Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
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to supreme power in that distracted country.
He is always the desperate remedy sought after,
in the worst stages of the chronic disease under
which our sick neighbor is suffering.
Tom Savers has accepted the challenge OF
Aaron Jones, now in this country, for the
championship of England, and a deposit of SOU
a side has been put up to bind the match, in
the hands of the editor of Bells Life in London.
There is nothing new in relation to the chall-
enge of Heenan.
A man named George Miller a custodian OF
the Sheriff about thirty-four years of age, blew
his brains out in the stairway leading to his
own dwelling in Chicago, at one o'clock Mon
day morning.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE, May 30.--Olif Olson,
clerk of the Grand Trunk Railway, was found
dead yesterday ON the river bank, having fallen
from the preeipice, a distance of 200 feet. He
came from Toronto to attend the celebration of
the Queens birthday, since which time nothing
had been heard of him.
The Calhoun Miss Independent of the 10th
ult, says fourteen persons have lately died in
the southern portion of Calhoun county; of a
disease resembling the black plague.
The City of Oshko sh, Wisconsin, was almost
totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night,
the 10th inst. Nearly all the business places on
Main street was burned, and there is not a gro
Gerry or dry goods store left. The loss is esti-
mated at nearly half million.
1t is said that the daily consumption of pure
country milk in New York city is 200. 600 quarts,
and that of swiIl milk, 800, 900 quarts. Total
700, 600 quarts.
Samuel Turner has been convicted at New
castle, Del, of an outrage on Miss Norris.
The punishment is death. A Young man nam
ed Robinson had previously been convicted of
being concerned in the same outrage, and SEN
fenced to be hung.
Alice Palmer, d servant girl in East MaChias.
Me, having been accused of stealing a five dol
lar gold piece from her mistress, Mrs. Thomas
Parsons, jumped into the river and attempted
to drown herself, but was saved by the expan-
siveness of her crinOline.
The City Marshal of Rockland, Maine. on
Monday last, seized liquors at various places in
that city to the amount of 81 900. About So,
600 worth were taken from the Commercial
House.
The Republican Convention of Kansas assem-
hled at Ossawattomie on the 18th inst, and
organized the Republican party for Kansas.
Horace Greedy was present, made q speech ocu-
plying an hour and a half in it's delivery.
The Erie Pa, Gazette brings us the following:
Zalmon E. Peck, of Harbor Creek, brought
some buttermilk to town on Monday morning
in a keg taken from the British ship Scorpion
during Perry's action on Lake Erie. 1t was
bound with heavy copper hoops, bearing the
English mark, and in an excellent state of
preservation.
Gov. Medary, has returned to Kansas, being
the first Governor Of that Territory who, after
leaving it, returned again to enter upon his
official duties.
New York, June 1.-The New Jersey
Railroad Depot; at Jersey City, was partially
burned ~ al carly hour this morning, togeth-
Il with the terry-boat, John A. Davey, living
at the wharf. The boat was entirely new, and
cost 100000. The damage to the depot is
very heavy.
4 couple of men went up from Erie, Pc,
in a balloon the other day, and came down in
Lake Erie, where they were rescued from i'm
pending danger by a propeller which. FORUM
ately passed that way. One of them was tide
Editor Of the Erie Dispatch.
On Friday of last week there arrived at
New York 3,7l7 enigrauts, all of the Iaboring
classes, and from the north of Europe. Eight
ships brought them all.
A POLAR NEwsPAPER.-A traveller in
Norway gives IN account of tie northern
most paper in the world, the Tromsoe Times.
1t is printed at Tromsoe, a little village of
about 1000 inhabitants, on the coast of
Norway, at three degrees within the Pear cir
Gle. The summer sun kindly looks in at mid,
night to see that the forms are properly set up.
The President of the United States was
prayed for in the English Church at Brussels
Easter Sunday in compliance with a request
to the Bishop by certain Americans.
In this country, on all hands, we believe James
Buchanan is looked upon as pretty much past
praying for,-Cin. Press.
Carlo, I'll. is again under water. The enter
prising citizens are busy putting up two engines
to pump the water over the levee. Singular
business t~hat-pumping a town out.
It takes a member of the Illinois Legislature
a considerable time to get rich in the service.
He receives one dollar a day and pays two for
his board. The rest be is expected to give to
the poor.
The fortunate husband of the beautiful daugh-
ter of Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington banker,
receives with his wife a bridal present of ST.
100000. Mr.. Eustis is said, under the circum-
to be as satisfied as any other man in
Louisiana, no matter what that other mans
luck III ~ be,
The Pittsburg Gazette is enabled osay that
the wheat, rye, and fall barley everywhere in
Pennsylvania look well, and gives
of an abundant yield.
On the It'll inst. the two SONS of Col. B. F.
Chisholm, living near Florence, Alabama, ate
poisonous weed known as wild spignet, and
the younger died a few moments afterwards.
The other went home and gave the alarm, but
in spite of emetics and other remenies, he, too,
died in a short time in violent spasms. They
aged IL and 9 years respectively.
There are seven executions to take place in
Canada in the course of next month one in
Toronto, one at Merritsville, three at Bradford,
one at Cobourg, and one at Belleville. This
reveals an alarming state of things, and indi-
Gates a fearful increase in capital offences.
Some idea may be formed of the hard times
in Austria, as to money matters, from the fact
that British soyereigns are worth ID forms and
40 Kreutzers of the bank paper Of Vienna, full
$3.50 Of our money, being a premium of $3.50
on each sovereign.
A Bible purchased by subscription is to be
presented to a clergyman of Washington, who
made himself conspicuous by his attendance up
on Mr.. Sickles during his trial. The gift is an
appropriate one; we hope the man will read it.
-ProUidence Journal.
Stephen Petty killed his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Mary Aikens, a defenseless old lady of9O years
in the eastern part of Cherokee county, Ala,
Sunday week. He stabbed her with a
pocket knife in some five or six places, killing
her almost Instantly Ne cause is assigned for
tue diabolical deed. Petty has been a preach
er and heretofore regarded as a peaceable and
man.
The Coredo (Va.l Crescent says that it was
that Sickels should have been con-
rictcd, not so much for the killing of Key, as
n consequence of the public necessity which
'xists that a member of Congress should be
lung.