Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-05-27

Ol tLldb SIJN- TSCSlNGu d COIlSlS niiICllb VI Sc-OOO
in gold dust on the 9TH, by express direct from
Pixies Peak. This is more conclusive than a
dozen Dragging letters.
A Georgia paper announces that a man, near
Lexington, Florida, was recently killed by a
ferocious wolf, The man was chopping wood,
near his house, when the wolf suddenly sprang
upon him, Selling him by the throat. His wife
ran up, and, striking the wolf in the back with
an AK, so disabled the animal as to cause him to
let go the MAJ but not till bis throat had been
so badly bitten that he died in a few minutes.
The wolf was killed by the woman.
A correspondent writing from Leavenworth,
Kansas, ab5revi ties thu n snc OF the town thus
Ill worth"
Horace Greedy was in Chicago on the 10Th
inst, en- roHe for Pixies Peak, Oregon and Cali
fornia. He left for the West on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy r. r. for st. Joseph.
According to the Detroit Advertiser, the pop
ulation Of that city now numbers 10000. The
population of Cincinnati is estimated by the
Gazette at 200. 900.
Serious charges have been preferred against
Capt. Wet, who expended nearly two millions
in the pIrch u.s. of mules and stock for the
Utah expedition. \ court martial will proba-
bly, be ordered.
The elitor of the Atlanta (Ga.) American
boasts Of having Toasted on fully-ripe cherries
on the 2Sth of April. The variety spoken of
ripens at the north about the Goth Of May.
The clipper ship Pomona was lately wrecked
off Wexford. ireland, and $50 lives were lost.
She hld Oh boarl 393 ptssclgars, and a crew of
81 persons. Int 90 ST the passengers and II of
the crew were slvel. The ship went down in
nine flthonls If water.
a Baltimore paper says that there are three
sets of harness. two carriages, and a double and
siT@lc lals%y in preparation there for Louis Ma
polcCn.
Mrs. Mary Taylor Key, died at Baltimore on
Wednesday last, at the advanced age of - years.
The venerable lady WAS the widow of Francis
S. Key. author of the Star ~Spangfsd Banner
and mother Of the unfortunate T.. Barton Key,
of Washington City.
Somebody in Wisconsin, recently sent IA lot of
garlic with directions for planting, wrapped in a
newspaper, to Rome, n. Y. The clerks took
the scent and charged letter postage, besides
making the person sending it pay a fine for
violating the pest office laws.
The bell swinging in the tower of st. Ste
phen's church, East Haddam, Conn, is over a
thousand years old. IL bears the date of A. d.
8l5, and there is no reason &c doubt the correct
ness of that date.
The case of Rev. Daniel Downey, the Catholic
priest, charged with the murder of VIM. Null
Inns, in SGauntOn, Va, was concluded on Satur-
day-the jury, after "a deliberation of twenty
minutes, returned Il NcrtlCU OF not guilty.
Upon the rendering of the verdict, the court
house rcsCunded with applause. from the. large
audience present, and the acquitted prisoner re-
ceived the congratulations of many of his
friends as he left the room.
The Washington Star says B. B. Bolts is in
Washington, and it is believed that a duel is on
foot between him and 0. j. Wise, of the Rich
mond Enquirer.
A girl at Pennington, Mich, was so drcadfuly
I-,,-l f. Il. t. - IL
fluid lamp, that her face is a mass of burned
flesh her eyes, nose and mouth obliterated by
the inflammation, and no no%urishnent can be Civ
en- except a little fluid forced through an aper-
ture where the mouth ought to be.
A correspondent Of the Boston Courier, wri-
ting from Florence under date Of April 2nd
says 1.-The Hon. Charles Sumner is here, alb
soTbed il art, but looking worse than I had ex-
pccted. He is obliged to lie in bed until noon
to rest his spine which still troubles him great
~"
One afternoon last week four boys, who were
bathing in the Delaware. off the end of Reed
street wharf, Philadelphia. raked up from the
bottom ~ Oil ctITij bag containing about
5400 in doubIoons. The coins generally bore
old dies.
GOLDEN WEDDtSe.-The Rev. DIR. and Mrs.
035ooI, q Springfield, Mass, celebrated their
%0l1en wedding On Monday evening, in compa-
u 'N 'N'Nt - NISN = AAIAN Ill anu 61orllAA
children, and scores OF friends.
SOME DEcI1xE-The produce operators in
Chicago are cooling down with run. On Mon
LAY last week No. l Red wheat sold on Change
at sL,78 per bushel-on Friday the same grade
Of wheat sold freely at 81 Lii to Sl,45, showing
a decline Of twenty-nine cents per bushel in
-four days!
Truly SAD.-A few evenings ago Miss NJ.
Sawyer, residing in Port Jervis, n. Y, while
engaged in making her wedding dress, attempt
ed to ill a fluid lump with one wick burning.
The can exploded, and the young lady was
burned to death.
London is rapidly extending its boundaries
1t covers an area Of III square miles, equal to
a square of II miles to the side. The popula-
ton in this area amounted in the year 1901 to
Sos. 1893, and in the year 1858 to 1852. 1856.
The London Of 1858 is equal to three Londons
of 1901. 1t has now a larger population than
the six New England States.
KossCrn.-It is asserted by Hungarians in
Paris that Kossuth passed through that city a
bont the first of May.
The richest woman in New York is Mrs.
Tucker, widow of the late Hon. Gideon Tucker,
and graDd-lnother of the present Secretary of
State. She has about three-fourths of a mill
ion, besides her interest in her husbands i'm
mense estate, which is all . tied up" until
after her death.
w. B. Rudd, Of Sullivan Township Ashland
Co, has lost several fine Durham cattle by
their eating hay affected with the ergot or
blasted rye.
The late c. F, Hovey, of Boston. left $50. 600
by will to he expended under the direction of
William Lloyd Garrison, to promote anti-slave-
~, woman's rights and non-resistance.
Wall steet, New York, which is about half a
mile long, has G, 1000 inhabitants and forty miles
of stairway. SO says Mr.. Lake. the letter-carrier.
Forty-two boys, their ages ranging from six
to ten years. were admitted as pupils into Girard
College, Philadelphia, on Monday.
Henry Linhoff, IA young German of st. louis,
who last winter killed the husband of his sister.
because he learned that he had ii wife living in
Germany, has been acquitted. He was tried for
murder.
During the last week, 5,361 immigrants arri-
we'd in New York. Among the numb or were
125 Mormons; principally English peasants.
Aman by the name of Morgan, in III, sent
TO the Penitentiary for assaulting another man,
lied from the effects of grief caused by the dis
grace Of his situation.
The New York Times says Yesterday the
park Monde carried away from the city thirty
migrants to Liberia, who go under the super
Vision of the Colonization Society. This is by
ar the largest number of colored emigrants
,ent to Liberia from New York in one company.
Hon. A. B. Greenwood. of Arkansas. has ac-
cptcd the post of Commissioner of indian Al ,
which was vacated some weeks since by
he Hon. J. W. Denver.
Che Greenhurg, Ind, Republican says that a
hid Of Irish parents, in that place, died ap-
'arently IL few nights ago, and Il coffin was or I
Iered,- but by some accident WAS delayed a few I
IourS, during which time the child recovered.
nd is now entirely well.
The osialoosa Gowal Herald reports the death !