Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
NE WS ITEMS

Rev. Henry Ward Beocher received over one
thousand calls on New Years day. He keeps
a book in which all callers are expected to enter
their names. 70
DuIirg the year 1855 forty nine murd orz
were committed in the city of New York, and
seventy nine persons COMMITTEES suicide
Among the murderers one has been hung.
It is announced for the benefit of those per-
sons who did not get a sight of tho comet, that
it will again appear before the public, f or q few
nights only. in the autumn of2l47.
Neal Dow has published n letter in W hich he
says that intemPerance has decreased one half
in Maine since the passage of the famous MAine
Law. Others, however, deny this. -gH
Charles Hale Esq, one of the editors Of tho
Boston Advertiser, has been elected Speaker of
the Massachusetts Assembly. He rs a Repub-
lican, and a man of high ability.
Gen. A. E. Glenn having resigned the posi-
J ton of Quarter Master General, Gov. Chase
has appointed Col. David L. Wood, of Clevs-
land to fill the vacancy.
The Mt. Vernon Republican, informs us from
good authority that the prospect for the speedy
completion of the S. Mt. V. & z. Railroad Is
now better than at any former period.
The People, a new independent American
journal ut Boston, edited by the Rov. Charles
w. Denison, proposes for President Gov. Chase
of Ohio, and for Vice President Kenneth Ray
ncr OF North Carolina.
The Secretary of War estimates tho expeDscs
of the army for the coming year at $ls ,0o0.Oo0;
five millions more than all the expenses OF .ho
government under the administration Of John
Quincy Adams.
AUousrA, Ga, Jan. 24.-The Charleston
News OF Saturday, says that Mr.. Cores, tho
owner of tho yacht Wandercr, has surrendered
himselfto the authorities, and entered bail 10
the amount of $4,000.
Mr.. Wm.s Sutton a farmer of Henderson coun-
ty, New Jersey, sold in New York last week q
turkey that weighed forty pounds. He had
others of the same sort weighing from twenty
to thirty pounds each. us
There was another camphene murder at Re-
public, Ohio few da ys since. A widow lady
living in the family of Mr.. Hardness, undertook
to fiji a fluid lamp while burning, set her clothes
on fire and was burnt TO death. t
1t is stated as a reason why Vice President
Breckenridge boards at q hotel instead of &C
eupying the magnificent residence recently
completed for him, that the bulk OF his proper
ty was swallowed up by the failure Of the Ohio
Life and Trust Company.
Col. Forney, in a letter from Washington,
1--WE must repudiate tho present Admiuistra-
ton, boldly and everywhere, and on its ruins
re ereet the old Demo cratic flag, and ro-assart
the old Democratic principles"
A FAST TEAM-Tho oskaloosa (IowA) Her
aid, of the 10th ult., Gays a mail coach LEFT
there the day before with six sprightly oxon.
BuRRows OF rEE NEW YoRK PooR.-Five or
six miserable mob aud women were recently
discovered in a kind of cave which they had
dug for themselves in a vacant lot on Twenty
Ninth street. Thay were sent to Rlaekwsil's
= STAND as vagrantl.
The Revenues OF Delaware for 1883 arc stated
to amount 10 $4,000, and her State expenses TO
$4,000. Great STATED In the Y. $. Senate she
has the same power as Ohio, which has u rove
nue. of nearly $4,000 zoo.
In o Islander case in a Madison, wisoonEn,
Court, on Wednesday morning, proceedings
were suspended in consequence Of one of The
jury turning up drunk. The Court adjourned,
and the Sheriff was ordered to walk tho Jury
man about and sober him, and the Sheriff pro-
ceeded to put him through.
1t appears that the debt Of the little city Of
Keokuk, of in Iowa has grown to u proporti0n
equal to seventy-hve dollars for every fnhAbS-
tant-to a sum, in fact, amounting to 3l,lbo,-
900, a quarter Of a million of which has been
incurred for municipal expenses, and the bal
ance for raj lroad and other operations.
Joseph Bowntree, a Quaker merchant, hna
been elected Lord Mayor of Leeds, England;
but esehewing from principle such titles aS
"My Lord and such pomps and ~yanities As the
gold chain, sword and mace, he declines he
Office, and gives his check for $500, the forfeit
of u refusal to accept.
1t is computed that ton thousand persons
the New York Central Park Friday last,
are two ponds in tho Park, one Of sixteen and
one of three acres. The three acre pond was
set apart for the use of the ladies.
A rich joke is told at the expense ofex. seuA-
ter Foote, who has recently adopted q clever
disguise, i g., dying his beard and wearing a
black wig. Arriving at his old stamping ground,
Jackson, Miss, the other day, no wAs rejected
as an imposter, by the Democracy, VINO kn~w
Foote by his silyery beard and bald Uranium.