Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-07
NEWS ITEMS.

~ y T. me- H1tu SUCH FtOACASS sANs aO I
ly escaped with his life.
Mr.. Fisher, of Paterson, N. j., has construc-
ted a steam-carriage, which promises excel
lently. A few days since it steamed to Ac-
quackanock on the common road. Twelve pas
sengers were on board, and the carriage went
on the level Is miles an hour. One mile was
run in three minutes. The builder does not
doubt that, when completed, the carriage VIII
run anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher says ''an impudent
clerk can do almost as much injury to his
store as the neglect of the proprietor to adver-
tise his goods" Two undoubted asnd ignif-
icant facts which every one interested will
bear in mind.
A Mr.. Bennett, a lawyer near Catskili, was
p~layfully slapped on his shoulder by a friend,
which caused him to fall on the floor of the
piazza where they both stood. Mr.. B. lay in
sensible for half an hour, when he recovered
sufficiently to say that no one was to blame
for his injury, and then soon expired.
Another Methodist preacher, the Rev. Sol
oman Mckinney, has been ordered out of Tex
as, for the offense of speaking against Slavery.
A public meeting of the citizens of Dallas adop-
ted a series of resolutions, denouncing tn g
Methodist Church North in general, and Mr..
Mckinney in particular, and warning H&
preacher to depart.
A Free State man named McNichol has been
elected Judge for Barton County Mo, by one
vote. The st. Louis Democrat says the race
was made squarely on the Slavery question.
In the Congressional election, last year, the
county gave Phelps, Pro-Slavery Democrat,
1913, and Richardson, Free State, 50.
The Mississippian says that the agitatian in
favor of the slave-trade law, is confined to no
political party nor class of our citizens, but is
fast becoming the popular sentiment of the
! Southern people. 'Thes sooner, " it adds, "our
Northern fellow-citizens are convinced of the
fact and make up their minds to accede to our
just demand, the better for the peace and pros
perity of our political union"
PICTURE OF AN EDITOR. The Mariposa (Cal
Star thus describes the personal appearance of
Horace Greedy
He does not look like a vegetarian-wears
specs-declines to drink-never smokes-sel-
dom swears-and, among other peculiarities,
seems to be in a devil of a hurry to get back to
New York.
Near Watertown, Jefferson County, New
York, upwards of three thousand persons are
now employed picking hops. Many are females,
attracted from Utica, Rome, and other remote
portions of the State, by the good pay and
pleasant associations of the hop yard. The
evenings, according to an ancient custom, are
given up TO dancing and amusement, and every
man who can draw a bow across a fiddle Is press
ed into service.
1t is estimated that the late freshets destroy
ed 500. 900 worth of tobacco in in Caroline
county, Va.
The New York Herald publishes a statement
to the effect hat its advertising receipts are
averaging at present 81, 1873 so per week.
Horace Greedy arrived in New York, Monday
night, on the Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall.
New York, Oct. "a confiagration occurred
yesterday in Sing Sing prison, destroying the
file and sugar shops and the dye house. The
loss is $50, 600.
A Frenchmln has recently invente an ap
paratus for stopping II locomotive almost in
simultaneously, when it is at its highest speed,
and it is said to have been tried successfully.
An exciting canvass is going on in Minnesota
Galusha A. Grow, Schuyler Colfax, Frank P
Blair, Gov. Ramsey, and other prominent Re
publicans are on the stump. 1t is quite proba
Bile Senator Wade will meet the Little Giant
in debate in Minnesota, and give him a clos
run on his '-Squatter Sovereignty track.
c. Gordon's warehouse, with 5000 bushel
of grain. was destroyed by fire at Clyde, n. y.
on the Goth. Loss, Sl2, 900; insurance, SO, 900
NEW YoRK. Oct. 3.-The immense lage
beer brewery of Messrs. Speyers was %entirel.
destroyed last night. The loss is estimated a
$3.50, 900, upon which there is an insurance o
S145 600.
The Grand Jury of the county Lincoln, KY.
has, under instructions Of the presiding Judge
found true bills for III order against tveDty-nin
of the men who, in May last. took Rouzy from
the county Jail and hung him.
1t is said that the Egyptian railroads us
mulnmies for fuel, and that the source of sucl
fuel is nexllaustabIe Little did the ancicn
Egyptians think Of the vile uses their bodie
would be put to.
AT Carroltcn, Ky, ON Saturday evening, tw,
n. en- named Browning and Martin, who ha.
long been on bad terms, met each other in tn
street when Browning, drawing a knife, stabbcn
Martin "a six places. killing him instantly
The muroteTer was at once arrested.
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some of the towns the farmers lin default &
grass have feG 0Ut ali their hay, ans for som
time past have cut :1'ovn trees in the forest fo
their COWS and cattle IL browse upon.
SLAVE TRAD B~ARBAcCE-The citizens {
Christ Church, near Charleston, 5. C.. hav
voted TO have a grand slave II, @de barbecue a
that place on the Goth of October, at which al
the prominent advocates of the rC-opening q
the trade in the State will be invited toattend
Slave trade barbecue ut Christ Church
jesse Richardson, of Henry COUNTY, Va, be
ing in love, and having just received a fOggin;
from his father, walked out and hung himseI
to a beam in the barn.
A large body of land, 80, 900 acres, lying il
the counties Of Highland, Randolph and Pendle
ton, Va, has been sold for 500, 900 to Northern
Emigration Society, who design settling upon it
A PROFITABLE PEACH ORcHARD.-At st. 30
seph, Michigan, there is a peach orchard. GOV
ering only five acres of ground. from which TIN
owner has already sold, this year, over min,
thousand dollars worth of peaches. He finds {
market in this city and Chicago for all thu
peaches he can raise Mirauhie Sentinel.
The latest advices from England state, tina
orders have been dispatched to India. for the
troops there to proceed Immediately to China
in order to prosecute the war.
The case in which Henry Shaw, of st. Louis
appeals from the verdict of 500, 900 as DANA,
ges to Miss Emma Carstang. for breach o.
promise, is soon to come off again in that city
At present a commission is engaged in taking
testimony in New York.
RoME, N. Y, Sept 29.-Prof Goc, accom-.
panied by MIR. Cotmain of Rome, made a bal
loon ascension to-day. When at the height OF
two miles the balloon bursted, and turned uI
in the top of the netting, forming a parachute
The voyagers after a perilous descent landed
safely in a swamp three miles from the starting
point.
STEEL TYPEs.-A Frenchman, by the name o.
Cambarien, has announced his ability and his
intention of producing steel types, the dura
bility of which will be beyond calculation
He has already a machine for making type
which produces ten thousand at one stroke.
The Hon. sherrard Clemens, of Virginia. will
probably die yet from the effect of his duel witt
o. Jennings Wise, Esq. The Happahannock
Southerner reports him as in a very critica
condition.
Miss Mary Conrad, of Peorio county, Ill.
has recovered damages to the amount of S3. 30t
from johnson Cole, in the Stark County Court,
for a breach of promise of marriage. Mary laiC
her damages at SO, 900.
The citizens of Lexington, Mass, are about
to build a splendid monument, in commcmora
ton of the opening battle Of the Revolution.
Some of the fanatics of Boston are a~ssailing
Gov. CHASE because he wrote a respectful arc