Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-29
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An instruction of negroes has taken placs
at Venezuela. when a large number of whites
were butchered and gross outrages ami
1t took. place in the vicinity of Puerto Cabello,
which place was surrounded and it was feared
the insurgents would break into the city and
murder the inhabitants
A letter from Huntington county, Pennsylva-
mia, says Hays Hamilton, q farmer in that
county, is reported to have realized 80, 900 bush
els of wheat Of this years growth. The aver
age yield per acre is not stated,
The KaEsas Constitutional Convention has
fixed the northern boundary line of the propo-
sed State on the present line of the Territory,
thus rejecting the overtures Of the delegates
from southern Nebraska.
The Emperor of Austria is said to be prostra-
ted in mind and body by the terrible reverses of
his troops. On receiving the news of the battle
of Magenta, he burst into tears before the Off
GERS of his household, whose en1eavors to con-
sole him were Intellectual.
Gov. Wise has issued his proclamation for the
election OF a representative from the fourth
congressional district of Virginia. The cleo
ton will be heid on the south Tuesday the
27th) of October next, to supply the vacancy
created by the death of the Hon. Vino GOode.
That luxuriant weed fennel-with
which our country is 50 much infested, is to be
TUNED to a good account at last. The Maren-
go (Iowa) Visitor Informs us that the people of
that place are cutting it for tanning leather
A large tanning firm there, pay SIS per ton
for the weed.
The San Francisco papers say that the wool
raisers In California are wild with excitement
about & fleece taken from a Merino buck in
MONTEREY county, CALI which weighed forty
two pounds.
York have declared their July dividends. The
average is eight PEI cent. tor six months. Ten or
twelve go up to ten per cent, several to trlre
and three to fifteen
About three months since, Mr.. Andrew
Wind, General Advertising Agent of No. 1873
Nassau street, New YORK. City, caused the first
pirt of a story. written by DR.. >. II. Robinson,
and entitled " One Eyed Saul" (which was to
appear in a weekly paper of that city, called
the New York Weekly at that time pub
lishcd by Amor J. Willialnson) to be published
in over five hundred newspapers. the cost of
which amounted to SI5, $50.
A conductor ON the Eric Road, put a man off
the cars while the, train was in progress, for
some misdemcanOr, and in falling he got his
leg under the wheel and it was Instantly crush
cd OFF. A suit is brought against the road by
the sufferer who still survives. '
A rich Boston merchant of 40 years was mar
ricd July 4th to a young and handsome girl of
the molern Athens, and the twain made one,
journcyrd Westward. 4 week after marriage.
at Milwaukee, they agreed to seperate. He
settling upon her $50, 600 and giving her $1,000
in cash, she took the back track for the CITY OF
notions. Nobody knows the why's and where
foros.
The National intelligence figures the cost of
keeping Cuba, If we get il, at twenty-nine mil
| lions per annum, in addition to the eighty or a
hundred millions already spent.
The Nashville Patriot announces the sentence
TO the penitentiary for five years, of James r..
Tarlton, of CalnbeIl County, Tenn, who has
already served five terms extending over nearly
the whole of the last twenty-seven years.
Tarlton was only liberated from his fifth tern
in March last. He is an invetcrate thief. His
oldest son is in prison with him, having been
sent up last fall for twenty-one years.
The New York Herald says the Locofoco par
ty will coiAe to an ignominios end at the
Charleston Convention in 1850. The Herald liz
more than usually correct in making this pre-
ton.
At buffalo, Spring Wheat Is selling SO low
that the distilers are purchasing it for the man
~ufhcture Of whiskey. On Saturday the distiI-
lcrs cleaned the market, or nearly so, buying
1000 bushels Stan dard Chicago Spring at GOc.
There is n brave mar at Vinegar Hill, in Jo
Davies county, III. He is only p years of age,
and HIS just become the fifth husband of a wild
ow lady full sixty years Of age.
A drunken fellow named Floyd is on trial
at I4ln2nburg, Va, for shooting a boy of seven
wears old, because he refused To pick up his hat
TOR him. Forty-eight shot entered the body Of
the boy. and, it is thought, he would probably
die.
AZ English missionary, now in Sumatra,
lately wrote home that he " had the melan-
choly satisfaction Of examining the oven in
which his predecessor was cooked"
A young lady named Dunbar, in Buffalo. wa
filling a Huid lump, when it exploded, GOVERN z
her with laIne and burning her very badly
Her life was only saved by the presence of
mind of a person near by, who threw a quilt
ever her and smothcred the flames.
A Mr.. L. \. Wright purchased a slave near
st. Joseph, Missouri, and while hiking the ne
! gro home in n btJOpv the rnrstnr foa- n9 his
coat in which was Il revolver. The slave got
the pistol and shot lis master dead and escap-
cd.
Mss Ellen Shaw. of Oltt1ragls county, Now
York, has recovered a verdict of one thousand
dollars against William J. Van Camper for
breach of promise. Miss Shaw is a daughter of
Judge Shaw, whose testimony deeply affected
the spectators.
The heat has been intense in California. and
many sunstrokes have followed. The Marys-
vile Democrat says, that the very air on the
sides of the mountains, and along in the foot
hills, is so hot that it burns the mouth and
throat to draw it in. In Sacramento, on tho
22d of June. the heat was one degree more in
tense than it had been for six years.
The Independence, of Brescia, states that sew
eral young girls have made VOWS not to marry
any body but wounded sellers of the army of
Italian independence.
The ship Atlantic has been seized by the U.
S. authorities at New Bedford, Maine, on suspi-
clOo OF DelnS u SLAYER.
New YoRK, July 23--This afternoon while a
young WON m, Virginia Stuart. was walking
along Broadway, near Canal Street, she was
shot dead by her lover, Robert McDonnell.-
Her brains were scattered over the sidewalk
Mcdonnell then attmpted to commit suicide,
by Stabbing himself, but was secured by the DO
lice, and his attempt frustrated. Jealousy in
said to have been the ruling cause of this trag-
edy.
At n camp meeting near Boston, the choice
of camping ground vas sold to the highest bid
der. and the premiums for choices amounted to
S400.
Six different wool dealers in Adrian. Michi-
gan, have purchased and shipped, within a few
weeks, no less than 274, 600 pounds of WOOL
The average price paid was forty two cents per
pound.
The Express bag sent by the United States
Express agent from st. Louis for New York in
the Balloon Atlantic was picked up in Lake On
tario. 1t contains over forty letters, one enclos-
ing a thousand dollar draft on a New York
Bank.
A Boston dispatch of the 21st, says VIM.
and Clinton Hurd, father and son, while fish
ing in Concord river yesterday afternoon, were
drowned. They belonged to Wayland.
According to the American Gas Light Jour
nal there are now four hundred Gas Works in
operation in this country, with $500 O0, 900
capital.
The Hamburg papers notice the arrival there
of 500 tons of Cincinnati Salt pork, to provis-
Jon the Federal garrisons of Wayence, Ehrein-
hreitStein, Radstadt and Ulm,
The Lafayette, Ind, Journal says that Wise.
the aeronaut, proposes to make an excursion
from that city, provided 81, 600 can be raised.
OF this amount $500 have already been sub
scribcd.