locked in his bureau drawer. and fool
ishly boasted of his wealth, was robbed of all
his treasure on Sunday night.
A lot of wheat lately sold in st. Louis for
500 per bushel.
Burrill Arnold, of Centreville, R. L. was shot
dead while sitting in his store on Friday even
ing. Mr.. Arnold had recently made MANY
complaints against liquor sellers in that vicin-
ity, and it is supposed the deed was perpetrated
in revenge for this. The assassin has not been
detected.
The Grand Jury of Alachua county, Florida,
nave presented Gov Perry, of that State, as a
" nuisance" Their Indignation was aroused
by his course on the railroad question.
A circns proprietor has engaged grounds at
Branttord, G. w, for a performance on the day
the three negroes are to be hung.
Gen. paraguay De Killers commands one of
the French divisions in the war with Sardinia.
He served under the first Napoleon in Italy in
1876 and 1877. He was in Egypt under Napo-
leon. lie has been In the French army over
gJXfU vnarC and ic nuar ninnfx &c 49,
Robert Morrison, a deputy sheriff of West
Troy, New York. was waylaid. on Frieay even
ing last, within a few rods of his house, knock
ed down and robbed, and afterwards thrown in
to the canal, where his corpse was found the
next day. He had made a large sale of iron
the day previous and was supposed to have the
price received IN bis pocket Asuspicious char
acter named John Burdick has been arrested,
but nothing definite has yet been elected.
DR.. Burgess, a very.skilIful dentist of Chica-
go, committed suicide ON Tuesday, by taking
strychnine. He had been rendered desponeent
by intemperance.
The loss in the receipts Of the four East and
West trunk Rail Road lines, during the month
of april, as compared with April of last wear.
Is So6o:O00, viz New York Central SISl 900;
Erie SIT 900 Pennsylvania Central ssS 900,
and Baltimore and Ohio S114,000.
Over 600 young ladies were confirmed at the
Sixteenth Street Catholic Church, in New York.
on Thursday, among them a young bride, who
was a Protestant when she married a Catholic,
a week ago.
Mrs. Rosanna Underwood has Just been di-
vorced from her husband in Boston last week.
One reason urged was neglect to provedc prop
erly for her support. Shs also proved that du-
ring the first year of their marriage they have
resided in nine different houses. and during the
second year in eleven. The court is sud to
have been of opinion that the last consideration
was clearly a justiiable cause for granting the
bill.
lNTEREsrIEG TO THE BEAEpED-A writer
in the Boston Post has the following commu-